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...high points of the current concert tour is Springsteen's heartbroken guitar-and-harmonica version of what he calls "the best song ever written about the promise of America, This Land Is Your Land. It's a promise," he adds, "that's eroding every day for a lot of people. Countries are like people. It's easy to let the best of yourself slip away...
...prep record, had in spades. The faithful were ready to love Faust before they ever heard his wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness at Moeller High that extended to leading sideline "Hail Marys," he had shown no qualms about grinding his Crusaders' boots into overmatched opponents' necks...
...Great Communicator? Explains Burns: "I don't tell him what to do, and he doesn't tell me how to sing the Red Rose Rag." Also doing their schtik are Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Walter Matthau and Billy Crystal. Burns will sing a song or two, puff his omnipresent cigar, and maybe even dance. But do not expect him to wax nostalgic. He has just signed a five-year contract with Caesars Palace and has booked the London Palladium for Jan. 20. 1996, his 100th birthday. "I've lived a very exciting life," cracks Burns...
...young man in blue jeans and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap shouted, "I've taken a poll, and everybody here is pissed off at People Express." When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias. One couple sang an impromptu song to the tune of Somewhere from West Side Story: "There's a plane for us. A time and plane...
...American consular official dressed in Bermuda shorts. Then Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family and friends as Bong-bong, steps up to a mike, sporting makeup and a flashing electronic bow tie, and joins in on a raucous rendition of We Are the World, the song recorded to raise money for the starving in Ethiopia...