Not to love me, anyway…
Yeah, I get that now, but Belafonte was singing in NY to NY audiences, and I always assumed that a migrant workforce was unloading at night because the ship had just come in. (I was probably wrong about the workforce too – was the Port of New Orleans heavily unionized?)
You fool, you fool
Freddy says “Penny for your thoughts” to Jason when they fight in the dream world because he was silent the entire time even when others would be screaming in pain.
Not a creative work but adjacent to a creative work. I thought TMZ meant… I don’t know what I thought. Maybe it never occurred to me to think about it. I just recently found out it stands for Thirty Mile Zone. That’s the area that was established around Hollywood by the studios and unions. It’s used to determine per diem rates. It’s one of the reasons why Vasquez Rocks are in so many productions, it’s within the TMZ.
And the theme song has a bunch of easy-to-miss poker references:
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go
There’s a heart, a hand to hold onto
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go
There’s a face of somebody who needs you
I don’t know if it’s “obvious,” but I was just watching Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and I just realized that in the motel room they paid for with Neal’s watch, they are drinking mini liquor bottles and small bags of snacks because they raided the minibar, because there’s no credit card on file and they can’t be charged for any of it. I suppose if Neal’s watch was very valuable, they figured it was covered.
Unlikely the watch was valuable enough to cover the smashed room, on the other hand. 
Ewwww.
I haven’t seen the movie… but duh. At a MINIMUM, put her to bed still fully dressed. If I woke up under those circumstances, I’d have a really hard time believing that nothing had happened.
Sounds like one of those movies / scenes that really, really does not age well.
Was there more of a taboo against sleeping in one’s clothes in the Olden Days, perhaps because it was harder to launder them or keep them from wrinkling? Is that why Calvin Klein Marty McFly wakes up pantsless in 1955?
I’d imagine the more fragile and less flexible clothing of yesteryear would also be vulnerable to ripped seams caused by tossing and turning in one’s sleep.
Working Girl came out in 1988. A year after I got out of college. Can we cheese it with yesteryears and olden days, please.
I don’t even have to tell you about my lawn.
Most of the records are lost to the mists of time, of course, but some of the surviving tablets indicate that the dress was of the very frilly party variety, one very certain to be damaged during sleep.
It wasn’t incredibly so - maybe a little but there was a very strange period from the 70s into the 80s where movies, TV and ads that weren’t acceptable before and after were somehow OK during just that time period. Off the top of my head, Pretty Baby and Little Darlings could only have been made during that time period.
It was an age of cocaine and atmospheric lead poisoning.
I’ve thought about the part where Lorraine’s dad hits a teenager with his car, knocking him out, and instead of calling an ambulance or taking him to a doctor, he brings the unconscious kid into the house and puts him to bed.
I never until just now realized that at some point while doing so, he took his pants off. What the hell?
I sort of assumed that it was Lorraine who took his pants off, because she was a horny teenager.
No need to jazz it up. Just say the good ol’ days.
Not quite; no new cars designed to require leaded gas could be built after 1975.
But those cars stayed on the road for years, and even if the newer cars didn’t require leaded gas, they often still used it anyway. The age of atmospheric lead poisoning didn’t end until some time after they stopped selling leaded gas.
Leaded gas was still sold up until 1996. Of course by then, I would think most cars on the road had catalytic converters, so they couldn’t take leaded gas.