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The Boob Master

By Michael Yockel
Oct 7, 2004

Not long into director Russ Meyer's outsized 1970 Hollywood satire Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the filmmaker introduces all of his principal characters via a sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll party held at the Los Angeles manse of a dandified, reptilian music impresario who speaks primarily in Elizabethan English. As a sea of...
Derby Days

Horses hit the turf

By Nina Korman and Michael Yockel
Mar 11, 2004

SAT 3/13 During its 52 runnings, the Florida Derby, taking off today at Gulfstream Park (901 S. Federal Hwy., Hallandale), has served as a prescient precursor to the more prestigious Kentucky Derby, with a handful of horses winning both races, notably Spectacular Bid (1979), Swale (1984), Unbridled (1990), Thunder Gulch...
Miami's B-Movie Mogul

K. Gordon Murray may have invented the weekend kiddie matinee, but don't forget his scowling bikers, howling werewolves, lumbering mummies, brain-sucking monsters, and scheming decapitated heads

By Michael Yockel
Jan 29, 2004

Two-thirds of the way into Il momento piu bello (The Most Wonderful Moment), a disconsolate Dr. Valeri (the baby-faced Marcello Mastroianni) bids arrivederci to the final two members of his Lamaze class, the latest setback to befall him in the talky, turgid 1957 Italian soaper that was dubbed into English,...
High Horse Stakes

Racing resumes at Gulfstream, but it'll cost you By Michael Yockel

By Michael Yockel
Jan 1, 2004

To hear Mike Lefebre tell it, these are desperate times for full-time horseplayers. In the not-too-distant past, he explains from his residence in West Palm Beach, "Out of nine or ten [daily] races at Gulfstream, I would bet seven of them. Now, maybe I bet two or three." As a...
Mellow Cello

Punk alert: Solo cellist concert at Churchill's

By Michael Yockel
Dec 4, 2003

This past Halloween, after his 7:00 p.m. sound check but well before his 10:00 p.m. solo performance at the 400 Bar, a Minneapolis rock club, classical music cellist Matt Haimovitz found himself with two hours to kill. "I didn't know what to do between 8:00 and 10:00," he recalls, speaking...

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