![]() ![]() Bouncing back in style here, Temple remains active in features and music videos to this day. The film was intended as a redemption of sorts for director Julien Temple, who cut his teeth on innovative music videos like ABC’s “Poison Arrow” but delivered one of the U.K.’s most notorious box-office failures with Absolute Beginners in 1986. ![]() Another married couple also signed on to star, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum (who were married after appearing in David Cronenberg’s The Fly in 1986), with Brown co-starring as Davis’ beauty salon co-worker and getting her own music video within the film for one of her catchiest songs, “Cause I’m a Blonde.” The tale of a Valley girl smitten with one of three aliens (Goldblum, Damon Wayans and a very young Jim Carrey) who land in her swimming pool was later adapted by Brown herself into a stage production in Los Angeles, following an unsuccessful 2001 attempt to stage it with Kristin Chenoweth. ![]() McNally, and regular collaborator Charlie Coffey. One of the wildest entries in the lineage of movies based on pop songs, this sci-fi comedy and parody of Valley culture sprang from a 1984 tune of the same name by Julie Brown (of “The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun” fame) that she adapted into a script with her husband at the time, actor Terrence E. ![]()
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