Word: joey
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...Joey Ramone is dead. There was a nice obit in the Times that ran for two days straight, another one in Newsday, and the Voice ran a Lenny Kaye memorial, but I wonder how folks outside of New York are taking the news. The Ramones never had a hit record, they never played "Saturday Night Live" (though there was a "Simpsons" episode) and their top-selling album, the Spector-produced "End of the Century," only made it to 44. Were they just another cult band?. I don't see America mourning, and it's too bad. Maybe I can supply...
...Some context For people of a certain age (and Joey, born in 1951, was just two years older than me) punk was our second chance. We had bands in high school and college or instead of college; we were all trying to make being rock stars a viable career option. But to make real money as a musician (and I'm not talking about the bread-and-butter gigs that kept many of us going - weddings, bar mitzvahs, the lounge circuit, teaching) you have to have the kind of luck that wins a state lottery, that draws a full house...
...Plays such as one where sophomore forward Joey Yenne maneuvered craftily through two Breaker defenders deep in the box drew the respect of the Breaker bench...
...Players: Eddie George, Cris Carter, Orlando Pace, Joey Galloway, Shawn Springs, Korey Stringer, Rickey Dudley, Terry Glenn, Kent Graham, David Boston, Antoine Winfield, Dan Wilkinson, Andy Katzenmoyer...
...Roces argues that directors ought to be licensed and then fined if they make films deemed pornographic. This scares the movie crowd. "We're going back to a Jurassic period," says Joey Reyes, director of Live Show. Tight censorship may help kill off the Filipino movie industry, whose production slumped from 144 films in 1999 to only 84 last year. Local films are losing out against foreign blockbusters and video pirates. A case in point is Live Show: with all the buzz over its banning, many more Filipinos?including underage kids?are catching it on pirated videos than ever...