Word: cameo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proves too much for him in the third act. Rubinfield is a fiesty flirt who uses the low dramatic energy around her to her advantage; she draws every eye to her, both on stage and off, with admirable seconda donna tactics. The conviction and simplicity of Josh Benaim's cameo "coat aria" in the fourth act place the aria closer to Puccini's original intentions than many a bass who overplay the fact that they are singing to a coat and end up looking, well, goofy...
...President almost forever--this will be his third try--and an announcement was expected soon. But not last Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared that he's seen as stiff and sardonic, still perceived as a hatchet...
...game clock showed under five minutes remaining in the second half, and the fat lady was pumped up for her aria. Until Schoyer shoved her out of the way and did her own cameo...
...summer: The Flintstones. Yabba-dabba-dumb. The one frisson of joy you get from seeing live action versions of all of the dinosaurs disappears about 15seconds into the trailer. What all that talent was doing in there I can hardly imagine. Moment of wit: the B-52's cameo...
...film debut of Luko, the Bob Marley look-alike who had apparently made the Harvard T stop pit his own personal lounge. Some of the movie makers, when asked about the film, advised the curious to "go watch Luko for the next two hours" in order to get their cameo...