Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2015 November 22

= November 22 =

Song with numbers in
Bit of a longshot this. There's a song with something like "5, 7, 0, 9" or "10, 7, 0, 3" in the lyrics. Male singers, probably eighties, possibly American. Any help gratefully received! DuncanHill (talk)


 * 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.) came to mind. I wouldn't know which cover though. I also found these lists: "Songs with telephone numbers in them" and "Dial M for Music". ---Sluzzelin talk  01:18, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 867-5309/Jenny also.  Acroterion   (talk)   01:21, 22 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but just after posting it slid back into my brain through the backdoor - the song I was looking for is 5.7.0.5 by City Boy. Seventies and British, so shows what I know! DuncanHill (talk) 01:23, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Movie marginalization of women
A year or two back I read an interesting newspaper article about the extraordinarily high (and rising?) percentage of Hollywood feature films in which, despite all the time devoted to other nattering, there was no time for any dialogue between two non-trivial female characters, unless the dialogue was about one or more men. Or something along those lines, but I forget the details, and duckduckgoing for this is rather hard. I dimly remember that a newspaper columnist or blogger came up with the idea of looking for such dialogue, thereby coming up with a criterion to which her name was attached by later columnists and bloggers. Does this ring a bell at all? -- Hoary (talk) 01:56, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The Bechdel test? -- Jayron 32 02:31, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The very same. Many thanks! -- Hoary (talk) 06:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

currency in Fractured Fairyland
For years I had it in my head that in Fractured Fairy Tales the fictional currency was consistently called pezuzas (or pazoozas); lately in watching the series I find that it's nearly always gold grickles. So whence did I pick up pezuzas? —Tamfang (talk) 04:23, 22 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Maybe mazoola? Clarityfiend (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)


 * If you're suggesting that I mis-heard mazoola as pazoozas, the fly in the ointment is that mazoola is a mass noun, unlikely to be used in such a way that it could be mistaken for a unit. —Tamfang (talk) 07:42, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Apparently there is a fictional currency called Pazooza in another cartoon fairy tale, though this is a Disney film: Brave Little Tailor. See here for example: 'In the 1938 Disney film Brave Little Tailor, the king offers Mickey Mouse “one million pazoozas” and the hand of Princess Minnie to slay the giant.' ---Sluzzelin talk  09:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC)


 * The list of fictional currencies at Wikia does associate "pazoozas" with Fractured Fairy Tales; so perhaps both currencies were used in those stories and the odder or more humorous name happened to stick in your mind. Deor (talk) 12:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)


 * That page appears to be a copy of an old version of Fictional currency in which, er, I wrote that entry, relying on memory that I now find to be unreliable. —Tamfang (talk) 07:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


 * By the way, I checked a couple of the Fractured Fairy Tales yesterday (thanks for that, I hadn't been familiar with them!), but the only fictional currency, apart from "$" on posters and "acorns" in one case, I saw/heard were those gold grickles. I also checked Brave Little Tailor, and the king does in fact promise one million pazoozas. ---Sluzzelin talk  13:44, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, in discussing Fractured Fairy Tales, this book about the minds behind the Ward-Scott cartoons says, "The economy in these never-never lands consisted not of dollars and cents but kazoos, pazuzas, finsters, kinockers, rinkels, and gold grickels" (my emphasis). Make of that what you will. Deor (talk) 15:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Moosylvania Saved, the last squirrel & moose story, begins with Fearless Leader learning that Pottsylvania's treasury of N pazulas has been embezzled. —Tamfang (talk) 21:09, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Are liner notes copyrighted?
I'm wondering if most of Matty Matlock is a WP:COPYVIO. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is, assuming the text is a verbatim copy of the liner notes. See Copyright law of the United States - the liner notes are "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression", and were published after 1923.  It's also quite likely that copyright in the liner notes (as well as the music itself and the album artwork) has been explicitly registered by the record company.  If the text isn't a verbatim copy of the liner notes, we're into legal advice territory, and WP:CP is the place to discuss it. Tevildo (talk) 12:36, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Barbarella (band)
Is there anybody who could help me out with this: ? I believe it's utter nonsense. Oxygene7-13 (talk) 17:32, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blogs are not reliable sources; just delete that bit. Be bold! 99.235.223.170 (talk) 18:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Done! I was just beeing carefull, so I thaught I'd first ask. Oxygene7-13 (talk) 12:06, 23 November 2015 (UTC)