You can't stop the music
You can't stop the music
#1You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 12:04am
#2re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 12:06am
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#2re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 12:38am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3-MEEFuKuM
Forgive the quality...but my GAWD, how could I not remember this?!
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#3re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 12:58amEven today, with history-making lousy recording "artists", nobody has been more awful than The Village People.
#4re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 4:06am
Still one of my favorite movies to view when I'm drunk.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 11:18am
And oh that matchless dialogue:
Lulu: Oh, the Indian is hot. I go for exotic types, especially when they're half-naked.
Samantha: Lulu!
Lulu: You tell him I'll make up for all the indignities they suffered in "Roots."
And of course the immortal:
Jack Morell: Anyone who could swallow two Snowballs and a Ding Dong shouldn't have any trouble with pride.
#6re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 11:31am
Allan Ludden!
Sad about Glenn Hughes.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#7re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 11:50am
So much to savor in this classic, which I first saw at the Ziegfeld, amazingly enough:
Bruce Jenner, before he turned his face into a clone of Helen Hunt's.
The scenes with Tammy Grimes barking at Marilyn Sokol like a Dominatrix (Grimes "singing" every line, as if they are italicized in the script).
Valerie Perrine pretedning to be a former supermodel.
Steve Guttenberg on roller skates.
Paul Sand.
Barbara Rush and June Havoc.
The CA lady who says "SAN Francisco, not Frisco, dear..."
The finale in the aforementioned city, with all the grand dames doing the same hand up, shake, cross, step step again and again.
Record stores on every corner -- but mostly, NYC of 1979 -- a very different place.
#8re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 11:55amDont forget Steve's shorts!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 11:59am
IMDB offers some interesting tidbits, namely that Bruce Jenner turned down the lead in SUPERMAN to do this (somehow I doubt it).
The budget was 20 million, but 10 mil went to advertising it.
Some other things I heard:
Variety gave it an early rave review suggesting that it be re-titled "Can't Stop The Money".
The writers also wrote GREASE and were promoting Steve Guttenberg as "the Jewish Travolta".
#10re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 2:41pm
Bloody hell- I'd forgotten that "two snowballs and a ding-dong" line- OUTRAGEOUS! How did they get away with it?
I love Tammy Grimes. Love Perrine pretending to be a supermodel. Love her sitting in a giant glass for "Milkshake".
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 2:50pmAnd lets not forget that insane opening credits bit with Guttenberg grooving on roller skates and smiling like an idiot for no reason...he's just luvvin life! Oh, and Perrine drawing a moustache on...her own poster! God, the eighties are coming and its all going to be just so much FUN, isn't it!!????????
#12re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 3:03pm
Hey guys! Hasn't anyone mentioned the fabulous production number in the swimming pool? I always thought that was the outstanding scene of that film!!
(pardon me if that's what the link was, nothing came up for me).
#13re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 4:34pm
Dont forget Steve's shorts!
Thank you doodle! Who even noticed he was on roller skates?
God, the eighties are coming and its all going to be just so much FUN, isn't it!!????????
The movie was released in 1980 and is more 70s than 80s. Hell, Xanadu was more 80s than Can't Stop the Music (in terms of fashion and music). If you want to see proof that the 80s are coming, look no further than the Sex and the City movie. Personally, I'd gladly take a revival of the 80s over this pretense that the 70s were so fashionable and cool. 90% of the people who loved the 70s are too young to have experienced the horror while the other 10% were too fried to remember what it was like.
#14re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 4:36pm
^^
word.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#15re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/18/08 at 9:12pmHow did mainstream America not know the Village People are gay?
#16re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/19/08 at 12:21pmThe same way they didn't know Liberace was gay. They chose to ignore the obvious.
#17re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:00pmI remember some girl at school arguing black and blue that Boy George was straight, and he just liked to dress with an international flavor.
#18re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:08pmI just remembered that Randy Jones was at the theater the other night and still looks exactly the same! I have no idea how he knew me though.
#19re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:21pm
See, this is why I look up to all you guys. How would I ever have known about this brilliant work if you guys didn't discuss it.
I just placed this in my amazon cart.
I was born in the wrong decade. I just love all things 70s!
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Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:38pmIs this show coming to Broadway? That would be so fricking awesome.
#21re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/20/08 at 7:32am
Here's a great article from this month's Spin about the history of "Y.M.C.A."
I love when they ask if it's a gay song and the cop character says, "no, it's a christian song. It's about the Young Men's Christian Association."
Y.M.C A. - an oral history
#22re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/20/08 at 7:46am
Is it just my dirty mind that found it funny that it was called YMCA An Oral History!!
Don't forgot that Australian was one of the only countries in the world where Can't Stop The Music made a profit, thats a scary thought.
#23re: You can't stop the music
Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:36am
I tried watching it once, by myself. But, you really need a large room full of slightly drunk gay men to really enjoy it.
Seeing Valerie go out for ice cream reminded me that Baskin Robbins had a special movie tie-in flavor, Can't Stop the Nuts.
The horror, the horror...
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