Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays a prying TV reporter. And he does get to drive in the big chase scene, in which a remote-controlled toy car with explosives attached hounds Harry through the town's roller-coaster streets. True Californians, he and his partner never think to get out and run for cover. But then, this picture's soul is located 400 miles south, in the Los Angeles movie industry, where metaphorical backstabbing is business as usual. "It's not a rip-off," says the slasher auteur about his latest film. "It's a homage." That must make The Dead Pool a homage...
...Mercado, a Hispanic gathering place for shopping, food stalls and mariachi bands. Olmos grew up in a house just down the street. Gonzalez and fellow Muralists Tony Ramirez and Xavier Quijas got to work with their acrylic paints. Then Photographer Harry Benson captured the image that appears on the cover...
...Staff Writer Guy D. Garcia, who wrote the story, the cover image could not have been more appropriate. "Olmos is a symbol of Hispanic Americans' newfound self-assurance," says Garcia, an East Los Angeles native and author of a novel set in the barrio (Skin Deep, to be published this fall by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Because the muralists are part of the Hispanic cultural movement, the medium really is part of the message...
Still thinking a cover-up possible, the panicked boys dumped Cooney's body in thick weeds and pledged one another to secrecy. They burned one boy's bloodstained clothing and somehow managed to get a replacement for the bullet- pocked rear window of the Chrysler. For almost three days, the boys acted as if nothing had happened, silent even in the face of Cooney's disappearance. Then Bootan told his girlfriend, who notified police. Bootan and Katanic were arrested on charges of armed robbery, attempted robbery and attempted murder. Brendan Moynihan, 16, and Danny Florio, 17, who reportedly cowered...
...Cover: Photograph by Harry Benson; wall mural by Joe L. Gonzalez