Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 July 25

= July 25 =

1980s song video
I remember there was this music video for a song called, "Face To Face." The video starts out with someone taking a sip of some fluid, then he/she gargles it. What version am I referring to?72.229.136.28 (talk) 00:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't believe the name of the song was "Face to Face." I remember a song in the 80's with a repeating chorus containing "face to face."  However, Google doesn't turn up anything remotely similar to the song I remember.  It was from a Flock of Seagulls-like band. --  k a i n a w &trade; 01:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

What was the band's name?72.229.136.28 (talk) 03:45, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Siouxsie and the Banshees released a song called "Face to Face" in 1992; it was on the Batman 2 soundtrack and the video received quite a bit of airplay. However, I don't see anyone gargling fluid in the versions available online. --Xuxl (talk) 14:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

stephen colbert yellow rose photoshoot?
where can i find the photo set of stephen colbert with yellow roses and kittens? 99.245.92.47 (talk) 05:21, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Music on Babe - Pig in the City
What is the name of the classical piece played in the scene where the pitbull terrier is drowning, and then Babe comes to rescue him? 203.206.11.162 (talk) 11:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I haven't seen the film, but hopefully someone who has can pick it out of this list. Fribbler (talk) 14:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

You mean, The Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore composed by Giuseppe Verdi?? 117.194.227.31 (talk) 16:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

World music category song
I'm looking for a world music CD put out by a penitentiary in america's south -- I saw it in a store in about 2000, and all I can remember is that it included a track titled: How to be chain gang leader (I think). Anyone know what the CD is called or what prison it's from? Thanks, Julia Rossi (talk) 12:54, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this one? No song called "How to be a chain gang leader", but there's one called "What Makes A Work Song Leader?". Swish swish, --Richardrj talkemail 12:58, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That reminds me of this YouTube video, showing prisoners singing work songs at a prison in Huntsville, Texas in 1966 (I assume it's Huntsville Unit). − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 22:54, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Guys you've been a great help yet again, thanks so much -- tous swishs, Julia Rossi (talk) 00:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

harry potter/Is it safe to read harry potter booksjohann

 * I'm not aware that any injuries have been reported. What are you asking, exactly? You might want to read Religious debates over Harry Potter, depending on where you're going with the question.  Friday (talk) 16:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You only get transformed into a turnip if you read the last page first or shoplift them. Clarityfiend (talk) 18:12, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * It isn't safe to read them while driving - especially if you are trying to read one while driving a motorcycle. I've also heard that it is rather unsafe to read them while sitting in crocodile pits, but I haven't seen any references for that.  Maybe I can Google to see about the safety of reading them while falling from tall buildings. --  k a i n a w &trade; 19:07, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I read one while driving an Amphibious Assault Vehicle, and I don't believe anyone was unnecessarily harmed. Llamabr (talk) 16:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * They're perfectly safe while falling, only reading while landing has any health concerns.[citation needed] &mdash; Lomn 20:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It is not safe to read Harry Potter. You'll be inevitably pulled into a complex world of fantastic adventures, charismatic characters, and unpredictable plot twists. You'll become obsessed with it, and will probably feel an irresistible urge to dress as some of the characters, and meet up with others who share your obsession. Other side effects include urges to write fanfics on the subject, and camping out for movie adaptation premieres. Your life won't be the same again. Kreachure (talk) 20:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Not to mention the dangers of being exposed to fiction written by a christian, who quotes from the Bible and suggests that people should take care of their souls. "They led us into stuff we found in the Harry Potter books." Won't somebody please think of the children? The poor, feeble-minded children. 79.66.124.253 (talk) 23:33, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I once opened a Harry Potter book and couldn't put it down for 48 hours except to go to the bathroom (I hastily grabbed snacks and ate while reading), and after that I slept for a day. I was devastated because ********** died and I went into mourning for a few days. My boss found out why I was sick and I lost my job, after which I got kicked out of the house for not paying my half of the rent. I recounted stories from Harry Potter in the streets for spare change but there was hardly any demand for my dribble as the books are much better. I don't know if it was the hunger or the cold that got to me but I started hallucinating that I could flick the wand I made to turn rats into cupcakes and road salt into sugar for my puddle-coffee, but no cupcake crunches and oozes and chokes you with fur and no sugar leaves you parched and gasping upon the cold earth as you descend, dizzyingly, to the demise of your empty life. There is no starker a contrast to my descent into madness than when I awoke to the white lights and the sound of the heart monitor by my bed and I felt the pain of the several rabies shots I knew I could never pay for, but also the comfort of not being hungry for the first time I could remember. No starker contrast, that is, except for when I read the Chick Tract my bed neighbour gave me and went really freakin insane. Now I edit Wikipedia. -LambaJan (talk) 02:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * On a slightly more factual note, I collected the last book when it came out at midnight and read it as soon as I got home (I had food and drink prepared to be consumed one-handed throughout the reading session, meaning I never had to put the book down). Just as I finished, a neighbour called round to ask if I'd visited the floodwaters yet. I hadn't even noticed it had been raining. 79.66.124.253 (talk) 15:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

