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Virgin Viewing: ‘Purple Rain’
If you go by Purple Rain‘s IMDB page, it looks like the movie is a joke: most of the cast members never appeared in a single other movie. On paper, it seems absolutely implausible that this movie happened. Prince is an awesome musician and performer, but his acting is cringeworthy. Apollonia is gorgeous, but she basically exists to be mostly naked. Morris Day is a badass, but his schtick wears thin. Basically, I feel the way about Purple Rain that I feel about porn: great performances, but why did they try to ruin it with all that storyline? More »
Prince writes song to Salma Hayek
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So I have a confession to make. I have never, ever, not even vaguely, not even when I was tipsy on apple cider and sausage, EVER thought that Prince was remotely sexy. The whole naked thing he did there for a while, his Purple Rain phase, the stupid symbol deal, etc. never appealed to me. All my friends in high school went gaga over him, seriously drooling over his Oompa Loompa self squeezed into those purple… More »