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BABET SCHROEDER'S Barfly is about a charmingly diminutive bum named Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke), who frequents seedy East L.A. bars, gets into fights, and drinks constantly. He also falls in love with a ravaged but residually beautiful booze queen named Wanda (Faye Dunaway). They meet in a bar, drink, stagger around the streets, drink, go to bed together, get in fights, go to bed some more, and drink a whole lot more...
...self-image that Bukowski apparently wanted to project is that of a proudly independent tramp/sage, an innocently virtuous Candide figure whose crowning virtue is having "refused to join the rat race." It's cool to be a bum, Bukowski tells us. In fact, it's the only artistically valid way to live. We are meant to appreciate this when Bukowski's alter ego Henry abruptly leaves the bed of the wealthy and beautiful young editor Tully Sorenson (Alice Krige). He tells her that she "lives in a cage with golden bars," and shambles back down the hill to the sordid...
...describes in her story, Eisenstadt went to public school and lived in a different neighborhood in Rockaway. She's never been to a "death keg" party, never jumped off a 40-foot bridge into the Atlantic's mucky low tide, and has never taken part in any other beach-bum antics. "A lot of the stories in the book are true--or at least I've heard them as true," she says. "But it's based on people I've seen, but didn't really know--I didn't know what was going on in their heads--so I just...
...jury of popular and scientific opinion has snapped each time. The punishment: a sentence to suffer lower sales and market shares. Bang of gavel. But these days, food manufacturers have wised up. They are now mounting aggressive advertising campaigns to press claims that their products have got a bum rap and to extoll the benefits of the genuine article. Enter the rehabilitation of real food...
...major source of fat consumed by Americans is still red meat, another fact the current barrage of ads ignores. "Beef is not one of the high- cholesterol foods," observes Dr. Connor. However, "it has a great deal of saturated fat. Chicken has a lot less." The public gets a bum steer as well from the industry's use of a 3-oz. serving as the basis for nutritional information. The average portion is 4.7 oz. for a hamburger and 5.7 oz. for a steak...