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...really cool in terms of meeting all the people working for him and all the bands, like Faster Pussycat, Slaughter, Ozzy's band, Ozzy, Motorhead, they're all really cool and everybody got along. Tours are really cool when they're like that--it was like that with Scatterbrain too, we were always together and it was kind of like a family. It wasn't like "business acquaintances" or anything like that. Everybody hung out and it was like a family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUMBER ONE MOST-REQUESTED ...and all that shit | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Boston Observer, in a recent piece on Richardson, contends that he was a Nixon apologist until the bitter end. The article quotes Nixon Administration staffer Charles Colson as saying of Richardson, "When we needed somebody to say George McGovern was a scatterbrain, Elliot went right our and swatted...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Richardson Plays Cool in Senate Bid | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Judy Canova, 69, pigtailed, bullfrog-voiced singer and hillbilly comedian; of cancer; in Hollywood. One of the most popular radio stars of the 1940s, Canova also mugged and yodeled off-key through some two dozen movies, including Scatterbrain (1940) and Louisiana Hayride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 15, 1983 | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...dealt with, to be talked about, gossiped about, pigeon-holed, and dismissed with a movie magazine's form of voyeurism. It was impossible to start anything with anybody off cleanly. I was (looked) an enemy to the radical politicos, someone fit only for preppies; I was a scatterbrain for intellectuals; I was fantasy material for the dreamers, a never-neverland for the shy, a threat to the sexually insecure. I started carrying around my good looks like a guilt stained Scarlet Letter...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...someone is going to put a wet diaper in your hand, pick Sandy Dennis to do it. The girl makes it seem like some sort of unpublicized honor. A delectable scatterbrain, she appears to be permanently stalled somewhere between bed and breakfast. Sandy is one of life's winning losers. Her eyes imply that the tear ducts were installed first, and her voice box quivers with a heart broken in transit. Perhaps she is every father's illusion of a vulnerable daughter. Count her a big funny plus in a small funny British comedy import called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Funny, Small Funny | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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