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...pick up the tab, at least some of which was already spent. Initial reports put the cost at $1 million, but sources familiar with the production have told Time that the proposed video budget was actually closer to $5 million. Says an Addams insider: "It wasn't just a clip; it was supposed to be a 10-minute film...
...those who have spent the past decade on Mars, zaps music videos to millions of homes around the nation via the magic of cable. It popularized the three-minute music clip, making visual presentation more important than music in the selling of a record...
...says Bucks County prosecutor Carolyn Oliver. "Wills' million-dollar ring is the biggest we've ever seen here, but it's just the tip of the iceberg." Salvage yards and body shops across the country will pay illegal suppliers like Wills $5,000 total for the front end, back clip, engine, radio, doors and bumpers of a typical late-model car. The parts are then resold to insurance companies, marked up 200% to 300% of their black-market cost. Last year 40,000 cars were stolen in the Philadelphia area alone. Very few of the thieves were caught...
After undergoing a few more minutes of such abuse, the comedian surrenders the stage to the heckler, who suspiciously wears a clip-on microphone and who begins preaching to the crowd. "I'll tell you what this is," he says. "It's another example of this liberal Jew-run media ... in cahoots with the lesbian dentists' cartel. In Ecclesiastes 14:8 it says, 'The Lesbian Periodontists shall ... ' -- I'm paraphrasing here...
Irony abounds. On Dinosaur Act, Sweet seems to poke fun at his own hippie- era idols, while Quine's wailing riffs and power chords evoke their bombastic guitar-driven sound. The second half of the record opens with an audio clip from the film Caligula, in which the Roman dictator, played by Malcolm McDowell, declares himself a god; then, on the very next track, comes Ugly Truth Rock, a droll comment on the megalomaniac temptations of stardom...