Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driver's seat playing a different character. Or was he? Invited to drop by whenever he was in town by Michael Talbott, who plays Detective Stanley Switek, Iacocca did just that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative type," says NBC. In a none too subtle reference to Iacocca's Ellis Island scuffle with Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, Lido, asked about a shack in a stakeout scene, replies, "It's just a leftover from some...
...edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life and that...
...Lawrence...McEvoy and fellow backup goalie John Devin finished in a tie for first place in Ivy League goals-against average. McEvoy didn't allow a goal in his 16 minutes of Ivy action against Brown in early February and Devin blanked Dartmouth in his 10 minute Ancient Eight cameo in late November...
Schmidt made a cameo appearance in Allen's newest film, "Hannah and Her Sisters." The cherub-faced future president plays the role of a doctor who tells Allen that his sperm count...
Throughout, Reilly maintains the properly ironic tone. There is no special pleading about British homophobia; Wilde is a collaborator in his own misfortune. Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Frank Harris and the Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...