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Marilyn and J.F.K. Monica and Bill. Kids were selling star maps on Sunset Boulevard last week. Down on the coast, a seal washed ashore in the storm and took refuge in a public rest room even as Monica was taking refuge from the El Nino of all sex scandals. And a Brentwood News headline read, STAR TREK CAPTAIN TAKES OVER AS MAYOR...
Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report...
...third child of Sicilian immigrants, Bono never graduated from high school nor did he ever receive formal musical training. But, in the late '50s, he began hawking his songs to Sunset Boulevard record labels between making stops as a butcher's delivery boy. His big break came when he landed a job as an assistant to superstar record producer Phil Spector. It was during his tenure with Spector that Bono learned to hone his craft as a writer and arranger. In 1964 the Searchers recorded what is considered one of his best songs, Needles and Pins. During that period...
Same story at the trendy Bar Marmont on Sunset, and at nearby Dublin's. An Irish pub without smoke? Stand on a corner in Los Angeles for two hours, and you've got black lung. But having cleared tobacco smoke from every other public space in California, reformers have entered the last refuge. They'll ban alcohol next, and pretty soon California will be a string of juice bars, from Mexico to Oregon...
...counsel, Charles Burson, and repeated seven times during his disastrous March money-scandal press conference.) Gore has spent the past six years studying the master, trying to break Clinton's seamless performance into component parts he can make his own. But Clinton's gifts are as irreducible as a sunset; Gore has not picked them up yet, and he won't. "He does the steps," says former presidential adviser Dick Morris, "but he doesn't hear the music." Even Tipper Gore concedes his reticence as a public figure, while arguing that it has its own virtue. "Bill Clinton is fantastic...