'PEARL' A REAL GEM OF A STORY.Byline: >Glenn Whipp Pleasant enough dollop of inspiration about 68-year-old Pearl Fryar, who turns his depressed South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" into a tourist destination A tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism. It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". . How? This modest man is a real-life Edward Scissorhands -- well, aside from the fact that he does possess actual fingers and all -- who takes discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. plants and turns them into fantastic sculptures. And to think, back in the day, prospective neighbors kept Fryar from buying a house in their tract, telling the man's real estate agent: "Black people don't keep up their yards." Fryar didn't get mad. He just got even, turning himself into a genuine artist in the process. A MAN NAMED PEARL - Three stars >G >Playing: Laemmle's Town Center 5 in Encino; Laemmle's Playhouse 7 in Pasadena; Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . CAPTION(S): photo Photo: "A Man Named Pearl" tells the story of Pearl Fryar, who turns discarded plants into fantastic sculptures. |
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