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...covered with with bland wall-to-wall carpeting that matches the sedate scene inside. Cubicles line the walls, at one point breaking the room's otherwise roaring with glee. Buckner's locker is situated at the center of the room and as he pranced about, I noticed a pile of stills on his stool. He has an uncanny resemblance to photographs of Deep Throat's Harry Reems Buckner would autograph them when he found the time...
...other layers of workers come the pepenadores, the rubbish pickers, who swarm like rats through the reeking mountains of garbage in the main city dump, the Santa Fe. There are about 2,500 regulars there, roughly one for each ton of trash dumped daily. By picking through the pile for resalable bits of metal or plastic, they, hope to earn enough to survive. Says Pablo Téllez Falcón, 45, the chief of the dump: "They regard us as the shabby people who work in the slime with a bottle of tequila in the back pocket...
...Purple Rain were the "classic love story between a struggling musician and a beautiful singer dancer" its publicity insists on, it might as well join this year's slush pile of sensitive adolescent nonentities in leg-warmers and dance shoes. But if you accept it as a celebration of pure sleaze music, transcendent narcissism, and of course Prince. Purple Rain reveals consummate nerve and an unnerving energy level. Though laden with a number of obvious flaws, Purple Rain somehow rises above all that murk--that kid from Minnesota just may be on the way to doing for leather, sweat...
...making gone sour. The upshot is that if Director Francis Coppola, 45, has any chance of getting The Cotton Club to the screen in December as planned, it rests with U.S. District Court Judge Irving Hill. In a ruling last week in Los Angeles, Hill likened a foot-high pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back...
...sticks of cedar. They do not whittle an object-a slingshot, say, or a whistle-so much as they just whittle away the stick. They make long, precise strokes, and the shavings curl before the blade like something delicate being wound. When the stick is reduced to an aromatic pile on the sidewalk, they go and get another...