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Frangela
Battling hateration
By Jonathan Gold
If you are promiscuous with the talk-radio dial, you may have heard Frangela coming at you on KTLK-AM 1150, a blast of common sense amid the pasty drone of their sub-Limbaugh competitors; a pair of musical, finely meshed African-American voices, postracial yet black as hell, finishing each other’s sentences, dissecting the economy or… Keep Reading »
Frangela
Battling hateration
By Jonathan Gold
If you are promiscuous with the talk-radio dial, you may have heard Frangela coming at you on KTLK-AM 1150, a blast of common sense amid the pasty drone of their sub-Limbaugh competitors; a pair of musical, finely meshed African-American voices, postracial yet black as hell, finishing each other’s sentences, dissecting the economy or… Keep Reading »
Pauley Perrette
Fab in the lab
By Lina Lecaro
She plays one of the most unconventional characters on television (Navy NCIS’ goth-garbed forensic scientist Abby Sciuto), but Pauley Perrette’s real life is just as mysterious as her alter ego’s, maybe more so. … Keep Reading »
Larry Bowa
The third eye
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
Three hours before game time at Dodger Stadium, the day after the team’s third-base coach, Larry Bowa, was ejected for not standing in the coach’s box and then suspended for three games, 10 or 12 re-porters huddle near the dugout, notebooks, pens and… Keep Reading »
Billy Morrison
Making a splash
By PAUL ROGERS
Billy Morrison all but skips into a sleek WeHo caffeine house, outsize designer shades and arms full of ink veiling his very Anglo laddish charm. He’s a happy guy these days, one who pulled himself out of a drug-distracted decade-plus on the fringes… Keep Reading »
Meat Loaf
Do you love me?
By SHELLEY LEOPOLD
Rock Opera. Internet Sports. Architectural Digest . . . Meat Loaf lives the fantasy. It’s been a long time since I first noticed the sweaty, stringy-haired young Texan with the flowing red scarf on MTV back in 1981. Even longer since his 1975… Keep Reading »
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