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...mortgage on his mother's house on Florence Avenue and moved her to a rented home in middle-class Northridge. He bought his sister Carmen a manicure salon and a condominium in Tarzana. He set his brother Darron up in a high-rise on Wilshire Avenue in Westwood, paying the $3,000 monthly rent. Moving frequently to avoid being ripped off by other drug dealers, Bo placed his common-law wife Linda Payton and their son Brian Jr. in a San Fernando Valley apartment. As a hideaway, he bought a $200,000 house in Chatsworth with cash. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...will be named by the Prime Minister and formally appointed by the Queen. Thatcher, raised as a Methodist, is probably not sorry to see Runcie go: she has been vexed by his pleas for the suffering poor under her economic policies and doubtless agrees with Peterborough's Bishop William Westwood that "the church needs to take a less high profile" under its next leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Canterbury Trail | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...tabled his usual multimillion-dollar salary, and will earn no money until the box office sends some back. He spent hours with Kovic, peppering the vet with questions, soaking up the man's life. In matching wheelchairs, the two men would go shopping; Cruise was rarely recognized. In a Westwood, Calif., electronics store, he was asked to leave because his wheels were leaving marks on the rubber carpet. "He was furious," recalls Kovic. "Everyone in the store turned and looked at him when he shouted, 'I have as much right to be in this store as everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...WESTWOOD, Mass.--Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist who became a symbol of Soviet dissidence, died yesterday, his relatives reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Dissident Sakharov Is Dead at 68 | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

Eric, now 18, estimates that in two years he spent $40,000 on crack. At first he supported his habit with $200 a week earned from an after-school job delivering pizzas to big tippers in Westwood. As his habit became more expensive, he began forging checks and filching money from the wallets of his divorced parents. In eleventh grade, he flunked all his classes but still continued his trips to Venice. "It was scary all the time now," Eric recalls. "I would sit in the van needing a hit, but couldn't stop looking out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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