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That was around 40 years ago in Perry, Ga., the small town about a hundred miles south of Atlanta where Nunn grew up at a time when the movies cut away to pounding waves whenever a couple embraced. A lot has changed in Perry, but along Sam Nunn Boulevard, where just about every fast-food chain known to man has an outlet, there is still a statue of a Confederate soldier pointing North, and farther along a billboard that says COME FOLLOW ME -- JESUS CHRIST. (Back when Nunn was in school, his class would regularly break for a period...
There' s a broken life for every star on Hollywood Boulevard, and for $25 the Grave Line Tour will show you lots of them. Just jump in Greg Smith' s Cadillac hearse and follow the yellow- sick road...
...actor, a 1978 Oscar nominee (The Buddy Holly Story), had just got his Harley-Davidson out of a repair shop in Culver City, Calif., and was heading down busy Washington Boulevard, when he failed to negotiate a right turn. He skidded and was thrown from his bike, his head slamming against a sidewalk. After nearly two hours of brain surgery, he was given a guardedly optimistic prognosis...
Elvis had a sweet tooth for the mainstream, and the tour of his home appropriately departs from Elvis Presley Boulevard, a four-lane highway lined with Golden Arches and auto dealerships. Across the street from Graceland, a visitor can buy a $12.95 ticket to see Elvis' home, racquetball court, airplanes, horses, cats, cars and, of course, his grave...
Milken now spends nearly a third of his time working on his legal defense but otherwise maintains his characteristic workaholic schedule. After arriving at his office at 9560 Wilshire Boulevard by 4:30 a.m. each day in a chauffeur- driven Mercedes, Milken holds forth in a trading room the size of a basketball court. He has no private office, preferring to sit at one of three huge, X- shaped desks, where 30 bond traders and other workers shout into telephones and scramble to execute the orders that he barks out or scrawls on yellow legal pads. On the computer terminal...