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The Fat Man Sings

Greg Critser
I hold my own out in front of me. My wrists are thin, a reminder of more slender times, but my forearms - they're meaty. They remind me not of thinner times but, rather, of how much the human arm can resemble the shank of a lamb, or cow or......

The Fat Man Sings

Greg Critser
Nearly All Americans Will One Day Be Overweight, Researchers Predict.-Associated Press headline,May 29, 1998 May 1, 1998: My doctor tells me - without me asking - that "maybe I should think" about a new obesity drug. Name: Meridia. "They're not hyping it like they did Redux," he says. "It's maybe......

Night of the Long Knives

Steven Mikulan
It's been 20 years since the release of John Carpenter's Halloween: the film that made us reconsider the American kitchen as something more than the repository of milk and cookies and, instead, as an armory of Ginsu knives. That movie and its clones introduced to mainstream films the now-dominant Red......

Pi in the Sky

Paul Malcolm
"An old girlfriend of mine told me that all my films were about a search for God," says writer-director Darren Aronofsky. "It was about a week before she dumped me." A few weeks back, though, as the 29-year-old sat in the outdoor cafe at the Sunset Marquis Hotel discussing his......

De Palma

Manohla Dargis
For the first 14 minutes or so of Brian De Palma's new movie, Snake Eyes, the camera swoops uninterrupted through a cavernous boxing arena, rushing through hallways and darting around corners as it tracks Nicolas Cage like a heat-seeking missile - it's a sensational opening hand. Cage, playing a mercenary......

Cannabis Connection

Michael Simmons
Escalating its drive against California's medical-marijuana movement, the Clinton administration last week indicted nine Southern California residents on charges of conspiracy to grow over 6,000 marijuana plants at four separate sites, with intent to distribute. The nine-count indictment arises from an almost yearlong investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)......

Whitewater West gets public airing

David Cogan
Fully four years after the scheme was hatched and more than a year after the city controller released a damning report on the affair, the Riordan-administration scandal dubbed "Whitewater West" finally got a public airing last week at a hearing before the City Council's Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources Committee......

Prices are Effective

Dave Shulman
8 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, through 11 p.m. Tuesday, August 4, 1998. Boneless skinless chicken breasts Randall Farms Moist & Tender 1.99 lb. limit 2. You can depend on us for all your floral needs! A "slice" of savings on your favorite pies. One bite of our California Brand Beef......
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Dog Day Afternoon

Jonathan Gold
Dodger Stadium Children growing up in Los Angeles found the spicy funk of grilling dogs as much a part of the Dodger Stadium experience as the first green flash of outfield, the buzz of Jerry Doggett from 10,000 radios, the crunch of peanut shells in the aisles, and the cool,......

Thus Spake Lennon

Michael Dare
In December 1985, five years after John Lennon died, this newspaper printed an interview with him. Not an old interview, but a fresh one, from beyond the grave. It was, looking back, a stretch for the Weekly, something better suited to the National Enquirer. But it struck me as a......