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Michael: "Showstopper" fireworks can get pretty expensive. $32 is definitely on the high side, though.
Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011
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Michael: "Showstopper" fireworks can get pretty expensive. $32 is definitely on the high side, though.
Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011
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"Showstopper," a screenplay he co-wrote with Barrile for Ben Stiller's company, Red Hour.
Playbill.com : News 2010
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"Showstopper," a screenplay he co-wrote with Barrile for Ben Stiller's company, Red Hour.
Playbill.com : News 2010
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On the British magazine's list of essential recordings from the era, alongside the expected goods from Parliament, the Temptations, and Rare Earth, was an obscure compilation called Chains & Black Exhaust: 18 tracks of some of the heaviest, spazziest guitar funk ever laid to wax, including some amazing paeans to mind-altering substances like Gran Am's woozy "Get High" and Iron Knowledge's lacerating "Showstopper," which extols the virtues of coke.
Chicago Reader 2010
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For "Showstopper," which has been used by the NFL for Thursday Night Football promotion,
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He performed "Showstopper," a song that sounds destined to be a live favorite.
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The show has been bubbling around since the Edinburgh festival fringe of 2008 but 2011 may well be the year that Showstopper gets the recognition it so obviously deserves.
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It also made him a target of a duo, later to be known as Salt-N-Pepa, who were working at Sears and working on their first record, an answer song called "The Showstopper."
...And You Don't Stop John Jurgensen 2011
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** I failed to notice that Anna Kendrick was also named “The New Showstopper” at this event.
Twilight Lexicon » Nikki Reed given style award by US Weekly 2010
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