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Recognize those eyes? That knowing smile? That's the Piano Man's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL, who's on tour to promote her first EP, Sketches. The offspring of Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley, Alexa Ray, 20, hasn't quite found her stage feet: she fainted onstage while performing in upstate New York in mid-September. But one of the advantages of coming from a famous family is that you always have plenty of material (like, for instance, your mom's headline-heavy divorce). And Alexa Ray isn't afraid to use it. Her tune...
...WHITE YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID He's a genial Texas version of the devil. Dressed in black, holding a cigar and a glass of scotch, flashing a wicked smile that makes him look like Gary Busey's smarter brother, White is the bad boy of Blue Collar TV. In this short (41 min.) set, he makes the usual public issues of private parts, honeymoon tiffs and a persistent fan who cornered White and wouldn't shut up ("He raped my ear"). The material is just O.K., but the salesmanship is expert. He's a natural-born charmer with just...
...parent you are. As any good Supermom will tell you, Baby Einstein is the choice of parents who want their daughter to speak Swahili by 7th grade and go to Harvard. They leave the Barbies for other people - people who, they imagine, just want their daughter to have a smile on her face and go to a great state college...
Picture it. You vacantly smile after an aborted hug with someone whose name you sort of remember, and then listen to one of those stories about the inconvenience of travel and how in New York everyone’s merging and acquiring or whatever. Blah...
...one—FM’s favorite—just end the conversation before it starts. Immediately after saying hi and where you’re going with that case of beer, smile like Vanna White and say “Okay, bye!” Better yet, point over your friend’s shoulder, whisper “Bees!,” and run away...