With a nice cameo in the “Wedding Singer”, we were treated to Jon Lovitz as a rival wedding singer who sang in his sleaziest best, Ladies’ Night. It was terrible, but it was comedic gold as Lovitz was as arrogant as he was untalented. It may have been brief, but we did love it! The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: The Wedding Singer (1998) Actor: Jon Lovitz Songs you might remember: Ladies’ Night Why you should vote for him: We did think this one of the better cameos in a movie that we have seen in a while. Why you should not vote for him: His band was horrible.
Hmmmm, we are a little torn on this one. First off, Eminem was brilliant as B-Rabbit, a gifted white rapper from the inner city of Detroit. Despite his talent, a white boy in 2002 trying to make it in the rap world is an uphill battle, but we presume he made it by his powerful victory in the film’s end rap battle. The movie performed well, was praised by the critics and generated an Oscar for Best Song (Lose Yourself), and again Eminem was brilliant; but how could he not be? Basically, he played himself as the plot was basically his life. How fictitious is B-Rabbit anyway? That question could keep this one out. The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: 8 Mile (2002) Actor: Eminem Songs you might remember: Lose Yourself Why you should vote for him: The movie was great, Eminem was great, and there is more than enough music by this character. Why you should not vote for him: Realistically, we watched Eminem’s life story here.
Well received in Europe, “That’ll be the Day” gave us a great look at the early days of Rock and Roll in the United Kingdom during that period between Elvis and the British Invasion. Starring David Essex as Jim MacLaine, we see how music is an outlet for his anger and creativity; and can easily imagine how it was for so many others back in the day. We especially love the fact that the movie co-starred Keith Moon and Ringo Starr, lending it another subtle texture to the film. As this is relatively unknown in North America, we doubt however that this will do well on our site. The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: That’ll Be the Day (1973) Actor: David Essex Songs you might remember: None Why you should vote for him: This was a decent film about a time and place in Rock and Roll that has not really been shown better. Why you should not vote for him: Ringo and Moon made it big in the United States. Jim MacLaine did not.
Here is another that we almost forgot about. From the unique film, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, we have the wife of the titular character, Jessica Rabbit. She was a voluptuous human cartoon with proportions impossible in anything other than in animated form. It is such a powerful character, though maybe so much so that we forgot that she was a singer; though that is not exactly essential to the film. That fact will probably cost her a lot of support for the Fictitious Hall. The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) Actors: Kathleen Turner (Speaking) Amy Irving (Singing) Songs you might remember: Why Don’t You Do Right? Why you should vote for her: We aren’t sure what the value of being the hottest female cartoon is. Why you should not vote for her: We doubt we are the only ones who forgot that the character was a singer.
