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...former taxi driver, chips him for being a bad tipper one day years ago. "You said, 'Keep the change,' " Eli says, "and the change was 5 cent!" Another passer-by bawls him out on economic grounds, something about the prediction - actually Paul Keating's - that Australia would become a banana republic. But overall, the reception's good. "Bob's one of my heroes," says Newhouse. "And as you can see, he's still got it." It's hard to see Labor winning Wentworth. But if that happens, a silver-haired charmer will feel he's played his part...
...earned stardom alongside buddies Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. But he was never completely overshadowed by the better-known members of his cohort. In 1960 TIME wrote, "Theoretically, Joey has bottom billing, [but] as soon as he starts talking he is recognized as top banana in a newly assembled comedy act that is breaking up Vegas." Bishop later appeared in his own sitcom and filled in about 200 times as host of the Tonight Show...
...Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” the group decides it might be a good idea to stay the night at the Bates Motel. They sprint past Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson and barricade themselves in a room. After a female companion dies in a tragic banana-knife-shower-prank accident, Wes and crew evacuate the room and proceed to get kicked down a flight of stairs by an evil Paris Hilton. Finally, just like the ending of Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Wes runs into himself dressed as an old woman...
...after something exotic and unusual from old colonial Singapore, pop over to CK Collections in Little India for amazing period fans and lights. Call first, tel: (65) 9382 3438, or CK might be out fixing or delivering something. I recommend an early dinner of fish-head curry at Apollo Banana Leaf restaurant on Race Course Road, tel: (65) 6293 8682, followed by a long browse at Mustafa, a 24-hour shopping center, tel: (65) 6295 5855. They've got everything from food to electronics, and the saris and gold jewelry are cheap. People from India actually fly to Mustafa...
...event that occasioned this headlong dash onto a banana peel was the launch just two months earlier--and 50years ago this October--of Russia's fabled Sputnik, the world's first satellite. The U.S. reacted to the event as any mature, technologically savvy nation would, which is to say we lost our marbles. The Russians had seized the high ground of space, we cried. It would be only a matter of time before they were gliding overhead, dropping bombs on us like overripe fruit from a highway overpass...