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...contrast, genuinely likes the Angelenos and their homeland, whose eccentricities he describes with easy learning , deadpan humor and precise, evocative imagery. Of the largely homosexual enclave of West Hollywood, he notes that "it must have a birthrate only slightly above Vatican City"s ." Entering the ocean near Santa Monica "was like stepping into the small tentacle tips of a monstrous octopus." To Theroux, "every third wave rolled in like an arched emerald wall, rearing up with a thin white crest -- the oceanic equivalent of a cobra spreading its hood, and nearly as un-nerving...
With its towers, gaps and controlled riot of swooping curves, the new American Center in Paris unmistakably bears the mark of its designer, California architect Frank Gehry. Gehry's first famous building was his Santa Monica home -- a modest Dutch colonial, transformed so provocatively with corrugated metal, glass and chain link fence that it actually drew gunfire from an irate neighbor. Ever since, Gehry has specialized in the tumbling, disjointed style known as deconstructivism. Though more conservative than his usual projects, the Paris building is still a characteristic and handsome achievement. Within this stylish envelope, the architect has accommodated...
Other companies are tentatively trodding that ground. MGM plans to open a store in its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, this summer, and MCA- Universal is pondering an expansion of the retail activities that are currently confined to its theme parks in California and Florida. But perhaps all the newcomers should ponder the fate of other studio retail ventures. At the apogee of Bart-mania, a Simpsons store opened in Los Angeles and quickly folded. Jay Ward, producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, has a tiny store on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, but it is no cash cow or money moose...
...most importantly, Buso-Garcia realized "I could move people to do this thing...we had no idea what we were doing and it came out pretty well." This past summer, he made "Monica," which he sent to several film festivals. Four films after his first attempt, "Silent Blessings" is Buso-Garcia's first project all on 15 mm film. "Ever since I came to Harvard I wanted to make a bigger film here. I thought, why can't we do on film what HRDC [Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club] does on the Loeb Mainstage or the Pudding. I thought...
...praise of an assemblage of politicians vying for credit, including Democratic Vice President Al Gore and Republican Governor Pete Wilson, the quake-damaged pivotal Santa Monica Freeway reopened to Los Angeles' car- addicted commuters, who wasted no time forsaking public transportation...