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The Dark Side of the Lakers' '80s Dynasty

Paul Teetor
When a long-term marriage starts to go sour, the more committed partner often tries to rekindle the spark by recalling the good times and bringing out the happy-days scrapbook. Similarly, as L.A. Lakers losses have piled up this season, the team's cable channel has been filled with highlights from the......
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Sexplosion Explains How Pop Culture Made Us All Less Prudish

Paul Teetor
We live in a Fifty Shades of Grey world featuring all-you-can-consume Internet porn, full-frontal cable TV and $100 million studio films like The Wolf of Wall Street, where the biggest cultural complaint is not the overkill of orgies, F-bombs and rampant drug use but rather the way the victims of......
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort -- who prosecutors say has failed to pay back more than $90 million owed to his victims.

How the "Wolf of Wall Street" Is Still Screwing His Real-Life Victims

Paul Teetor
Robert Shearin of Manhattan Beach is planning to see Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street when it comes out next week. But it's not because of the felonies-are-fun billboards or the total-testosterone trailers inviting moviegoers to join Leonardo DiCaprio on a rollicking ride of wild sex, pharmaceutical-pure drugs and......
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Clippers Controversy: Matt Barnes' 'Inappropriate Tweet'

Paul Teetor
The so-called "n-word" is the most powerful word in the English language -- evidenced by the fact that the editors of this newspaper, which occasionally prints the word "fuck," have deemed it unfit to spell it out in this case. But somehow the hip-hop-inflected "nigga" has become slightly less potent......
Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy

Whitey Bulger Is the Subject of Yet Another (Very Good) Book

Paul Teetor
James "Whitey" Bulger has become a one-man stimulus package for the book business. The trickle of Bulger books started long before Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica in June 2011. By then he'd been a fugitive for 16 years, as his self-generated legend as South Boston's Robin Hood–style mob boss......
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Peter Clines' Cult Novels Pit Superheroes Against Zombies

Paul Teetor
Peter Clines writes about scary, terrifying Ex-es. Not the kind of exes who can't accept that the romance is over but the kind of Exes who can't accept that their mortal lives are over. Clines also writes about superheroes. Not the kind who wear capes and have few problems other......