Re: (no subject given!)

[ultra!corin!keving@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin W. Gurney)]

In article <1992Oct12.221830.5662@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, craddock@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Craddock) writes:
|> glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <1992Oct12.170829.3507@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
|> >>	The lyrics to "Wow!" contain a line which *sounds* like: "He's too
|> >>busy hitting the Vaseline".  If this is really how the lyrics go, am I
|> >>mistaken in assuming that Kate is establishing the "He" as a--to be
|> >>technical--homosexual?  If so, I wish she could have found a more appealing
|> >>turn of phrase.  It borders on the offensive, were I the easily offended
|> >>type.
|> 
|> >	Yes, I understand the song to be referring to homosexuals, but
|> >in a positive way.  Don't forget, the actor's "Vaseline-hitting" is why
|> > 
|> >"he'll never make the Sweeney (movie theatre?) / Or be that movie queen".  I've always taken this to refer to discSrimination in the acting business.
|>  
|> Isn't Sweeney cockney or rhyming slang for police or CID. I seem to remember some old
|> british cop show called 'The Sweeney" with dennis waterman. Anyway that 
|> should strengthen your argument as I don't believe the police, at that time
|>   
|> at least, let homosexuals into the force. hence never make the sweeney.


That's a good explanation, but I think the line in question is:

   "He'll never make the scene / Or be that movie queen."

I assume "the scene" is both a scene in a movie and The Scene of being
a big star.

Could someone check the lyric server and enlighten us?

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Kevin Gurney
(keving@ultra.com)