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Billy Joel, Tickling the Ivories, and Funny Bones
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The Washington Post
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November 20, 2001
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Copyright informationCopyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information)
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Billy Joel does a terrific Hitler. His Al Pacino isn't bad, his
Ronald Reagan is impressive, and his Dylan is dead-on. Then there's
his Little Richard, his Otis Redding, his Janis Joplin, his Lyndon
Johnson, his John F. Kennedy and his Jerry Seinfeld, not to mention
his Keith Richards and his Beethoven.
Who knew? The Piano Man, it turns out, could have gone the comic-
impressionist route if the music thing had flopped. At Georgetown
University's Gaston Hall on Sunday night, he produced more than a
dozen voices in a tirelessly hammy and surprisingly raunchy three-
hour-plus evening of advice, gossip, storytelling and comedy.
Occasionally, he even threw in a song.
"Classical music was like ...
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