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Liza Minnelli?

posted 13 years ago by Eric-1226
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When he asked those kids who their favorite singers were, and that one kid answered "Liza Minnelli?", I was reminded of the exchange between Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacClachlan in "Blue Velvet" that went like this:

What’s your favorite beer?
Uh, Heineken?
HEINEKEN??!! FúCK THAT SHíT!!! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!

I guess it woulda' been kinda' funny if Jack Black had said something like "LIZA MINNELLI??!!" FúCK THAT SHíT!!! LED ZEPPELIN!!!"

“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding, if you don’t eat your meat??” — Pink Floyd

[–] 13 years ago

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[–] strntz 10 years ago

I'm not sure if you're questioning why the kid said Minelli, but it's just the old stereotype (or is it?) that gay people are somehow and strangely fascinated with both Judy Garland and her daughter (Minelli). That was the joke.

It is bad to drink Jobus rum. Very bad.

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

It was a lame joke. How the hell would that kid know who Liza is!

It's that man again!!

[–] hurricane (1908) 3 years ago

It's not outside the realm of possibility he knew who Liza Minelli was.

These are meant to be quite sheltered kids, who have a lot of their life mapped out by their parents. I don't think it would be massively out of character that some of the children weren't allowed to listen to modern music, but were pressured into liking the stuff that their parents did.

[–] strntz (10843) 3 years ago

Exactly, and that was the joke. I don't know if the kid was gay or just a "fancy pants", but the running joke is that gays are somehow fascinated with Judy Garland and I guess her daughter by extension.