Music: Gift Wrapped for a Ruckus

He sings! He acts! He won't eat cod!

There is a gentleman with a gun in the street, and he has come to call. He won't bother with the bell, though. He'll announce himself by shooting the front door full of holes. The guy with the gat is Roland Gift, lead singer of a nifty rock band called the Fine Young Cannibals, and movie star aborning. In that scene from Scandal, a just opened cinema chronicle of Britain's Profumo- Keeler scandal of the early '60s, Gift is doing onscreen the same sort of number he's been running on the music scene: making a little room for himself and raising...

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