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Show Salt Lake bur E 999 TERTAINME} The Decade of MTV and Reaganomics Is Re-Examined Through Pop Culture Bing Is the Thing for This Diehard Fa: ‘Crosby Circle’ Celebrates Latest Un-Vaultingof YORK DAILY NEWS White Seagulls and anything uttered by Rudy Vallee is « Still, it's hard to be con convinced when Wi: ot just a Bing he sits amid hundred Cre oe re splayed thre Va., home Ashe points toa couple of John W Westerns he owns, th playing down the 30 Crosby on his shelves. fron thoseoriginal MTV veejays. Now, however, the snickering ing trend in the movies has kickstarted a more serious consider: ation of ‘80s music. The last few months have seen ahost of films focusing on youth cultures ofthe previous decade and thecrucial role its music had in shaping people’s lives. The flicks “SLC Punk!," “200 Cigarettes,” “The Wedding Singer” and “Edge of Seventeen” (which opened Friday) not only Broadcast’? take place in the '80s but also deal Movieslike “The Wedding Singer kickedoff a re-examination of the ‘80s focusing on the musicandthe cultureoft at decade. Pointe Blank.” feature contempo: rary settings but allude signifi- fixed in the ‘80s: “Sugar Town,” which deals with musicians ofthe de trying to survive in and “The Wood,” a memoir about growing up black in the early daysof hip hop. ccording to Todd Stephens, 31-year-old writer of "Edgeof Seventeen,” the film makers’ age explains the boomlet. "We're all in y to- mid-30s, the right time to begin looking back, to re assess our coming¢ Rick Famuyiwa, writer directorof “The Wood,” thinks it also has to do with “a movement away from all those films about the ‘70s. That got exhausted. So people moved on to what came next.” 3ven so, the trend began as something of a joke. “The WeddingSinger.” which kicked offthe re-examination, focused on snarky allusions to acts like Cul ture Club and Duran Duran ‘That was just a kind of retro, kookything,” explains James Me. rendino, writer-director of the current “SLC Punk!” Merendino aimed to do some- to Wedding. But he’s more the American the International with how young people found cantly to music from that time. This summer sees more flicks osby a little more sinc collection of Irish sold ore than 50. Perry Como CD: seems to be dying down. A grow- “Growingup in a very conser vative town, it was incredibly lib: back to their first love.” iwasays. Famuy “You can remember the erating to have these in of Annie Lennox and Boy George on TV. These people gave me the nificant moments in your life. Hip hop told them howto dress, how to courage to be myself, to realize that it was okay to be different.” talk and what's cool.” The film also had its political It’s not just the pull of nostalgia that fuels the ‘80s trend, Stephens says. “I went to the (New York) club Kurfew the other night. which is for kids in their 20s who are too young (to fully remember thetime), andall they played was "80s music. Stephens thinks they're re. sponding to something they can’t get fromthe current scene: “80s music had a color, a wackiness that I don’t thinkis aroundnow. Twentysomethings mayalso respond to the decade because people tend topinefor the period they just missedby that measure. 's huge, and very younghip hopaudience may respondwell to Famuyiwa's forthcomingflick “Wood,"’ which examines the early days of rap in Inglewood. music that played in all these sig side. “I have a friend who thinks that Reaganomics created hip hop,” the director explains. “The poor were getting poorer and they had ro other outlet than this mu: sical expression. Music programs were getting cut, so you had (things like) break dancir all you needed was a car box. Insteadof a piano, music became your little beat box If such memories connect with audiences, expect studios to back more ‘80s period pieces. Already Stephens says his next movie, “Gypsy '83.” makes strongallu. sions to the time, complete with referencesto its goth scene. Mer endino believes the industry has yet to fully explore the time “Til bet there will be a movie three malefriends reminiscing called ‘Danceteria’ (alludingto the famed New York club of the era). You could senda script like that to about theirfirst adventures on the eveof one man’s wedding. “The music takes the friends all over it.” Screenwriters, take note Calif.The movie tells the story of economist works on behalf of 1 Cirele, the largest of the ernoner’s fan clubs, to persuade Univ Music Group to unvault some Crosby's estimated ) recordings. The release this mont! ng Crosby: My Favorite Broa arks Wiggins’ fifth su cessful effort in as many y ' put new collections of the bul buh-boo balladeer, who died in 197 ack in music store 1 quite strongly that of all the major popular-music per formers from the "30s, “Us and ‘50: that Binghas received less atten tion in the compact-dise era, and hewas sort of fading away except at Christmastime,” said Wige ns, to Crosby's sin; “White Christmas.” which has sold more than 30 million copies. Since he became the Circle's American representative in 1991, its North American membership has increased to 350 from Founded in England in 1950, the 's mission is to celebrate the music, not the man Wiggins’ ability to build up the Bing Crosby ils with his lobbying of His relationship with asic division cca catalog that everything Crosby made highly unusual s rare for a collector to be so regarded by a major record mpany.” said Rob Bamberger Circle member and longtime tof “Hot Jazz Saturday Night 1 WAMU FM in Washington Generally, collectors are re ded lisances who want to issue things in the vault H interest justa handful of 1 Universal vice tid many fans are an and dew anding about out ¢ He vund,” erything Universal But that’s not the had his feet on the McKaie said. “He didn't better in terms of what do. Asked by McKaie, we try to Wiggins songs last year. 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