John Lennon‘s “Give Peace a Chance” has bizarre lyrics. Notably, the band Hot Chocolate released a reggae version of the song with new lyrics. John unexpectedly embraced the song.
A sign referencing John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance” | Gary Gershoff / Contributor A member of the band Hot Chocolate felt his musical talent was miraculous
During a 1998 interview in The Independent, Hot Chocolate member Errol Brown discussed how the band came together. “Back in 1968, through mutual friends, I met Tony Wilson, whose flat was almost opposite mine,” he said.
“Round this time, I began to get melodies in my head,” he continued. “Normally, I wouldn’t take any notice of them, but one day when Tony was driving the car, it happened again. Instead of ignoring the tune, I started to hum it aloud. He asked me what it was. ‘Just something that popped into my mind,’ I replied.
A sign referencing John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance” | Gary Gershoff / Contributor A member of the band Hot Chocolate felt his musical talent was miraculous
During a 1998 interview in The Independent, Hot Chocolate member Errol Brown discussed how the band came together. “Back in 1968, through mutual friends, I met Tony Wilson, whose flat was almost opposite mine,” he said.
“Round this time, I began to get melodies in my head,” he continued. “Normally, I wouldn’t take any notice of them, but one day when Tony was driving the car, it happened again. Instead of ignoring the tune, I started to hum it aloud. He asked me what it was. ‘Just something that popped into my mind,’ I replied.
- 4/29/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“Plan B” is a girls-behaving-badly all-night-long road-trip comedy that’s The film made me realize that almost every time a movie like this one comes along that has young women at the center of it, it’s been an independent film. In the randy teens + binge party = escalating trainwreck genre of high delinquent comedy, that’s a crucial distinction, because it means that the films bypass a certain mainstream blandification. “Plan B” will be released May 28 on Hulu, and it’s clear that the relevant executive note-givers did not see fit to demand that the movie lose certain jokes outrageous enough to hit viewers like a comic shock wave.
Whereas a comedy like “Superbad,” great as it is, was able to draw on films ranging from “American Graffiti” to “License to Drive,” “Plan B” has a vastly shorter pedigree, one that stretches back to maybe “Bachelorette” (2012), a scabrously anti-romantic comedy...
Whereas a comedy like “Superbad,” great as it is, was able to draw on films ranging from “American Graffiti” to “License to Drive,” “Plan B” has a vastly shorter pedigree, one that stretches back to maybe “Bachelorette” (2012), a scabrously anti-romantic comedy...
- 5/22/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In the three-minute market teaser for Limbo, a group of Middle Eastern refugees sit in stony silence in a classroom while watching a middle-aged and drably dressed couple grind to Hot Chocolate’s 1982 hit "It Started With a Kiss." The somewhat bizarre and awkward routine is cut short when the bald and considerably shorter male dancer goes too far and grabs the woman’s buttocks — getting a firm slap in the face in response. Behind them, a chalkboard reads, "Cultural Awareness 101 — Sex: Is a Smile an Invitation?"
While many on-screen stories involving refugees are ...
While many on-screen stories involving refugees are ...
- 6/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the three-minute market teaser for Limbo, a group of Middle Eastern refugees sit in stony silence in a classroom while watching a middle-aged and drably dressed couple grind to Hot Chocolate’s 1982 hit "It Started With a Kiss." The somewhat bizarre and awkward routine is cut short when the bald and considerably shorter male dancer goes too far and grabs the woman’s buttocks — getting a firm slap in the face in response. Behind them, a chalkboard reads, "Cultural Awareness 101 — Sex: Is a Smile an Invitation?"
While many on-screen stories involving refugees are ...
While many on-screen stories involving refugees are ...
- 6/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Bastards [Les salauds] begins, like Garrel's Un été brûlant, at night, with a suicide. An explanation for the gesture will never come, although, through the film's near imperceptible ellipses, it comes close. A film of profoundly somber gloam, of loneliness and anger and even stifled madness, of complicity and solitude, its sadness is almost absolute.
A torrid string connects a cast predominantly made up from Claire Denis' family of actors: Vincent Lindon, Michel Subor, Alex Descas, Grégoire Colin. There are so many of them that they stand out as coming from somewhere before, some shared place, and their figures seem at once human and also something more so, grander, archetypal. (Lola Créton creates a similar effect in a small role with such a brief but so recognizable presence that it both reaches outside the story, as well as expanding something within.
Bastards [Les salauds] begins, like Garrel's Un été brûlant, at night, with a suicide. An explanation for the gesture will never come, although, through the film's near imperceptible ellipses, it comes close. A film of profoundly somber gloam, of loneliness and anger and even stifled madness, of complicity and solitude, its sadness is almost absolute.
A torrid string connects a cast predominantly made up from Claire Denis' family of actors: Vincent Lindon, Michel Subor, Alex Descas, Grégoire Colin. There are so many of them that they stand out as coming from somewhere before, some shared place, and their figures seem at once human and also something more so, grander, archetypal. (Lola Créton creates a similar effect in a small role with such a brief but so recognizable presence that it both reaches outside the story, as well as expanding something within.
- 10/11/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
From November 1st to November 3rd, the Embassy Suites at Boston’s Logan Airport will host the 2013 KiScon, the fourteenth incarnation of the convention dedication solely to Kirk/Spock, both from the original series and Jj Abrams‘ recent reboot. This was the perfect excuse (occasion, I mean the perfect occasion) to devote an entire column to the most popular slash pairing of all times, so I jumped on the opportunity like a Denevan parasite. Whether you are a Trekkie, a casual fan or a K/S skeptic, you should learn a thing or two about the One Slash Fandom to Rule Them All.
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What’s so great about Kirk and Spock, exactly?
You might know them as K/S, Spirk, Spork or Space Husbands. What was the true extent of their relationship? Gene Roddenberry used the Vulcan term “t’hy’la” to explain their bond in his novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture,...
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What’s so great about Kirk and Spock, exactly?
You might know them as K/S, Spirk, Spork or Space Husbands. What was the true extent of their relationship? Gene Roddenberry used the Vulcan term “t’hy’la” to explain their bond in his novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture,...
- 9/9/2013
- by Catherine Bertrand
- The Backlot
Melora Hardin is leaving "The Office" and cozying up at home with a mug of her Winter White Hot Chocolate. Check out the recipe below!
Winter White Hot Chocolate
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
2 cups fat free half and half
2 cups fat-free milk
3/4 cup white chocolate morsels
1/4 cup Splenda no calorie sweetener
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
Garnishes: fat-free frozen whipped topping, thawed; crushed peppermint candies
Directions:
Bring half and half and milk to a boil over medium-high heat...
Winter White Hot Chocolate
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
2 cups fat free half and half
2 cups fat-free milk
3/4 cup white chocolate morsels
1/4 cup Splenda no calorie sweetener
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
Garnishes: fat-free frozen whipped topping, thawed; crushed peppermint candies
Directions:
Bring half and half and milk to a boil over medium-high heat...
- 1/5/2010
- Extra
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