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L.A. in the '80s

A collection of features, interviews and adventures in journalism from my days as a freelancer for the LA Times and other places when I lived and played in Hollywood.

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During most of the 1980s, I had the subversive pleasure of editing the LA Times' Sunday Calendar Letters Page. I did all the trouble-making and…
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My subversive affair with a lovely Communist travel agent during the Cold War still needs a happy Hollywood ending.
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To mark the coming of another season of our former national pastime, here is an instant replay of my feature on the lovable XXX-rated Dodgers manager…
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In ancient times, the mid-1980s, I wrote this helpful guide to spotting the 'Truth' and the BS hidden in TV docudramas about real people and real…
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My grim tour of East Berlin’s gray streets and empty stores 32 years ago taught me all I needed to know about life under Communism.
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Many seasons ago John Sayles and his young stars went on the road to make his realistic baseball movie about the 'Chicago Black Sox' throwing the World…
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In 1977 200 Communist bureaucrats, propaganda specialists and KGB agents put on a pathetic propaganda show in downtown L.A. The booster media cheered…
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