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My favorite novel is Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. In the book, Louisiana governor Willie Stark is a fictional rendering of Huey P. Long, the corrupt, benevolent populist governor of Louisiana. The best line in the book is Stark talking about the broken nature of humanity, and how the most dishonest people in politics are those who pretend that anyone can outrun their worst impulses: “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
This quote lives at the heart of Louisiana politics. When I began reciting it to Carville last week, he finished it with me. The state has always elected folk heroes who did naughty things: hookers, affairs with Bourbon Street strippers, freezers of money, and an endless rap sheet of boring felony charges. The two biggest folk heroes are Long and Edwards.

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… If you’re running these bowls, it’s an opportunity to do good, not to do well,” Dean Zerbe, who investigated charitable exemptions while on the staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), told HBO Real Sports. “You can pay yourself a reasonable salary…and after that it has to go to a charitable purpose.”
Charitable purpose, however, likely doesn’t include lavish trips for executives and guests, another area that has drawn criticism. Executives at the Fiesta Bowl spent more than $100,000 on a corporate golf trip, and former CEO John Junker spent more than $1,200 at a strip club, according to an investigation into the Fiesta Bowl after a scandal enveloped the bowl in 2009. The bowl spent $3.3 million on The Fiesta Frolic, an annual trip for sponsors, executives, and others involved in the game, since the start of the BCS. In the same time frame, the Orange Bowl hosted a similar trip, The Summer Splash, at an average annual cost of more than $111,000.

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View full sizeNaomi Martin, The Times-PicayuneNOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas and State Police Col. Michael D. Edmonson present a poster of the 32 people arrested in the month-long Operation Rip N Run.
Edmonson said the operation, which ended nearly three weeks ago, was an “aggressive” collaboration between NOPD, State Police, St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff’s deputies and drug task-force officers.
Police said the arrests were made with the help of CrimeStoppers tips. Having “new faces” in the form of State Police and St. John Parish deputies also helped cops infiltrate relationships between dealers and sellers, NOPD spokeswoman Remi Braden said.
Of the 38 arrestees, 31 had outstanding warrants. Twenty-six were booked for drug crimes, five for prostitution and three for illegal weapons. The bulk of the drug arrests were for marijuana, although there was a handful for cocaine and crystal meth as well, police said.

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Ti-ara Roberts, 22, San Antonio, Texas, was arrested Jan. 4 in the 3400 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road in Metairie and booked with prostitution and possession of marijuana.
Sade Jackson, 18, 22 Davis Blvd., Jefferson, was arrested Jan. 5 at Metairie Road and Labarre Road in Metairie and booked with three counts of simple burglary and three counts of illegal possession of stolen property $500-$1,500.
Kevin Abboud, 40, 5028 Utica St., Metairie, was arrested Jan. 5 Interstate 10 and Causeway Boulevard in Metairie and booked with DWI.
Catholine Hammett, 20, 2118 Marengo St., New Orleans, was arrested Jan. 5 in the 3400 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road in Metairie and booked with prostitution and possession marijuana.
Vanessa Rivera, 18, Allentown, Pa., was arrested Jan. 5 in the 3300 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road in Metairie and booked with prostitution and crime against nature.

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Robin McLaughlin, 29, 527 S. Alexander St., New Orleans, was arrested Dec. 15 in the 4400 block of Hearst Street in Metairie and booked with prostitution, crimes against nature, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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Alendra Fallon, 29, Marysville, Wash., was arrested Dec. 15 in the 3100 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road in Metairie and booked with prostitution and crimes against nature.
Patricia Saindon, 22, Sacramento, Calif., was arrested Dec. 15 in the first block of Galleria Boulevard in Metairie and booked with prostitution.
Brianna Brown, 26, 2129 Cleary Ave., Metairie, was arrested Dec. 15 at home and booked with crimes against nature and prostitution.
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Tina Wolf, 21, Fayetteville, Ark., was arrested Dec. 16 in the 3400 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road in Metairie and booked with prostitution.

