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...take a look at the fall fashions in movie directors' egos. Quentin Tarantino shows up in his own film, Pulp Fiction, and has everybody talk like him -- which is fine, since he's a great talker. Wes Craven, director of A Nightmare on Elm Street, takes himself very seriously now, so he calls his new picture Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and it is the ultimate in self-reverential cinema...
...Democrats chose Lt. Gov. Jack Mildren over state Sen. Bernice Shedrick, 59 percent to 41 percent, in a gubernatorial runoff. Mildren, a former University of Oklahoma football star, will face Republican Frank Keating, a former Justice Department official, and independent Wes Watkins...
...Rostenkowski's staff)) who really had a good moral compass," says a former House staff member. "Or maybe, to be fair, he never had anyone courageous enough working for him who'd come up to him and say, 'Boss, you can't do that anymore.' " Former Oklahoma Congressman Wes Watkins, who retired four years ago, says a friend once offered him a useful epigram about Washington: "There are some that go to the Capitol and grow, and some that go there and swell." He adds, "Some get power hungry and arrogant, and that leads to corruption." Which kind Rostenkowski will...
Members of the 25 person Senior Class Committee which selects Class Day speakers extended the offer to Guinier because "she had a lot of insights to offer," said Wes M. Hill '94, a first marshal on the committee...
...that young talented jazz guitarists record so much bad music? The answer is that they are simply perpetuating a great and longstanding tradition. Ever since Wes Montgomery, jazz guitar greats have recorded pop and soul tunes, often in search of crossover success. Inevitably the results are ugly, as with Grant Green, and sometimes they are disastrous, as with George Benson. The latest releases of two young guitar virtuosos catch this fate, Stanley Jordan's new Bolero, and Mark Whitfield's '93 self-titled release. Both musicians began their recording careers with very impressive debuts that drew strong commercial responses...