Word: costello
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came Game Two. The supposed pitching classic: Doc against the Rocket. Well, it was more like Abbott vs. Costello. Gooden was horrible, and Clemens was something less than mediocre. The Sox won a sloppy...
...back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs of the two men engaging in oral sex. That knowledge provided the mob with rich blackmail material. It protected gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello from FBI scrutiny for more than 20 years and forced Hoover to insist that syndicated crime was not a national problem...
Long before Elvis Costello was singing "Allison," Graham Parker--one of Costello's vocal influences--was making rock 'n' roll albums. His songs, on this and previous LPs, are cynical commentary on love, life and relationships. Acoustic, layered production adds intimacy to the music on Burning Questions. "Release Me" and "Mr. Tender" are the record's finest...
...reflect on my first year? It happened. Imade it. I had good moments and some miserableones. The relics surrounding me now--a black andwhite poster of Elvis Costello, a piece of artdone by me brother, a photograph of my dog--areremnants of that first year, and so are many of myfriends. I hope to get up to Maine to see Jennythis summer, and maybe down to New York where Amylives. Ash and I are both in Cambridge, as is PatHoy. I discuss my writing with Pat all the timeand he has convinced me that I could give writinga...
...press, I thought he was the same great, lovable, complex guy," says McCartney. "I nearly said hateable, but hateable's too far because he's died. If he were alive, I could say that." He has tried various other collaborators, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to, most recently, Costello. But, he admits, "it would be mad to think I'd written with anyone better since John. He was a one-off, very special...