Repost: Abecedarial Celebrity/Verbal Meme Pairs, Constrained (Incomplete)

       [AZ: Absolute Zero, Alexis Zorba]

"Absolute Zero's one get-go,* albeit a bleak..." 

specs Alexis, who's married, with children, and shrugs, "Hey! I'm Greek.

   
     * I.e., a get-go like the Great Get-Go, sometimes mistaken for the Big Bangle.


     [BY: Be Yourself, Boris Yeltsin]

"Be Yourself! (HO* whom else would you be...?" asks (rhetoric'lly) Boris.  
"To be somebody else might cause Mother** some serious tsoris.*

     * Russian Cyrillics for 'but' and pronounced (roughly) 'noh.'  ** I.e., Mother Russia, of course.

     [CX: Contemn Xenophobes, Cugat, Xavier]
     

"Contemn Xenophobes! Contemn..." Rhumba King Cugat repeats.  
(Just as he would be treated, each stranger this vir bonus* treats.)

  
     * What the good man does is always right, or so suggest the Grimms.

     [DW: Do Without, Dionne Warwick]
     

"Do Without! Pledge thy pounds to the poor," warbles Dionne (the song bird) --  
though it's Bacharach (Burt) who'll at last teach her right word from wrong word.

  

     [EV: Every Valley, Edward Villella]
     

"’Every valley exhaulted shall be; every rough place made plain...’:   
I shall dance thee that text," Edward vows, "in a Balanchine vein."

  

     [FU: Fed Up, Felix Unger]
     

"Fed Up! UFOs, URLs, UXBs..." fumes our Felix.
"In the end, all they yield is some abecedarial helix."

 

     [GT: Gin (&) Tonic, Gene Tunney/Tierney]
     

"Gin...and Tonic...and juice of one lime: pour the lot over ice..." 
prescribes Gene.* "Good advice," echoes Gene.** "An innocuous vice!"

 
     * Actress Tierney  ** Pugilist Tunney

     [HS: He (versus) She, Hailie Selassie]
     

"He v. She...? The distinction's ambig," differentiates Hailie. 
"One's call'd Shlomo. But what's in a name...? Life's a Pi; life's a Riley..."

 
     [IR: I, Robot, Irene Ryan]
     

"I, Robot, rest my case," in tones Rumpolean...

roars Irene. "I'd rap it, were I Rock 'n' Rollean."

 

     [JQ: John Quincey, Jose Quintero]
     

"John Quincey's not the seventh Chief Exec," corrects José.
"He's number six, post James Monroe...but what the heck! (More: what the hey!!)

 

     [KP: Key Personnel, Kendrick Perkins]
     

"Key Personnel...? Kevin...? Paul...? Rajon...? Ray...?" Kendrick Wonders.*

Then Perk's traded, which trade shall yet prove Boston's biggest of blunders. 

     * Garnett, Pierce, Rondo, Allen, kendrick: all former Celtics.

     [LO: Leigh/Olivier, Laugh Out (Loud) 
      

Leigh/Olivier, Lunt/Fontaine: which duo's dropp'd from the list 
of best thespian pairs...? Jolie/Pitt...? LOL! They’d be miss'd...?

 

     [MN: Machiavellian...? Not, Mike Nichols]
     

"Mach'avellian, not to say cynical: 'twas just her way," 
muses Mike, as he pegs one-time partner, the late Elaine May.

 

     [NM: Not Much, Norman Mailer]
     

"Not much!" mutters Norman, when asked if he liked married life. 
"Good when naked, far less good when dead: much depends on the wife."

 

     [OL: Ozymandias: Look, Orlando Lasso]
   

Ozymandias: "Look on my burg, Mr. Big, and despair!"
(Or Orlando: "Give ear to my music...or not -- I don't care.") 

     (a work in progress) 


[PK: P. Kilbride]

[QJ: Q. Jones]

[RI: R. Ingersoll]

[SH: S. Houston]

[TG: T. Geisel]

[UF:   ]  

[VE: V. Emmanuel]

[WP: W. Demarest]

[XC: Xavier Cugat (again)]

[YB:   You Bet!]

[ZA:   ]