Showing posts with label Leigh Taylor-Young. Show all posts
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Music Makes Me Lose Control

It's Miss Valerie Perrine's birthday today (September 3, 1943), so you all know what that means, right? Yes, friends, today is the day we break out our widescreen, Dolby Stereo Sound DVD edition of Can't Stop the Music (1980).



If you have not yet seen this truly cataclysmic cinematic event, please proceed to your nearest rental emporium this moment. (Or send someone else for you, if you, understandably, feel ashamed bringing Can't Stop the Music up to the counter yourself.) It's probably a good idea to watch the film under the influence of white wine, cocaine, poppers and 'ludes, since that's what most of the cast seems to be performing under.

Besides the pneumatic Miss Perrine, the cast-of-thousands includes:

Bruce Jenner



Tammy Grimes



Baby June Havoc



...and Special Guest Star, Leigh Taylor-Young



It was directed by Nancy Walker, and its main conceit was that not only could subpar disco music sustain a 2-hour long musical extravaganza, but that Village People were heterosexual.



All in all, it's a sublimely surreal way to spend 2 hours with friends, stoned out of your minds. Don't forget the fondue set, and, oh, Happy Birthday, Valerie Perrine! We know you won a Cannes Film Festival award for your heartwrenching performance in Lenny (1974), but come on, now...wasn't it more fun appearing in a disco musical with Steve Guttenberg?