I'm fine with the Tangerine Dream Legend score, wonderful though I think Goldsmith's is. Ladyhawke is another matter entirely. That's a damned good movie saddled with the sound of a direct-to-video release.

Well, a tractor doesn't have the driver-protecting superstructure that a car does, and it's typically more top heavy and prone to flip in a last second swerve. I guess the upside would be that it's easier to jump clear of a collision or rollover, but that's a mixed blessing at best.

A league is 3 nautical miles. Jules Verne's book title was referring to a journey under the sea that was 60,000 miles in length.

I also rather preferred their versions of Good Girls Go To Heaven (But Bad Girls Go Everywhere) and It Just Won't Quit to Meat Loaf's.

Tractor chicken seems like it'd be slower, but actually more dangerous, than regular chicken.

I vaguely recall a number of incidents from the time where Ms. Kitaen really seemed to be bringing the crazy. Let's ask Tom Hanks about her. He'd know the truth!

Ballad sure, but not really "power".

The only bit I ever saw of her "offstage" was in a brief interview/intro clip of her from the Montreux Rock Festival in the late '80s/early '90s, where she and MTV's Nina Blackwood pretended to be each other for about 15 seconds. She seemed fairly laid back and whimsical, but maybe that was just her imitating…

There's almost never anyone around to make fun of me. Winning!

We could ask the same questions about you and "Holding Out For A Hero"— which just covers the same themes through a vainglorious, rather than tender, adolescent lens.

He's both alive and active, albeit a bit under the public radar. After the failure of Dance of the Vampires on Broadway, he has apparently continued with some stage projects (including a Batman musical). Last I checked he was also working on some kind of ensemble project (ala his "Pandora's Box" in the '90s) called…

Most of Steinman's ouvre is a rework of, or borrows heavily from, some other part of his ouvre.

And he can apparently see through doors — though one wonders what other, less victimless, crimes he might be overlooking in the search for depravity.

Or a particularly vicious custody fight.

Maybe so, but I still give them points for Mysterious Ways

I chiefly remember him on SNL from the "Correspondence School of Diplomacy" sketch, where he taught us useful phrases like "Pass the sweet and sour shrimp".

I consider Mr. Cheviot to be his best role (glaringly omitted from the obit above) — A classic evil businessman, with the twist that he was frequently the good guys' trump card, if they could figure out how to play him.

And shooting smack.
RIP

The adage "Write what you know" makes sense to a point, but after a while it invites the audience to say "For Christ's sake, learn about something else to write about!"

He's ancient Roman, and carving the letters into his tablet instead of using the touch screen.