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...Prohibition created the bootleg-booze industry, Hollywood moralizing gave birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come...
...California, Diane Painter, 52, would return to the coastline around Mendocino, about 130 miles north of San Francisco. With its panorama of sky and water, so different from the views near her home in a Pittsburgh suburb, it was a favorite spot for Painter, the ex-wife of Dwain Painter, quarterback coach of the San Diego Chargers. So after she committed suicide on Jan. 15, it was to the same stretch of coastline that her children--Debbie, 32, and Doug, 23--brought her ashes...
...attempt at poetic closure in the wake of an All-American family trauma. Pittsburgh-area natives, Dwain and Diane Painter began dating in high school. After marrying in 1962, they spent three decades moving around the country while he pursued a career as a football coach. Diane was glad to come home when he got a job in 1988 with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Four years later, when he took another job with the Indianapolis Colts and she opted to remain in Pittsburgh, they divorced...
...Dwain Painter moved on again, to San Diego. When the Chargers won their league championship, Diane Painter felt deprived of what might otherwise have been a pinnacle of her life. According to her father, ``she called her mother and said, `I'm the one who should be going to the Super Bowl, not his girlfriend.' '' Not long afterward she went to the garage, started the car and died from carbon-monoxide poisoning...
...following are the first place poem of Dwain Cromwell, and the fourth place poem of Michael Fiveash...