When Tom Waits sued Frito Lay for paying someone to imitate his voice

There was a time in the late 80s when Frito Lay wanted Tom Waits to endorse Doritos. They wanted it real bad. They wanted it so bad, in fact, that they hired a guy whose specialty was to sound exactly like Tom Waits, since Waits, to put it lightly, wasn't fond of doing endorsements himself. — Read the rest

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