At The Movies
 |
 |
"And... I'm... Ready to Take a Chance Again" ... That's what Gloria Mundy (Goldie Hawn) was ready to do with Tony Carlson (Chevy Chase) in this 1978 comedy-thriller about a twisted murder plot based on San Francisco. Dudley Moore co-starred as Stanley Tibbets, the orchestra conductor and 'closet' wanna-be playboy. The movie features Barry's "Copacabana (At The Copa)" and the Academy Award-Best Song from a Motion Picture-nominated "Ready To Take A Chance Again". The movie inspired an ABC-TV series of the same name (January-August 1981). |
Barry Manilow starred in this 1986 Made-for-TV movie about Lola (the showgirl "with yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there"), Rico (who "wore a diamond"), and Tony (who "tended bar"). The TV Soundtrack features Tony (Barry) on "Changing My Tune", "Lola", "Who Needs To Dream", "Call Me Mr. Lucky", "Big City Blues", "Sweet Heaven (I'm In Love Again)" and (of course) "Copacabana". |
|
 |
 |
|
You may ask, 'What does Barry Manilow have to do with this Disney-animated film from 1988?' Well, it's the song "Perfect Isn't Easy" (lyrics by Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman, music by Barry Manilow), performed by Bette Midler and produced by Barry Manilow! |
| The movie and motion picture soundtrack album to this 1994 John Waters' comedy features Barry Manilow's "Daybreak." | |
 |
Along with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman, Barry Manilow wrote the songs for Don Bluth's 1994 animated presentation of Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina, a story about a tiny girl (Thumbelina) who meets a tiny prince (Cornelius), as told by swallow extraordinaire Jacquimo. Before the girl and prince can follow their hearts, trouble starts when "Mama Toad Kidnaps Thumbelina", and so the adventure begins as the two remain separated. Love ultimately conquers and the two fly away to "see the universe and dance on Saturn's rings." The movie and soundtrack feature Barry Manilow and Debra Byrd's end title duet, "Let Me Be Your Wings". The Singing Cast includes Jodi Benson, Carol Channing, Charo, Gino Conforti, Barbara Cook, Gary Imhoff, Randy Crenshaw and "The Toads". |
|
 |
 |
|
Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow wrote the lyrics and music for this story about Hubie (voice by Martin Short), a wacky & wimpy (but shy & romantic) penguin, who has his eyes on Marina (voice by Annie Golden). But so does the mean & evil Drake (voice by Tim Curry). Hubie finds the perfect pebble as an engagement stone which he must get to Marina before the full-moon mating ceremony. But Drake throws Hubie into treacherous waters, where Hubie meets Rocko (voice by James Belushi) aboard the Good Ship Misery. Rocko helps Hubie find his way back to the Antarctica... and Marina for "Now And Forever". |
 |
|
Tribute: Barry Manilow's "We Still Have Time" is the theme for this motion picture which stars Jack Lemmon, Bob Clark, Lee Remick and Robby Benson (1980). |
|
 |
Can't Hardly Wait: Barry Manilow's "Mandy" becomes the inspiration for a key storyline in this comedy about last chances and new beginnings for the graduating class of Huntington Hills High, including students Preston (Ethan Embry) and Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt). The 1998 film also includes "Ready To Take A Chance Again." |
 |
|
Is this... Your Man? Well, in the 1987 movie Heat, Burt Reynolds plays tough-guy Nick Escalante who, in an early scene at a coffee shop in Las Vegas, steps over to the jukebox and picks a song that lets you know he's older, he's wiser, and you can bet he's goin' to surprise ya... Yup, Barry Manilow's "I'm Your Man." |
|
|
|
| UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (WHO SHOT VICTOR FOX) | |
Release Date: 13 September 2002 (UK) Debut on Starz!: 02 August 2003 (US) |
||
|
||||
RAPUNZEL |
|
No Scheduled Release Date |
Barry had originally "signed a three picture deal to score and compose the songs for the animated films 'Thumbelina,' 'Pebble and the Penguin' and 'Rapunzel'....." (source: Barryography, ©1993 Stiletto Entertainment). |
||