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Although the Clash assaults some familiar enemies (cops, narcs, soldiers and teachers), the group has no safe targets - not even themselves. Cheapskate is a bit of ironic bemusement about rock stardom, both its perks ("Just because we're in a group you think we're stinking rich/ 'N' we all got model girls shedding every stitch") and its permanence ("I'll get out my money and make a bet/ That I'll be seeing you down the launderette"). A fever-blister rocker called Safe European Home concerns the lads' attempts to seek...
When Brooks arrives in Phoenix to begin his film, everything goes wrong. He follows Mrs. Yeager to her gynecologist, only to learn that the doctor (Johnny Haymer) has already enjoyed TV stardom in a 60 Minutes expose of "baby slave auctions." Yeager himself proves to be the most colorless veterinarian ever recorded on film. Local eyewitness-news teams descend on the Yeagers, transforming a TV stunt into a media circus. Finally, an exasperated studio chief (played as a disembodied speaker-phone voice by real-life Studio Executive Jennings Lang) clamps down on the project. He sternly reminds Brooks that reality...
...portrayal of a sweet but simple-minded street tough trying to break into the mafia in Martin Scorcese's "Mean Streets" led him to stardom...
...this album is Morrison's poetry, never before fully revealed. Here it is, artfully connected and coordinated by The Door's music, and the result is a vinyl package of a man's mind, and the lingering afterthought of his promise and potential. For all his rock'n'roll stardom, Morrison fancied himself a poet. But he chose death over promise, and what remains is "An American Prayer...
...role in the 1968 classic or the twists and turns of his life since then. One can only guess at the former quarterback's reasons for refusing comment. But to surmise that Champi simply wants to avoid a recurrence of the media blitz that marked his one-day stardom in The '68 Game would probably not be far off the mark...