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...there was Suddenly, The Man with the Golden Arm, Some Came Running, Pal Joey, A Hole in the Head, The Joker Is Wild, The Manchurian Candidate. These are not the credits of a dabbler. Despite his professed approach to the craft, which was breezy to the point of gale force, he kept company with junkies for Golden Arm and hung around with cops whenever he had to play on the cool side of the law. He did his homework. He just didn't want anyone to see his notes...
...Lakeland, Fla., Travis Fryman, making his first appearance in Joker Marchant Stadium since being traded by Detroit, had three doubles and five RBIs to pace Cleveland...
...films of the decade. Grier was just coming off a cameo in Posse, a modestly successful black western. Grier gave Tarantino a look and said, "Please." Not "pleeeese," meaning, yes, give it to me, thank you very much. But "puhhhhlease," meaning there's not a snowball's chance this joker is actually gonna come through with a script...
Smoking is a theme that lang uses throughout her new album, Drag, to explore sex and love in a variety of contexts, including possessiveness, as in "Don't Smoke in Bed," and macho bravado, as in Steve Miller's "The Joker." In fact, if neither of these songs had audience members lusting for their Parliaments, perhaps any one of the other 10 covers on Drag, including "Smoke Dreams," "Love is Like a Cigarette," and "My Old Addiction," did the trick...
...deeper level, though, lang's concentration on the smoking metaphor highlighted the show's Flapperesque appeal, recalling a time when cigarettes were a sign of a woman's subtle sexiness and when showmanship was the thing. On "The Joker," for instance, lang infused Miller's swaggeringly boastful lyrics with an ironic new meaning, as her flirtations and suggestive smiles elicited cheers from females in the audience. In perhaps the most moving of Drag's songs, "My Old Addiction," lang's voice and the piano were in perfect harmony, and the husky delivery made every line sound reverential. This was especially...