Word: gigging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. FRANK SCOTT, 80, silver-tongued superagent to sports stars of yesteryear; in Livingston, N.J. Scott was the first agent to prove that his clients could pitch a product as well as a ball, shagging Yogi Berra Yoo-Hoo commercials, Roger Maris a gig for Camel cigarettes and Mickey Mantle a spot on an early box of Wheaties...
...name--and a good one at that. After surveying the names of similar groups that have been commercially successful, its members realize that a catchy and quirky name is vital to the group if it ever hopes to wins a spot on Casey's Top 40 or even a gig on "Late Night With Conan O'Brian." So, following the lead of groups like Green Day, Barenaked Ladies, Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters, the band members brainstorm for two or three of the most random words they can think of. And I would imagine that after a few hours, they...
...been thinking about it for a while, and after the National Press Club gig, I'm probably pretty ready... I don't know how serious I am, because I'm already read so widely I don't have that hunger to be heard...
...there with my fresh-from-the-headlines political jokes, trying to become the Mort Sahl of the '90s. The New York Observer described one of my early performances: "He holds the microphone like a dead fish." Trust me, I've grown as an artist. I have a monthly gig, along with four other talented baby-boomer comics, at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan. The Washington Post dubbed our performance LAUGH RIOT IN THE BIG APPLE. My sold-out one-man show in Paris prompted Le Monde to gush, "Jerry Lewis, move over." (O.K., I made that last...
...place of prominence. But in 1988 Congress passed an amendment to the embargo that allowed Cuban musicians to perform Stateside if they came as part of a cultural exchange, a requirement typically fulfilled by the artist's giving an educational workshop in addition to his or her regular gig...