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Raul and his generals even earn dollars for guns with an octopus-like tourism outfit called Gaviota, which runs health spas, marinas and luxury hotels. At hunting preserves formerly reserved for the army, visitors shoot duck in some of Fidel's favorite stalking grounds. Gaviota takes tourists to the outskirts of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and lets them spy on troop movements -- cocktails and binoculars included. TRD Caribe, the newest arm of Gaviota, is the fastest-growing chain of department stores. TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars...
Come on, now! Edward D. Wood Jr. is not nearly the world's worst director. Lots of people made movies that were even more desperately inept and ludicrous. It's true that Wood's cheap '50s exploitation films -- the heartfelt expose Glen or Glenda, the octopus-wrangling horror movie Bride of the Monster and the sci-fi anticlassic Plan 9 from Outer Space -- boasted floridly awful dialogue and actors who seemed terrified to be on camera. But Wood had passion, ambition and, as a heterosexual who enjoyed wearing women's clothes, a very chic identity crisis. His films were about...
...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...
Ever-persistent, FM calls the fearless Lampoon leader himself, club president John Abound III '95. "Well, we do make jester hats....The vast octopus which is Lampoon merchandising department has distributed jester hats to our subsidiaries, although we are not selling them to the general public...
...even the vast octopus which is the Lampoon can dissuade...