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...won’t pick on your mother ’cause I love her,” the caller says in a thick Boston accent...
DIED. VAUGHN MEADER, 68, who satirized President John F. Kennedy in the hit 1962 album First Family; of emphysema; in Auburn, Maine. Meader was a stand-up comedian whose Kennedy satire, making fun of his "vigah" in an uncannily similar New England accent, caught on with a Kennedy-hungry public and resulted in an album that quickly sold 7.5 million copies and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. Even the President thought it was funny; he bought 100 copies for Christmas gifts. When Kennedy was assassinated the following year, however, Meader's career died with him. After struggling...
...views of Central Park, Wolfe in person is a sharp contrast to his personality on the page. His prose bristles with italics and exclamation points and repetitions--repetitions!--for emphasis, but Wolfe himself speaks softly, slowly and a little hoarsely, with the ruins of a long-ago Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky, his mischievous smile a little snaggle-toothed. His hair is midlength and floppy, la David Spade. He still wears...
...ultimately that is Bird’s goal. He says it best as the interview draws to a close: assuming the voice of the Incredibles’ suit designer Edna Mole, he belts out in his most nasal pseudo-Euro accent, “I hope you enjoy the movie, dahling...
...DIED. VAUGHN MEADER, 68, who satirized President John F. Kennedy in the best-selling album First Family; of emphysema; in Auburn, Maine. Meader was a stand-up comedian whose Kennedy satire, making fun of his ?vigah? in an uncannily similar New England accent, caught on with a Kennedy-hungry American public and resulted in an album that quickly sold 7.5 million copies and won a 1962 Grammy for album of the year. Even the President thought it was funny; he bought 100 copies for Christmas gifts. When Kennedy was assassinated the following year, Meader?s career died with...