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Aside from the showmanship, Poem Rocket had some experimental musical moments as well. At one point, the bassist took a drum stick and rubbed it along her bass strings, giving off a fuzzy hum that sounded not too bad. But their ultimate claim to fame lay with their spectacle of a guitarist...
...Last week I promised info to all of you prospective boy band members who dream of prepubescent fame, photo shoots for Teen People and wardrobe upon wardrobe of matching sweatsuits. Remember how big I said reality TV was going to be? Well, it turns out that ABC is in the midst of preparing "O-Town," a show produced by the same people who made "The Real World." "O-Town" tracks the rise to fame of five 18-24 year old wannabe stars who form a boy band. Episode one begins with the boys' auditioning...
...cable station in the same year as Vincent, Burton was then allowed to develop and direct "Frankenweenie", a 25-minute film that served as a precursor for all of Burton's work to come. In the short feature, ten-year-old suburbanite Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver of Neverending Story fame) reanimates his dead dog, Sparky. Filmed in black-and-white, with make-up on Sparky complete with little neck bolts and stitches, "Frankenweenie" was a modest success for the filmmaker that eventually opened the door for his first feature film: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure...
...Game. The Bulldogs countered with a powerful offensive squad, with running back Calvin Hill, a future NFL star and father of Detroit Piston Grant Hill, and Brian Dowling, a quarterback who had not lost a game as a starter since junior high school and would later gain most fame as the inspiration for the character of B.D. in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. A powerful Yale team had defeated an emerging Harvard unit narrowly the year before, setting the stage for a showdown for the Ivy League championship...
...embodied the scholarly ideal," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel. "He valued scholarship above money, position, status and fame...