A Stately Pleasure Dome Decreed

1980's Xanadu is a movie greater than some other movies from 1980.  It stars the celestial Olivia Newton-John, a woman so sexy even her hyphen gives us a hard-on.  Remember when she sang Have You Never Been Mellow? Mesmerized by her stunning good looks and odd diction, the whole world said Yes like Molly Bloom at the conclusion of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Xanadu captured the excitement of a new decade.  Its throbbing disco beat and brilliant choreography made us say "The 1980s are going to be a glorious period of love culminating in a harmonic convergence that will usher in a sixth sun, universal amity and brightly colored leg warmers!" 

Xanadu's plot is both straightforward and plausible.  An artist is asked to come up with a cover for a nine-woman pop group whose members are actually the nine divine muses, come to earth by means of a local mural.  The lovely Kira (played by OJN) falls for the artist (what's he have that we don't have?) and encourages him to open a disco (Xanadu). 

On Xanadu's opening night Kira's group performs then (to quote one critic) returns "to the realm of the gods in spectacular fashion."  It's totally cosmic.  And there's roller disco!

we think this is from the musical. so fucking what.

Comments

[Ben]

"...a woman so sexy even her hyphen gives us a hard-on."

Mike you're on a roll my friend. TFF!

[UF MIke]

Thanks Ben. Compare her hyphen to David Clayton-Thomas. The latter causes immediate detumescence.

[(S)wine]

i'm not clicking on any links, but wasn't Michael Beck in that one? you know, the dude from The Warriors?

shudder!

[kfc]

I like this line from the trailer, "Open your eyes and hear the magic!"

Does that mean the movie induces synesthesia?

[keith]

Roller skates and Disco! what a combo...god you all had to love it back then unless you weren't born yet?