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Many of the big dealers of Bel Air and Hancock Park have good intentions where the city as a whole is concerned. They are liberals, and they want to be involved, but they -- even more than their counterparts in other big cities -- are an enclave of such rare privilege that it is quite possible for them to avoid contact with Angelenos of, let us say, a different stripe. Even when they venture out, with eyes straight ahead on the freeways, most of them never even see the problems they care so much about...
...weeks after the Bush campaign caravan stumbled into a California brier patch with Ronald Reagan, who reportedly had said Bush was in trouble because "he doesn't seem to stand for anything." Reagan denied the story, but a meeting between the two was set up at Reagan's Bel Air home, traditionally off limits for photographers and reporters. In the heated campaign environment, it seemed like a Reagan chill. Last week Reagan was in Los Angeles' posh Regency Club clearing the air: "George Bush was with me in my crusade. I support his candidacy to the fullest...
...director, a nice Jewish boy from Duluth, Minn., as an honorary Cuban. "They were so in the movie," Glimcher says, still beaming. "They moved in their seats like a wave. When the music played, there was not a still lap." The moguls are no problem either. As the Bel Air screening circuit has spread the good word, studio bosses have pummeled this novice director with dozens of scripts. (Thanks, but he prefers to develop his own projects...
...most segregated cities in the world -- a horizontal automobile culture sectioned off into a patchwork of ethnic and racial enclaves, all almost self-sufficient, inward turning and immiscible. The middle- and upper-middle-class whites of West Los Angeles, of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and Westwood and Brentwood and Bel-Air, drift dreamily along in the illusion that the society still belongs to them. In important ways, it does, of course. But out across the city grids lie Koreatown and Chinatown; and Watts, for so long a black enclave, is changing into a barrio. Up north on the Berkeley campus...
...childhood to think of my part of the state as the evil empire. Come to think of it, a former Governor once believed Northern California was a far more dangerous place than that den of evil, Grenada. Since most of the water coming out of the lawn sprinklers in Bel Air and since all the ice cubes solidifying themselves at this very moment in Beverly Hills' kitchens originate in the north, Mr. Reagan, that quintessential Southern Californian (nonnative variety), may yet be proved right. Especially if the north ever loses patience and turns off the spigot...