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...show is practically the only place on earth where a man can ask earnestly and with utter immunity, "Say, pal, what's this bitch's name...
...team and ranked academically near the top of his class. As he walked near Simeon one afternoon with his girlfriend, he made the fatal mistake of brushing past a boy who is said to be hooked up with a gang. "He pushed me," the angry young man told his pal. "Pop him." The friend drew his revolver and shot the 6-ft. 8-in. star twice in the chest. That weekend in the Simeon gym, thousands of people filed past Benjy Wilson's open casket...
...most infectious Top Ten hits, Blue Jean, but the album has taken some hard knocks for being less a fresh direction than a kind of holding pattern that is good for dancing. Indeed, several of the songs are vintage items from the portfolio of Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath...
Anna played by Linda Sugin, is the symbolic presence that inspires the trio's journey backwards. Sugin is good as the pretentious, provocative pal but in her performance is inconsistent. Anna is both an eerie intangible presence and also a real woman who comes to visit her old friend and witnesses the rather pathetic relationship between her friend and her husband. Sugin handles the former deftly. But as the middle aged sophisticated visitor, Sugin suddenly seems affected, with a manner more conducive for a Broadway musical than serious drama...
Boston bar patron: Hey pal, didya read Mike Barnicle the other day in the Globe? He says that "anybody interested in Ted Kennedy's political plans merely has to pay attention to the guy's weight," because he slims down before elections and then blows up again right afterward. Set me up again, and not that lite stuff...