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  • Michael: "Showstopper" fireworks can get pretty expensive. $32 is definitely on the high side, though.

    Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011

  • Michael: "Showstopper" fireworks can get pretty expensive. $32 is definitely on the high side, though.

    Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011

  • "Showstopper," a screenplay he co-wrote with Barrile for Ben Stiller's company, Red Hour.

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • "Showstopper," a screenplay he co-wrote with Barrile for Ben Stiller's company, Red Hour.

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • 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

  • For "Showstopper," which has been used by the NFL for Thursday Night Football promotion,

    Live Design Online RSS Feed 2010

  • He performed "Showstopper," a song that sounds destined to be a live favorite.

    Jesusfreakhideout.com Music News 2009

  • 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.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • 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

  • ** 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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