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...weather and the continued employment of their season-ticket holders. Who knows. Should O'Malley have predicted earthquake, fire, Rodney King and plant closings? Should he have just left Chavez Ravine to those pesky natives? Could he have guessed that by 1994 it would be virtually impossible for an Angeleno to sell his house and realize phenomenal capital gains...
...head for romance and a hard time finding it. Victoria Tennant, Marilu Henner and Sarah Jessica Parker offer the feminine options, and Brit TV maven Mick Jackson supplies the directorial dazzle. But this is a very personal Martin project -- the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be dippy...
Henry has a much stronger sense of being a Grape Street Crip than a Mexican American or an Angeleno. Ask him about his family, and he'll talk about his "homies." He knows the odds against surviving gang life. "I might get killed one day," he says. "My uncle did." His uncle, a Florencia gang member, was shot in the back with a .45 when Henry was ten. His uncle was Florencia because he lived in that neighborhood, but that was long ago, and Henry has always been Grape Street. "I don't like Florencia, I never did." One reason...
...degree from New York University. In 1968, while working on his M.B.A., he landed a job in the casting department at Columbia Pictures. Guber quickly became chief of production and, by the time he left in 1976, his credits included The Way We Were and Shampoo. Peters, 44, an Angeleno who spent a year in reform school, broke into the movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles...
...Nonconformity in our city is no easy feat; it's hard to find any standard to rebel against." That was written by an Angeleno, David Clark...