Evan Rachel Wood stuns behind the scenes at the Variety TIFF studio. Her performance as Madonna in “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” was a highlight of last night’s premiere. Go inside the screening here:
), weird but not yet “Weird,” is sitting around with his roommates when lightning strikes — or, at least, bologna. One of the roommates asks Al to name the thing he’d most like to do in the world. Al, speaking with a fervor bigger than mere desire — he’s talking about nothing less than a dream — replies, with stoic conviction, “Make up the words to a song that already exists.
That the songs, in their silly new palm-buzzer versions, became hits all over again was the joke behind the joke. By stripping the original lyrics away but preserving the hookiness of the music, Weird Al revealed something essential about how pop music works — that the lyrics to more pop songs than most would admit are basically window dressing.
Al attends a high-school polka party the film treats as a bacchanal, and he auditions for a punk band with his accordion version of “Beat on the Brat.” But it’s not until he comes up with “My Bologna” that the comic strategy of “Weird” clicks into place. The movie is going to be about how Al became a huge star — huger than he actually was, a megastar of mishegas.
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