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Remember that scene in La Bamba when Richie Valens shows up at a fan's house with a bunch of pizzas for private pizza party. More than two decades after that event played out on the silver screen, that scene was played out in real life, only instead of Lou Diamond Phillips showing up with Brylcreemed hair, a fan in San Jose, California, was treated to a pizza party and private show of her own, courtesy of the Fray, her favorite band. And the whole thing apparently started with a Tweet.
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