Anachronistic Memories of Diane Lane as Ellen Aim
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I pursued a medical career long and hard up to a point and then shifted to information technology because that is what I really knew and the medical avenue had a good 16 to 20 year commitment attached to it. Something about sitting down and
I had returned to Columbia from LA in an effort to secure source code for my paranoid employer and was listening to the radio in my rental while Woody Windham was going over the top ten music videos when they announced number ten, "Tonight is what it means to be young" and sent me on a personal riff I never forgot.
The film itself really wasn't my cup of tea, but grossed $8 million in North America and cost the production company $14.5 million.
It surrounded a place called Richmond, a city circa the 1950s.
It is that 'another time, another place' mentioned in the film intro and promotional posters, trailers, and such.
Ellen Aim portrayed by Diane Lane, lead singer of Ellen Aim and the Attackers has returned to her home town to give a concert. My gosh she was about the hottest thing I'd ever seen up to that point in my life in that red dress belting out that anthem of youth and vigor ...
For at that time I too was young and vigorous.
A biker gang called The Bombers from a section of Richmond called 'the Battery' led by Raven Shaddock portrayed by Willem Dafoe crashed the concert and kidnapped Ellen.
It had a rather involved plot but some of the music clips were stupendous such as the Diane Lane lip sync extravaganza on video Woody Windham announced to me that day I was a stranger who had returned to my home town listening to the rental car radio.
So now it's been oh 36 some years.
Diane Lane is now Superman's mom.
I remain the idiot savant who taught college for 20 years and sits as the only successful web administrator an incorporated municipality could find before they took the plunge and I got hired ... thank you Vince.
As I remain that legend in my own mind ah, it all brings me back — but who knows what remains in store.