 Mecha Streisand |
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| Robert Smith -- lead singer for the Cure. That was hard. | Official website of the Cure |
| Anasazi -- The old ones, ancient tribe of Native Americans who lived in the southwestern states. They were avid star watchers and kept records of the sky in petroglyphs. | Anasazi web resource |
| "massah got me workin'" -- reference to african slave-type song sung while picking cotton. | Negro Minstrelsy: published in 1855 |
| Leonard Maltin -- famous film critic, regular guest on "Entertainment Tonight" and known for his famous interview with George Lucas. | Leonard Maltin bio
George Lucas interview |
| Aerosmith -- cool rock band from Boston, known for sex and drugs in the 70s. | Official Aerosmith site |
| Barbra Streisand -- famous singer/actress/songwriter/director/producer. Ridiculed for big nose, New York Jewish accent, and generally being really full of herself. This has come from her need to basically do everything in her films herself, and has cost her countless awards. Nickname is Babs among her fans. | BJSWeb
Babs ego trip article |
| Fiona Apple -- young American singer/songwriter and basically angry opinionated cool chick. | Fiona Apple page |
| My Fair Lady -- a book, play and then film which never starred Barbra Streisand. Play starred Julia Andrews and film starred Audrey Hepburn. It may be the writers were thinking of Funny Girl, which did star Babs ... or maybe Hello, Dolly. | My Fair Lady |
| Mecha Streisand -- a reference to the Godzilla movies which were popular in the 70s. These were fab Japanese costume films where a giant mutant lizard stepped on/ate/torched most major cities, always Tokyo. In MechaGodzilla, there is an armor covered robot Godzilla designed by Tokyo scientists to whup Godzilla in the butt. Kick Ass. | Barry's Temple of Godzilla
Godzilla and MechaGodzilla image |
| Babs' disguise -- is a set of Groucho Marx glasses/nose/moustache. | Groucho Marx |
| stealth bombers -- top secret until recently, these are triangular shaped black fighter planes with a tiny vertical cross section and radar absorbing paint, so they are almost invisible to radar.Stealth Niththawk |
| Sidney Poiterier -- movie star. | Sidney Poiterier bio |
| tiny twins in the shell -- these are the Pacific Island fairie twins who are the friends of Mothra, another giant mutant creature from the Godzilla films. Mothra was a huge caterpillar who lived in her cave until the little twins called to her by singing. Then she came out and destroyed subway (tube) tunnels and spewed her silken threads all over everything and laid eggs and other general bru-ha-ha. | Gozilla vs MothraScroll down for photo of the twins |
| National Guard -- this is a volunteer organization of military force for national defense | The National Guard |
| HBO -- Home Box Office, one of the original cable movie channels. There are now 3 channels of HBO | HBO Online |
| "our firepower has no effect" -- common expression in Godzilla movies when anything the army try to do is thwarted by Godzilla's amazingness. Although, the oxygen eliminator does do him in. They coulda tried Enya music. | |
| Robot Leonard Maltin -- in the film Godzilla vs Megalon, I think, a child's robot is actually a super hero robot, and can grow to enormous size to fight or help Godzilla. And the robot does strike that amazing Spice Girls pose. | |
| "my mother said there were no monsters, but there are, aren't there, Chef" -- is a reference to essentially the same quote in the movie Aliens. | Alien movie site |
