Word: cameo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seventies style has been rekindled for the alternative music scene. But the alternative retro-movement has forgotten the 70s' most lasting effect on contemporary pop culture: the music. Groups like Chic and Kool and the Gang paved the way for artists such as Cameo, Chakka Kahn, and even Tina Turner's 80s chart-toppers. Seventies music, as a whole, had a major influence on the succeeding decade...
...what really has the kids' attention is that Hawking did a guest spot last season on Star Trek: The Next Generation, playing a time-bending game of poker with his intellectual forebears, Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. The cameo appearance won him almost as much popular recognition as A Brief History of Time, the 1988 best seller that spent 53 weeks on the New York Times list, sold an astounding 5.5 million copies worldwide and spawned an award-winning movie. Not bad for a volume that was, despite its billing as an easy read, nearly impossible to get through...
...Giovanni, who is hired to kill Robin Hood. DeLuise does a great imitation of Marlon Brando's imitation of Brando's own Don Corleone. Think about that one for a while. Anyway, it's pretty funny. Dick Van Patten also tries to extend his career by doing a cameo as the Abbot. Haven't these guys heard of retirement and social security...
...Naked Gun.' " Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, says, "I hate action movies," but he also maintains that the new film is "a heartfelt example" of the genre. Sort of. For instance, the villainous android-cop from Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2 appears in a cameo. At another point, Slater/ Schwarzenegger unwittingly delivers the Terminator's famous salutation, "I'll be back." "You always say that," his boy companion replies...
Moving to San Francisco in the early '80s, Isaak formed a band and started playing in Bay Area clubs, eventually attracting an ardent following that included Bruce Springsteen and Rickie Lee Jones. Another early fan was director Jonathan Demme, who cast Isaak in cameo bits in his films Married to the Mob (Remember the fast-food clown who tried to rub out Tony the Tiger?) and Silence of the Lambs (as a SWAT team member). He had a few lines of dialogue in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, but his biggest break came last year, when...