Huh. I thought I remembered seeing that that movie (which I never watched) was about pool players, and the term referred to that cube you sometimes see people in TV/movie rub on top of a pool stick.
There was a comedy/folk band based in Madison, WI, called “Free Hot Lunch!” The story goes that they appeared at the Summerfest music festival in Milwaukee back in the 1980s, in an afternoon time slot, and apparently a bunch of attendees, who saw the listing in the schedule, were disappointed to discover that it was just some band performing stage, and not a free hot lunch being served.
Re: Gleaming the Cube: From Wikipedia: A term meaning “pushing your limits to the edge”. So it could be applied to anything. Apparently one of the characters says it in the movie. The movie’s about skateboarding BTW.
I just googled movies about pool hustlers, and it turns out that The Color of Money is the pool movie I was thinking of that I knew only from a title that doesn’t sound like a pool movie.
when I was younger I pucked up a book called “Bat Boy of the Giants” which sounded like it would a mythological adventure story. Turns out it was about baseball.
There was a band in the early 70s by the name of “Free Beer.” They were a bar band.
Some years back I was lamenting to my boss about how a mockingbird had taken up residence outside my bedroom window and would start his whole repertoire at fifteen minutes after midnight every night.
He immediately replied “You know there’s a book about that, don’t you?”
For those who have never heard a mockingbird, they imitate several dozen bird calls, and having one right out the window is like hearing sixty or seventy different bird species on shuffle. Unbearable.
Maybe not precisely what the OP is looking for, but … long before the internet, my high school English teachers gave us a list of suggested books to read over the summer, carefully typed out by the school secretaries on their old manual typewriters. There was a typo in one of the titles, and so it was spelled, “Bang the Frum Slowly.”
Not realizing this was a typo, I spent the summer wondering what exotic instrument a “Frum” was. I did eventually find the book and realized, to my disappointment, that it was only a drum.
The postscript to this incident is that after the summer was over and we returned to school, I shared an English class with our eventual valedictorian, a very smart girl who was quite the know-it-all. For some reason the teacher made reference to “Bang the Drum Slowly” and she spoke up, saying with great confidence, “You’ve got it wrong. The name of the book is 'Bang the Frum Slowly.”
Much laughter ensued.
I suspect The Man with the Golden Gun is right up your alley.
[Reads synopsis online of the film] Am I getting this confused with a Steve Martin movie where he has chronic amnesia?
Huh, got it confused with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which given the structure of the titles in question isn’t too surprising I guess. And Jim Carrey = Steve Martin natch…
In the modern day you, of course, would turn to Google. The top Google images hits for “Frum” reveals a number of things you probably would not want to bang slowly…
Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach to the New SAT
It’s just a mystery novel designed to teach students vocabulary words. I was expecting some kind of high-intensity training regimen where you spent six hours a day chanting analogies while standing on one leg.
What about banging them quickly?
You tell me.
Wow. I thought we had a two-click rule about NSFW content.
In his book “Cruel Shoes”, Steve Martin included an ultra-short story called “Sex Crazed Love Goddesses.”
It’s not about any of those things, and is G-rated.
Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask has adult humor but I still don’t know the answers to my questions.
Been forever since I’ve seen this, but wasn’t the title on this one 100% accurate? I remember the movie ending with them both dead in a murder-suicide.
Trout Fishing in America