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...these families now because Farrow, who adopted three children when she was married to Andre Previn and added four more as a single mother, has been accused by Allen of manipulating and abusing her kids. "I hate to see large families get tarred with that brush," says Californian Bob DeBolt, who with his wife Dorothy adopted 14 disabled children and was the subject of a documentary that won an Oscar in 1978. "We can't generalize on large families any more than we can on family values...
Equally funny, and more irreverent, is novelist Eve Babitz' "Bodies and Souls," which defends and explores the Southern Californian cult of the body. "It has always seemed to me that sex (i.e. inspiring lust) was what L.A. was about," she writes. Babitz' memoir details her own quest to be "totally devastating when it came to pulchritude, blond-haired and smoldering...
...fact, those who know Brown best say the former governor has reinvented himself more times than any Californian politician since Richard Nixon...
...interest. But investment banker Richard Blum, husband of former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, says his firm was hampered because he turned down some clients to avoid the appearance of impropriety. "Could I have done better if my wife was home baking cookies?" asks Blum. "I think so." Another Californian, secretary of state March Fong Eu, decided to abandon her race for the U.S. Senate rather than ask her husband to disclose his business holdings. It came down to a choice between her candidacy and her marriage, she said, and she chose her marriage...
Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...