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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 04/22/2007 : 07:19:22
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I understand that Don Mclean's "Wonderful Baby" is a tribute to Fred Astair and that "Superman's Ghost", a tribute to George Reeves, of the TV Superman fame.
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 14:59:35
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Salopian
Rosanna and In Your Eyes are about Rosanna Arquette. And has no one mentioned You're So Vain?
I know people think that's about Warren Beatty, but I'm sure she revealed it was actually about Baby James Taylor. innit?
I read that Beatty attended a performance by Carly Simon and when she sang 'You're So Vain' he seemed clearly to think the song was about him. Aint that vain?  |
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 16:27:54
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Eminem sings about Mekhi Pfieffer in the Academy Award winning song "Lose Yourself".
"Jimmy Dean" by Icehouse
"Independent Women part II" by Destiny's Child says, "Cameron D., My geirl Drew and Lucy Liu" referring to the trio of Charlies Angels stars.
"Gold Digger" by Kanye West touts Jennifer Lopez.
All of the Chanukah songs by Adam Sandler feature lists of prominent Jewish movie stars and especially calls out that O.J. Simpson is not a Jew. |
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tortoise
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 16:56:26
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Ooooh ooooh
Manic Monday (The Bangles) has a line about kissing Valentino |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 22:37:49
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| Phil Ochs--Jim Dean of Indiana. |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 22:42:00
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Well, there was this movie I seen one time,
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck.
Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
as the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square,
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 02:01:42
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I was sleepin' like a rat when I heard something jerkin':
There stood Rita looking just like Tony Perkins!
She said, "Would you like to take a shower, I'll show you up to the door?"
I said, "No no no, I've been through this movie before!"
I knew I had to split, but I did not know how,
And she said, "Would you like to take that shower now?"
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 02:24:12
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Originally posted by Randall
I was sleepin' like a rat when I heard something jerkin':
There stood Rita looking just like Tony Perkins!
She said, "Would you like to take a shower, I'll show you up to the door?"
I said, "No no no, I've been through this movie before!"
I knew I had to split, but I did not know how,
And she said, "Would you like to take that shower now?"
[from memory]
VERY impressive Grasshopper. But how's your short-term memory?  |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 02:28:50
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
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Originally posted by Randall
I was sleepin' like a rat when I heard something jerkin':
There stood Rita looking just like Tony Perkins!
She said, "Would you like to take a shower, I'll show you up to the door?"
I said, "No no no, I've been through this movie before!"
I knew I had to split, but I did not know how,
And she said, "Would you like to take that shower now?"
[from memory]
VERY impressive Grasshopper. But how's your short-term memory?
I used to pick guitar way back when, and this one was performed often by me, thus it's in deep memory. [As is most of Bobby's stuff pre-motorpsycho accident.]
What was your question? |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 05:57:18
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Salopian
Rosanna and In Your Eyes are about Rosanna Arquette. And has no one mentioned You're So Vain?
I know people think that's about Warren Beatty, but I'm sure she revealed it was actually about Baby James Taylor. innit?
Actually, Carly never revealed anything except that the person's name has the letters E, A and R. And while James Taylor has all three letters, she was interviewed in Rolling Stone and said straight out that it wasn't about him. Why would it be? She was in love with and still married to him at the time the song was written and became a hit (and he only took a jet up to Nova Scotia AFTER the song was written). Mick Jagger and Warren Beatty are still two possibilities, but Beatty believes that the song is only about him, while others think it is a composite.
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 08:46:59
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And where do we go from here?
Which is the way that's clear?
Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen.
Prettiest girl I ever seen.
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean (James Dean). |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 09:46:21
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Originally posted by duh-ck
I read that Beatty attended a performance by Carly Simon and when she sang 'You're So Vain' he seemed clearly to think the song was about him. Aint that vain?
I bet he thought that song was about him. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 10:06:21
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Sure he did. But Carly isn't admitting to anything.
By the way, how could we forget the original version of the famous Elton John song "Candle in the Wind" about Norma Jean aka Marilyn Monroe?
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 10:21:46
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
By the way, how could we forget the original version of the famous Elton John song "Candle in the Wind" about Norma Jean aka Marilyn Monroe?
It was mentioned in the opening post. |
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Songs about movies and movie stars.
