Word: midnighters
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...spurned by cruel men; in Los Angeles. As a TV producer, he created The Patty Duke Show and I Dream of Jeannie, but in midlife, he went for grander plotlines. His novels, including Are You Afraid of the Dark?--published when he was 87--and The Other Side of Midnight, sold 300 million copies in 180 countries and made him one of the world's most translated authors...
Oliver Stone is a muckraker disguised as a moviemaker. He concocts films?Midnight Express, Scarface and Year of the Dragon as a screenwriter, Salvador and now Platoon as writer-director?whose blood vessels burst with holy indignation. And he gets money for his Savonarola sermons because he films them for peanuts: $5 million for Salvador, $6 million for Platoon. This new one is an up-tempo dirge, an I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, about his experiences as a young grunt in Viet Nam. Stone means the drama, the carnage, the horror, the horror...
...Walt Howell. And I am a BAWLS-aholic.I will drink a BAWLS in the morning, then I will drink a BAWLS at brunch, and then I will chug ten more BAWLS for a light pre-lunch snack. By 11:30 a. m. every day, the falcon flies at midnight. California! For if I could describe my life essence, that which completes me, sustains me, fulfills me to the fullest, in one word, that word would be BAWLS.Check that, I’m going to use two: BAWLS-nasty. You think I can’t use two words...
...Just before midnight, we count down from 10 and run. The countdown is a more energetic version of a New Year’s Eve countdown: contempt for the old and excitement about the new. But Primal Scream is more than a show of displeasure toward the old—those abominable reading period papers—it’s also an act of defiance toward the new—the dread of impending exams. The excitement for participants, and shock for spectators, comes not just from the sight of 500 screaming, naked students, but from our symbolic bird...
...handle a gun, how to defend, how to attack, how to drive a car, first aid, how to repair a weapon and endurance exercises. I would end my work then go for training from 4 o'clock until midnight. We were trained at a base in Mogadishu...