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...launches an album of old and new songs and opens a 53-city U.S. tour to an ecstatic house in Reno, Nevada, Tina is in no hurry to see the film of her life. "Do you think I want to see Ike Turner hit somebody again?" she asks. "It's not enough that I was hit. Now I have to watch him hit somebody else? I don't need to see this movie, 'cause I saw it already. I lived...
...chairs and sends out a newsletter to senior citizens that features everything from pending state legislation to muffin recipes. On the other hand, Wynn continues to make headlines for investigations into the possible organized-crime connections of some of his top employees. Just last week he appeared before the Nevada Gaming Commission to defend his father's bookmaker, Charles Meyerson, whom Steve hired 13 years ago as a host for Atlantic City's Golden Nugget and who is paid $400,000 a year today to do the same job for the Mirage. Police had alleged that Meyerson arranged for free...
...Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming joints from road people who have read too much Jack Kerouac. Some of this is fun, but adult readers will yell...
...does he know? Moores is a specialist in ocean crust, which he routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...
...time lag shrinks, the money being paid for these stories mounts. Jim and Jennifer Stolpa, who were rescued in January with their infant son after eight days in a Nevada snowstorm, met with producers while still recovering in a hospital from the partial amputation of their feet. They got a reported $650,000 to tell their story for a CBS movie...