Word: shout-out
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...have privacy—they give that up when they get famous. Now, maybe I’m stretching here, but I have a feeling that most of us would envision lost privacy in terms of an airbrushed photo on the cover of Us Weekly, maybe a shout-out or two on ET. But not a haggard mugshot taken at the Santa Barbara County Jail—no, some things should be off-limits even in the realm of celebrity, and I think it would be fair to include child molestation charges on that short list. Pedophilia is a mental...
...West Wing” sent its Harvard viewers a shout-out two weeks ago when two Harvard-educated characters began waxing nostalgic about their alma mater in Crimson lingo...
Barman’s lyrics are responsible for these opposing viewpoints. It doesn’t get much more cerebral than the shout-out in “Bleeding Brain Grow” on the recent album Paullelujah!, his first LP: “Eve, Mika, RZA, Evil JD, Nasir is Osiris, and J-live, AZ, Rakim, Cormega, Cage, Mr. OC: I’m anomie...
...Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and frodo lives was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum a shout-out in Ramble On. Tolkien inspired an American insurance salesman named Gary Gygax to quit his job and create Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game that launched a million junior high school wedgies...
...catch up with Ozzy and wife manager Sharon primping for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual fete during which the two nerdiest groups of celebrities--politicians and journalists--surround themselves with actual stars to bask in the reflected cool. As George W. Bush gives Ozzy a shout-out from the podium and the Prince of Darkness leads the room in applause for himself, you hope that someone had the good sense to take away William Bennett's steak knife...