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Showing posts with label The Goonies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Goonies. Show all posts
The Link Between Burlesque And The '80s
Today, Culture Brats is introducing a new feature: No Way! Basically, this feature will be fun little tidbits and trivia facts for you to astound your friends with.
Today's fun fact is this: the writer/director of the recent Golden Globes and Razzie-nominated movie musical, Burlesque, is... a Goonie! Well kinda.
Steve Antin, the writer/director of Burlesque played Troy Perkins, the hot varsity-jacket-wearing guy macking it to Andie, with one of my favorite lines in the film: "Andie, you Goonie!"
He also played Jessie in Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" video.
This is Troy today, at a Burlesque premiere:
Goonies never die! They just hang out with divas.
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Today's fun fact is this: the writer/director of the recent Golden Globes and Razzie-nominated movie musical, Burlesque, is... a Goonie! Well kinda.
Steve Antin, the writer/director of Burlesque played Troy Perkins, the hot varsity-jacket-wearing guy macking it to Andie, with one of my favorite lines in the film: "Andie, you Goonie!"
He also played Jessie in Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" video.
This is Troy today, at a Burlesque premiere:
Goonies never die! They just hang out with divas.
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The Greatest Videos Of The '80s, Day Two
This week, I'm highlighting some cool videos of the '80s that wouldn't make the typical top 10 list (even though they probably should).
Our second video this week is one of my favorites of all time. Rather than give you a play-by-play of the video, let's just take a look at some of the people who appear in the video:
From 1985, here's "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper.
Enjoy!
Our second video this week is one of my favorites of all time. Rather than give you a play-by-play of the video, let's just take a look at some of the people who appear in the video:
- Steven Spielberg
- Rowdy Roddy Piper
- The Bangles
- Andre the Giant
- Corey Feldman
- Captain Lou Albano
- Josh Brolin
- The Iron Shiek
- Sean Astin
- Freddie Blassie
- Martha Plimpton
- Nikolai Volkoff
From 1985, here's "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper.
Enjoy!
The Launch Of A New Career?
This little performance was at a four-day festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Goonies. I've gotta ask... do you see anything about The Goonies here?
No, all I see is Corey Feldman. And his man crush. (Of course.)
And I'm thinking, he's all primed to launch another career: his reality TV show is over unless he wants to produce The Divorced Corey, if Vegas wanted him for a Michael Jackson impersonator they would have called him years ago, and he's already played Michael Douglas in the off-Broadway play Fatal Attraction. Where do you go after playing Michael Douglas?
Clearly the answer is to make a surreptitious pitch for an iPhone commercial. Think he'll get a royalty for each smart phone that pops up?
Next Halloween I'm wearing a Goonies t-shirt dressing as Corey Feldman dressing as Michael Jackson singing Cyndi Lauper. Because I need closure.
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No, all I see is Corey Feldman. And his man crush. (Of course.)
And I'm thinking, he's all primed to launch another career: his reality TV show is over unless he wants to produce The Divorced Corey, if Vegas wanted him for a Michael Jackson impersonator they would have called him years ago, and he's already played Michael Douglas in the off-Broadway play Fatal Attraction. Where do you go after playing Michael Douglas?
Clearly the answer is to make a surreptitious pitch for an iPhone commercial. Think he'll get a royalty for each smart phone that pops up?
Next Halloween I'm wearing a Goonies t-shirt dressing as Corey Feldman dressing as Michael Jackson singing Cyndi Lauper. Because I need closure.
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We're Going Down Tubes (There's a Pirate Ship)
I had a really lazy weekend and spent some time reading the internet. Nerdist had a link to a video that he called Goonies: The Musical which I found intriguing. His post had a video called "Tubes" in it, which I found both lodged in my brain and fascinating. I had to know more about this project so here's what I learned.Two guys, Rob Dean and Keith Doughty, have been writing songs for a Goonies musical and have been cutting videos from the film to support the songs. /Film has embedded all the videos in their article about the endeavor so you can head over there to view them all. The one I've chosen to post is called "Sloth's Song" and I chose it because I really enjoy the '80s hair metal ballad feeling of the song.
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