Films Directed by Julien Temple (Study Guide) - Earth Girls Are Easy, Absolute Beginners, Aria, the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Earth Girls Are Easy, Absolute Beginners, Aria, the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the Filth and the Fury, the Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Bullet, Glastonbury, Pandaemonium. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American musical comedy film directed by Julien Temple. It stars Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Michael McKean, Julie Brown, and hitherto largely unknown comedians Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. The film is marketed with the tagline "An out-of-this-world, down-to-earth comedy adventure." The film's plot is based on the song "Earth Girls Are Easy" from Julie Brown's 1984 mini-album Goddess In Progress. The movie begins with three aliens, a blue one, a red one, and a yellow one, flying in a spaceship. While watching a music holographic video of a multi-coloured woman, they come across Earth. Valerie Gail (Davis) is a valley girl manicurist who works for the "Curl Up & Dye" hair salon. When she feels her cold fiance Dr. Ted Gallagher (Rocket) is slipping away from her, she attempts to seduce him with a new look; instead she catches him cheating on her. She kicks him out and refuses to see him until the wedding. The next day, she is sunbathing when a spaceship housing three aliens crash lands in her pool. Not knowing what to do, she takes them to her best friend Candy Pink (Brown, who also co-wrote and co-produced). After shaving off the aliens' fur, they turn out to be attractive men. They all go out and party at Los Angeles nightclubs. The three aliens Wiploc (Carrey), the red alien; Zeebo (Wayans), the yellow alien; and Mac (Goldblum), the blue alien absorb human (American) culture through ten minutes of television, and Valerie takes them out into the human world. Valerie and Mac di...http: //booksllc.net/?id=183061