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Director Bob Keen joined the project at the request of executive producer Noel Cronin, after the original director was fired and the film's budget cut by 60%. [4] The original script was written by Paul Adam; it was about a father trying to get closer to his daughter and explored the cruelty of hunting and animal poaching. [4]
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is a song written by Jim Steinman. It was released in 1977 on the album Bat Out of Hell, with vocals by American musicians Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley. An uncommonly long song for a single, it has become a staple of classic rock radio [3] [4] and has been described as the "greatest rock duet". [5]
Heaven Can Wait – The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf Vol. 1, a 1996 album "Heaven Can Wait" (Charlotte Gainsbourg song), 2010 "Heaven Can Wait" (Michael Jackson song), 2001 "Heaven Can Wait" (Sandra song), 1988 "Heaven Can Wait", a song written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange "Heaven Can Wait", a song by GPS
Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family tragicomedy [3] film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel of the same name.
The song ends with a passionate, quiet reprise of the chorus. Critics have also identified Wagner, of whom Steinman was an admirer, as an inspiration. Specifying this song, The Sunday Times wrote that "the theme of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde, with its extreme passions and obsessive love, informs all his best work". [3]
Roger Ebert gave the movie half of one star out of four and called it "a puerile exploitation of one very thin joke during 98 very long minutes." [6] On his Sneak Previews program with Gene Siskel, Ebert said, "At times, it is a savage affront to the intelligence," and "It's not funny. It's one of the low points of my entire movie-going career."
A concept album, Songs from Whistle Down the Wind, was released in 1998 in advance of the show's West End premiere. It features 12 of the songs from the show performed by various popular recording artists and West End theatre stars who have collaborated with Lloyd Webber and Steinman over the years.
Several songs from the show are missing, and "All the Things You Are" appears four times on the collection. Very Warm for May was transferred (loosely) to the silver screen for the MGM movie Broadway Rhythm with only "All the Things You Are" retained from the musical and the plot rewritten yet again. The actor George Murphy plays snippets of ...