Profile: Jamie Hook
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Misbehavin'
It was a midmorning in August when the rooster went native in South Minneapolis. The city department of Animal Care and Control hastened an officer to the scene. The rooster, while inflicting no physical damage, had brazenly disregarded the matrix of propriety that binds people together and, more important, keeps them apart. An anonymous caller had described ruffled feathers and grave concerns: “Well, he has been eating at some of the neighborhood gardens,” she said. “But that is not really why I’m calling. I’m just concerned that he’ll get hit, or a dog will catch him.”
Old Man Movie
Let’s begin by getting one fact clear: Al Milgrom, the Twin Cities’ most famous fool for cinema, is an old man. His driver’s license makes the bold claim that he was born in 1922—a claim belied by both his appearance, for he doesn’t look a day over sixty-five, and his behavior, for he acts like a teenager. But even without the state’s corroboration, Al is old by anyone’s reckoning.