Word: costello
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Costin Scalise specifically referred to Reierson and fellow freshmen Mia Costello and Sheila Findley. Costello won the 200 breaststroke and finished second in the 100 breaststroke...
...manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit under his top hat. The rabbit is the only stiff in this fine time at the movies. And Bleasdale is the best thing to come out of Liverpool since John, Paul, George and Ringo...
Frankly, in the middle of the summer, the world needs true adults more than ever. Along with Elvis Costello, Gabriel is one of the few rock musicians who has the poise and dignity and talent to carry off the tough task of acting like a complex human being. It is a shame that someone with his ability writes beach blanket anthems--even great ones like "Sledgehammer." After all, there are enough David Lee Roths around to handle the kids...
Midler insults her kidnappers and bounces up and down in time with TV exercise programs with real spunk, although even that deteriorates by the end of the movie, when she kicks her husband into the water in a bad imitation of Abbott and Costello...
...addition to inevitable tributes to Bob Dylan, "the Boss," and Elvis Costello, more daring individuals mix music with their theory...