Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scale of ten) for its chase scene featuring Steve McQueen, careening cars and the incredibly steep hills of San Francisco. McQueen's portrayal of a lone-wolf cop battling both criminals and his superiors shouldn't be missed, and Robert Vaughn, of Man From U.N.C.L.E. fame, makes an unusual appearance as the Ambitious Young...
That is the essential theme of Lampost Reunion by Louis La Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...
...Jersey Turnpike to the singer's seaside bungalow. Springsteen, who is wary of journalists and normally reticent, began to open up during the ride. "Somehow the driving seemed to release something," Willwerth reports. "We talked about his family, his music, his early bar-hopping band days, the fame that is catching up with him for good and bad." Interrupted only for forays to Springsteen's rapidly depleted refrigerator, the interview stretched through a pale Atlantic dawn. Then it was back on the road. In three almost sleepless days, Willwerth monitored Springsteen and his E Street Band through their...
Tinker, the surfboard manufacturer and manager, called Mike Appel on Springsteen's behalf. Appel, whose major claim to fame until then was the co-authorship of a Partridge Family hit called Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted, was smart enough to see Springsteen's talent and brash enough to spirit him away from Tinker. Appel got Springsteen to work up a clutch of new songs by simply calling him frequently and asking him to come into New York. Springsteen would jump on the bus and have a new tune ready by the time he crossed...
...likes to implore his favorites to "sock it to 'em," said that his laundry bag was too full, and thus, he couldn't find any room for his socks. It might be added that more than just this person's socks qualified for the Sanitation Department Hall of Fame...