Well, after catching "Mission: Impossible ~ Dead Reckoning Part 1" the other day, the big movie event seems to be today's joint release of the extremely fluffy and cheerful "Barbie" and the dead serious nuclear test-creating "Oppenheimer". The joint marketing of these two diametrically opposite movies has apparently become a godsend (ironically, smack dab in the middle of a contentious writers and actors' strike) known as Barbieheimer for both flicks. Supposedly, Margot "Barbie" Robbie was showing off her ticket for "Oppenheimer" and Christopher Nolan, director of "Oppenheimer", was displaying his pass for "Barbie".
May both do well. In fact, I may be watching one of those movies next week with a friend of mine. However, I will probably not be wearing anything pink for "Barbie" or a soberly brown suit for "Oppenheimer".
Ah, speaking of pink....I'd like to delve into Ann Lewis'（アン・ルイス）6th studio album "Think! Pink!" from September 1978. Specifically, there's one track there "Please Tell Me" which sounds like a nice slice of 1970s City Pop thanks to the words and music by Tommy Snyder of Godiego（ゴダイゴ）fame. Bassist Tsugutoshi Goto（後藤次利）arranged everything into a cool downtown soul-pop strut into Roppongi or Shinjuku. Lewis also sounds very fetching and plaintive, but I have to admit that the picture of her on the cover can be a little scary (as beautiful as Lewis is). She looks like something out of Terry Gilliam's imagination for "Monty Python".
Incidentally, the previous Ann Lewis song that I covered was about a year ago. It was for her "Shonan no Otoko-tachi"（湘南の男たち）which was also placed onto "Think! Pink!".
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