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...Supreme Court chambers. Portraits of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Felix Frankfurter gaze from the walls. A 54-year-old Justice from a rural white state cues up the official Supreme Court CD player, and we hear . . . Luther Campbell's bawdy, silly rap parody of the Roy Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Justice David Souter's foot begins...
...Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime. Well, then, could one at least produce a high-verisimilitude parody of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror? No, not if the Supreme Court upholds an appeals court ruling that 2 Live Crew "stole" Roy Orbison's 1964 song Oh, Pretty Woman when the group released a rap parody of the tune in 1989. (As it happens, Jackson himself has signed a friend-of-the-court brief against 2 Live Crew's parody...
...Lampoon recently joined other comedy organizations in backing rap group 2 Live Crew by writing friend-of-the-court briefs to support the group's side of a Supreme Court case involving a parody of the 1964 Roy Orbison hit "Oh, Pretty Woman...
With his Ricky Nelson profile, Roy Orbison pipes and Elvis Presley moves, Chris Isaak could easily be dismissed as a pretender to the retro throne, a rockabilly Milli Vanilli coasting on his looks and the popular pining for the spirit of rock 'n' roll past. But as anyone who has listened to his records or seen him perform knows, Isaak is the genuine article: a pompadoured anachronism who grew up in the blue-collar cow town of Stockton, California, listening to Dean Martin, Louis Prima and Hank Williams Senior. By putting a cutting-edge gloss on a vintage 1950s...
Best male pop vocalists included Collins, Rod Stewart, Michael Bolton, Billy Joel, James Ingram, and the late Roy Orbison, who was nominated for "Oh, Pretty Woman" from the soundtrack of the hit movie starring Julia Roberts...