Famous People
It's night time in the big city There's a new coffee place on the corner I hope somebody has change for a dollar "Please, no flash photography"
Singers and Songs
Mighty Sparrow Jack Palance Janis Martin My Boy Elvis Ian Dury and The Blockheads Sweet Gene Vincent King Stitt Lee Van Cleef They Might Be Giants Meet James Ensor Dinah Washington Christopher Columbus Charlie Adams Hey Liberace! Ken Lazarus and Keith Lyn The Beatles Got To Go Bill Cox The Fate of Will Rogers and Wiley Post The Clash The Right Profile Leadbelly Jean Harlow "A full-voiced powerful singer...we last heard from him on our Christmas show. We told his story then, so go listen to that show if you want to know about him." (Perez Prado) (Marilyn Monroe Mamba -- clip) Simon and Garfunkle So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright Other People and Players
Andy Warhol Ed Koch Elvis Presley Steve Sholes Grady Martin Buddy Herman Floyd Cramer Colonel Tom Parker P. Diddy Combs Sylvester Stallone Pol Pot Mussolini Bill Murray Rush Limbaugh Gene Vincent Eddie Cochran Mark Twain Tom Hanks Ralph Waldo Emerson William Shakespeare "I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety" Mensa Fats Waller Rodrigos (Sailor on Columbus' ship) Colonel Sanders (KFC radio commercial clip played) Umberto Eco Emily Dickinson "Famous poet" Liberace "By the mid '50s, he had 162 certified fan clubs" Roy Rogers Smiley Burnett Paul Bley (Clip played) Ida Lupino "She doesn't get the credit as a ground breaker, which she surely was...you may be forgotten by most Ida, but you're surely not forgotten here."(song clip played) Humphrey Bogart Bette Davis William Talman Directors Guild of America John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln Shakespeare Montgomery Clift (Clip played) Elizabeth Taylor Robert Burns Jean Harlow Paul Bern William Powell "Star of the Thin Man movies...sorry Astra!" Marilyn (Monroe) Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. Samuel Johnson Other Songs and Albums
Fame (Clip played in background during intro) Fame and Fortune (Clip played) Heartbreak Hotel The Plays & Musicals
Henry V Record Labels
MGM Imperial RCA Books and Poems
I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous I'd rather be thin than famous
I don't wanna be fat
And a woman throws me outta bed
callin me Gordo
And every time I bend
to pickup my suspenders
from the davenport floor
I explode loud, huge grunt-o
and disgust everyone in the familioI'd rather be thin than famous
But I'm fatPaste that in your Broadway show.-- Jack Kerouac Movies and TV Shows
Panic in the Streets City Slickers The Girl Can't Help It The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The Thin Man They Drive By Night Road House High Sierra The Hitch Hiker Perry Mason A Place in the Sun From Here to Eternity The Misfits Suddenly Last Summer Judgment at Nuremberg Something's Got to Give Some Like It Hot The Seven Year Itch A Face in The Crowd (Clip played)