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= July 2 =

80s music video involving fruit
My friend is being driven crazy by the vague memory of this music video.

It was the music video for a pop song, the sort typical of 80s music. She would have seen it on MTV (or its equivalent) in Italy sometime between 1984 and 1988. The song is in English. It must be quite a famous song, as she remembers seeing it all the time then. The singer is male, possibly with tan skin and looking Brazilian, but she's not sure about that. It's your typical up-beat, good to dance to, colourful song/video. The key thing she remembers is the theme of the song (either just in the video, or in the lyrics) is fruit. She feels strongly the lyrics include "passion" or "passionfruit". The theme must be about love and passion (common in 80s songs) but there is also the theme of fruit. She feels very strongly that the name of singer or group is Little or something like that. Any guesses are welcome, I'm completely stumped. It's not a silly song, like "Agga Do", it's a standard pop song.

10:20, 2 July 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.166.97 (talk)
 * "Sledgehammer"? Video - jump to about 2:20. --Michig (talk) 10:54, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Definitely not 'Sledgehammer'. I'm pretty sure it's NOT Peter Gabriel or Bryan Ferry. 118.209.166.97 (talk) 11:08, 2 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Raspberry Beret ? 1985, and features fruit, hats, romance, and a male singer who's more than just a little bit tan. But as far as pineapple on the head, unless Weird Al did that in a take-off on Raspberry Beret, you might have to go back to Carmen Miranda to find that on a singer.  (Carmen Miranda warning: You have the right to wear a silly hat with fruit on it, but, if you choose to do so, this may be held against you in a court of law.) StuRat (talk) 20:54, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * My immediate thought was Kid Creole and the Coconuts, who recorded the album Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places and were "upbeat...good to dance to... colourful"... with "backup female singers" - but I can't remember them doing a video as described.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:39, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Tim Howard and USDOD
What does Tim Howard have to do with the United States Department of Defense? The latter article has had to be semiprotected due to a string of edits such as and. Normally, vandalism has something to do with what's going on in real life, since it wouldn't otherwise be likely for a group of unrelated people (most vandalism was by accounts, but the accounts were active at the same time; either they're unrelated, or they're socks, and vandals normally don't create socks until the first account is blocked) all to start vandalising the same article in the same way. I could see vandalism by unrelated people happening if department head Chuck Hagel became involved in a controversy, but it's not the same with some random footballer. Nyttend (talk) 13:19, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * This is related to the World Cup. Howard is a goalkeeper (obviously a defensive position), and some people have apparently decided that for his stalwart play he has earned the moniker "secretary of defense". (Such nicknames are common in American sports, and I assume elsewhere. Mike Singletary of the Chicago Bears was sometimes called the Minister of Defense because he was both a top defensive player and an ordained minister.) The resulting disruption to Wikipedia seems to be a hot topic. Deor (talk) 13:46, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * User Wikipediholic applies when you learn about Internet culture/sports events by looking at WP:RFPP :-) Nyttend (talk) 14:12, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It's a good thing that I previewed before posting the response above. I had originally characterized Howard as a "gaolkeeper"; if sports fans had seen that, articles such as Prison warden might have become their targets. Deor (talk) 14:27, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Not likely. How many supporters of Howard even know that "gaol" is a real spelling in most of the world?  They'd probably see it as a typo.  Nyttend (talk) 15:06, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * As with the closing line of the Flinstones theme song, "We'll have a ga-ol time". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:24, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Extant (TV series)
I'm confused by the ads for this show. One set has Halle Berry returning pregnant from isolation in a space station, while another set has her with an artificial intelligence male child (a seeming rip off of the AI film). Do these two plot elements have any relation to one another ? Also, she looks even fairer skinned than usual. Is she doing the Micheal Jackson thing and bleaching her skin, or are they trying to make her look white in the ads via computer manipulation ? (I suppose her wearing cosmetics to look lighter is a third possibility.) StuRat (talk) 19:28, 2 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Lighting works wonders, and skin tones can vary depending on the lighting of a scene, as well as makeup. And Halle is not all that dark-skinned anyway. As to the confusing preview clips, unless someone has leaked the details of the plot somewhere, we're probably stuck with watching it to find out what's going on. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:53, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Kane
Is Kane a Time Lord? Because I don't see any other way he could be an advisor to Stalin in 1946 in Red Alert and still be alive (and more-or-less unchanged at that!) in 2062 in Tiberian Twilight. 24.5.122.13 (talk) 23:55, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Kane who? Or who Kane? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:24, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * That would be Kane (Command & Conquer). That link might have the answer, but I haven't checked (the article is lengthy for a character from a video game).  —71.20.250.51 (talk) 02:13, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The boring answer is in the first sentence, and also explains why Bart Simpson is still ten. All fictional characters have that power (even fictionalized Stalin).


 * The boring in-universe answer seems to be "little is truly known" about him. Mysterious characters leave imagination room for all sorts of powers and backstory, which can be exposed later to further further plots. Kane (wrestler) has milked that trick for 17 years now, and we're still not sure whether he's totally human. InedibleHulk (talk) 14:14, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * A fictionalized Stalin who doesn't die in 1953 would be alternate history. Also, that would deny him his destiny, which is to spend a dark eternity refighting World War Two with Adolf Hitler in Hell.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:58, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * In this version of alternate history, Stalin ends up being strangled by the Allied leader Stavros, whose family had been murdered by Soviet troops during their invasion of Greece (or, in the other ending, poisoned by his own right-hand woman Nadia, who's secretly working for the Brotherhood of Nod). Also, in this version, Hitler is erased from time, so World War 2 never happens -- instead, there's a major war between the USSR and the rest of Europe. 24.5.122.13 (talk) 22:29, 3 July 2014 (UTC)