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...chief agitator, Ceasar, stays behind the scenes, badgering politicos, gathering IOUs, mapping recruitment drives. "It's easier to talk with a public official," she explains, "when you've got 30,000 signatures behind / you." Ernie Macias, who has been waiting ten years in his hillside trailer for water, says with a chuckle, "Sister knows how to give people hell...
What turned out to be the most popular convention feature broadcast by West Germany's ZDF network was about itself. Assigned a trailer in the bowels of a garage near Atlanta's Omni Coliseum, ZDF staffers soon realized that a railway line ran right by their side of the building. When freights rumbled past, they had to hang blankets over the trailer's windows to dampen the noise while correspondents recorded their voice-overs. After a few days, the ZDF staff put together a lighthearted story comparing the dark netherworld of their trailer with the bright lights and glamour...
...film version of August Wilson's drama Fences. Says Jerry Bruckheimer, who co-produced both Cop movies: "He's such a wanna-see guy -- you wanna see what he'll do next. If he was available, there'd be a wild melee of people trying to get to his trailer, their pockets full of money...
...many people get to the trailer, feeding rumors about Murphy's Elvis-like isolation. But Townsend, who directed him in Raw, shrugs off the tattle. "If he was alone on a mountaintop reading books about Howard Hughes, I'd worry. But Eddie's no prisoner. He's very social." Nor, he adds, has stardom soured Murphy's work. "Comedy is, after all, timing. And with his career, Eddie's timing has been solid gold...
Many of the culprits, especially in economically depressed Texas, are small- time operators who may grab one cow at a time and load it into a trailer. Says Steve Westbrook, one of 32 private field inspectors hired by the state: "Used to be cowboy types would steal cattle. Now it's everyone, from a person trying to support a drug habit to an unemployed person who is behind on house and car payments." The victims of many of the Texas thefts are city dwellers who have weekend "ranchettes" of about 15 acres, where they relax and keep a few cows...