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...well as homosexuals. The mingling of these groups is best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic characters. And up the boulevard rolls a procession of white stretch limos, trundling the show-biz glitterati (and their accountants...
...Recalls Bradbury: "If a time machine were to return us to that now fashionable scene it would be unrecognizable. An amusement park was going to seed. Lion cages were sunk in the water. The roller coaster was decaying, ready to fall into the sea. All around us was a freak show of old movie personalities and show-business hangers-on. It was like something out of a novel...
...Leary's wife of twenty years, runs out of the house leaving her wedding rings in the soapdish, Macon's first instinct is to return to the childhood nest, the domestic asylum where his three sisters, all doomed for spinsterhood, still live. The tragedy which initiates their estrangement--the freak murder of the Leary's twelve year-old son, Ethan, that occurs while he is away at camp--lays bare the stasis their marriage has reached. When Sarah openly seeks comfort in her grief, Macon's only solace is the reminder that he, with his usual caution, had opposed...
...world famous for almost two months. Just now she is the hottest draw in show biz. Michael Jackson? History. Prince? The Peloponnesian Wars. Cyndi Lauper? Last week's flash, and besides, if you wanna be like Cyndi, you have to dye your hair orange and fuchsia, and your parents freak. No, Madonna is the full moon you see at this bend in the river, and never mind what is around the corner...
...Simon's comedy The Odd Couple. Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, plays Oscar Madison, the slob's slob, complete with a cigar and a New York Mets baseball cap. ("I hate the Yankees," he explains.) Gifford, the ex-New York Giants running back, is Felix Unger, the neat freak. Although Meredith did a show at the same theater last year, this is the first time on the boards for Gifford. No matter: his football experience comes in handy. As the built-for-comfort Meredith scatters ashes across the stage, the built-for-speed Gifford does end runs with...