XANADU (bum bah bah bum bum)!!!
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writergrl, via YouTube:
The New York Times has a review of the new musical that made me *and*dealio laugh.
I was, like, seven when that movie came out, I'd just learned how to roller skate, and like every little blonde girl in the world in 1980, I wanted to be Olivia Newton-John when I grew up. So I loved Xanadu. My parents took me to see it, and I really have to ask my father how he managed to survive the experience. I trust I will eventually have a similar experience, having to sit through something godawful that the Zweeble thinks is AWESOME ... probably about football or race cars or something.
I can't decide which is my favorite part of the clip : is it the costuming-equivalent-of-a-mullet dresses (businesswoman on top, party on the bottom)? Is it the lead guy's obvious and total discomfort at finding himself in a musical? Olivia Newton-John's Bo Derek-guest-stars-on-the-original-Battlestar Galactica getup there at the end? Is it, God help me, the tightrope walkers in the ROLLER DISCO?! Consider, for a moment, that the place the sidewalk artist and the Greek muse (the former detail I remember only because of the NY Times review) open seems to be a roller disco, a regular disco, *and* a circus of some kind, all rolled into one!!!
Lord, I need to rent this movie. When I was nine I fell in love with The Pirate Movie, and when I re-watched that recently it held up ... well, at least as far as one would expect a musical/gentle sex comedy ripped way, way off of The Pirates of Penzance and starring Kristy MacNichol and Chistopher Atkins to hold up after 25 or so years. I still found it funny in bits, and it meant to be funny. Not so sure about Xanadu. Oh, I'm sure it'll be funny. But funny on purpose? Hm.
In other news, today I am wearing all pre-pregnancy sized clothes! This doesn't really mean much, as I am not back to my pre-pregnancy weight yet--honestly, I think my fat deposits just shifted into different positions--and I have no idea of these clothes look *good* ... but it's nice not to have to still wear leftover maternity wear.
writergrl, via YouTube:The New York Times has a review of the new musical that made me *and*
dealio laugh.I was, like, seven when that movie came out, I'd just learned how to roller skate, and like every little blonde girl in the world in 1980, I wanted to be Olivia Newton-John when I grew up. So I loved Xanadu. My parents took me to see it, and I really have to ask my father how he managed to survive the experience. I trust I will eventually have a similar experience, having to sit through something godawful that the Zweeble thinks is AWESOME ... probably about football or race cars or something.
I can't decide which is my favorite part of the clip : is it the costuming-equivalent-of-a-mullet dresses (businesswoman on top, party on the bottom)? Is it the lead guy's obvious and total discomfort at finding himself in a musical? Olivia Newton-John's Bo Derek-guest-stars-on-the-original-Battlestar Galactica getup there at the end? Is it, God help me, the tightrope walkers in the ROLLER DISCO?! Consider, for a moment, that the place the sidewalk artist and the Greek muse (the former detail I remember only because of the NY Times review) open seems to be a roller disco, a regular disco, *and* a circus of some kind, all rolled into one!!!
Lord, I need to rent this movie. When I was nine I fell in love with The Pirate Movie, and when I re-watched that recently it held up ... well, at least as far as one would expect a musical/gentle sex comedy ripped way, way off of The Pirates of Penzance and starring Kristy MacNichol and Chistopher Atkins to hold up after 25 or so years. I still found it funny in bits, and it meant to be funny. Not so sure about Xanadu. Oh, I'm sure it'll be funny. But funny on purpose? Hm.
In other news, today I am wearing all pre-pregnancy sized clothes! This doesn't really mean much, as I am not back to my pre-pregnancy weight yet--honestly, I think my fat deposits just shifted into different positions--and I have no idea of these clothes look *good* ... but it's nice not to have to still wear leftover maternity wear.
