Sam Hamm is, relatively speaking, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, meaning he earns his keep penning screenplays without having to subsidize his income by tending bar or waiting tables. He has to his credit a handful of films, some little known (1983’s Never Cry Wolf, his debut), some enormously profitable (1989’s Batman), and one just released (Monkeybone, a dazzling trip…
Three Kansas City tattoo artists have raised a fuss over an ordinance that defines their businesses as “adult entertainment” and requires parlors to obtain a $300 license as “nude body painting” facilities — an industry that died out after its heyday in the ’60s. “Whispering” Danny Kobzantsev, Jack Cox and Derek Boone recently filed suit in Jackson County Circuit…
It’s the punch people pay to see, a mallet-to-melon thud heard clear across the room. The crowd roars: “Oh!” Rick “The Sledgehammer” Slavens is still standing, but he’s basically out cold. He stumbles forward and flicks a glove at his punisher, a stripper from Springfield. The handsomely muscled right hook bears down again, and Slavens is suddenly looking straight up…
