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...Antley was also aging. Thirty-four this year, he discovered that his body, characteristically diminutive as jockeys, go, no longer reacted to the regimens he used to keep himself in racing trim. Jim Herzfeld, a screenwriter who lives next door to Antley's home in Pasadena, Calif., recalls that Antley talked about quitting. "He said it was too hard for him, not being able to eat what he wanted," Herzfeld recalls. Antley complained that unlike other jockeys, he had never been very good at "flipping," his term for vomiting to keep the weight off. When the police found...
...sure whether it was an accident, self-inflicted or a homicide. What is certain is that before and after his last race in March, Antley allowed his life to go into a spiral of methamphetamine and alcohol, turning him into a recluse. The police came to his ranch-style Pasadena home only after his brother flew from South Carolina to check on Antley. And the brother did so only after Antley's pregnant wife, who was living separately from him in New York City, said she had not heard from him in days. He had once threatened her life. "Chris...
...weaker in furniture. There is a fine suite of low-slung Modernist furniture in gumwood designed by Rudolph Schindler in the 1930s for his unbuilt Shep House in Los Angeles, and a splendid 1908 sideboard with inlays of fruitwood, ebony and abalone shell by Greene & Greene, those Pasadena masters of the Arts and Crafts style. But it's hard to get much more than a hint of how much really good furniture was being made in California in the first third of the century...
...collaboration with the Hubble and other space telescopes, such as the orbiting Chandra and the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, has been a rationale for building these new ground-based telescopes. The synergy between them is a key part of the bright future for astronomical research. ALAN DRESSLER Carnegie Observatories Pasadena, Calif...
...DIRTY BASTARD released himself on his own recognizance last week. Unfortunately, the law did not. Dirty, ne Russell Jones, fled Impact House, a Pasadena, Calif., drug-treatment facility that had been his court-ordered residence since June, just before a scheduled trip to the Los Angeles Criminal Courthouse to discuss his progress and treatment with a judge. After the Wu-Tang Clan rapper failed to show, a no-bail bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Jones' police file is the stuff of legend, even by rap-star standards. What makes this latest escapade particularly sad is that Jones, according...