From 1985, please enjoy a child molester and a bunch of guys and gals with truly heinous haircuts with their surprisingly effective after all these years ode to ending world hunger "We Are the World."
Two random observations.
1) I can't find the exact quote, but critic "Holy" Greil Marcus reviewed this at the time, and if memory serves, he really, and I mean REALLY, didn't like it. I believe his final sentence was something along the lines of "and the celebrities get to eat the Africans."
2) I can't find the exact quote for this either, but in the otherwise awful 1987 Dragnet, with Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd, the latter's straight arrow Joe Friday cop character looks around a den of iniquity modelled after the Playboy Mansion and says "And to think a moral cesspool like this exists in the heart of the city where they recorded 'We Are the World.' "
In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Hmm.
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Too obvious?
Less bang for your buck!
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AKA: The biggest collection of talent (with the ensuing huge expectations) with just the worst most heartbreaking results!
ROTP(lumber)
The word verifications continue to be great: chingati!
Uh....no and no.
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blued eyed singers that think they have soul ?
ReplyDeletei know GOOGLE EARTH! LOL
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ReplyDeletewe can never say, "Have you ever seen Michael Jackson and Diana Ross in the same room at the same time?"
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ReplyDeleteLibby Spencer said...
ReplyDeleteSongs that reference Gods.If I haven't already done that, I am so stealing that idea...
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Songs that reference children?
ReplyDeleteI suppose you've seen this:
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Okay, going for the obvious. Songs with the word world in them.
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ReplyDeleteGummo said...
ReplyDeleteUnlikely collaborations?Okay, despite the fact that I hate you with a deep lingering hurt for guessing it so early, your Coveted PowerPop No-Prize is wending its way to you via Enterprise transporter.
Bastard.
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A postscript to "We Are the World": the immortal Joe Bob Briggs of drive-in movie review fame, who was in reality a columnist and reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, did a marvelously funny parody of this in his column, entitled "We Are the Weird." Of course, it was totally not P.C., and he was sacked, thus proving the complete humorlessness of the whole P.C. movement. Joe Bob rules!
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