Word: canyoneering
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After Farmington, there was almost nothing but sagebrush and cactus on the road until the Grand Canyon. After driving through land owned by the Navajo Indians for ten hours, I am now firmly convinced that they were ripped off a century ago. They own millions of acres of perhaps the most beautiful land in America. The most beautiful and the most worthless...
...Heidi prospered for three heady years, reaping 40% of her girls' earnings. A slim and attractive 27, she hung out in the best joints, was seen with the likes of Billy Idol, Sliver producer Robert Evans, and Victoria Sellers, Peter's daughter. She lived in a $1.6 million Benedict Canyon mansion (Hollywoodese for house), whose previous occupant was Michael Douglas and whose current owner is her father, Los Angeles pediatrician Paul Fleiss. She threw a smashing party there for none other than Mick Jagger. Jack Nicholson showed up, and so did Prince and a couple of Red Hot Chili Peppers...
...then she'd go back and get a girl, and then the girl would go over and sit on the guy's lap while he ran his hand under her clothes." Soon the word got about that Heidi had the best girls in town. Business blossomed. Melrose faded. Benedict Canyon loomed...
...departs, DETECTIVE LEE of the Beverly Hills police department turns off the hidden tape recorders and video camera. Three hours later, Heidi's hooker, "SAMANTHA," arrives, whereupon LEE $ receives a "prostitution violation" (solicitation) and duly arrests her. Next day the cops and their dogs come to call in Benedict Canyon...
...ANGELES -- Not everyone loves JURASSIC PARK. Parts of California's Red Rock Canyon State Park were torn up during filming; a park ecologist estimates that the filmmakers were responsible for $12,000 worth of damage to the park, only $9,000 of which has been paid for. "The Red Rock Canyon Park," a spokesperson for director Steven Spielberg's production company says, "was paid whatever they were to be paid...