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...witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland. (Where is the there?) Born as a city of immigrants, Tinseltown, the Rainbow City, Iowa-by-the-Sea -- the sobriquets are legion -- remains one: children in its public schools come from families that variously speak 93 languages. Some of them even know English...
Thus, with only one credited screenplay (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Whedon joins a legendary legion of rewriters. And legion they are, for doctoring is the rule more than the exception. Only three of the 37 scribes who gagged up The Flintstones movie received credit. Paul Rudnick wrote the original script for Sister Act and the final version of The Addams Family, but his name was on neither film. Carrie Fisher did a polish on Sister Act, but her work was anonymous, as it was on Hook, Made in America and Lethal Weapon 3. On Wolf, Wesley Strick's surgery earned...
...coffin bearing the flag of Spain was carried around by Italian fans. A Spanish flag measuring more than 40 feet across was carried by a legion of Spaniards. Cowbells peppered the ears along with the occasional air horn. It was not 10 in the morning, a full two hours before kickoff...
Ignoring threats of bloodshed from Tutsi rebels, nearly 600 French soldiers in Operation Turquoise advanced several miles into Rwanda from the 2,500-troop base camp in Zaire. A small group of armored vehicles and 40 Foreign Legion paratroopers joined them. The potentially deadly irony of this situation: the French, threatened most directly by Tutsi rebels, are aiming to secure a refugee camp to protect 8,000 Tutsi from the widespread slaughter inflicted by ruling Hutu militias...
...enduring pop singer of her generation; a filmmaker widely acknowledged to have more clout than any other woman in Hollywood; a political activist with the money to back her beliefs. Yet stories of her rampaging ego, of fights with co-stars and directors, of her obsessive perfectionism, are legion. More recently she has been knocked for being first among Hollywood's Clinton groupies. "On a clear day in Washington," a catty New York Times story put it, "you can see Barbra Streisand forever...