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...years ago, a tumor was discovered on Paul LaPorte's spine. It was benign, but it caused a symptom that he kept a darker secret than he would have had the diagnosis been terminal cancer. The growth pressed on the nerves to his bladder, causing it to empty unexpectedly. Surgery seemed too risky, and LaPorte's life became consumed by the harrowing effort to hide his embarrassing condition. He quit jobs and refused advancement. "One employer wanted to promote me to a sales position that meant traveling all over Canada," recalls LaPorte, now 36 and a factory worker in Windsor...
...witnessed John Belushi's final, drug-filled days in Hollywood, but no one could steer the actor away from his relentless drive for cocaine and, in the end, heroin. Among friends, reports of the comic's marathon binges made his untimely death seem inevitable: another star caught in the darker currents of celebrity...
...shadow world sits like the darker brother, locked hiding in his room all day, seeing God dance in the soaps. What goes on in that mind, in that room? To begin to know that might be a way to demystify the -- what? -- plague, curse, disease, tragedy, normality of drugs. The center of the wanting mind reaches toward and creates every element of the drug world. Is one supposed to lecture that mind, eradicate it, hate it, arrest it, weep for its plight...
...leaving his staff to come up with many of the specific details, materials and manufacturing plans. "I really love the idea of dark paisley sheets," he announced at a meeting one day. When his designers scurried back into conclave with fabric samples, Lauren demanded, "No, no! I want them darker, darker, darker...
...Johnson has a new look for the new season of Miami Vice: the stubble is still in place, but the wardrobe is darker, the hair shorter. He also has a new celebrity interviewer: Miss Piggy of the Muppets, whom he squired around Miami for the latest issue of Muppet magazine. Johnson gallantly allows to Her Porcinity that if they expose themselves to fans at an exclusive restaurant, "they'll probably climb over me to get to you." Perhaps not. This week Heartbeat, Johnson's first album of pop rock and rhythm-and-blues tunes, is to be released. It features...