Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malleable as the tracks of a recording, which may account for the sense of glee, of risks that paid off, that pervade True Stories. Says Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), who directed the extraordinary Talking Heads performance documentary Stop Making Sense in 1984 and served as an "active friend" to Byrne during the making of True Stories: "You couldn't name a more exciting new director. He can give you something brand new that you understand even as you're experiencing it. He's like Martin Scorsese in that regard. Experimentation becomes instantly accessible...
...fantasies roam wild. "He was doing conceptual art," Tina Weymouth remembers. "David has never been one for draftsmanship." Byrne earned some money working the grill at a hot dog stand but largely devoted himself to experimental extravagance. At Maryland he formed a duo called Bizadi with an accordion-playing friend, and would sometimes perform with a lighted candle on his violin...
...that matter, you could purchase 100 bleacher tickets at Fenway Park for regular-season games. You and 99 of your closest friends could have an old-fashioned bleacher bash Or, alternatively, you and your closest friend could attend 50 regular-season games--well over half the home games in an entire season...
Which presented something of a problem to my good friend and fellow parapsychologist, Rutger Fury. We not only feared upsetting the sensitive volcanoes under the island with two more pairs of boots, but also found that all the flights to Iceland were booked solid...
EVER SINCE rich, white Jennifer Dawn Levin was raped and murdered in New York's Central Park by a prepschool "friend," the city's tabloids have kept her story on the front page...