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ONE of the trademarks of their style has been to use celebrities that the public is already familiar with in a completely different context. Kareem Abdul Jabbar is the best example from Airplane!. Naked Gun features cameos from "Weird Al" Yankovic, the late John Houseman and others. Working with Priscilla...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

They perform with a Harlem gospel choir on a version of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For that becomes a bit of casual exaltation ex rock cathedra. They cook up a new song for the great bluesman B.B. King, When Love Comes to Town, and kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U2 Explores America | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

I don't get it. For nearly two years, since Elvis Costello's show at Bright Arena, Harvard offers no concert by a major rock performer. Then, within 24 hours of each other, Jimmy Cliff and Richard Thompson appear on campus.

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Reggae and Rock | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

Council leaders said they are hoping for a quick sell-out, and added that a council-sponsored show by rocker Elvis Costello sold out two years ago on the first day tickets were available.

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Tickets for Jimmy Cliff Show Available Today | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

Karl Marx said that historical events and personalities enact themselves first as tragedy and then, in their repetition, as farce. Some of the imitations and reincarnations of J.F.K. have had traces of the farcical. In 1984 Gary Hart, during the primaries, slipped into a bizarre physical impersonation that had him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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