Jayne Mansfield

The many faces of Jayne Mansfield. Chameleon, muse, starlet....Madonna's inspiration for the Academy Awards performance of "Sooner Or Later," penned by Stephen Sondheim for Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy. Remember...?

Anyway, as my roommate says, "Jayne Mansfield threw anything at the wall just to see what would stick!" And it's kinda true. But, hey, I would never begrudge a girl's shot at enterprise. I mean, she's always on the phone. Girls makin deals!

Here Miss Mansfield sings "That Makes It" from The Las Vegas Hillbillys ... on the phone:

Rebecca De Mornay

Released as a single in 1985 from the soundtrack of the Neil Simon flop The Slugger's Wife, Rebecca De Mornay hit the airwaves with "Oh Jimmy." I have never heard such a slutty song: "Oh Jimmy don't you wanna do it/We can make it right/Oh Jimmy you know where to put it/Cuz I got what you want toniiiiiiiiiite!"

You know where to put it??? That's trash talk for a white girl. This is the kind of stuff my blog was made for.

Susan Sarandon

Oh Susan! "Touch-A, Touch-A Touch Me!" Nothing could be finer than your Janet Weiss ("Damn it, Janet!") in Rocky Horror Picture Show, the movie where it really felt WRONG when it was released on video. VIDEO??? RHPS ranks in as THE most audience-participatory flick of all time!

...or of all movie time.

Patsy Kensit

Brit It Girl Patsy Kensit--along with her band Eighth Wonder--turns it out in her Julian Temple directed star vehicle Absolute Beginners. The film tanked. So did she, but she bounced back as a legitimate actress and Missus to Liam Gallagher of Oasis. And of her big AB number, "Having It All?" Vanished into cinema obscurity!

Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson has pipes. Yet another stage-to-screen adaptation utilized most of it's original Broadway cast when the movie of Rent came barreling down the tracks. Rosario Dawson replaced a pregnant Daphne Rubin-Vega in the pivotal La Bohemesque role of Mimi. All I can say is Rosario's howl is almost as raw as Daphne's as she yodels to Jonathan Larson's "Out Tonight." Or should I say "Aaaaooooooouuuuuut tonight"???



Uma Thurman

The movie version of the hit Broadway musical version of the 1968 Mel Brooks movie The Producers got a major zing when they got Uma Thurman to play go-go dancing secretary Ulla. Uma gave Ulla legs with no end that kick & split on cue. Work. Her belt in "When You Got It, Flaunt It" is more like yelling on key, so there's an element of raw here.