Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always insisted I call him--or would have, I'm sure, had we ever met) to stop making headlines just because of a minor matter like death. Being dead doesn't mean you can't go right on being controversial. Look at Tom Jefferson, 172 years without a twitch, but he's in hot water. And the FBI hasn't even released his file...
...show-stopping voice. She fawns over her fiance (of 14 years!) Nathan, and the audience giggles; she prances around stage as the lead "Hot Box" girl, and the audience roars; she impishly mourns the possibility that Nathan might never marry her, and the audience audibly sighs in sympathy. One twitch of her eyebrows sends everyone into laugher; her shoulder-shimmying, red-wearing, bad-accent-sporting, all-out Adelaide brings down the house...
AILING. MICHAEL J. FOX, 37, film and TV actor; of Parkinson's disease. Fox, who stars in ABC's Spin City, disclosed to PEOPLE that the disease was diagnosed in 1991 after he noticed a twitch in his finger during the filming of Doc Hollywood. Fox underwent brain surgery last March for the illness--a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system with no known cure. "I think I can help people by talking," he said...
Aside from the comic irony of seeing her decapitate helpless ragdolls, Struthers' main contribution to the show is her name recognition. She portrays Miss Hannigan as little more than a drunk with a penchant for the laundry man, although she does have a rather entertaining drunken twitch, which starts as merely an annoyance but escalates into a full-body contortion of sorts by the final scene. Her singing is at times a high-pitched and quite realistic whine, and at others a growl worthy of the most horrible of lonely spinsters. According to the playbill, Struthers is the first...
Still, he can't seem to fight his twitch for getting ugly. As he stepped into the convention center to greet local Baptist ministers, he unleashed. "I don't know how African Americans can vote for Engler," he says. "That's like Jews voting for Adolf Hitler...