Word: heartbreak
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...Complex World is a complex film. The press release describes it as a "rock-and-roll terrorist comedy," but that's only half the picture. The only thing constant in an endless stream of bizarre events is the Heartbreak Hotel, the classic rock-and-roll bar, a haven for bikers, drunk college students and girls in miniskirts...
Unfortunately, they've chosen the wrong bar. A place as popular as the Heartbreak Hotel gets plenty of prank calls, bomb threats among them. So when a would-be terrorist (Daniel Von Bargen) calls to makes his demands, owner Jeff Burgess (Dan Welch) is nonchalant. "Sorry," he quips, "we don't take bomb threats over the phone...
While filming documentaries during the eighties (for which he garnered an Academy Award nomination), Wolpaw made a living bartending at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, the Providence bar that inspired It's a Complex World...
...different chapters in an incredibly long and disjointed novel," says Thompson, whose superb new Rumor and Sigh (Capitol) displays both his carbolic lyricism and his stunning guitar virtuosity. Whitley's peak-heat debut album, Living with the Law (Columbia), comes out of a period of personal turmoil and heartbreak, including the dissolution of his marriage, about which he says, "It was a difficult time. Sort of impossible. I've always needed to write. ((But)) there is a price you pay for whatever goes on. I feel that I've paid something. You get scars from whatever...
Depressed towns like Fort Madison (pop. 11,200), the original home of the Sheaffer Pen Co., are nevertheless willing to gamble on their future. The town has already known its share of heartbreak. In 1976 lightning struck the local J.C. Penney outlet and burned it down; it was never rebuilt. Through the 1980s, the town's largest employers -- Sheaffer and Chevron -- staged devastating layoffs. Although citizens liked to boast that Fort Madison was "a place where you can raise kids," many drifted away; since 1987 the town's tax base has dwindled 20%. To attract Goldstein and his $10 million...