STARS OF YORE, NORWAY CALLS
Have you seen the Gylne Tider video that's gone viral, popping up on youtube and trending on Yahoo? I had it posted here for a minute, but it was pulled due to copyright issues. Dozens of faded American - and a few international - stars from the 80s (not the 1880s), some obscure, some less so, and a few - confoundingly - whose lights still shine brightly today, lip sync to The Beatles "Let It Be" while gyrating lethargically before a green screen (which becomes a stretch of heavenly beach and endless horizon).
It's all a promotional ad for season 4 of Norwegian talk show Gylne Tider (Golden Times. Apt, no?).
The lighting guy for this video should receive a Gullruten - the Norwegian version of the Emmy - for his visual magic.
Some of these "stars' didn't look this good twenty-five years ago in their heyday. Now they all resemble the 30 year younger version of Jeff Bridges we've seen in trailers for the upcoming movie Tron - Legacy. Shiny smooth and not quite real.
Tanya Harding, Ana Alicia (Falcon Crest), Larry Drake, Rickie Lake, George Wendt, Glenn Close and Kathleen Turner are a few of the more than two dozen luminaries packed into this six minute video. Oh, Benny I miss LA Law. I miss you! At least Turner has the good sense to keep her mouth shut. She smiles thinly, but never lip syncs.
What can one expect from season 5 of Gylne Tider?
Mel Gibson, Sean Young, Robin Givens, Kirk Cameron, Peter Scolari (he of those erectile disfunction ads) Melissa Sue Anderson and Dames Judy Dench and Meryl Streep (Streep's a dame by now isn't she?). Word is, that they and other celebrities yet to be determined, will gather to reinterpret "Pass the Dutchie"
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