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Last spring Beverly Hills Hairdresser Umberto Savone noticed that the hair-raising price of a wash, cut and blow-dry ($35) was driving clients away from his fashionable Wilshire Boulevard shop. To lure them back, Savone unveiled the "mini-serve." For a trimmed-down price of $15, cash-conscious customers can get their locks soaped, clipped and conditioned. The blow-dry, though, is strictly do-it-yourself. Savone provides the equipment, but the client does the work. "Shops and real estate businesses have been closing in Beverly Hills, and our clients could no longer afford our regular prices," says Savone...
Though his home off Sunset Boulevard is far from his storied American West, Louis L'Amour continues to celebrate the ideals of a fantasy frontierland where law triumphs over disorder and cowpokes don't go in much for either gunplay or foreplay. If they are anything like their creator, how would they have the time? The author of 81 frontier novels (some 125 million copies in print) with a whip-cracking output of nearly three new books a year, L'Amour may have to take at least one day off in the coming year so that...
Never before had the fighting been this close. Out at sea Israeli gunboats train their sights on the coastline. Abu Said and I peer around a wall to watch Israeli jets drop cluster bombs on Ramlet al Baida. As each falls on the boulevard, there is a shower of small explosions. As the bombardment grows we decide to leave, making our way past the guerrillas who are hidden in the concrete corridors and recesses of the buildings, stumbling over them in the dark, making foolish excuses in English and Arabic...
...biggest noise-the music of a celestial cash register, 3 million light years above Sunset Boulevard-is for E.T. Spielberg's rapturous space romance touched down on June 11, made $86.9 million in its first 25 days (see chart) and by last weekend had raced to a record $100 million. As one awed executive says, "E.T. is beyond moviemaking." Indeed, it is mythmaking. It has become that rare film that seizes the popular imagination and attracts people who rarely go to the movies. Already the word is being passed in Hollywood and on Wall Street: E.T. should pass Star...
...places along the boulevard, the sun's slanting rays silhouette the remaining palms. And in the familiar salmon glow of a Western sunset, one can almost see a jaunty Charlie Chaplin, high-stepping up the boulevard, on his way, perhaps, to the ballroom of the Garden Court...