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Andrew Cunanan thought Pulp Fiction was the best movie ever made. A friend remembers how he was "all animated and yelling" when he saw the film at its San Diego premiere, finding particular delight in the scene where a man gets his head inadvertently blown off in the back of a car. It is thus a minor enigma, one of the many Cunanan has left behind, whether his final, apparently desperate act was also an attempted coup de theatre, in which the fugitive of a thousand faces--seen everywhere and nowhere--tries to destroy the only one he has left...
...YOUR REGULAR PULP FICTION...
...were a lot of fight fans, pro and con Tyson. "This is the toughest thing I've ever had to deal with in my life," says commissioner Luther Mack. Enforcing civilized standards is never easy in a sport where acceptable behavior is to beat your opponent to a pulp, and where unacceptable behavior has never been bad for the gate. Holyfield himself once bit an opponent, "Jakey" Winters, during a Golden Gloves bout in 1980. Holyfield, who gnawed Winters' shoulder during a clinch, says he still had his mouth guard in at the time. Winters insists Holyfield spit...
...confidence are nothing new, Hamsher's gonzo take on NBK's evolution offers an insider's view of show-biz egos. Among the choice bits: details about Stone's stoned-out mushroom trip in the desert and Tarantino's close connection with Miramax, the company that released his hits Pulp Fiction and From Dusk till Dawn. Writes Hamsher: "Quentin had been running his mouth off for months, telling people that he made all the decisions at Miramax, and that when he snapped his fingers, HARVEY WEINSTEIN jumped." A spokesperson for Tarantino says he has read some of the book...
...want the $5.50-an-hour jobs, but they don't have the skills for the $12-an-hour ones. Richard Rahrle is one who made the adjustment. He has worked at the Mead paper plant since 1963; the original control room where he worked, which mixed the pulp and dyes and other ingredients that go into the paper, became obsolete once the new computers arrived in 1993 and did it faster and better. "I'd never touched a computer in my life," Rahrle says, as he sits and starts clicking through the intricate processes that control the huge old papermaking...