what do they drink in the soaps instead of beer?
what do they drink in the soaps instead of beer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.31.236 (talk) 19:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Uh... water? Milk? Soapy water? Do you mean what they use as a prop for beer? That depends on the show, I'd imagine; in some instances, they probably just use beer, if no one actually needs to drink any significant amount of it. At other times, if someone needs to drink an entire bottle during a scene and they know they have to shoot it numerous times, they can substitute all sorts of things for it to keep the actors from getting drunk, such as non-alcoholic beer -- it'll look the same on TV, after all. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 20:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * To follow up on the previous response, actors rarely actually eat or drink during a scene, as that can result in many unwanted effects:


 * 1) Food or drink spills.


 * 2) Food or drink on the face.


 * 3) Smeared make-up.


 * 4) Burping.


 * 5) Food visible in their mouth while they talk.


 * 6) Food stuck on their teeth.


 * 7) Having to use the bathroom.


 * 8) Having to replace the food and drinks with something identical for each retake.


 * So, most of the time they just fake it, say by holding a glass up to their mouths, then putting the glass back down as the camera switches to the other person. StuRat (talk) 22:30, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * In a few cases, they'll actually drink alcohol. On Another World for example, one scene involved three characters getting drunk off whiskey...and it involved actual whiskey. All the actors ended up becoming very inebriated. The scenes ended up working well, but after that, Another World banned actual alcohol use on the set. Mike H. Fierce! 03:30, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not a soap, but apparently John Mills got rather drunk as a result of several retakes of the lager-drinking scene in Ice-Cold in Alex, AndrewWTaylor (talk) 13:09, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Then there was the famous Vitameatavegamin episode of I Love Lucy, which made fun of all this, by showing Lucy get drunk after repeated takes where she drinks a health tonic. StuRat (talk) 15:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * And amusing in Supernatural where one of the leads is often shown eating (originally proposed as a bit of a joke by the actor I believe. A choice he occasionally regrets, as apparently doing this with repeated takes is soul-destroying and gross) whereas the other, for whom it is not a character trait, never eats. While the first is obvious, the second is rarely noted outside fandom, but becomes a much stranger trait when you think about it... 79.66.124.253 (talk) 23:26, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

gibberish song title
I remember seeing a video for a song on MTV in 1984. I believe the song's title sounded somewhat like "Shoop Shoop Diddewah Cumma Cumma Wang Dang". Is it really that? If so, who sings it?72.229.136.28 (talk) 21:23, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang by Monte Video and the Cassettes. --Onorem♠Dil 21:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Argh! You mean that thing was known outside New Zealand??? On behalf of NZ, I apologise to the rest of the world. :) Grutness...wha?  23:44, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Movie
I remember watching a movie starring Robbie Coltrane in which a lady is knocked out and left on the footpath for years. But I don't remember the name of the movie. What is it? 58.165.52.72 (talk) 23:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * try looking on www.imdb.com for Robbie Coltrane - it'll list all the movies he has starred in - go through each of the them and look at the 'synopsis' for the film (why that's used instead of overview/description by things like sky-tv etc. I will never know) and you might be lucky. Unfortunately i've no idea which film it would be. 194.221.133.226 (talk) 07:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)