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Author Archives: Clay Latimer
Creating star power
One of Phil Lobel’s (A&S ex’79) favorite stories, stretching back to his early days as a Hollywood publicist, took place in a sushi restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in 1987.
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Tagged brad pitt, david copperfield, Eric clapton, mick jagger, phil lobel, star power
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Changing the face of television
The idea came to Howard Schultz (Comm’75) at the end of a long weekend as he crawled into bed in his Los Angeles home and glanced at his TV.
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Finding peace on the devil’s highway
In 1993 Urrea’s nonfiction debut, Across the Wire (Anchor), was a New York Times notable book of the year. His autobiographical Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (University of Arizona Press) won an American Book Award in 1999, and his chronicle of an illegal border crossing turned deadly, The Devil’s Highway (Back Bay Books), was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. Urrea also received rave reviews for The Hummingbird’s Daughter (Back Bay Books), a novel about the life of his charismatic great aunt.
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Playing house for a living
Meridith Baer (Jour’70), a former model, actress and Hollywood screenwriter who fashioned her ultimate plot twist at age 50 by reinventing herself as a niche entrepreneur. In little more than a decade, Baer has become Los Angeles’ star of staging — the gentle art of temporarily furnishing and decorating a home so it sells faster and for more money.
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Closer to a cure?
A professor’s pain drug enables a paralyzed rat to walk. Can it provide a cure for multiple sclerosis?
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Why do some young athletes die at their peak?
A CU scientist and her students study pythons in search of the answer and a cure for premature heart disease.
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Jumping for joy
For years Bloom has been turning his own dreams into reality, juggling football games with World Cup races and business interests. Today he’s doing the same for low-income seniors through his Wish of a Lifetime Foundation, which he started in 2008 to honor his 84-year-old grandmother, Donna Wheeler, who still works and volunteers 20 hours a week.
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Tagged elderly, foundation, Jeremy Bloom, skydiving, Wish of a Lifetime Foundation
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Do immigrants reduce crime?
Scrolling through The New York Times on his computer, the assistant professor of sociology came upon an op-ed by Harvard professor Robert Sampson, a leading sociologist, who proposed an intriguing if extreme hypothesis: the drop in crime rates in the 1990s could be related to the rise in immigration.
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Tagged crime, immigrants, murder, Robert Sampson, Social Science Quarterly, sociologist, Tim Wadsworth, Tom Tancredo
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Knocking history out of the park
Every semester Tom Zeiler explores how baseball and American society have intersected from the 1830s to the present, drawing both fantasy league junkies and baseball neophytes to his popular Boulder classroom. What Zeiler doesn’t do is focus on batting averages, pitching statistics and the fate of the Boston Red Sox.
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