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… Two days out from the game, there will be tickets going for under $750,” said Jesse Lawrence of TiqIq.com. “The reality is that the hard part isn’t necessarily getting the ticket, but whether or not you get a hotel room for Monday night. Plus, kids are in school, people are working, and it’s a lot to ask that you uproot your life to go see a game. “So I do think we’ll see a bit of softening on the part of sellers. If I was a buyer, I might be negotiating $750 as my starting point right now, especially on sites like eBay where you can make an offer.”
Chances are, all of the hotels in New Orleans are either booked or damn near close to it, but maybe you can find a friend’s house or, say, a brothel where you could stay if you’re one of these late-buying bargain hunters.

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Demi Moore takes Steinem role in Lovelace film (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Demi Moore, Adam Brody and Eric Roberts have joined the cast of “Lovelace,” a biopic about porn actress Linda Lovelace, the producers announced on Monday.
Moore will play the iconic feminist Gloria Steinem, while Roberts will be play a lie-detector expert. Brody will play “Deep Throat” male lead Harry Reems.
Lovelace’s role in the notorious 1972 hardcore-porn movie made her one of the best-known figures in adult entertainment.
As previously announced, Amanda Seyfried will play the title role in the movie, which Millennium Films is making with the cooperation of Lovelace’s estate.
Peter Sarsgaard will portray Lovelace’s husband, Chuck Traynor, and James Franco will play Hugh Hefner.
Other castmembers include Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple.

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What it doesn’t have, however, is any real cleverness of writing or sharpness of wit. In fact, aside from a fun and goofy turn by Tom Arnold, playing a self-deprecating version of himself, the most amusing thing about this lowest-common-denominator comedy is that it was shot mostly in New Orleans and Old Metairie, doubling as Beverly Hills. (Ha ha! The joke’s on you, L.A.!)
The whole thing is built upon the same flavor of teenage fantasy that has launched a thousand other similar lowbrow comedies: Matthew Lillard (”Scooby-doo,” “Scream”) and relative newcomer Brett Davern star as a pair of pool-boy cousins who decide to turn a vacationing client’s empty home into a brothel to raise money for college.
Davern’s stiff, Harvard-bound character isn’t quite convinced that “pimping internship” will be a strong entry on his college application, but Lillard’s freewheeling ringleader is blinded by dollar signs. Of course, Davern is converted when the money starts piling up — and by his affection for the obligatory gold-hearted hooker (Rachelle Lefevre).

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They were terrible on defense (allowing recent Hornets acquisition Eric Gordon to nab 20 points), awful on offense (shooting only 39.5 percent from the field), and were particularly bad from three-point range (going 5-for-25 beyond the arc).
Oh, and rookie Markieff Morris screwed up a last-second chance to win the game. That’s because, despite all their struggles last night, Phoenix managed to eek out a lead in the second half after being behind for the first two quarters and was less than a minute away from victory.
Thanks to pimp scoring efforts by Marcin Gortat (13 points, five rebounds) and Robin Lopez (21 points, seven rebounds), the Suns led by as much as eight points during the fourth quarter against New Orleans (who kept battling back into the game) and clinged to a 84-83 lead with 58 seconds left in regulation.

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Pam Waldron is loading things into her car when I catch up with her. She and her family (husband Dennis and their children) have lived on the block for more than 30 years, and we always greet each other in passing. But today we stop to talk, and I ask about the family’s Christmas day plans.
“Well, we usually trade off years with other family members, but we hosted it here for the last two,” Waldron tells me. “This year, the schedule will be back to normal.”
With relatives, children and grandchildren, the group has grown to about 20, a fitting size for a holiday feast.
“I’ll be cooking some things and taking them with us,” she said. “But the centerpiece — the turkey or ham — that’s the responsibility of whomever is hosting.”
Before we part, we wish one another merry Christmas, a sentiment I wish to share with all Street Walker readers, wherever they may be. Happy holidays!

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