Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quotidian hit Sunflower ("She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower, and I . . .") cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked for $400,000 when a judge ruled that the 1970 number My Sweet Lord ("Hare Krishna") closely resembled the Chiffons' 1963 single He's So Fine ("Doo lang, doo lang, doo lang"). And in 1983 a Chicago jury ruled that the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love (1977) was a little too deeply influenced by a 1975 ditty called Let It End, by Ronald...
...scores were blown up to display a suspiciously exact correspondence of notes; on the witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The similarities between Herman's song and David's consisted of an identical series of ten intervals. And My Sweet Lord really does sound very much like He's So Fine, in melody and rhythm...
...Conformity," he writes, "is not the fragrance found in my fantasies." But that is not quite the whole truth. He wants it all: to enjoy the rock star's sweet sybaritic life while residing in the house of propriety. On the road he is not immune to celebrity groupies, yet he remains devoted to Toddy, his wife of 39 years. He surely takes pride in his rowdy eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show...
...perceived by physicians. Told later he was endangering anyone he slept with, Dugas unrepentantly carried on -- by his estimate, with 250 partners a year -- until his death in March 1984, adding countless direct and indirect victims. At least one man indignantly hunted him down. Dugas' charm proved unfailing: he sweet-talked the man into having sex again...
Together the true lovers battle an onslaught of perilous obstacles--including the murderous attempts of bad guy Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon) to marry sweet Buttercup. Ultimately, however, they live happily ever after. Aah, how refreshingly silly...