Word: mel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Mel Brown, police chief of this tie-dye-and-tofu town, set out to flout federal law. But here he is, a 53-year-old father of two who has never inhaled, issuing laminated and embossed get-out-of-jail-free cards for partakers of the infamous Humboldt bud, a potent local variety of marijuana. "You can photograph me," he tells a reporter genially, "but not reclining on a bearskin rug and smoking a joint...
...permission to visit a prostitute. Yet Englander's apostasy is always affectionate and imaginative. The Gilgul of Park Avenue, for example, offers up a Wall Street Wasp who inexplicably discovers that he has a Jewish soul. The domestic and professional ramifications read like a collaboration between Cynthia Ozick and Mel Brooks...
...your novels was optioned by Mel Gibson. Were you surprised to learn that Gibson reads...
...visions that Mel and I would become intimate friends. To this day I have never spoken with him. Though I read an interview in which he talked about his conversations with...
...cool. Because that's the sort of thing I should be doing. I should be telling the newspapers, "Mel and I are very close. I can't really get into my relationship with Mel because it's very deep, on a whole other plane...