Word: sid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most pungent cultural spillage from the early death of any rock star -- of Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens, Jim Morrison or Sid Vicious -- may be the movie made from his life. Producers paw through old press clippings, take a quick snort of the current zeitgeist, tack on a note of mythical tragedy and voila!, a tale for our time with a hit sound track guaranteed...
...lyrics stand out in part because the book of this musical is so good. Joseph Dougherty's script hysterically recreates the world of 1950s television comedy a la Sid Caesar and "Your Show of Shows." Much of the action of My Favorite Year takes place in and around the offices of "Comedy Cavalcade," the show for which Benjy writes, giving Dougherty the opportunity to toss off one-liners and badinage worthy of a much better show than the one he's stuck with...
...kill yourself!" screamed Johnny Rotten (a.k.a. John Lydon), as the Sex Pistols self-destructed on stage at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. Was Rotten's taunt hyperbole, irony, prophecy? It was January 14, 1978 and it would be their last performance. The following year, bassist Sid Vicious would die form a drug overdose...
...EDITOR" Gayfryd (Mrs. Saul) Steinberg, Anne (ex-Mrs. Sid) Bass...
Shock, shock--those days are gone. New owner Peter Angelos dumped first beseman Glenn "Stiff" Davis (currently in the Mets' system; 'nuff said) and signed Rafael Palmeiro. They inked Sid Fernandez to replace (insert over-the-hill former NL pitcher's name here) and third baseman Chris Sabo...