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...quiet evening just before New Year's, Dwyane Carson and his friend Arthur DeWitt, both 9, were playing in Dwyane's Northeast Houston home, when they found a loaded .22-cal. rifle in the youngster's bedroom closet. Dwyane's father, a hunting enthusiast, had never shown the boy how to handle firearms. Toying with the rifle, Dwyane accidentally shot and killed Arthur...
...Johnny Carson...
...homosexuals who define West Hollywood, which last month celebrated its first anniversary as America's one and only "Gay City." The mayor and a majority of the city council members are homosexual, as are a third of the city's residents, opening West Hollywood to frequent jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue. Most recently the council took heat for voting to keep city hall open on Christmas while declining to meet on the evening of Halloween, which in West Hollywood is celebrated with outrageous costumes, street festivals and debauchery comparable to Rio's carnival...
...cuttingly mocked the Falstaffian corpulence of his maturity. One generation knows him as the brilliant light that Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes, all of which he bore with wounded dignity. Welles' premature burial in the flesh of his profligacy and self-destruction needs to be mourned. But it is helpful to recall that his life was not simply a cautionary fable. The man did make movies...
...that he had a whole dream house stored in his head. He showed me a photo of a little gazebo he had built over the summer. I in turn revealed that I wanted to be a writer, that I wrote compulsively, and that I had daydreams about being on Carson and Letterman. I showed him the unfinished novel that I had tried to write in senior year...