Bruce
Wagner’s Hollywood Satiricon
The novelist infects his books with madness, celebrity,
name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that’s just
the realism. BY BRENDAN BERNHARD
Friends
and Pranksters A true story of neighborly extremes.
BY JAMES VERINI
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Secret
Summits Laura Chick summons Hahn's challengers
to her home for scandal talk. BY JEFFREY ANDERSON
Image
Control "Live Wrong and Prosper." BY JOSH MINTZ
Boxer’s
Rebellion A tale of two senators. BY DAVID CORN
Protocol
For Lying How it is that so many senators can
let Condi slide. BY JUDITH LEWIS
Rice
and the New Black Paradigm When it comes to black
history, Condi makes cynics of us all.
BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
Reason
to Wheeze The governor runs out of gas for major
clean-air fight. BY WILLIAM J. KELLY
Revenge
of the White Cops The meaning of the Inglewood
verdict. BY JEFFREY ANDERSON
Murder
on Spec Quiet on the Blake set! BY STEVEN MIKULAN
Dissonance
Governor Girlie-man: If Arnold were tough, he’d
raise taxes. BY MARC COOPER
Column
Dave Peter-Anne Dies Again. BY DAVE SHULMAN
Deadline
Hollywood Have they no shame? Oscar gets a razzie
for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s asses.
Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose. BY NIKKI
FINKE
A
Considerable Town JAMES VERINI on the e-mail revolt
against Cynthia’s restaurant; JONNY WHITESIDE
on the return of Merle Haggard; and STEVEN MIKULAN
on Susan Block’s erotic political protest party.
Plus,
a Johnny
Carson farewell haiku by DAVE SHULMAN with a photo
by TED SOQUI and MARK "THE COBRASNAKE" HUNTER’s
Snake
Bites.
Letters
We write, you write...
ROCKIE
HOROSCOPE
FILM
All that heaven forbids: In Head-On,
two Muslim immigrants collide. ELLA TAYLOR reviews
the film; DAVID EHRENSTEIN talks with Turkish-German
director Fatih Akin.
Heavy
surveillance: The paranoid universe of Fear
X. BY SCOTT FOUNDAS
BOOKS
MICHELLE HUNEVEN interviews Marilynne Robinson on
her long-awaited
new novel, Gilead.
THEATER
Perform,
he said: Matthew Wilder brings Marguerite Duras’
famously oblique Destroy,
She Said to America. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
Arrested
developments: Finer
Noble Gases asks the question, Dude, where’s
my life? BY STEVEN MIKULAN
ART
The end of Donald Kuspit? The beginning
of his "California
New Old Masters." BY DOUG HARVEY
TV
Acting the fool: Method and madness in HBO’s
Unscripted. BY ROBERT ABELE
MUSIC
Resistance
is futile: Chemical
Brothers push the button and you surrender. BY
SIRAN BABAYAN
Live
in L.A. Elefant, Everybody Else, Run Run
Run; DJ Qbert, DJ Swamp, Grandwizzard Theodore; Silvertide;
Tristeza; Ditch.
A
Lot of Night Music Roof-raising Berio, superior
second-rate Verdi. BY ALAN RICH.
COMICS
"BEK,"
BY BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
RESTAURANTS
Ask
Mr. Gold: Killer Pad Thai. BY JONATHAN GOLD
Where
to Eat Now: Thai
Counter
Intelligence Pho the Soul: Vietnamese chicken
soup at Blue Hen and Hoan Kiem. BY JONATHAN GOLD
WHERE
TO EAT NOW
Database
of restaurant listings compiled by JONATHAN GOLD
and MICHELLE HUNEVEN.
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