I’ve heard of the actress, but I would have never made that connection. It just seems simpler that she’s pretending to be Sandy. I’d bet that most people think that. Heck, even now, I think it at most was a double meaning.
I just had another one this weekend. In We Didn’t Start the Fire, I have "sung"along dozens of times, and was mumbling along to “U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy” when It occurred to me in one of those daydreaming-driving streams of thought.
“He really got the chronology of that is way off, most of the song is very careful about that. U2 didn’t get big until decades after that. He must be talking about when they were born, but it’s not like it was news when they were born and all the rest of the song is actual headlines, that is a real contriv…OH goddammit :smack:, it’s about the spy plane and I am moron.”
There is ginger root that is reddish but here in the US, we only see the yellow-rooted variety. I think the connection is tenuous at best but the Brits aren’t likely to give it up any time soon. We Yankees tend to say “strawberry blond”.
Actually, a lot of Brits would say that strawberry blonde hair isn’t the same thing as ginger-colored hair. Look at 6:10 in this video:
I’m glad I read this post all the way through before I replied…About halfway through that second paragraph I started thinking, “It’s about Gary Powers, not Bono!”
But all the names in the song are the names of performers - Sandra Dee, Doris Day, Annette (Funnicello, of course), Elvis and Troy Donahue.
… whoa! (But yes, come on, Swanson’s low sodium all the way.)
Here’s something related that also ties into the thread topic. I didn’t realize it until I read writer/director Scott Miller’s analysis of Grease’s original stage version. But then again, for the most part I’d only known the movie lyrics for Grease and not the stage lyrics.
In the stage version, instead of Elvis, Sal Mineo is referenced in the last verse. “No, no, no, Sal Mineo!/I would never stoop that low!” So, the hearthrobs mentioned in the song are Rock Hudson, Troy Donahue, and Sal Mineo.
According to Miller, that means that all the men mentioned (though, of course, Rizzo has no way of knowing this) were gay men forced into the closet by the studios. To his mind, this was one of the writers’ shout-outs to the hypocrisy of the Fifties.
(But, then again, no one’s really sure about Troy Donahue, are they? He denied it and was with a new fiancee at the time of his death. Maybe Miller was misinformed?)
I actually had realized this myself a while ago (at least about Mineo and Hudson) but couldn’t seem to find anything about Donahue that was definite one way or another.
No, Scarlett asks Rhett why he goes to New Orleans so much, cause local gossip is that he has a sweetheart there who he is going to marry. He tells he goes to see a boy who is his “ward.”
That’s right after Bonnie is born. Wade says “Uncle Rhett, you understand little boys.” When Rhett answers in the affirmative, Wade realizes he’s thinking of someone else. He asks “Do you have any other boys?” and Rhett changes the subject by offering Wade a drink (!) to toast his new sister.
It just now occurred to me that the N. in Frank N. Furter, of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, is to make it sound like Frankenstein.
Yes, I am the stupidest person in the universe.
I thought the same thing about Spies Like Us.
I bet you guys were really confused when you just started reading Black Like Me.
So the reason that Bruce Springsteen thinks that he’s born to run is that tramps like him so much. Next we can discuss why mourning becomes Electra.
Why can’t it be? Traditionally, the color of the sky is blue, and the color of the ocean is also blue. They chose green for a reason, didn’t they? Why not that one? Or, at least, partially that one?
Maybe they chose it cause “blue” doesn’t rhyme with “submarine.”
One of my favorite lines from Dharma & Greg concerned a statue that they gave to the couple that had sex in the strangest place, which was called “The Duck Award.” When Greg’s straight-laced parents ended up having sex on the steps of the court house, Dharma gave them the statue.
MIL: This isn’t even a duck. It’s a goose. Why do you call it the Duck Award?
Dharma: Cause Goose doesn’t rhyme.
Didn’t notice anyone mentioning this -
This is actually sort of the reverse; I appeared to be the only one in the theater to get the joke at the time.
In “The Incredibles” the frustrated sidekick wannabe who became the villain called himself “Syndrome”.
Syndrome essentially means sidekick.:smack: (Literally: to run with)
No one else laughed.
Not if you live in Liverpool.
I’m not sure if the guy landed at Ellis Island, but I know someone whose ancestor came to America, was asked what his last name was, and the man didn’t understand him and thought he asked where he was from. He answered “Minsk” and that became his last name.
Yeah, pretty sure that would equal a Cyan Submarine anyway.