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Preening for the camera in a white suit and Panama hat, an unctuous TV talk- show host named Agamemnon tries to prove his credentials as a Latin Lothario by reading letters from female viewers inviting him to "invade me, blockade me, dictate me." An amber-skinned transvestite named Manny the Fanny gyrates to a dance-club hit while recalling her Krazy Glue revenge on an unfaithful boyfriend. A punchy Peruvian ex-boxer, pressed to name a famous Hispanic, searches the blank canvas of his mind. "William Shakesperez," he intones. "He wrote Macho Do About Nothing and The Merchant of Venezuela...
Wanda Webb Holloway may be the ultimate stage mother. Last week a Houston jury found the 37-year-old suburban housewife guilty of concocting a bizarre scheme to assure her daughter Shanna a place on the high school freshman cheerleading squad by killing the mother of her chief rival, Amber Heath. With flawed but cold-blooded logic, Holloway concluded that Amber would be too distraught over her mother's death to compete against Shanna for the coveted position...
Something as insignificant as a room-service lunch receives the detailed description usually reserved for items that actually have some importance to the story. "Pale honey slices of chicken, in an amber-coloured sauce; a salad of whitened green that gleamed; creamy-coloured cheese; the deep red of port; colours so intense and shades so subtle. I slipped softly into the world of the senses. A body that could stretch out fully to imprison, release, restrain or devour its prey, could now also eat food the way food should be eaten...
Wanda Webb Holloway, organist at the local Baptist church, is an irrepressible stage mother. Two years ago, when Shanna was up for the cheerleading team, her mother tried to have rival Amber disqualified from the competition on a technicality. Last year Holloway inadvertently got her own daughter disqualified when she showed up at school and handed out promotional pencils and rulers imprinted SHANNA HARPER CHEERLEADER...
This year she is charged with trying a more drastic strategy. According to the police, Holloway plotted to have Amber's mother killed in the hope of causing the girl so much emotional distress that she would be unable to compete. When Holloway allegedly asked her ex-brother-in-law to help her find . a hitman, he turned informant. According to the police, she toyed with the idea of killing both mother and daughter, but couldn't afford the $7,500 fee. So she offered a pair of diamond earrings to help pay for killing Mrs. Heath alone. Holloway...