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Have you heard a Carpenters song or names mentioned in a movie, tv commercial, books, etc? Post the sightings here and I'll add them to the list.

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Pamela

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1. Friends episode where they sit round the apartment singing 'Top Of The World'
2. Simpsons - when the doorbell sticks and plays 'Close To You' all night waking the neighbourhood
3. Simpsons #2 - when Homer sees Marge in school for the first time, they play the opening bars of Close To You
4. Sabrina the teenage witch-episode when Sabrina needs to interview a rock female star who is always angry but Sabrina uses her magic to change the rock star's attitude and this woman starts singing "We've only just begun" instead of her rock song...
5. St. Elmo's Fire: In it one of the characters, Kevin, (Andrew McCarthy) when asked about love, said he was in love once, when he was playing bongos in a band, with "our lead singer, and she sang 'We've only just begun' as sweet as Karen Carpenter."
6. Parenthood: A scene where Rick Moranis sings "Close to You" in a classroom at a school!
7. BOYS ON THE SIDE: The Whoppi character was singing a heartfelt, poignant version of SUPERSTAR
8. Starsky and Hutch movie most of the Carpenter's version of "We've Only Just Begun" is played about halfway through
9. Detroit Rock City(1999 Movie )
10. Tommy Boy(1995 Movie)
11. Gilmore Girls (2004 TV Show)
12. Celeste in the City(2004 ABC Family tv movie)
13. Anger Management(2003 Movie)
14. About a Boy(2002 Movie)
15. The Brady Bunch(TV)
16. X-files: Used the Carpenters a lot. In the episode where the old couple in the motorhome get killed by mad dogs, the song "Close to You" is playing. In another episode, a woman with psychic powers uses her talents to kill her fiance while she is listening to "Rainy Days..."
17. The Broken Hearts Club: An alternative romantic comedy showed at Harris Theater in Pgh. Timothy Olyphant's character loves karen carpenter.
He asks his date "do you like the carpenters?"
His date replies "play something else".
He responds: "you don't find karen carpenter's music remotely romantic?"
His date responds no. After mentioning a few songs, he ends the evening because of it.
18.Aquafina Commercial, they play Top of the World with Karen singing.
19. A book by Gene Simmons called "KISS and Makeup"... page 120 is his memorable encounter with Karen Carpenter. READ HERE

Some of these you might want to add too.

Linda's "Behind the Glass:The Phil Ramone Story"(BBC Radio2).(not sighting?)

Chris-An Ordinary Fool shared Michael Landon's Tv Movie.

SOMEDAY87 shared John Carpenter's film "In The Mouth of Maddness".
http://www.leadsiste...?showtopic=3220

Musical "We Will Rock You" Karen's photo

at the screen up behind performers.
A song is probably "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)".

-- DVD available in Japan --
Seiko Matsuda's "Tatta Hitotsuno Takaramono" Karen's "Sing"(2004 TV, 2005 DVD)
"Kazenoyoni Utaga Nagareteita" Kazumasa Oda sang "Yesterday Once More" at piano (2004 TV, 2005 DVD)
"Beginner" Karen's "There's A Kind Of Hush", "Top Of The World" and "I Need To Be In Love", instrumental "Top Of The World"(2003 TV, 2004 DVD)(Instrumental is also on CD)
"Starsky and Hutch"(2004 Movie)

-- Japanese TV of which theme song was sung by Karen, all the dramas were released as DVD --
"Beginner"(above)
"Miseinen" Karen's "I Need To Be In Love", "Top Of The World"and other Carpenters songs (1995 TV)
"Koigashitai Koigashitai Koigashitai" Karen's "The Rainbow Conneciton" and "Leave Yesterday Behind"(2001 TV)

Sakura

Okay,I'm kind of embarrassed but they used "Close To You" on Celebrity Love Island,while showing footage of one couple getting on really well...then some other song when they fell out,which I didn't listen to cos I was singing "Close To You" rather loud!

I just heard Dr. Joy Browne talk about them about a week or two ago on her live radio show.



Linda

Here are a few:

An Episode of "Joan of Arcadia." In it, Joan and her brother Luke are on the school swim team. She mentions "brother sister" teams, like the Carpenters and I think she may have said the Osmonds. Either way, she definitely said "The Carpenters."

Also, the Aquafina Commercial, they play Top of the World with Karen singing.

The Dixie Chicks went on their Top of the World Tour. After the concert is over, the speakers play the first verse of Top of the World as people are walking out. Barb and I sat down and enjoyed it.

Daria episode. My friend said that they sang a version of Close To You at the end of one of the episodes.

Another friend said that on either VH1 or MTV, a group of artists sing "Sing."

You may have gotten this one. They play almost half of "We've Only Just Begun" in the recent flick "Starsky and Hutch"

In "Celeste In the City," the following was said, "In the immortal words of Karen Carpenter, we've only just begun," by Celeste's gay friend. He was played by the guy that played Zander in Buffy.

I was just posting elsewhere, and talking about listening to Top Of The World in the car, and it reminded me of a great moment. In the movie "High School High" with Jon Lovitz, he is shown arriving at his new job in a very rough inner city school, and Top Of The World is playing very plainly on his car radio, and he is just right in there with it, singing along and tapping his fingers to it, its a beautiful day and he couldn't be happier.

That is right before they pan back and we see that his car has already been stolen, and there is nothing left of the breifcase he was holding but the handle that he is still clutching.

A really good, and appropriate placing of a great Carpenters song.

And it is a very cute movie too, I really love the math lesson he gives them, if you've ever seen it, you know what I am talking about.

(I know we're not supposed to comment....but....)

The Carpenters have made it to MTV. There is hope for the world yet!

Don't forget about the book by Gene Simmons called "KISS and Makeup"... page 120 is his memorable encounter with Karen Carpenter.


Linda

linda76, on Jun 22 2005, 02:16 PM, said:

I'm not familiar? Could you give us a Readers Digest version of it?

Bruce, on Jun 22 2005, 04:20 PM, said:

I'll save myself the work and bring back a thread from the past.

Annie is a closet KISS fan


Linda

linda76, on Jun 22 2005, 06:59 PM, said:

Hey!!

They're neato Simmons is a good writer

I think I apply make-up better, though.

ONJ's band master talked about Gene Simmons. Gene always eats three cookies before going to bed. Cookies charmed Annie.

In '70s I heard Karen talk about Gene on a radio interview when it was aired.

Several years ago I found an interview with Gene on the net. I don't remember when or where. But when I searched before, I found that KISS and Carpenters performed on the same day or Carpenters performed the next day of KISS.

Sakura

I'm glad Karen wasn't beguiled by Kissy boy and his seducing charade. Especially as she was a world renoun artist and performer and not some naive groupie ready for a meaningless fling. I never liked Kiss and their costume antic rock but hey, it made them real rich and successful so that's show biz.