Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 March 12

= March 12 =

User name
How can I change the user name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.217.216.56 (talk) 02:11, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * User name of what? -- k a i n a w &trade; 03:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Read Changing username for this joint. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:15, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Name of girl in 1980s Flake ad
Does anyone who had lived in the UK or Ireland in about 1982 happen to remember the Flake chocolate bar ad which shows a beautiful girl with wavy dark hair seated at the back of a gypsy wagon eating the chocolate? What was this model's name? Thank you.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:40, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Is this the ad you're referring to? Just figured that showing the ad might be helpful.  Dismas |(talk) 09:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the link. I now know the girl's name is Janis Levy. I loved that ad. Everytime I saw it on tv, I made my boyfriend go out to the local shop and buy me a Flake!--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 09:12, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Everytime?! If I were him, I'd have just kept a supply of them outside the door.  :-)  Dismas |(talk) 09:38, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * We were both on the dole (Irish, not UK) back then which would have precipated an economic disaster in our household had he kept a supply of the delicious sticks on hand, tempting as that sounds in retrospect. --Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 10:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It couldn't have been Janis Levy in the 1982 ad as her interview said she was 16 in 1985 when she did the ad. I read in another article that the Flake girl in the early 80s was Marilyn Crossey who died of cancer at 52.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 10:19, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Films based on songs
I'm watching Convoy (1978 film), a movie based on the song, Convoy (song). It got me wondering: Are there any other movies that were based on a song? We don't seem to have a List of films based on songs. Are there any other films based off of a song? (For the purposes of this question, music videos like Michael Jackson's Thriller don't count.) A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 17:08, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * There are lots of movies named after songs, but probably very few are actually based on them. (e.g. Stand By Me doesn't count.) Even so, there's Yellow Submarine, and maybe Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Staecker (talk) 17:35, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Might as well include A Hard Day's Night and Help! too, though the song didn't really dictate the plot. Staecker (talk) 17:37, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * And Magical Mystery Tour, obviously. Staecker (talk) 17:44, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Naturally there is an article on this: Films based on songs --TrogWoolley (talk) 17:53, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * But our category of films based on songs is as nothing compared to IMDb's, which lists 106 of them. EDIT: Except that looking closer I find about half of them are TV shows. --Antiquary (talk) 19:30, 12 March 2011 (UTC)