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He took his professional name from actress Helene Costello: " There was a girl named Helene Costello, and I took her name ".
¡ Alarma !, released weeks after the band's Beatles / Beach Boys influenced Horrendous Disc, took a decidedly New Wave direction along the lines of Elvis Costello or Talking Heads.
After Dwyer was imprisoned, Costello took over the Combine's operations with Owney Madden.
Luciano then took over Masseria's family, with Costello as his consigliere.
Robert Costello was added as a line producer, and Curtis took on the creator and executive producer roles.
Canning's mother, Mary Anne Costello, took work as a stage actress, a profession not considered respectable at the time.
Costello then took some time off from the ring, fighting on a sporadic ' here-and-there ' basis until the early 1990s.
He took a job at the firm of Boyensen, Otis and Faricy, now known as Moore, Costello & Hart.
In 1954 another general election was called and the Second Inter-Party Government took office, again under Costello as Taoiseach.
Costello took office on in August 1988, after winning a special election with 51 % of the vote, to fill the seat of the deceased Melvin Price.
Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the part from Karloff in The Ghost of Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi portrayed the role in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and Glenn Strange played the monster in the last three Universal Studios films to feature the character ( House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ); but their makeup replicated the iconic look first worn by Karloff.
However there may be some exaggeration involved-studio logs indicate during the filming of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ) the entire crew, including Chaney took a two hour break during the filming of a transformation and filmed the rest of the scene later that day ( though the makeup for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein had been greatly redesigned and streamlined by Bud Westmore over the original Jack Pierce makeup ).
Lenny Waronker took over as President of WBR in 1989, and his first act was to sign Elvis Costello.
Even as live-action comedy moved towards a focus on the verbal humor of Abbott and Costello and Groucho Marx, animated cartoons took up the entire range of slapstick gags, frenetic chase scenes, visual puns, and exaggerated facial expressions previously seen in silent comedies.
Lombardo, the defacto boss of the family, retired and Vincent " Chin " Gigante, the triggerman on the failed Costello hit, took actual control of the family.
With the departure of Nakamura, the band took a more organic, classic power-pop approach citing Squeeze and Elvis Costello as influences.
The fate of the missing money remained a subject of wide speculation that a cab driver who took Hall to the Coral Court Motel had tipped off mob boss Joe Costello, that Hall tried unsuccessfully to bury the cash near the Meramec River ( FBI searched the area in vain ), that suitcases in Hall's possession upon his arrest were not brought to the 11th District Precinct Station ( with two arresting officers, Lieutenant Louis Ira Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer Dolan, subsequently federally indicted for perjury ), that the cash fell into the hands of mobsters or was hidden in the walls of the motel itself ( the 1995 demolition of the Coral Court turned up nothing ).
Lou Costello took his professional name from the actress.

Costello and opportunity
This relationship gave Costello and his associates, including Luciano, the opportunity to buy the favors of politicians, judges, district attorneys, cops, city officials and anyone else they needed to bribe in order to freely run their criminal operations.
A number of them, including the Clash, Elvis Costello and Blondie, would make appearances at gigs by the Skunks and take the opportunity to jam with the band.
The group toured for almost 18 months both as a headliner and an opening act, and in late 2002 the band got the opportunity to open for one of their collective idols, the legendary Elvis Costello.

Costello and on
" His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.
The FBI has generated files on numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Mickey Mantle, and Gene Autry.
Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.
* plus VII: A-Ha's " Take on Me ", Gordon Lightfoot's " If You Could Read My Mind ", Amy Grant's " Good For Me ", Aretha Franklin's "( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman " ( also Carole King ), Elvis Costello and the Attractions ' " Everyday I Write The Book ", and the Traveling Wilburys ' " Not Alone Any More ".
However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.
Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.
Universal Pictures ' Abbott and Costello came out with the first feature film on the subject Buck Privates and followed it with the team In The Navy and in the United States Army Air Corps to Keep ' Em Flying.
For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.
Though Besser was a very funny comedian ( he was very popular on The Abbott and Costello Show ), his whining mannerisms (" Not so harrrrd!
opposites – between Shakespeare and Rabelais and Dickens and Dostoevsky and Gogol and Céline and the Absurdists and of course Kafka on the one hand, and on the other vaudeville and slapstick and Bilko and Abbott and Costello and Tom and Jerry and the Goons ( if Heller had ever heard of the Goons ).
Masseria had Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Carlo Gambino, Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello on his side.
" This group of " Young Turk " mafiosi was led by Luciano and included Costello, Genovese, Adonis, Gambino and Anastasia on the Masseria side and Profaci, Gagliano, Lucchese, Magliocco and Magaddino on the Maranzano side.
Laughton made a guest appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour, featuring Abbott and Costello, in which he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
This was followed by several more assassinations on both sides, the most prominent victim being Seamus Costello, who was shot dead on the North Strand Road in Dublin on 6 October 1977.
* The song, Crimes of Paris by Elvis Costello on his album Blood and Chocolate asks the question, " Who'll pay for the Crimes of Paris, who's gonna pay for the Crimes of Paris?
It was produced by Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian, and featured Carrack's lead vocals on the radio hit " Tempted ".
# Dolores Costello ( 1903 – 1979 ), actress and model best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) and The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1941 ); they married on November 24, 1928 and divorced in 1935.
* During filming, Glenn Strange found Costello so funny he would often break up laughing, necessitating many retakes ( this is readily apparent in the scene where Costello sits on the Monster's lap ).
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was re-released theatrically by Realart in 1956 on a co-bill with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.

Costello and 12
The result was a unanimous win over 12 rounds for Costello.
# " Boy with a Problem " ( music: Costello ; lyrics: Chris Difford ; additional lyrics: Costello ) – 2: 12
* 12 December-The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland with the bombing of a BBC relay transmitter in County Londonderry, burning of a courthouse in Magherafelt by a unit led by 18-year-old Seamus Costello and of an Ulster Special Constabulary post near Newry and blowing up of a half-built British Army barracks at Enniskillen.

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