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...church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Kuehl first stepped into the limelight as a sitcom star, playing the teenage Zelda Gilroy on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," in the late 50s and early 60s. During her stint on "Dobie Gillis," she also first stepped into an identity as lesbian, which she said was both freeing and fatal to her television career...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Openly Queer Overseer Addresses Gay, Lesbian Caucus | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...their lives. Now there is an agent, a tour, deals in the works. Before the nationals, the big money in skating bypassed this modest team. Even before the tragedies of the early '90s, life had not been easy. Jess Galindo had been a busy trucker, carting rocket fuel from Gilroy, California, to Carson City, Nevada. When both his younger children pleaded for skating lessons, he provided them--and settled for a mobile home. Rudy and his mother Margaret, who used to push the living-room furniture aside so he could "skate" at home, still live there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: EDGE OF A DREAM | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...source of all of "Dolores Claiborne's" problems is the script, adapted by Tony Gilroy. It should have been burned months before production started. Who in their right mind would have given the screenwriter of the hockey-cum-figure-skating love epic, "The Cutting Edge," another...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Script Suffocates Dolores | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...adult Selena should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Script Suffocates Dolores | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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