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Rodney King was about police abuse, O.J. was about police incompetence, and Rampart is about police corruption. That's a pretty grim picture for the LAPD. What Rodney King taught us is you can't ignore the problems and hope they will go away.


Laurie Levenson

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HUGH LAURIE Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am...
HUGH LAURIE Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me...
HUGH LAURIE Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had ...
PIPER LAURIE Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in...
HUGH LAURIE We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitc...
LAURIE GRAHAM The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her f...
LAURIE GRAHAM I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a dead...
LAURIE NOTARO I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
LAURIE NOTARO I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in t...
HUGH LAURIE The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity ...
LAURIE HELGOE When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewe...
LAURIE COLWIN I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, '...
HUGH LAURIE Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
LAURIE GRAHAM Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even ...
LAURIE GRAHAM With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in da...
LAURIE GRAHAM I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementi...
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