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...Jerky Boys when they passed through Boston to hype their new film, jerky. Johnny Brennan and Kamal, a couple of wage laborers from New York City, started calling and harassing businesses for fun in 1986. Since then, these guys have put out two top-40 albums preceded by numerous bootleg tapes, rubberneck...
...those bootleg tapes made it into my eleventh-grade hands several years ago. Through the tape, I made the acquaintance of such colorful personas as Frank Rizzo, Al Justice, Tarbash the Egyptian Magician and the now-notorious `auto mechanic.' The Jerky Boys, posing as a variety of abrasive or downright bizarre characters, have made almost 100 calls to businesses in the northeast United States and beyond...
None of the sexually-charged or "blue," as Kamal calls it, material that appeared on the early bootleg tapes has made it onto the albums or into the film. An independent distributor did approach them, but Brennan says "they wanted lots of cream, heavy stoop and sexual stuff," that The Jerky Boys were not interested in providing, tough...
...report sightings of plenty of Americans who apparently didn't want to wait. Russians, Poles and Western Europeans also crowded among the Brits. "Live at the BBC," contains 56 songs recorded between 1962 and 1965, most before the Beatles' early stint in Hamburg, all available previously, but on scattered bootleg LPs. An extra: some Fab Four banter with BBC deejays.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...Simpson didn't have enough lawyers working for him already, he hired the Los Angeles firm Spensley Horn Jubas & Lubitz to help fight bootleg T-shirt makers, trading-card manufacturers and other entrepreneurs using his name and likeness without permission. The new attorneys have filed applications to federally register the terms "O.J. Simpson," "O.J." and "The Juice" as trademarks. Meanwhile, a limited edition of 300 football cards, signed and dated by O.J. from his jail cell, went on sale for $850 each...