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'scuse me, while I kiss THIS sky... vanilla sky
by effenheimer at 11:25 AM on December 17, 2001
A friend of mine recently asked why the new Tom Cruise movie was called "Vanilla Sky" because it sounded like a comic strip.
I thought "Vanilla Sky" sounded like a Jimi Hendrix/Pat Boone Christmas album, you know? Like Jimi didnt die and a few years after Montrose (sp), his popularity starts to wane among white males and he needs some kind of boost with the 30-50 demographic.
He doesn't want to do it, but his record company insists that what he needs to change his image and be more accessible to white Americans is an album with Pat Boone. Boone is all up for it, of course, having been a big fan of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but Jimi is reluctant until they give him final say on the title of the album.
after months in the studio and a near fatal overdose of metamucil and milk of magnesia that nearly ended Boone's life, the two crank out one of the greatest crossover Christmas albums of all time.
Tracks include: Let this be Christmas/who are you, who am I (santa claus)/overnight sleigh ride through my mind/the ballad of Frozen Underpants/i can see the taste of cinnamon/taste of cinnamon pt. II/rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
the album goes triple platinum and is in print to this day. if you play the album in time with the film version of Pink Floyd's THE WALL, it matches up kind of.
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I saw Vanilla Sky this weekend, and it rivaled Showgirls for worst frickin movie I've ever seen. The soundtrack, on the other hand, kicked some major ass. Skip the movie, buy the soundtrack.
by skits at December 17, 2001 12:22 PM
Vanilla Sky makes me think of Vanilla Ice for some reason.
by MrBlank at December 17, 2001 2:55 PM
I don't know if this is the movie, but last year they were filming a Tom Cruise flick in the building I worked in. I faintly recall some of the gals all excited because they'd ridden in the same elevator as the short one.
I'm not a Cruise fan, but it looks like a decent movie, I'd almost go to see it just to check for locations I knew, except I still haven't seen The Royal Tenenbaums or Lord of the Rings yet.
by mg at December 19, 2001 10:44 PM