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...frankly, a little loud--and he is fumbling through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains perhaps the one thing Mel Gibson cannot do. At 44 he has won two Oscars (as director and producer of the 1995 Braveheart). He has been married to the same woman, Robyn Gibson, since 1980 and fathered seven children, including son Thomas, born last year. Through his 11-year-old company, he co-produced this year's well-received TV movie The Three Stooges...
...funny smell: the perfume of illicit passion, domestic upheaval and smoldering guilt. (O.K., forget that last bit; we're in the postguilt age, at least in Hollywood and Washington.) Proof of Life, a romantic thriller with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, is coming out in the wake of the two stars' affair and the fracturing of Ryan's marriage to Dennis Quaid. The all-American blond is now a Jezebel, her cuddlings with Crowe sprayed across gossip-mag covers and on tabloid-tale TV shows. The eventual film looked destined to be remembered as Exhibit A in the trial...
...weekly paddle-tennis game has taken an interesting turn. I play with a trader and two money managers, and lately, points lost on the NASDAQ have been discussed more hotly than those lost on the court through blurred vision and spot rule revisions. To sharpen our focus and have a bit of fun, at our last outing we each made a stab at how long it will take the NASDAQ to get back to its March 10 record close of 5,049. The surprising results spurred me to widen the sample last week with calls to 10 other Wall Street...
...thing that California made its own: the American film industry, in all its splendors and miseries. In architecture and design, a certain amount from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, little of whose best work was actually done in the state; and more from such European exiles as the two Viennese Modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler, who took refuge on the Pacific shore and found themselves in the company of assorted shrinks, religious prophets, musicians and writers, from Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann to Henry Miller and Nathanael West. A lot of photography, of course, especially ultrasharp f/64...
...first two pages of the huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least...