Word: stacatto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful, Lee's assumed persona...
...talks of putting together a "new fashion" and how he may once again have to think when he goes to the closet. And he laughs his stacatto laugh, as he often does. But he is really very serious about "the beginning of something new." Since closing his guitar case on the streets in September, Meyreles has formed a band with sidekick saxman Kent White, including a guitar, bass and drums. He wants to record an album very soon, and do what he calls "music/theater--I wrote a oneman theater show for myself. I'm a late bloomer...
...voice is going to die out, then I want to make sure it dies out at least having given me a chance to try and get a better position in my field." What kind of position? "Like Madison Square Garden," he says with big eyes, and then a stacatto laugh. You see, Meyreles explains, "I've always had this dream of...well, being famous...
...musician jokes that he will know he finally made it "when I hit the New York Times entertainment section." But he follows it with another stacatto laugh and then says, "I've already made it. I'm there. The only thing I can do now is make a little more money or get a little more recognition in what I do. Whether I do it in the street or in Madison Square Garden, it's going to be the same thing...