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...stood with hands on hips in front of the smoldering wreckage of his Branson, Mo., music theater. It was May 11, 1993, a date that would be forever fixed in Gilley's brain. Twenty-four hours earlier, the country-music legend had received a call at his home in Pasadena, Texas, summoning him to the site. Upon seeing the charred ruins, Gilley, a showman to the core, with a diamond-encrusted "MG" necklace and absurdly thick hair, turned to a bandmate and asked, "How am I gonna keep you guys working...
...single was in 1983. By 1989, his partnership with Cryer had disintegrated as the two battled over Cryer's decision not to gussy up the club. (Gilley won a $17 million lawsuit, though he saw only a small piece of that, including the club, which he gave to Pasadena to cover back property taxes.) Faced with a stalling career, at 53 Gilley decided to be one of the first country artists to open a theater in Branson. Once again, his entrepreneurial instincts proved dead on: Branson became a country-music Las Vegas, buzzing with regular visitors like the Oak Ridge...
...rockets to a chair affixed with kites, ignited them and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers and eventually oversaw the launch of China's first satellite, in 1970. The mission electrified millions of radicals...
After the 2000 Florida recount, I was worried that California's distinction as America's paragon of peculiarity was in danger of being lost to another state. Happily the Golden State is once again playing the role as the country's flagship theater of the absurd. ROY KOMOTO South Pasadena, Calif...
...After the 2000 Florida recount, I was worried that California's distinction as America's paragon of peculiarity was in danger of being lost to another state. Happily the Golden State is once again the country's flagship theater of the absurd. Roy Komoto South Pasadena...