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...trademark hat. He waxed lyrical about the Stones and the Who and in particular about how British groups had reminded Americans of their black musical roots. When he cited one of his American heroes, Bob Seger, I mentioned a relatively obscure early '70s Seger album that I recalled - "Smokin' O.P.'s" - and suddenly he launched into loud renditions of songs from the album. It was a wonderful moment. Like a celebrity human jukebox. Insert a quirky musical reference and out pours a song...
...hours of standing entombed in a giant block of ice were, "Ow! Ow!" Blaine, a self-proclaimed "mystifier," entered his glacial prison on ABC's Good Morning America on Nov. 27 wearing only cargo pants, a wool hat and boots. He either forgot a shirt or figured his smokin'-hot abs would keep him warm. Unexpectedly balmy conditions, however, made the ice cave unstable, and doctors implored Blaine to don an emergency sweater. Reluctantly, he obliged. Skip ahead 60 hours: Blaine made his egress during a live ABC special that included quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and beefcake shots...
This time the suspects, according to one of their lawyers, "were there chillin', smokin' a couple cigarettes and watchin' the babes go by." The Puerto Rican parade had developed a reputation as a great place for folks to ogle, since it usually falls on a hot day when people dress light and splash themselves to stay cool. Men had doused women with water in the past too. "Why do you think so many guys were out there with video cameras?" asks Gordon Ludwig, an attorney representing one of the first men arrested. But this year, Ludwig says, "it was like...
Such intimate moments between the legend and his charges are rare, but the boxer Smokin' Joe is coaching today is his daughter Jacquelyn Frazier-Lyde, 39, who turned pro in January. Since Muhammad Ali's fierce 22-year-old daughter Laila made a splash in her pro debut last October, Frazier-Lyde has ratcheted the hype up a notch. Sounding more like her father's greatest rival, the lawyer and mother of three has vowed to carry on the Frazier legacy and "whip Laila's butt"--preferably in September, on the 25th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila...
...pass by. I would become an urban legend prefrosh hosts would tell their young'uns about. People would become terrified to smoke with me. But worst of all, I would become the butt of bad kiosk puns: "The kiosks aren't the only things that are smokin'! Come see the Din and Tonics, Friday night...