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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christie. Rhino's recent Groove 'n' Grind compilation is a floor-scuffling, roof-raising anthology of raucous party tunes from the '50s and '60s, featuring sodden classics like Land of 1,000 Dances by Cannibal and the Headhunters. The current Rockin' in the Country: The Best of Wanda Jackson is a roundup of much of the prime material recorded by a vocalist who has real roadhouse spirit and a way with a song that makes her right for the kind of reappraisal this set encourages and amply justifies. Jazz fans should also take note. Rhino has just released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 22, 1990 | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...impersonators seem to love their work. Suzanne McGohey of Dumfries, Va., was a schoolteacher until she started impersonating a hooker at Hogan's Alley. Given the alias Wanda Lust, she swaddles herself in a mink coat and pearls that the FBI seized in a drug raid. Says she: "Where else can you act like a sleaze and get paid for it? It enables you to be deviant in a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...world but on a John Waters set. Surfside heartthrob Troy Donahue. Media minx Joey Heatherton. Ever fashionable Polly Bergen. Andy Warhol icon Joe Dallesandro. Punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Legendary bad actress Susan Tyrrell. Norman Mailer's son Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie debut, Patricia Hearst. The mind wanders: Is this the first time in Hollywood history that a famous abducted heiress has played mother to a famous underage porn princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Tough | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

After testing his weight, cooking expertise, luck and ability to tell `shit from shinollah,' Lampoon editors declared Cleese the winner. After besting his opponents, the star of A Fish Called Wanda raised his hands and flashed the victory sign...

Author: By Seamus C. Gallagher, | Title: Parading Poonsters Honor Cleese | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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