Word: jovi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlantic Foods. Streams of post-retirement-age couples wandered through with armfuls of catfood and spaghetti, looking unworried about the future of Social Security. A few young office folks pulled up their striped cuffs to scoop sprouts and avocados from the salad bar. Then came a guy with Bon Jovi hair and a black, flapping fringe coat; I didn't actually see what he bought, but it was heavy and clinked. Wherever he was going, I doubted it was part of Bush's America, and I slipped out after...
Rock star Jon Bon Jovi grins impishly on the cover of the November Spin, but he was scarcely noticed when the music magazine came out last week. All the attention focused on a novel promotion -- a free condom attached to an inside page. It was meant to encourage safe sex, Spin said, but some retailers flinched...
...tonic to meet the Italian Americans in John Patrick Shanley's plays (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and films (Moonstruck). The residents of Shanley's Little Italy dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these days it is the women who have aerobicized their hearts and the men who are love-sick. Shanley knows that men are the last dying breed of romantics. Of course: he's Irish American...
...Christmas as the theme for his LP for charity and has put together the benefit album to top all benefit albums. A Very Special Christmas, with profits going to Special Olympics, is a virtual Who's Who of this year's Billboard Pop Charts: Madonna, Bruce, U2, Whitney, Bon Jovi, Run DMC, and many, many more...
Exposure on MTV can still have substantial impact. The success of such currently hot groups as Bon Jovi and Poison is largely traceable to the saturation airplay given their videos on MTV. One popular band, Journey, last year opted not to produce a video to go with its new album. But when sales lagged, the group released one belatedly, and business promptly picked up. "There's no doubt that its impact has leveled off," says Gil Friesen, president of A&M Records. "But if MTV weren't to survive, someone else would come along and reinvent...