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Savage Super-Agent Sue Mengers Gets a Sympathetic Bio

Paul Teetor
During her too-brief reign as Hollywood's first female super-agent, Sue Mengers liked to flash colleagues and clients alike — sometimes wearing panties, sometimes not — smoke pot all day and refer to herself as Baby Sue while dishing out brilliant advice and caustic criticism in her signature baby-talk voice. She......
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There Are a Whole Lot of Books About Pot These Days. Guess Why.

Paul Teetor
Every aspiring author knows the drill: Spend months or even years working on a book proposal. Then spend more months or even years shopping it around to literary agents who, if they agree to take you on, will shop it around to publishing houses. Sometimes they get you a deal,......
Teen chef Jack Witherspoon started watching Food Channel while recovering from leukemia.; Credit: Photo by Ryan Orange

Jack Witherspoon Fought Cancer and Became a Teenage Chef Phenom

Paul Teetor
One of the 54 fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People Issue 2015. The pancetta, sliced onions and chopped garlic were sauteing up nicely. The roasted asparagus was ready to come out of the oven. As chef Jack Witherspoon whisked two eggs together with Parmesan cheese, he asked his sous......
Teenage cross-country champ Amber Gore wants to compete in the Olympics.; Credit: Photo by Ryan Orange

Nobody Can Catch Up With Amber Gore

Paul Teetor
One of the 54 fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People Issue 2015. Amber Gore, 18, has run thousands of races. But she can still remember the first race she ever won — at age 5. "It was the 100-meter lollipop race at one of my dad's track meets," she......
Amber Tamblyn on Brittany Murphy: "Her death really affected me."; Credit: Photo by Katie Jacobs

Amber Tamblyn Writes Poetry About Actresses Who Died Too Young

Paul Teetor
It's no secret that a Hollywood actress's career can be brutal and short. The brief shelf life of anyone not named Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren has been documented in books and films from Sunset Boulevard to the more recent Searching for Debra Winger. That's why Amber Tamblyn's third book......