Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009 March 18

= March 18 =

Hancock 2
is it coming? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.70.143.193 (talk) 00:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * According to the Hancock article, they're considering it. -- Wh ip it !  Now whip it good! 04:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

An Old Song
There was an old somewhat hip hop song with the lyrics "Cause that's the way it is" with a number of singers in the song. Maybe it had lyrics like "Round round" and "Check it". Who is the artist and what is the name of the song?96.53.149.117 (talk) 04:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds like 'It's like that'.  Lanfear's Bane |  t  09:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It is, thanks.96.53.149.117 (talk) 10:58, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hair colour stereotypes
What are the stereotypes of blonde, brunette and redheaded women in TV and movies and who are some examples of characters for each? --124.254.77.148 (talk) 05:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I find that the stereotypes (when being used) are usually: Example characters: 194.221.133.226 (talk) 10:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Blonde - pretty and dumb
 * Redhead - (often but not always) geek and/or slightly ditzy/quirky
 * Brunette - (often but not always) intelligent, powerful etc.
 * Blonde - Marilyn Monroe in her movies
 * Redhead - Isla Fisher in Wedding Crashers (bad example but mental block)
 * Brunette - where to start, pretty much anyone - the brunette in Sex and the City?
 * Perhaps the quintessential ditzy redhead would be Lucille Ball. The character Grace on Will and Grace might also fit.  -- LarryMac  | Talk  20:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I would suggest that another redhead stereotype is a quick temper, such as Reba in Reba or Molly Weasley in Harry Potter. Cherry Red Toenails (talk) 01:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Or Axl Rose. And he's a real-life person. -- Wh ip it !  Now whip it good! 06:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

A couple more stereotypers:


 * Black hair - Goth and/or depressing, as in Joan Baez.


 * Joan Baez, goth or depressing?? -- LarryMac  | Talk  20:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * That would be depressing, as in song titles like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word", and "Farewell Angelina". StuRat (talk) 07:22, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's a little unfair to pin that accusation on her when she didn't even write the first and third of those (not sure about the second). --Richardrj talkemail 10:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It was her choice to cover such depressing songs. StuRat (talk) 05:57, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Green, purple, pink, etc. (dyed hair) - A nut. StuRat (talk) 16:08, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Guess I'm a nut then! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.88.87 (talk) 19:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * extreme or bright colored hair = interesting or possibly artistic. 10draftsdeep (talk) 20:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Other examples:


 * Blonde: Christina Applegate from Married With Children, Jenna Elfman from Dharma and Greg played a rather ditzy blonde although there was method to her madness
 * Redhead: (geeky/intellectual) Either version of Clarice Starling from the Silence of the Lambs series of films (don't know if they were redheads in the books)
 * Dismas |(talk) 19:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Hair Show lyrics
What are the lyrics to the song "Let's Leave" from Hair Show? Subliminable (talk) 06:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Here are the lyrics to A song called "Let's Leave", but I don't know if it's THE song from Hair Show: . Do you have any more info, like partial lyrics or the artist ? StuRat (talk) 19:15, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * According to IMDB, "Let's Leave" was written by Justin Henderson and Ebony Burks, performed by Ebony, courtesy of Henderworks Music Pub: . In that case, it doesn't seem to match the lyrics I found above. StuRat (talk) 19:35, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Abnormal psych movies?
I've just got done watching Awakenings and I'm feeling a craving for more like it. So can anyone recommend to me some very well-researched and accurate movies portraying mental or neurological illness? I'm already picking up Rain Man and Memento (both of which, I understand, aren't perfect, but I'm told a great deal of thought and research was put into each) and I'd like some other suggestions. Documentaries are fine too. Accuracy and research is paramount here -- I'm something of a stickler for details, both in terms of the science and overall plot. 99.245.16.164 (talk) 07:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * See List of films featuring mental illness and Mental illness in films. Neither of those lists has Iris, a haunting biographical drama about Iris Murdoch and Alzheimer's. Titles of note: End of the Road (1970, adapted from the John Barth novel), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Shine, David Cronenberg's Spider (easily the best dramatic depiction of schizophrenia), The Story of Adele H. (obsession) and Polanski's The Tenant (adapted from the novel by Roland Topor). As I recall, Polanski wrote Repulsion, showed it to a psychologist who said he had it all wrong, did research into mental disorders and then rewrote the screenplay. As for documentaries, try Jupiter's Wife (1995). Pepso2 (talk) 09:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * You might want to try Donnie Darko too. Not quite the same I know, but you might enjoy it.  Lanfear's Bane |  t  09:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I recall reading a newspaper article quoting some shrink that the best depictions of amnesiacs in film were in the aforementioned Memento and Finding Nemo. I'm not sure it's quite what you're looking for, and Dori's memory loss is somewhat played for laughs, but it's apparently an accurate depiction. Matt Deres (talk) 13:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Away From Her has a sad depiction of Alzheimers. Adam Bishop (talk) 14:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Russell Crowe won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in A Beautiful Mind, which was an interesting (if a bit dramatic) portrayal of schizophrenia. Livewireo (talk) 21:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Fear Strikes Out, for those that take their mental illness with a dose of sports, is a pretty decent film. --Jayron32. talk . contribs  02:20, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Pyscho always seemed to do a good job of making us understand and sympathize with Norman Bates, even though he was a murderer. StuRat (talk) 16:01, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Frances was a biopic about the actress Frances Farmer, and claimed to depict accurately the abominations that were committed inside mental institutions back in the 1930s. The tagline was: "Her story is shocking, disturbing, compelling... and true."  It was ghastly, but apparently it was partly fictionalised, a fact only disclosed later by the makers.  That's not to say that such things didn't actually happen to other people.  --  JackofOz (talk) 21:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * You also might enjoy A Woman Under the Influence and Spellbound. You might also want to have a look at The Best of Youth - I have to say that it's not really a great movie (it is more on the level of a slightly above average tv series, in my humble opinion), but Jasmine Trinca's portrayal of a patient in a mental institution is pretty great. -- Ferkelparade &pi; 23:38, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Also worth a mention is Six Feet Under which has James Cromwell as a paranoid character and Jeremy Sisto's portrayal of a bipolar condition; Rainn Wilson plays an eccentric character warped by childhood experiences. Ditto for Christopher Walken's sinister aristocrat in The Comfort of Strangers. Pepso2 (talk) 14:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Birdy and Marnie I thought were interesting.hotclaws 17:44, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

New Zealand
Australia has Triple J Hottest 100 Vol. x. Does New Zealand have any sort of compilation cds?96.53.149.117 (talk) 10:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)