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...occasional ejaculation "Great googa-mooga!" were his inventions. Or maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...films in which he played Nellie to Walter Matthau's Butch (The Fortune Cookie, the Odd Couple, the Grumpy Old Men movies), he made himself at home in the blustering camaraderie of the male world. Then fate and circumstance would conspire, and Lemmon would be at an all-night poker party with a cold hand...
...circumvention.) Others are getting their kicks through the increasingly wacky, wigged-out Tokyo getups that look like something imported from Carnaby Street in the days of Swinging London. (Think Austin Powers, only with better teeth.) For others the feel-good vibes are coming on through increasingly popular trance music, all-night raves and 1960s-inspired pop that is flooding the airwaves with lyrics like these from Japan's band of the moment, Love Psychedelico: "Happy life, hippie style," goes the song, which is all wah-wah guitar and slippery riffs. "Downcast days, free ride on a dream...
...kept playing and chatting for hours that night. Around four in the morning he called his pal Joey Reynolds, the all-night radio host, to say that Billy Joel and the James Brown horn section had showed up at his birthday party. He was just kidding, or wishing. But who needed them when two legends were filling that tiny stage? A living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. He closed the first set that night with the plaintive ballad 'Just One More Chance.' He was playing it, he said, 'in remembrance of my partner Mary...
...young Republicans were getting carried away. During an all-night budget session in late April in the Ohio house of representatives, G.O.P. members were chanting in unison. "Cut it! Cut it!" But they had no idea what they were cutting. With the economy slowing, the state legislature faced an $800 million budget shortfall. And so the Republican leadership was staying up through the night, going through the budget line by line. Then the caucus found an $8.4 million agriculture item no one could explain. "Cut it! Cut it!" The item was slashed. But the next day someone pointed out that...