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...home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical business), he wooed Audrey Hepburn into maturity in Sabrina and shepherded Gloria Swanson through the gaudy dementia of Sunset Boulevard. His easy sexual authority dared women to try to impress him. One who did, Kim Novak, made film history with Holden: their slow dance in Picnic (1956) remains an electrifying expression of romantic passion. In the '60s, Holden found refuge in the wilds of Kenya, where he supported conservation causes...
...hope the businessmen show grace in this situation, so that when next October they ask the community's leave to block off a street it too can show grace--and close down a boulevard named for our late president...
...warfare on Hollywood Boulevard began about nine months ago when the cruisers arrived. Trolling around in cars is the all-American pastime, but California cruisers have transformed it into an elaborate ritual. Not just any car will do. The idea is to attract attention. Stereos, painted names and modified engines are routine. A compact pickup with giant wheels is better. A truly "clean ride" is a lowrider: a 1950s vintage General Motors car, lavishly decorated and fitted with a system of hydraulic lifts that allows it to be impressively raised or lowered...
Cruisers prefer to travel in groups, and to proceed very, very slowly. Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles was the city's prime caravan route until the police began shutting the street on weekends. The cruisers moved to Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley. It was closed. They moved on, to Hollywood Boulevard...
...except that gangs have followed the cruisers. Nearly 350 gangs plague Los Angeles. They have 20,000 to 30,000 members between the ages of twelve and 22. Sixty percent of the violent street crime in Los Angeles County is youth crime. The incidence is rising fast near Hollywood Boulevard, where there have been at least five gang killings-and 45 other murders-so far this year...