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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
close enough...

Well, what's it called for real?

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Originally posted by theminx:

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Originally posted by MrsK:
I've been dying to see it again for a few weeks now.. but for some reason, we only seem to have it on VHS!
I nearly walked down the aisle to the main theme from it..

If I'm thinking of the same music you are, and I'm not mistaken, that music is also in Badlands. Little hommage

Actually, its not the identical piece.. The badlands one is Musica Poetica by Carl Orff, and the one in True Romance is You're so cool by Hans Zimmer. Very very similar, and Zimmer says that his is an "imitation" of the Orff one! But it is designed to be very reminiscent.. as is the whole film ofcourse.

Just call me a geek *laughing*

Keeping in mind that the Irish, at the time of the great romantic immigrations via Ellis, were held in as nearly as much contempt as the Italians, it's seems odd they'd change it from Italian to Irish.

By the pride Christopher "Yup, I'm turning up for five minutes in the middle" Walker puts on his father being Sicilian, I'd say his papa was full-blood.

"You, are an eggplant.
Now, you tell me....
am I lying?"

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Originally posted by MrsK:

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Originally posted by theminx:

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Originally posted by MrsK:
I've been dying to see it again for a few weeks now.. but for some reason, we only seem to have it on VHS!
I nearly walked down the aisle to the main theme from it..

If I'm thinking of the same music you are, and I'm not mistaken, that music is also in Badlands. Little hommage

Actually, its not the identical piece.. The badlands one is Musica Poetica by Carl Orff, and the one in True Romance is You're so cool by Hans Zimmer. Very very similar, and Zimmer says that his is an "imitation" of the Orff one! But it is designed to be very reminiscent.. as is the whole film ofcourse.

Just call me a geek *laughing*

Wow. Is Orff alive? I'd sue! I don't even like Orff on the whole, but I'd sue sue sue.

Excellent trivia bit. Thanks!

Researched it alot before the wedding.. Both are utterly gorgeous peices of music which I adore. Liste to them back to back, and you will be able to tell the difference..
BTW.. ended up walking down aisle to A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld by The Orb *LOL*

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Originally posted by theminx:
It's key, his being Sicilian.

One assumes his father is half Sicilian? I bet there's some good backstory with that, whether Hopper's invention or QT 's.

Could be that Boyle was a corruption of Boglio or something, and got changed to Boyle at Ellis Island or somewhere else along the line.

Been a little while since I've seen it, but it was my impression that Walken's Sicilian character was not "Blue" Lou Boyle himself, but one of his lieutenants.

The cast listing at IMDB seems support my assumption. Walken's character is named "Vincenzo Coccotti."

EDIT: Also possible that Walken's character was a business associate of Boyle's.

Anyway:



Are these two a pair of minor pop stars or a pair of transvestite hookers?

Both.



The production quality make me think pop.

Oh The Veronicas.

They scare me.

What movie starred Michael J. Fox and Paul Reubens?

Midnight Madness.
Early eighties B flick.

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Are these two a pair of minor pop stars or a pair of transvestite hookers?

Both, while trying to solve their problems of incompatibility with life by the easy way.

The television series "ER" was originally planned as a movie to be directed by whom?

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Midnight Madness.
Early eighties B flick.

You get a blinkie. I liked the film, I have fond memories of it.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The television series "ER" was originally planned as a movie to be directed by whom?

Spielberg. Fifteen years later, maybe he can do a cameo as a Chicago City Clerk who comes into County General after two crazed blues fans take him hostage.

yep, and lol.

More 80's goodness:

Who played Capitan America in 1970's TV Movies and later a Vietnam vet along with Gene Hackman in Uncommon Valor?

I don't know the answer to this but I want to know the answer. i can't find the answer on Google as I don't even know what to google.

Here it is:

Why do years in the dates written in novels not have the last two years? It will say: In the Year 19-- or some such. This was prevalent in novels before about 1950 it seems. or, rather 19--.

What is up with that?

Is it to preserve a universality?

Justy?

I'm fairly sure it's an attempt not to fix the book, or the events described in the book, at a specific date. As you say, to preserve universality.

Of course, it only works if you're still in the same century, and even then not very well.