Thank you thank you thank you to Lisa who sent me this. It has given me SUCH joy on this kind of yukky day. You kind of just have to settle in and watch the whole thing. I LOVE IT.
There is so much to discuss:
— the way the kid’s eyes roll back in his head when the music starts. Like … he is getting into the mood … feeling the music …
— their burning intensity and earnestness – watch the kid who’s behind the one in the front – watch how INTO it he is, especially as the song goes on
— the random dude in the background, like – totally not paying attention to the raging music video that is happening behind him
— their outfits – what??
— the cast on the hand of one of them – random
It’s so FUNNY – but mainly because I did stuff like this when I was a kid (my friend Betsy and I would lip synch to the ENTIRE Oliver soundtrack and make our parents watch it – thank God this was pre-Internet!!) –
But also: I find it strangely touching too. Even though it is HILARIOUS. Like: they’re so supportive of each other’s goofiness. Watch how they look at each other when one of them takes over the lead vocals – there is no smirky irony in their faces – they are totally like: “You go, bro, you go …”
This is awesome.
It has made my day.
Dude, they’re Yao Ming jerseys.
I love the dude in the background. So studious!
Good Stuff! I kept waiting for the background guy to turn around and sing a line. Just Damn!
It’s the curled-Elvis-lip-type face of further back boy that I love.
Once, again, I’m amazed that you’d even know about this soundtrack (assuming you mean the movie one), it came out, like, before you were born… And I thought only my sister and I did those type of things.
My one chance at acting: 1972/3, trying out for one of Fagan’s boys at Clark Air Base in the Philippines… I wimped out at the last second, dooming me forever to a life of jock-wannabe status and math/science curriculum.
As luck would have it my family was in Hong Kong at the same time Mark Lester a couple of months later. To this day, my family doesn’t believe I literally ran into him on the street. Still in shock, a block later, I asked my Dad, “Didn’t you notice the boy I bumped into back there?… That was Mark Lester!… There was like 100 Chinese following him!” My father with his classic ignorance of actors (which I think is fake) replied, “Who the heck is Mark Lester?” Without my father’s confirmation, my sister and mother refused to get excited; I’d either made it up or made a mistake respectively…
Wow, just the mere mention of the Oliver soundtrack brings back a flood of emotions; I don’t even want to get into H.R. Puffenstuff!!
I’ve always, ALWAYS, wanted to play Nancy in Oliver!. Usually, I have no use for women characters who put up with crap because “He luuuuuuuuves me” but Nancy is different. She knows he’s an ass, she knows he treats her badly, but he’s HER ass, and he needs her so she stays. End of story. I love the part, and you can catch me singing “As Long as He Needs Me” in the shower two or three times a week. :)
JFH –
YOU RAN INTO MARK LESTER???????????
Lisa –
Oh God, I know, she’s such a great character – and how she starts the song Oom Pah Pah as a crowd distraction so Oliver can get away …
Also, I love her 1960s bangs in the middle of Dickensian London. hahahaha
What’s with all the question marks, Sheila? You don’t believe me either? :(
No – the question marks are from excitement!!!! Not disbelief!
Mark lester!! He was such a HUGE deal to me in my childhood – not as huge as Jack Wild (who played the Artful Dodger – but then again, I’m sure you already know that!!) – but huge nonetheless!!!
Hmm… Jack Wild vs. Mark Lester?
All I know is that I can still sing “Consider Yourself”, whereas I haven’t been able to hit the high notes of “Where is Love” since I was 11.
I know, let’s sing show tunes!! [channeling Gary Coooper, well not THE Gary Cooper (from The Sure Thing; but YOU already knew that)]
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