Word: abba
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They heard him say "Abba," which was any child's first name for Father. They'd heard him use it in private prayer a time or two, and John especially thought it was eerie and unbecoming. The God who was leading this man was no father tossing a child. By then Peter and James had dozed off, but John--being younger--managed to stay half awake through most of the prayer. He could hardly see Jesus, just flashes of his face when the moon broke clear, and then it was wrenched by an agony greater than the joy they...
...boyfriend once told me that if I'm not gyrating to Abba while oozing pride, I'm just not good enough. He thinks that the queer community is lucky to be different from me. That's what bothers me--not being excluded in a straight world but being secluded in a gay one. I can be a minority, but I don't know how to a minority within a minority...
Vilanch, 51, writes material for celebs--everyone, he has said, "from abba to Zadora"--to deliver on award shows, concert tours and the TV talk circuit. He has written for the past nine Oscar fests, and for the Tonys, Grammys, Emmys--any outlet for the entertainment industry's endless need to taunt and flatter itself. When stars are booked for a big benefit, or for Leno or Letterman, they cry, Get Bruce! Which is also the title of Andrew J. Kuehn's fond, zippy new documentary about the Bruce who, on the Hollywood circuit, is the real Boss...
Exhibit number one: The Leverett '80s Dance. At least half the play list consists of songs that no 21-year-old was old enough to remember hearing on the radio; nonetheless, everyone cheers gleefully with the imagined recognition of the music of their youth. Who was an ABBA fan before the great ABBA revival of the early '90s? Does anyone remember hearing the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun," that great staple of '80s dances, when it was first released? As a cultural institution, the '80s dance plays off of a nostalgia for a past that most of us never...
...being carded has become quite a thrill for us. But, they barely glance at our IDs before ushering us in. There is a $5 cover charge. A cover? For a bar? We decide this place is a total scam. However, we make our entrance, to the sounds of ABBA's "Dancing Queen...