rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (07/10/84)
> Having not seen the movie in a while, I'm not sure whether this is true or > not but a friend told me that The Stray Cats were also either mentioned or > on the wall chart. There apparently was also another movie that starred a > fictional group called The Stray Cats and the real group may have taken > their name from that movie rather than Clockwork Orange. The movie "Stardust" was about the rise during the early-mid 1960s of a group/phenomenon called the Stray Cats led by Jim McLane (David Essex), with Keith Moon and Dave Edmunds (who later produced the "real" (?) Stray Cats) in acting roles as band members. It was a shameless roman a clef about the Beatles (McLane = Mc... + L...), with tales of the band's early days (and how they kicked out the heartthrob member early on), McLane's involvement with a French woman who breaks up the band (not exactly...), a greedy American tycoon who becomes the band's manager (Larry Hagman as "Allan Klein"), McLane's mother's death---everything that happened to the Beatles, dechronologized (completely out of order: Hagman becomes manager ~1965, "heartthrob" Pete Best character who got kicked out was a guitarist, etc.) A very unusual film, that (unwittingly and unintentionally) shows the rock music's world growing love affair with itself and its own pseudo-importance, filmed in the early 70s, giving a somewhat bizarre perspective on the only just recently ended 60s. Hagman may have developed the J.R. character in this film. -- If it doesn't change your life, it's not worth doing. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr