Nicole Maxwell wrote the book "Witch Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon," which chronicles her forty year anthropological studies. She learned of various medicinal plants, including the iporuru, a shrub which helps with joint pain. Frederick Dannon wrote a book, "Hit Men," about music industry power brokers. He alleges that the Mafia was involved in a middleman Payola structure. Sheldon Smith was either a world champion spitter, winning the cherry-pit spitting contest that year, or he shoots holes in jeans with a shotgun, "Shotgun Wash."
—Nick Moreau