"Scott Rudin said that if I changed it radically from what Carol Channing had worn, he felt the gay community would stone me," said Mr. Loquasto, who received a Tony nomination for the show.
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As far as opening lines in house records go, "Drowning in despair/looking for a love that isn't there/a cry for life is over/see the tears flow like a river/ashes stone me from behind," takes some beating.
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I didn't want to be seen in public at all because the fear, and the belief ... that I was going to be mocked, or spat at, or someone was going to yell at me, or people would stone me or savage me for just being out.
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No Soul No Strain is Wire Train's fifth full-length album, released in 1992. Featuring the singles "Stone Me" and "Crashing Back to You", it was their fourth album to chart, peaking at No. 43 on the Billboard 200.
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Jones's international call-up was however greeted with consternation and even ridiculed by Jimmy Greaves, who said, "Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!".
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JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone & Me. Public Affairs Publishing. 305 pages, 2002 Huizenga sued Warner Brothers-AOL over screenwriter and source material credit after the movie was released and won an undisclosed settlement.Freeman, Mike. "Football: Notebook; Stone Seeks Accuracy in ‘Any Given Sunday’". The New York Times section 8 page 2, December 19, 1999.
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Cope's family resided in Tamworth, Staffordshire, but he was born in Deri, Monmouthshire, Wales, where his mother's parents lived, while she was staying there. Cope was staying with his grandmother near Aberfan on his ninth birthday, the day of the Aberfan disaster of 1966, which he has described as a key event of his childhood."Stone me!" – interview with Julian Cope by Jon Savage in The Observer , 10 August 2008.
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In interviews, Doherty has listed his favourite books as George Orwell's 1984, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire and the complete works of Oscar Wilde. He has also mentioned Emily Dickinson and Tony Hancock as influences; Doherty and his father were once members of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. Doherty mentions Hancock, and makes an allusion to his catchphrase 'Stone me!', in an early song entitled "You're My Waterloo".
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