Word: cameoing
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...Jackson allegedly paid Marlon Brando $1 million to attend one of his concerts and do a cameo in his video You Rock My World...
...seen sailors in this port town climb ships' ropes to come ashore. Now we get the sound of bombs and artillery fire, before a Winston Churchill figure (irreverently dubbed Mr. Piggy) announces that the war is over. The girl who would become Queen Elizabeth II struts about in a cameo frame, a living portrait. (And a rude one: Her Majesty is played by a man, as we discover when she removes the frame, her wig and most of her clothes...
...least gives it a shot. The lyrics ("See the facts that I'm trying to strive and capitalize/ And start to maxima-mize and bu-build and enter-terprise") are passable, but what lingers is energetic drop-bys from Stevie Wonder and the late Rick James (in a final cameo) and window-rattling production from...
...pitted himself against a billionaire businessman mayor; an ambitious Governor; grieving, conflicted families; and a small army of politically plugged-in bureaucrats--all with their own ideas about what should be built, how much it ought to cost and who should pay for it. Even Donald Trump makes a cameo. Trump, whom Silverstein once considered a friend, unveiled a competing proposal last summer, denouncing the Freedom Tower, the 1,776-ft. centerpiece, as "the worst pile-of-crap architecture I've seen in my life...
...included Antiques Roadshow banners, a fancy living room, and a conventionally insipid backstage dressing room. The set for the red, decadent bar scene was especially attractive. With 22 cast members, the larger-than-usual cast for Freshman Musicals was extremely effective. Although some characters had minimal roles, every cameo was well-delivered and provided relief from an otherwise insistently serious plot. The most glaring defect of the production, however, was the awkward relationship between the Agassiz, the orchestra and the singers. The five-person orchestra delivered very polished pieces, doing justice to Commins’ exceptionally inventive compositions. But because...