They Say in Heaven POLLS Come First: The Belinda Carlisle Singles Poll

Mad About You

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

New single is okay, alas.

so Belinda Carlisle has lead a charmed life. Her husband, James Mason's son, was protocol chief in the Reagan administration and did this:

In 1986, Reagan appointed him to The Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, and made him a special advisor to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

In addition, she did coke until fairly recently and produced a gay son.

Fucking charmed life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0V21A9VGpA

When you told Nancy Reagan the story about how we were at the golf club and whatever and he was like being affectionate with me or whatever and the people at the golf club thought I was his boy toy. I said, dad, you can't say that to Nancy Reagan and he said, c'mon! she's down with the gays!

I just ordered her book on Amazon (it's dirt cheap now). Anybody read it?

a lot of coke!

I want Belinda Carlisle to be my mother-in-law!

my god "Mad About You" is perfec

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Someone can also explain what on earth George Harrison was doing playing on "Leave a Light On."

"Leave a Light On" features George Harrison on slide guitar; Carlisle recalls: "Rick [Nowels] said we should get someone cool and with a distinctive style to play the lead guitar part. I thought for a moment and said 'What about George Harrison?' I had met George briefly a few years earlier in San Remo Italy and Morgan [Mason, Carlisle's husband] through his work on Sex Lies and Videotape" - a film Mason had produced for Harrison's HandMade Films - "knew someone who was close to [Harrison] and able to get word to him. George responded right away, saying he'd love to help out."

Olivia said he loved her voice.

George didn't suffer fools gladly so...I believe him? Anyway, the slide part is instantly identfiable.

A little disappointed that the story isn't that George wandered in from a Wilburys tracking session, and also it ultimately didn't end with Belinda signing on as "Wendy Wilbury" for Vol. 3.

...and this just got dug up on another forum, re: Carlisle, Mason & sex, lies and videotape:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-27-ca-601-story.html

Eighteen months ago, two of Mason’s friends--independent producer Nick Wechsler and Soderbergh’s agent, the late Ann Dollard of Leading Artists--showed him the script for “sex, lies and videotape.”

Mason thought it was “extraordinary.”

“But the acid test,” he says, “was whether my wife, who never reads scripts, would like it. So I asked her to read the first five pages and see if she got bored.”

Carlisle couldn’t put it down. “She told me I had to get it made,” he says.

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While Tenenbaum approached a friend at the film company, Mason went after an even bigger gun--Richard Branson, the billionaire chairman of the parent firm Virgin Group whose music division just happens to sell Belinda Carlisle’s albums overseas.

“We had a relationship,” Mason says offhandedly. “It was serendipity.”

Happy birthday!

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Saw this on a sponsored/suggested FB post from a Beatle fan page:

“The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda_Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums.” - George