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...shirt sportin’ hero.” Lost by his parents at the Grand Canyon, Dirt and his mullet have been on their own since he was eight. Never abandoning his lifelong goal of finding his family, the adult Dirt fends for himself by working as a janitor in a Los Angeles radio station. Constantly derided for his blatant white trashiness, the station’s producers can’t help but noticing the hapless Joe, and soon bring him on the air as fodder for the sardonic wit of shock-jock Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller, essentially playing...

Author: By John PAUL M. fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grime and Punishment | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...porch. In his acting debut, Kid Rock plays Robby, Joe’s competition for Brandy. Rock’s character is much like his rock & roll personality—badass white trash—and consequently he does a notably good job in the film. A high school janitor in the witness protection relocation program, played by Christopher Walken, and a Native American fireworks salesman also help Dirt during his quest...

Author: By John PAUL M. fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grime and Punishment | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...Connor trots towards Mudd while the medic pulls the ambulance around. Inside, a janitor is cleaning up the blood where a man hit his head after slipping. Co-workers stand nervously outside the door, waiting for news. O'Connor tries to figure out what happened while the paramedics carry the man to the ambulance--right out an alarmed emergency exit. O'Connor finishes his interviews with the alarm buzzing loudly in the background...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 24 Hours with HUPD | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...major labels and big-money offers to sign with tiny London-based Jeepster (it's distributed in the U.S. by Matador), and all seven members have kept their day jobs, including Murdoch, who rather famously lives above the annex of a church where he works as a caretaker and janitor. Their videos are hilariously amateurish. They release unrelated EPs weeks before their albums come out. They tour infrequently. And their media shyness is pathological; the photo you see here of Murdoch is the first he's ever posed for, and he has avoided interviews for years. In short, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Belle Epoque | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Kacyvenski's story is an amazing one for the uninitiated. He comes from Endicott, N.Y., the son of a janitor. His parents divorced because of his father's alcoholism. His mother died when he was a senior in high school. Now he's a Harvard graduate and is about to fulfill his dream of playing...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Male Athlete of the Year: Senior Isaiah Kacyevenski Realizes His NFL Dream | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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