LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | LEXGO.COM LIVING SUNDAY SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013 E3 FAVORITE QUOTATIONS Jackie (Bruce A. Young), a black, transgender prostitute, is giving Joel (Tom Cruise) a phone number. Jackie: It’s what you want. It’s what every white boy off the lake wants. Joel, Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) and Miles (Curtis Armstrong) drive away, fleeing Guido (Joe Pantoliano). ‘RISKY Joel: So is this Guido guy ... he’s your “manager”? Lana: That’s right. Joel: Or a pimp? Lana: Now that’s quick, Joel. Have you always been this quick, or is this something new? And during the same pursuit. Miles: I don’t believe this! I’ve got a BUSINESS’ The LexGo Totally Awesome ’80s Film Festival continues Wednesday trig midterm tomorrow and I’m being chased by Guido the Killer Pimp. with the risqué comedy Risky Business, starring a then-little known actor who has roots in Kentucky. Here’s an overview of the movie. After Lana and Vicki (Shera Danese) run into Joel’s house, indicating Joel is their new “manager,” and Joel and Guido are in the driveway. Guido: Let me give you a little advice so you know. In times of economic uncertainty, never ever (expletive) with another man’s livelihood. Go have fun, now? You know fun, time of your life? Maybe if you follow that, I won’t have to come back here. Lana: I’m really trying to be, friends with you. But I’d appreciate it if you’d stop laying these little judgments on me, while you’re leaning on your daddy’s $40,000 car. Joel: It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four-letter word. In the Porsche shop after Joel’s father’s 928 has been pulled from Lake Michigan. Mechanic: Who’s the U-boat commander? Lana puts together the plan that will pay to repair Joel’s dad’s car. Joel: It was great the way her mind worked. No guilt, no doubts, no fear. None of my specialities. Just the shameless pursuit of immediate gratification. What a capitalist. At the end of Joel’s interview with a Princeton recruiter. Rutherford: You’ve done a lot of solid work here, but it’s just not Ivy League, now is it? Lana: So, how’re we doin’? Joel: Looks like University of Illinois! Joel’s father: Sometimes you just gotta say “what the heck.” SOURCE: IMDB.COM ECHOES IN POP CULTURE How has Risky Business echoed in pop culture since it was released in 1983? ■ The iconic image from the movie is Tom Cruise’s eyes looking over a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. The sunglasses were a signature of bad-boy scenes, WARNER BROS. PICTURES like the sequence where he is selling Playing Joel Goodsen — he of the cool Ray-Ban Wayfarers — in Risky Business was a star-making turn for Tom Cruise, whose career is still going strong. the movie’s pivotal “party” to friends. Risky Business brought the Wayfarer, first produced in 1956, back in style, and they have never really gone out 30 years of perspective puts movie in different light since. The movie put the style in the cultural conversation enough that By Rich Copley APPRECIATION to launch an extremely profitable JOIN THE DISCUSSION the next year, when Don Henley sang [email protected] enterprise to set things right before Talk about the other movies in The Boys of Summer, “You’ve got It didn’t necessarily occur to me to get himself out of trouble. his mom and dad come home. that hair slicked back, and those in the LexGo Totally Awesome when I saw 1983’s There are some similarities Wayfarers on,” it created an instant Risky Business Risky Business will always be ’80s Film Festival on mental image. in junior high and high school, but remembered as the movie that between Risky Business and last Twitter with the hashtag week’s movie in the LexGo fest, ■ the operative word of the title is introduced us, and particularly teen #totallyawesome80s. An iconic scene comes right after business. girls, to Cruise. There were serious Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986): Joel’s parents have left. In a defiant Watching it then, the movie was Both are fanciful stories of high moment, he turns up the bass on debates among some friends of IF YOU GO his father’s stereo and puts on an all about the harrowing story of mine as to whether he was hotter school seniors left on their own, Joel Goodsen (onetime Louisvillian in this or All the Right Moves, bucking authority and trying to get LexGo Totally Awesome ’80s air performance of Bob Seger’s Film Festival Old-Time Rock ’n’ Roll, an oddly Tom Cruise), fetching femme Lana which came out two months after away with it. old-codger track for a teen film, (Rebecca De Mornay) and a lot Risky Business and solidified his But in Risky Business, we see When: 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays in the living room wearing nothing of great lines (including the film’s status as a teen idol. We had seen more of the struggle. You feel the through March 27 but a pink oxford shirt, briefs and signature phrase which, 30 years him in some previous offerings — weight of the scene two-thirds of Where: Kentucky Theatre, socks (they make it easier to slide later, we still cannot print in a Taps (1981) and The Outsiders the way through when everything 214 E. Main St. Free parking into the frame). The scene has been family newspaper). (1983) — but these were his has fallen apart for Joel and he in Transit Center garage; referenced in numerous films and But at its core, this movie, leading-man debuts. appears to be thinking about enter on High St. across from TV shows including Garfield and the fourth entry in the LexGo Cruise and De Mornay made jumping in front of a train. the post office or Calvary Baptist Church. The Nanny. It was also the basis for Totally Awesome ’80s Film an unlikely film — and, afterward, It gets kind of real, and even as ads for the Guitar Hero video game Festival, is about business: a high real-life — couple: In the movie, the movie ends, you’re not sure how Tickets: $6; available franchise, including a Heidi Klum school senior in the tony North he was a child of privilege whose things will turn out for Joel. After in advance at spot in which she was wearing far Kentuckytheater.com and at less than Cruise. Shore Chicago suburbs hoping to slick-talking best friend Miles (an all, business has had some profound ups and downs since 1983, and a the box office. ■ maintain the lifestyle to which he attention-grabbing role for Curtis Another prominent song in the has become accustomed with a Armstrong) and hormones lead him lot of risks haven’t paid off. Learn more: (859) 231-7924 soundtrack was Phil Collins’ classic career in business, boosted by an In the Air Tonight, which played to hire her, a pricey call girl, while SCHEDULE toward the end of the movie during Ivy League education. And when his parents are out of town. Rich Copley: (859) 231-3217. the train scene with Joel and Lana. the original plans fall apart, Joel Events spiral way out of control Twitter: @copiousnotes. March 20: Risky Business But Risky Business didn’t solidify stumbles into a business solution from there, leading Joel and Lana Blog: Copiousnotes.bloginky.com. March 27: The Breakfast Club Collins’ malevolent masterpiece as a film classic. That honor went to WHERE ARE THEY NOW? HOW TO WATCH NBC’s Miami Vice, which used the song in a pivotal scene in its 1984 Tom Cruise (Joel): résumé, Pantoliano, 61, We’d love for pilot episode, “Brother’s Keeper.” One of Hollywood’s is probably best known you to see Risky ■ Like many ’80s films, Risky most famous names, for playing Ralphie on Business on Business had a flashy sports car Cruise, 50, has been The Sopranos, which the big screen at its center. In this case, it was a nominated for an Oscar earned him an Emmy Wednesday, but 1979 Porsche 928 that Joel uses to three times. He will be for best supporting the movie also elude Guido the Killer Pimp, ending seen next in Oblivion, actor in 2003. is available in opening April 12, as a the ride by repeating the slogan, Curtis Armstrong these formats court-martialed soldier Cruise De Mornay Pantoliano Armstrong “Porsche, there is no substitute.” A (Miles): Risky Business and from these sent to a distant planet few scenes later, the car accidentally was announced she would play the was the film debut for Armstrong, 59, sources. Prices to battle aliens. He’s reportedly at ends up in Lake Michigan. 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