Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least produce a high-verisimilitude parody of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror? No, not if the Supreme Court upholds an appeals court ruling that 2 Live Crew "stole" Roy Orbison's 1964 song Oh, Pretty Woman when the group released a rap parody of the tune in 1989. (As it happens, Jackson himself has signed a friend-of-the-court brief against 2 Live Crew's parody...
When he's not wandering the far corners of Kirkland house, Bob can be found in the superintendent's office, leaning back in a worn wooden chair. He sings a few bars of a favorite 50s tune along with the radio, awaiting the nightly visit of his "coffee girl." This widely-coveted post is bestowed on an especially favored resident who has displayed a particular talent for following directions, since Bob's nightly coffee must be prepared according to precise specifications. "One sugar, one cream, lightly stirred, counter-clock-wise," he explains with finesse...
...boyish coyness no one has ever redone, or re-sung, or re-scripted, half as well. "Lovesick" is a love song, but "Blueboy" is--I think--a song about someone listening to a love song, except that "he wasn't listening to the words being sung," just to the tune, and the mental images it conjured up. (I've been told that "Blueboy" is a British gay porn mag. I don't care.) These songs don't "rock" or "roll," they bounce--up and down and around and around like the social jitters and wobbly boyish hearts they generally describe...
Having carefully set up an outrageous premise, the film proceeds to milk it for all it's worth. Even the music is chosen purely for laughs--seeing Williams prance about in heels to the tune of "Walk Like A Man," "Dude Looks Like A Lady" and "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" is amusing, and his attempts at housecleaning include the requisite dance-with-the-vacuum-cleaner...
...really feel like describing something that most of you should know. The noise, the lines, the crying babies, the saccharine smiles on the cabin crew's faces, that annoying Rhapsody in Blue tune being cranked out, the thought of how a hunk of metal like this can ever get off the ground and stay there for hours on end--basically, a rather nauseating feeling that makes one wonder why life must be so bad just to get somewhere...