Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Puff Daddy's portion of the concert paled in comparison to Busta Rhymes' honest lyricism. Accompanied by his long-time sidekick, Mase, Puff spent more time changing costumes and addressing the audience than actually performing. He did a number of tributes to slain rapper Tupac Shakur during which he played Tupac songs and asked the audience to sing along with the records. There were also a number of tributes to Puffy's former rap partner, the Notorious BIG, who was shot to death last year...
...Jack serves as a surrogate parent to his actors: Eddie, whom he finds working as a runner in a disco; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), named for the rollerskates that never leave her feet, even when the rest of her clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing. As in good mafia films--like The Godfather and Good-fellas--the viewer finds a certain beauty and morality in a family that inhabits...
...biggest winner in the AOL-Compuserve deal may be WorldCom, the $4.5 billion phone company you probably never heard of, run by a cigar-chomping ex-basketball coach who isn't burdened by too much knowledge about the industry and his hard-wired, guitar-playing sidekick, who is. The whole operation is run out of a town that is not exactly known as a global telecommunications center: Jackson, Miss...
DIED. GEORGE FENNEMAN, 77, Groucho Marx's announcer who perfected the art of the sidekick laugh on TV's You Bet Your Life; in Los Angeles. His velvet voice also introduced Dragnet...
...poet Hoffmann is protected by his Muse, in the form of his sidekick Nicklausse (Caprice Corona). As he stumbles into the beer hall, he is cajoled into singing about the disfigured "Kleinzach" and then into recounting the stories of these past three loves, now embodied in his present love interest, the opera diva Stella (played alternately by Hilary Snow and K.T. Lawson), who will later be stolen by his enemy Lindorf (Joshua Benaim...