Valerie Perrine
Special Guest Star Leigh Taylor-Young
Introducing Village People
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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?
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?
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Macho, Macho Man
VILLAGE PEOPLE'S DAVID HODO, C. 1979
Village People weren't the first, or only, mainstream act to slyly infiltrate gay iconography into Middle America; in 1976, the film Lifeguard introduced the Castro Clone to the world, via one Sam Elliot.
A few years later, Al Parker became the biggest gay porn star in the world, sporting a startlingly similar look (if a bit less feathered).
To the pioneering ambassador of the Castro Clone look to society at large, we say, Happy Birthday, Sam Elliot! (August 9, 1944)
SCREEN CAPTURES FROM THE SAM ELLIOT TRIBUTE PAGE
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