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| The Village People and Valerie Perrine in a music video from inside the movie (very meta) |
On this date in 1980: Can't Stop The Music was released! In case you never saw this masterpiece, well you've missed either almost nothing, or one of the campyist movies ever made.
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| Steve Gutenberg trying to roller skate AND pull off the 80's super tight white jeans with the bulge |
The general plot is thus. A roller skating Steve Gutenberg and his partner Bruce Jenner (before she was Kaitlyn) decide to put together a musical group. After deciding this, they go to Valerie Perrine's party. There they meet the straight construction man from the Village People - David Hodo in real life. they might or might not meet many of the others (I cannot remember). Anyway, as the group walks / dances / roller skates (in Steve G.'s case) along New York streets they gather the Cop and the Indian along the way.
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| The Village People surround Valerie Perrine, as a crop-topped Bruce Jenner and tight shorts Steve Gutenberg come up with a fabulous idea! |
They form the group the Village People (again, stated as straight here). I don't remember that much, but the straight YMCA number is burned into my memory for all the wrong reasons.
Anyway above are some stills from the movie. Below a collage of stills from the YMCA number.
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| Dolphin shorts a plenty |
Hummmm, believe that might be 42 years ago… 6 days after I was born!
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