Jung was 5 years old, alone and wandering along a South Korean street when a policeman came across him. The Western world awaited; the boy would be among more than 200,000 Korean children adopted in the aftermath of the Korean War. In May 1971, a Belgian family brought Jung Henin home. “It was like getting […]
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The Wolf of Wall Street
The rise-and-fall story of real-life former penny-stocks swindler Jordan Belfort exudes a definite vibe of Scorsese déjà vu, most notably Goodfellas and Casino, even if the characters here are entitled white dudes instead of Mafiosi. Like Belfort himself, Wolf is wild, vulgar and often a helluva lot of fun. But also like its antihero, the […]
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‘Gazette’ welcomes new editor
She moved back after 14 years at the Tulsa World, where she worked in a variety of capacities over the years, most recently as music journalist, reviewer and blogger for the area’s burgeoning concert industry. Her journalistic work experience includes news, breaking news, feature and news feature reporting, investigative journalism, news photography, videography, blogging, page […]
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Something Big
Its unconventional, icky premise is that Baker really, really wants to get his hands on a Gatling gun, and black-market man Johnny Cobb (Albert Salmi, Caddyshack) really, really wants to get his hands on a woman, so Cobb proposes a trade: Bring him a woman, and he’ll give Baker a Gatling gun. See, it’s been […]