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...most accounts, Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr. - the failed karate instructor who allegedly murdered a wealthy Pensacola, Fla., couple last month in front of their young adopted children - is a blowhard. "He's always got a big game," one friend told police, "he's always got some bullsh-t to talk about." Said another, "He's always blowing smoke up everybody's tail about, you know, 'I got this going on, we're gonna make some money,' da-da-da." As a result, "it would be easy to dismiss Gonzalez as a lying con man, which he is for the most...
...Leonard Nimoy just headed to Las Vegas for one of the world's largest Star Trek conventions. What was that like? There used to be as many as 15,000 people coming to these conventions and I would get up and not quite know what the next word would be, and then go from there. That was those early conventions, and then I began to get into a sort of stand-up routine. I'd change my act every six months or so, but I think everyone there had already heard them. And now apparently interest has revived...
...entire resources ran to just $4 million. Last November, several hundred soldiers rioted in Harare over poor pay and conditions. Even if Mugabe called on troops to stage a coup and suppress dissent, it's no longer clear they would obey him. "The emperor is wearing no clothes," says Leonard Makombe, a politics lecturer at the mothballed University of Zimbabwe...
...days: V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Even the grace notes are familiar. Inane, invented song lyrics? Got 'em. Festive foodstuffs? Pass the chocolate-covered frozen bananas. Funny names? How about a drug dealer called El Drano? It's an anagram for his real name, Leonard. Which, let's be clear, is pretty funny...
...speaking of Leonard, Inherent Vice is like nothing so much as an Elmore Leonard novel with metaphysical aims. It has the same deadpan dialogue, the same lowlife panache, the same Venice Beach-to-Vegas locales that Leonard has touched down in. But the earthbound author of Get Shorty doesn't go in for Pynchon's lyrical riffs about the immemorial forces that pull the world's secret levers and keep the dispossessed of all kinds - the poor, the nonwhite, the nonconforming - from coming into their...