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...autobio boomlette of the time, Eichhorn's stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
...schadenfreude really begins when David returns to New York and tries to get Minnie to join him. After teasing him along for a few months she finally arrives, but moves out within days because she decides she doesn't love him. The remainder of the book is a detailed portrait of a hopeless emotional dynamic between a needy doormat, a manipulative neurotic and the various ancillary lovers that get involved with them. "David Chelsea in Love" reads like a comical horror show, compelling you to keep turning pages while sucking wind through your teeth at each new development. Even...
...Farid, who has been active in the campaign. "Some of these people have been tortured in the Shah's prisons, or have been wounded in the holy Iran-Iraq war," he says, adding, "we are loyal to this regime and the leader," pointing to Ayatollah Khamenei's portrait on his mobile phone screen for emphasis...
Much of the remaining Hyde collection was distributed to institutions like the British Library, the National Portrait Gallery and New York’s Pierpont Morgan Library...
...spin away a blunder (a drunken wedding in Las Vegas, say), try hiring photographer David LaChapelle to dress you up and transform you into someone else completely (Jean Harlow, say). To promote BRITNEY SPEARS' upcoming concert tour, which will air on Showtime, the cable channel commissioned a glamorous new portrait of the singer--very demure, very classy. Next hurdle: getting people to believe it's Britney...