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The It Girl is the second studio album by English Britpop band Sleeper, [1] released in May 1996 (see 1996 in music). It was their most successful album, selling over 300,000 copies in the UK alone. [2] The album was released internationally, with the US version having a different track listing and alternative photos in the liner booklet.
It turned Clara Bow from an up-and-coming movie actress into the biggest movie star of the 1920s who in the process became a film legend as a result of "It". The term "The It girl" has since entered the cultural lexicon. A scene from the film is included in the 1931 Paramount promotional compilation film The House That Shadows Built.
The lead character of Peppy Miller from the 2011 film The Artist was inspired principally by Clara Bow, and in playing the part, actress Bérénice Bejo invoked many of Bow's screen mannerisms. [140] Bow inspired the name of the player character Laura Bow in the video games The Colonel's Bequest and The Dagger of Amon Ra. [157]
It Girl, an Atomics comic book character; Music ... by Sleeper, 1996 "It Girl", a song by The Brian Jonestown Massacre from Thank God for Mental Illness, 1996
While the tracks from The It Girl were being demoed, several tracks had working titles based on characters from Reservoir Dogs; Nice Guy Eddie is the only one that kept that name. [3] A segment of the song was used by BBC Wales for the intro and outro music for their coverage of the FAW Invitational Cup in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Sleeper recorded three full-length albums prior to splitting: Smart, The It Girl and Pleased to Meet You. After the band split up in 1998, Wener began a writing career, [ 5 ] and has written four novels: Goodnight Steve McQueen , The Big Blind (also known as The Perfect Play ), The Half Life of Stars , and Worldwide Adventures In Love .
Other records set by the film include the largest opening weekend for an R-rated horror film (besting Paranormal Activity 3 ' s (2011) $52.6 million), [372] the biggest theatrical debut in horror movie history (besting Hannibal ' s (2001) $58 million), [373] the biggest non-holiday/long weekend R-rated debut of all time (besting Logan ' s $88 ...
Sleeper is a 1973 American science fiction comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen, who co-wrote it with Marshall Brickman.Parodying a dystopic future of the United States in 2173, the film involves the misadventures of the owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly led police state.