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among others. He has worked as a designer and copywriter for the entertainment industry, creating numerous campaigns for the big and small screens, and was developing a reality-based television show with Maranian and Star Price, who also created the popular Showtime series
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Lovett began his career as a freelance journalist and humorist in 1983, and went on to write feature articles for numerous national publications, including "I Am Curious Donkey" for
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in 1979. He was accepted into the USC School of Cinema-Television as a freshman, where he founded the loosely-knit anti-establishment art group called "Film Fascists." Influenced by
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for over six months, and garnered praise as well as a new generation of followers. The new book and its authors were written-up again in an
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Non-Fiction Bestseller list in 1997, remained on the chart for 5 months, and was in print for over ten years.
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in August 2007 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the book. Ironically, the first edition of
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Lovett died in his sleep on January 26, 2014, in the Los Angeles area. He was 52 years old.
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Lovett was born in Maryland, but grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from
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by Jessica Gelt generated renewed interest in an update/sequel as well as a
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opus, "Wired in California," for the "Drugs in America" special issue of
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was published in September 2009. Like the first book, it remained on the
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went through more than twenty printings before finally being retired by
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The authors were profiled in the Weekend Calendar section of the
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