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...Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel??s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...
...importantly to her old chum Matt (Mark Ruffalo), the friend who conveniently inhabits a Greenwich Village apartment around the block. Matt is no longer the loser boy-next-door, but a tanned, buff, hot-but-doesn’t-know-it-in-that-aw-shucks-way photographer. Insert Billy Joel??s ballad “Vienna Waits for You and Love” and we’ve got a young love reunited. Forget that Matt happens to be engaged to a Chicago weathergirl. All it takes for Jenna to win him over is an innocent ride...
Soon, two of Dr. Mierzwiak’s best technicians, Stan (Mark Ruffalo) and Patrick (Elijah Wood) are at Joel??s house to operate, so that he will wake up in his bed without realizing that the operation has even occurred. The centerpiece of the movie begins as Joel slowly realizes that, though his final memories of the relationship are tough to handle, he wants to remember at least some of the more pleasant aspects of the relationship. This starts his mental quest to hide some memories of their time together from the technicians, trying to save...
When asked for the name of one of Billy Joel??s famous wives, Jost answered “Christine Taylor.” The correct answer was Christie Brinkley...
...Maine. The first-floor room soon fills up with fellow boarding school grads. “We mostly went to private schools, but we’re not exclusive,” says one guy earnestly. Shortly after, a gaggle of Abercrombie-clad women make an entrance and Billy Joel??s “Uptown Girl” blares from the stereo. Captain Morgan flows freely and the conversation turns to the oversized Head of the Charles poster on the wall and the semi-illegal methods through which it was acquired. Discussion of covert nocturnal pole-climbing ensues...