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...loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring in six more films (plus 1971's "Kotch," in which Lemmon directed Matthau to an Oscar nomination), a string that ended with the hits "Grumpy Old Men" and "Grumpier Old Men" and the tragically stale finale to the relationship, "The Odd Couple...
...rumor that if you know the right people, a particularly exotic combination of both can be arranged without too much of a hassle. When the sun goes down, the crowds thicken outside the 80-odd cantinas along the avenue, and pulsing jock-rock mingles with the aroma of stale beer and fresh vomit to form Revolucion's unmistakable atmosphere. "This is what the world knows of Tijuana," says Pepe Mogt, 31, smiling at the drunken humanity sprawled out before him. "It gives us a lot of material...
...ruled Egypt and was known for her liaisons-political and romantic-with the two great Roman leaders of her time, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Her legend-wrapped in intrigue, conflict and romance-lives on to this day. As Shakespeare wrote of Cleopatra: "Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety...
...triple espresso--"I need the kick start"--and looking for all the world like James Joyce buffed up on steroids, Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abattoir with the volume turned up. Kennedy? "Jack got what he deserved. He got whacked before the sex got stale and everyone saw him for what he was." Clinton? "I hate him with a biblical passion. He is monstrous and shallow, a cold, manipulative man with a warm front, infantile with women...I would never have done Monica." American innocence? "This preposterous notion that Americans are innocent when this country...
...knew a girl whose lover came in several disguises--white cross Methedrine, orange triangles of Dexedrine, "black beauties," long white lines of coke. She followed her lover everywhere--into parking lots with strangers, into dark cars, into the shadows along steep mountain roads, into apartments that smelled like stale smoke and had three or four locks on every door. When her lover wasn't with her, she was left with her own terror of how to move through the world alone. She didn't know how to deal with people alone; she needed her partner, her other half. You need...