Word: fab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maybe hipsters will stop calling the show the "Granny Awards." But still present -- they won't go away -- are the unsavory reverberations of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, the two Audio-Animatrons who were supposed to be Milli Vanilli but weren't, and had to surrender their 1989 Best New Artist Grammy. Very embarrassing...
...Pilatus, 25, at a rowdy press conference in Los Angeles last week. Pilatus, one half of Milli Vanilli, was struggling to explain how the duo's yearnings for legitimacy had provoked their German record producer, Frank Farian, into confirming what had long been show-biz rumor: that Pilatus and Fab Morvan, 25, were in fact techno-puppets, fronts for a studio-manufactured sound that sold 10 million copies of the album Girl You Know It's True, on which they never sang...
Producer Farian was using the same studio singers -- Charles Shaw, Johnny Davis and Brad Howell, the latter two of whom are credited with background vocals on Girl -- to make the new Milli Vanilli album, due out in January, and Rob and Fab were having none of it. After all, as far as the public was concerned, they were Milli Vanilli: they were the ones who went on tour and shook their booties; they were the ones who accepted the Grammy last year for Best New Artist. They demanded to sing for themselves. When the producer remained adamant, they fired...
...quite Neanderthal enough to challenge you posers to a rumble, so we'll settle for the next best thing: a softball game. The Fab Five plus a few of their squealing fans versus Cambridge's oldest breakfast table daily. Proceeds go to the Jimmy Fund. Bodyguards not invited. Anytime. We'll be waiting...
...Mother Britain, but one has to wonder how the show will fare in nations not so nostalgic for the Sixties, Beatlemania, and adolescence. But as McCartney winds up his U.S. leg of the tour, there's no doubt the affection American audiences have for this member of the Fab Four. Women might no longer bare their breast the way they would when the group played, but their hearts are still belong to McCartney...