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...become a crutch to his creativity. “There was a sense of connection with the world, and with my creative self,” he explains, “that I would get when I got high ... [but] by the time I was really in the gutter of my drug career, I was barely writing at all; rather, getting high and wondering when the songs would come.” He has also picked up a first name, in place of the M. “I just wanted to have a first name like all the other...
...cool." Rosie Perez and Wesley Snipes take regular lessons. Musicians Bjork and Tricky drop in when they're in town. And the RZA, the mastermind behind rap collective Wu Tang Clan, checks in with the monk daily because, he chuckles, "it keeps my mind out of the gutter...
...other publications. It is also no coincidence that the dramatic Denzel Washington is the star of the film, exercising his considerable acting talents as a man simmering on the edge. Washington plays LAPD Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris, a veteran who has invested far too much time in the gutter in his attempts to get his job done as an undercover police officer in the city. The movie traces the one day that Harris spends with a trainee, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), and Hoyt’s attempts to prove to Harris that he has what it takes to make...
...before, we have wrapped ourselves in dreams—of peace without struggle, of power without sacrifice, of victory without cost. We have heaped up wealth and lived in meretricious splendor, while our politicians squabble over imaginary “lockboxes” and our popular culture dredges the gutter for lowest-common-denominator fare. And we have fought our wars from a distance, dropping bombs from 30,000 feet and lobbing missiles across continents, while at home we have occupied ourselves with endless, FX-laden tales of the “greatest generation,” those stalwart heroes...
...Alex, 20, a recovering alcoholic who got sober in 1998, says his first meeting was with only four other members, straight from central casting - grizzled old men with decades of stories about life in the gutter. "They would talk about running liquor during prohibition," he says. "I thought my life was over. I was never going to have fun again. I was going to sit around with old guys, smoking and drinking coffee for the rest of my life." Now, he says, "I walk in and I see people my age, younger, and they're all laughing and having...