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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...
...Vietnam appears to have gone back in time Conditions there are as bad as they were in the darkest hours of the war," said George Esper, an Associated Press reporter who witnessed the Communist take-over of South Vietnam in April, 1975. He was recently allowed to tour that country...
Nothing that "it takes the average state worker in Vietnam one month to earn what an American teen-ager makes in an hour working in a fast-food restaurant." Esper told of a young girl who approached him during his recent Vietnam visit and said. "I want to go to America. I have nothing to eat. There is nothing good here...
...major construction work in Vietnam is done by hand, electricity is rationed, and the country in several billion dollars in debt and cannot feed its 60 million people, Esper said...
Northeastern suffered another setback when its high scoring star, Joy Esper (12 points) injured herself when she fell in an attempt to steal the ball...