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CHUBBY CHECKER wants respect. You'd think then that the first place he might go is city hall and revert to birth name Ernest Evans. But no. The Chubster is marching on a different hall: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. As footloose popularizer of the Twist, Checker wants a statue of his likeness erected in the Hall of Fame's courtyard for services to dancing. (He also popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance...
...reawakening Murray has been both conscious and quite verbal, compiling 64 of the poems he has written in the past four years into a collection he named after the proclamation on that day, Conscious and Verbal, an arrangement he dubs posthumous. Although Murray is well known in Australia, his fame extends far beyond the borders of his beloved nation. His collection Subhuman Redneck Poems received the T.S. Eliot Prize and he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry, presented by Queen Elizabeth. His newest collection shows his scope, depth and maturity as a world-class poet...
Minnesota comedy phenom Garrison Keilor, of “A Prairie Home Companion” fame, and Steve Martin are offering up their talents for “Comedy College,” a new radio show on Minnesota Public Radio. It started last Saturday and it runs...
...struggle for the kid's soul largely takes place in Alonzo's "office," a 1978 Monte Carlo low-rider, where he offers beer and pot and the promise of promotion, fame and ill-gotten gains. These alternate with threats of death and dishonor if Jake refuses to go along...
...bigger effort than a usual evening of Tuesday night complaining and yelling. Since a party called, FM dined at the prime hour of five o’clock, before any normal people showed up to graze on Mexican fare. Olé’s claim to fame stems from its legitimacy—this is no Tex-Mex joint, this is real live Mexican cuisine. Two of FM’s staff wanted to speak Spanish to the Mexican waiters, but were too embarrassed to display their inadequacy. Rather, the creative director spoke in French. The point: there...