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Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers to teach a writing class at his old high school. For Ray, self-appointed sunbeam is a role he warms to right away. Before long, he is recklessly lending big sums to near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing...
...Ray you find some of Price. They're both from high-rise public housing, which is where Price learned the urban folkways he mapped out in his 1974 debut novel, The Wanderers, that made him, at 24, Studs Lonigan for the generation that would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made a fortune writing films...
...like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner and Big Mama Thornton and Arthur ?Big Boy' Crudup - that he studied with all the avidity that other kids focused on their college exams. He listened over and over, seeming to hear something that no one else could hear...
...airports look largely the same as they did before the Dec. 31 deadline, and much of the bomb screening will be done as it was previously - out of the sight of passengers. The security checkpoints - where passengers walk through metal detectors and put their carry-ons into X-ray machines - won't change...
...across Southern California, Martin moved a trailer onto the long-abandoned Augustine reservation in Coachella, a 500-acre desert tract then littered with garbage, discarded household appliances and junk cars, about 25 miles southeast of Palm Springs. There she lived with her three children and African-American husband William Ray Vance. In 1994, membership in the tiny tribe dwindled from three adults to one when Martin's two brothers were killed during separate street shootings in Banning, Calif. Police said both men were involved in drug deals and were members of a violent Los Angeles street gang...