Movies from songs: they're back

Country-Western to the rescue, again

September 13, 2010 at 4:05PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A two-hour movie out of a single song? Yes:

Amick, of course, was Shelley, one of the three Twin Peaks babes. The one was married to Leo the Horrible while messing around with that slimeball Bobby. Anyway, a movie out of a song? Has that ever happened before? Of course. Many times. It's just been a while. Modern pop doesn't celebrate the story-song the way it once did, and we're robbed of songs like "Cat's in the Cradle" with its "ironic" twist ending, or "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" with its "ironic" twist ending," or - well, you get the idea. Still waiting for that "Indiana Wants Me" TV-movie, you know.

Hold on, they already did it:

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