Television
You’d think producers would covet the kind of exposure they get from TV’s film review shows.
March 1, 1987
Travel & Experiences
It’s the line that first draws your attention at Circus: That on a Saturday night, a club could have a line that forms at 7 p.m., a snake of people that will be 50, 100, 150 feet long at times and won’t dissolve until well after midnight.
Oct. 13, 1991
Savvy marketing . . . or inferiority complex?
Sept. 7, 1986
California
Gene La Pietra, one of two front-running candidates in West Hollywood’s third City Council election, owned two adult bookstores and an adult movie arcade in southeast Los Angeles County in the early 1970s and was convicted in 1971 for selling a pornographic film to a county sheriff’s deputy, according to court records and legal documents made public by his opponent, Abbe Land.
Sept. 11, 1986
West Hollywood City Council candidate Gene La Pietra, who recently acknowledged a 1971 state misdemeanor obscenity conviction, also pleaded guilty in 1974 to a federal felony charge of distributing a pornographic film through the mail, according to U.S.
Sept. 18, 1986
West Hollywood City Council candidate Gene La Pietra is working to regain campaign momentum, encouraged by a state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control decision to dismiss a liquor code violation against his Hollywood discotheque.
Oct. 2, 1986
Politics
The campaign finance chairman for Democratic state controller candidate Gray Davis has been forced from his post because of recent revelations that he was convicted in the mid-1970s on federal and state obscenity charges.
Sept. 26, 1986
Two major gay-oriented political organizations buoyed the campaign hopes of West Hollywood council candidate Gene La Pietra this week by voting to endorse him in the city’s Nov. 4 election.
Oct. 9, 1986
A seat on the West Hollywood City Council pays a mere $400 per month, but Gene La Pietra is willing to spend a lot of his own money to win it.
Oct. 22, 1986
With less than a month to go in West Hollywood’s council race, millionaire candidate Gene La Pietra has already raised and spent more than $150,000, far surpassing his rivals and ensuring that his campaign will be the costliest in the city’s brief political history.
Oct. 16, 1986