In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
“The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.”
“The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.”