What do D.H. Lawrence, Quentin Crisp, former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Ruth Westheimer have in common? They`ve all been selected for the first ”Sex Hall of Fame” by Forum magazine (August issue). Lawrence was cited for bringing ”erotic literature into public view,” Crisp for ”refusing to remain in the closet,” Douglas for being ”America`s foremost defender of the First Amendment” and Westheimer for making it ”okay for nice people to admit they enjoy good sex.”
Daniel Roebuck is one of the stars of the summer`s surprise hit,
”River`s Edge.” He plays a teenager who kills his girlfriend. All his friends rally around him to hide the crime from their parents and the police. Says Roebuck, 24: ”Nothing in my life could have prepared me for the movie. People keep telling me, `I know kids with that kind of apathy. ”Let`s just go get high this morning and blow off school.” ` But I come from a very loving family.” After playing a psychopathic killer, Roebuck is avoiding typecasting by playing the comic sidekick in ”Dunk,” a punk-rock Western.
Penn and Teller, new-wave magicians who bill themselves as ”the magicians for people who hate magic,” tell how they accommodate their fans, in the September issue of Playboy. Penn was walking down the street one day when he was stopped for an autograph by a boy and his mother. ”I didn`t have a pen. The mother . . . didn`t have one, either. The kid looked heartbroken. So I reached up to my lapel, pulled off the button (a souvenir from his show), opened it, (pricked my finger) and wrote PENN across a piece of paper. The mother was so appalled, but the kid looked at me just the way I would have looked at a guy who did that. It was great.”
REPLAYS
”Living in L.A. is like not having a date on a Saturday night.”
Candice Bergen
”(In California), `Are you still married?` is more courteous than rude as an inquiry of someone you`ve not seen for a week or two.”
Ralph Keyes
”As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.”
Alison Lurie
