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...says the reason is one of safety. Before the Bow had a rough and violent reputation for a good reason--it was. Now, the students spend as much money as some members of the biker-regular crowd and they simply don't present the same crime and drug problem, he says...
...Magnuson resents being hemmed in by critical preconceptions. She is supple enough to do a routine about a biker chick at the Red-Neckorama, or to perform a mock-heroic ballet to the theme of the NBC Nightly News. But versatility has not brought happiness: "PEOPLE magazine accuses me of being too hip and arty." On the other hand, recalling her 1987 special on cable TV, she says, "The Village Voice condemns me for selling out to Cinemax, as if Cinemax were run by Jesse Helms...
Wild at Heart, which sends a pair of loser lovers (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) on a trip into the dark night of the Southern Gothic soul, is a tonic for the senses and an assault on the sensibilities. Heads splatter, skulls explode, biker punks torture folks for the sheer heck of it, and a pair of loopy innocents find excitement in a side trip to hell. Pretty much like Blue Velvet. Yes, it's different, but the same kind of different; Lynch could no longer shock by being shocking. Many critics figured they had solved the mystery...
...Clay tells jokes for a living -- dirty jokes, stag-party jokes, jokes designed to singe a churchgoer's soul and turn a feminist's stomach -- but he attracts crowds whose size and ardor would thrill a rock star. In sold-out Madison Square Garden, he looks like a samurai biker, with Brando's pout, Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like him and talk like him and who have memorized his earlier routines from...
...under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County to San Diego and eastward into the Mojave Desert. "The absolute lock the bikers held has been broken, and it's now a wide-open game, with every player for himself," says Larry Bruce, a lean, bearded Orange County criminal lawyer and former public defender celebrated by the biker fraternity for his courtroom skills...