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Yay! Crooked teeth!
When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, you were considered a weirdo if you didn't have crooked teeth. This somehow lasted to a lesser extent until even after MTV hardly showed music videos anymore. Sadly, you just don't see crooked teeth much these days. You're legally required to be magazine perfect now.
So, by the time Jewel became popular, everyone made a big deal of the singer's crooked teeth. Twenty years earlier, it wouldn't have been a big issue.
Jewel mania was going strong in the late 1990s. That was when I planned to enroll at NKU again. I kept coming to campus to stave off the misery of the economic malaise of the era. I call it my "outside agitator" phase. In one of the buildings, there was a poster that included a small photo of Jewel. I noticed that someone had blown a bubble with bubble gum and stuck it over Jewel's face. The bub was still inflated. It made it appear as if Jewel was blowing a bubble.
Jewel was also the target of what became known as the "frisbee incident"...
Back in 1996, Jewel was playing at a festival at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. Someone threw a frisbee at the stage, and it bounced off Jewel's guitar. Jewel promptly walked off stage. She wasn't standing still for that!
There was also a bizarre episode in 2004 when people kept driving past her tour bus after a concert in New Hampshire and yelling profanities.
Jewel. The last crooked teeth celebrity!
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