and the best rap line ever….
“i treat them cats like them cats treat cats in gummo,
and binary code to leave them zero zero one o”
In one of Judy Garland’s versions of “You Made Me Love You” she mentions Clark Gable by name, and even sings-talks part of the song to Gable — describing how she (actually her fannish character in the song) once literally bumped into him as he emerged from a limo (“It wasn’t your fault. I was in the way.”) and how he smiled at her.
Both were, of course, under contract to MGM at the time.
Also, in one of Frank Sinatra’s covers of “Mack the Knife” he mentions some of the other singers who made the song famous. One of them was Bobby Darin, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (Capt.Newman, M.D., 1963). Fortunately, Melvyn Douglas won for Hud that year.
there was some rap song where they said ‘make a movie like Alfred Hitchcock’, but It was just something I heard on the radio.
about films there are Weird Al songs like about star wars ‘My my this here Anakin guy, maybe vader someday later, now he’s just a small fry. He left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye, sayin’ soon I’m gonna be a Jedi…yeah, soon I’m gonna be a jedi…’
Or forrest gump ’He’s Gump he’s gump, he’s not too bright….he’s gump, he’s gump, but he’s allright, his girlfriend Jenny was kind of a slut, so he went to the whitehouse and showed JFK his butt! He’s gump, he’s gump…’
Nicholas Ray is the titular subject of the song “Nicholas Ray” by Sea Ray. It also mentions Jack Warner and Gloria Grahame. I couldn’t find lyrics but it’s a cool song that scratches the surface of Ray’s loner status and his rebellion against studios (“Hey, Jack Warner/Hey, Jack Warner/Could you stay out of my life right now?!”)
New John Grant ( ex-frontman for highly underrated The Czars) album Queen of Denmark has a song called Sigourney Weaver with the chorus lyrics, “I feel just like Sigourney Weaver/when she had to kill those aliens/and one guy tried to get them back to the earth.” Next chorus shifts to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, “I feel just like Winona Ryder/in that movie about vampires/and she couldn’t get that accent right/either could that other guy.” It’d be pointless cultural referencing but it nicely connects to verses about the difficulties of being a gay teen in middle America in the late 1980s/early 90s.
And keep in mind this in from the same band that sang Detachable Penis
This one’ called Martin Scorsese
He makes the best fucking films
He makes the best fucking films
If I ever meet him I’m gonna grab his fuckin’ neck and just shake him
And say thank you thank you for makin’ such excellent fuckin’ movies
Then I’d twist his nose all the way the fuck around
And the rip off one of his ears and throw it
Like a like a like a fuckin’ frisbee
I wanna chew his fuckin’ lips off and grab his head and suck out one of his eyes and chew on it and spit it out in his face
And thank you thank you for all of your fuckin’ films
Then I’d pick him up by the hair swing him over my head a few times
And throw him across the room and kick all his fuckin’ teeth in and then stomp on his face 40 or 50 times
Cuz he makes the best fucking films he makes the best fucking films
I’ve ever seen in my life
I fuckin love him
I fuckin love him
This doesn’t really count, but who cares:
Califone – “Luis Buñuel”
Scott Walker’s “The Seventh Seal”
satans fingers
“blood of a young wolf” by buck 65
not bad, not bad, not bad at all, i tried your shoes on,
cigarettes and crucifixes, ingmar bergman, alphonse mouzon