Word: chubster
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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CHUBBY CHECKER wants respect. You'd think then that the first place he might go is city hall and revert to birth name Ernest Evans. But no. The Chubster is marching on a different hall: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. As footloose popularizer of the Twist, Checker wants a statue of his likeness erected in the Hall of Fame's courtyard for services to dancing. (He also popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance...
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