...overlooked the Pacific Ocean, where Bob Dylan's house was across the street and where Eszterhas had to buy a $1,000 steel mailbox with a lock on it because people were stealing his mail. (Some of it wound up on eBay.) The change has been drastic...

...brass number. "You take the first shift," Sweetie growled. If the gong of the baseball bat hitting our 20-gauge steel mailbox at 30 mph didn't wake the dead, the roar of Sweetie spinning all the gravel out of the driveway when he took off...