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This time, Waits is stepping out with a new bunch of musicians, including among its ranks guitarist Terry Evans, late of many a Little Richard and Ray Charles revue. Waits discovered Evans playing in the dimly lit recesses of a Ventura motel bar. "Times are tough," Waits mumbles knowingly...
...signs of restlessness were there. After returning from the road, Waits moved out of his long-time abode at the Tropicana Motel, now the stopover spot for spiky-haired English punk bands. Waits exited the place after one too many magazine articles had mentioned his residence there, resulting in one too many adoring fans knocking on his door at four in the morning. He moved to an apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard. Then to a house in Silver Lake. From there he slept in a series of seedy motels until the day he headed for the Big Apple...
...much for new urban landscapes. Has he abandoned all resolve and returned to his digs at the Tropicana? "No, I was staying in another motel -- a little Vietnam. I've found another apartment...
...years of covering the boom towns and boondocks of America for CBS's 60 Minutes, Morley Safer has found himself in more motel rooms than he would care to remember. But Safer, 48, has made a virtue of professional necessity: he winds up his days on the road by retiring to his rented rooms, switching on Johnny Carson ("very conducive") and pulling out his paintbox and brushes to record the place for posterity. Come Sept. 14, a score of watercolor and acrylic still lifes by the closet Matisse of Marriotts will go on display and sale at Manhattan...
Prosecutor Thomas Puccio started off with a 30-min. video tape of a meeting in August 1979 between Myers and Errichetti and an undercover agent who called himself "Tony Devito" at a motel near New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On the tape, Myers boasted grandly of being able to fix the sheik's immigration problems, then gave some pungent advice: "I'm gonna tell you something real simple and short. Money talks in this business, and bullshit walks." As the agent handed over an envelope bulging with $50,000 in $100 bills...