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Okhotin’s story has the stuff of an atmospheric Hollywood thriller in it, with ex-Soviet officials playing psychological games and customs agents soliciting bribes at every turn...
...Angeles, though, going to Starbucks is decidedly pedestrian. Although plenty of tourists stop there en route from Hollywood Boulevard to Universal Studios, it is not for Angelenos. Instead, L.A.’s coffee cognoscenti head to the Mecca of Mocha: the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. There are 104 branches of the Coffee Bean in Southern California, and, apart from a handful in Arizona and Nevada, not a single branch exists elsewhere in the country...
...Coffee Bean is not especially glamorous as they go. The one on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood is legendary. That branch is filled with MAWs—“Models, Actresses, Whatever”—ostentatiously reading scripts and waiting to get discovered. Of course, there are plenty of entertainment executives out there who are very willing to discover these starlets. (And even more men who are happy to pretend they wield the necessary power.) Still, I’m consoled by the fact that a bona fide MAW works at my local branch. A while...
...else is Jerry Falwell going to vote for anyway? On the other hand, if the court had recriminalized sodomy or abolished affirmative action, the vast sensible center of American politics might have started drifting back toward the Democrats. The party's activists, especially minority groups, civil libertarians and the Hollywood faction, would have been re-energized. One can imagine Tim Robbins furiously licking envelopes, and Barbra Streisand driving platoons of senior citizens to the polls. But the Supreme Court's temperate course--and the President's mild reaction--reasserts Bush's claim to moderation. For those same reasons, the President...
DIED. KATHARINE HEPBURN, 96, brainy, glamorous, iron-willed icon of Hollywood's golden age, whose record four best-actress Academy Awards highlighted a screen career that spanned more than 60 years and included such films as Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen and The Philadelphia Story; at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A highbrow with even loftier cheekbones, Hepburn's mannish dress and assertiveness on- and offscreen cost her popularity early on, but eventually became trademarks and made her a role model to generations of female fans...