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Caveman is a 1981 slapstick comedy film written and directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and Barbara Bach. The film is set in prehistoric times and revolves around the rivalries between cavemen
Trivia
Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach began their long relationship after meeting on the set of this movie. They were married ten months later
The movie opens up with "One Zillion B.C. - October 9th". October 9th was John Lennon's birthday. This was in memory of Ringo Starr's friend and former bandmate
When showing at the old drive-in theaters in Australia every ticket holder was given a pamphlet with approximately thirty "caveman words" and an English translation for each word to listen for through the movie
15-words guide to ''Caveman Chatter'', mostly taken from the film's official publicity, is as follows [except where stated in parentheses]:
''Aieee'' - interj. Help! Save me!, Mayday! ;
"Aloonda" - v, n. love, to love, affection, desire, goodness ;
"Bo-bo" - n. man, friend, human, one of us
''Ca-ca'' - n. excrement, dung
''Fech'' [or ''Fecchh''] - adj. bad, no good, ugly [shit, general profanity]
''Gwee'' - v. go, to go, go on!
"Haraka" - n. fire, burning thing
''Kuda'' [or ''Kooda''] - n. Come here!, where we are now, to come, this way!, right here! [, come, follow]
''Ma'' - n. me, I, myself
"Macha" - wild animal, beast, non-human creature [, monster]
"Nya" - n, adv. no, none, not happening, negative
"Ool" - n. food, edible stuff
"Pooka" - n, adv. hurt, injured, messed up, no good [, broken]
[''Ugh'' - v. like]
''Whup'' - interj, v. Stop!, Whoa!, Hold it!
"Zug Zug" - v. sex, doing it, lustful expression [have sex]
The picture was nominated for Worst Picture at the Hastings Bad Cinema Society's 4th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards in 1981. There it was a Worst Picture nominee for ''Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy'' but did win a Stinker Award there for ''Least 'Special' Special Effects''
The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience
Trivia
The festival was planned in seven weeks by John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas, record producer Lou Adler, Alan Pariser and publicist Derek Taylor
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson was among the festival's board members. His group was, at one point, slotted to perform after the Byrds on June 17, the second evening of the event. During mid-1967, the Beach Boys were struggling with numerous personal and professional issues. At the last minute, they announced that they could not play the gig due to Carl Wilson's dispute with officials over his refusal to be drafted into military service, as well as the band's commitments to finishing the long-overdue "Heroes and Villains" single for Capitol Records
An (unofficial) reason given for the band's cancellation was that Brian had disagreements with the promoter. Carl later commented: "Brian was on the board and the festival changed several times, the concept of it, and he decided 'This is shit, let's not play it.' Bruce Johnston said "it went from 'Here's the money, here's the offer, you're headlining' to 'Now this is gonna be a non-profit show' so we pulled out."
Although they declined the invitation to perform because they had sworn off touring permanently, all four of The Beatles were on the festival's board of directors. George Harrison had helped recommend Ravi Shankar, and Paul McCartney had pushed for the organizers to sign Jimi Hendrix, who was unknown in the United States at the time
Donovan was mentioned as a possible attendee in Taylor's original March 25, 1967, press release, but he was refused a visa to enter the United States because of a 1966 drug charge.
The Kinks were also mentioned in Taylor's press release, but the band declined the invitation after anticipating issues obtaining U.S. work visas. Due to incidents during the band's 1965 US tour, the US musicians' union blacklisted them from American performance until 1969.
The Lovin' Spoonful were invited but declined because of a marijuana investigation and resulting bandmember changes.
Dionne Warwick canceled her appearance shortly before the festival
In the opening credits, a hand-drawn title says "IN ORDER OF PEFORMANCE", misspelling the word "PERFORMANCE"
The film is notable for being the first made entirely using digital audio techniques
Stop Making Sense is an independently produced 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by the The Talking Heads. The film was directed by Jonathan Demme and executive produced by Gary Kurfirst, the band’s longtime manager. The film was shot over four nights in December, 1983 at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre while Talking Heads were on tour promoting their 1983 album, Speaking in Tongues. Stop Making Sense includes performances of the early Talking Heads single, "Psycho Killer" (1977), through to their most recent hit at the time, "Burning Down the House" (1983). It also includes songs from the solo career of frontman David Byrne and by Tom Tom Club, the side project of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth
Trivia
The footage was culled from several different shows. In order to minimize the amount of cameras in the frame, one show was shot completely from one side of the stage, and the next night was shot from the other side
The band raised the budget of $1.2 million themselves. The four core members of Talking Heads are joined by the backing singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, the guitarist Alex Weir, the keyboardist Bernie Worrell and the percussionist Steve Scales. Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics to be a classic and one of the greatest concert films of all time
At several points, the sound and vision do not sync. This is particularly noticeable during Found A Job early in the song, a cymbal crash is heard, even though Chris Frantz is not seen to hit one. A few bars later, he hits the cymbal, but no sound is heard
David Byrne's staggering during the latter part of Psycho Killer was inspired by Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951) during the song "I Left My Hat In Haiti"
True Stories (full onscreen title: True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas) is a 1986 American satirical musical comedy film directed by David Byrne, who stars alongside John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. The majority of the film's music is supplied by Talking Heads. A soundtrack album, titled Sounds from True Stories, featured songs by Byrne, Talking Heads, Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, and others. Around the same time, Talking Heads released an album titled True Stories, composed of studio recordings of songs featured in the film
Trivia
In an interview to promote Stop Making Sense, David Byrne described True Stories (then in the early stages of production) as "60 Minutes on Acid." Somewhat incongruously, Byrne also used the same phrase to describe Stop Making Sense itself, despite it being a concert film with no narrative
An astonishing 50 sets of twins appear in the film
Talking Heads were unable to perform at Live Aid (1985) due to Byrne's commitment to the film
Radiohead took their name from the song "Radio Head" featured in this film
A companion book was published including the original screenplay along with excerpts from articles which inspired the "true stories."
The feature film Coffee & Cigarettes consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread, and includes the earlier three short films
Trivia
This film was made over a 17-year period,
The Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright segment was filmed in 1986,
The theme of the film is absorption in the obsessions, joys, and addictions of life, and there are many common threads between vignettes
The visual use of black and white relates to the theme of interpersonal contrasts, as each vignette features two people who disagree completely yet manage to sit amicably at the same table
"Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination"
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“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” - Frank Zappa