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acourtcfmuses · 2 years

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Wanted Characters to write with!

This list is long, but it’s not extensive, there is likely ones I’ve missed!

This list is for all kinds of ships - familiar, platonic and romantic

If you want to know which of my muses I have in mind for each let me know and I will let you know who I’d like to write against the below muses!

***Edited to add - this is just canons, but I’m always down for writing with/shipping with OC’s!

Wanted Canon Male muses

Misc

Daemon Targaryen / HotD

Aemond Targaryen / HotD

Nick Goode / Fear Street

Tommy Slater / Fear Street

Adil of Tarim / Fort Salem

Walter Bishop / Fringe

Morpheus/Dream / The Sandman

Ed Mercer / The Orville

Isaac / The Orville

Kalabar Junior / Halloweentown

From Blood and Ash

Casteel Da’Neer

Kieran Contou

Folk of Air

Cardan Greenbriar

ACOTAR

Rhysand

Kallias

Azriel

Tamlin

Fourth Wing

Xaden Riorson

Liam Mairi

Tairn (the Dragon)

Garrett

Bodhi

Dain Aetos

Ridoc

Teen Wolf

Peter Hale

Derek Hale

Stiles Stilinski

Scott McCall

Myth

Hades

James Potter

Sirius Black

Remus Lupin

Sebastian Sallow

Ominis Gaunt

Garreth Weasley

Amit Thakkar

Aesop Sharp

Eleazar Fig

Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy

Charlie Weasley

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Blaise Zabini

Cedric Diggory

Godric Gryffindor

Salazar Slytherin

Scorpius Malfoy

Twilight

Edward Cullen

Jasper Hale

Jacob Black

Carlisle Cullen

MCU

Alexei Shostakov

Pietro Maximoff

Foggy Nelson

Thor Odinson

Loki Laufeyson

Druig

Dane

Peter Parker (any iteration)

Tony Stark

Steve Rogers

Bucky Barnes

Bruce Banner

Clint Barton

Shang-Chi

Groot

Doctor Strange

Lost Girl

Hale Santiago

Dyson Thornwood

Trick

Shadowhunters

Jace Wayland

Simon Lewis

Alec Lightwood

Magnus Bane

Luke Garroway

CAOS

Nick Scratch

Caliban

Ambrose Spellman

Harvey Kinkle

Fate: The Winx Saga

Sky

Riven

Grey

Saul Silva

Agents of SHIELD

Grant Ward

Leo Fitz

Phil Coulson

Lance Hunter

Alphonso Mackenzie

TVD/TO

Elijah Mikaelson

Klaus Mikaelson

Tyler Lockwood

Stefan Salvatore

Damon Salvatore

Kai Parker

OUAT

Killian Jones

Neal Cassidy

David Nolan

Henry Mills (platonic/familial only due to character age)

The Witcher

Geralt of Rivia

Jaskier

Vesemir

Bridgerton

Anthony Bridgerton

Benedict Bridgerton

Colin Bridgerton

Simon Basset

Lucifer

Lucifer Morningstar

Amenadiel

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

Jonathan Byers

Eddie Munson

Dustin Henderson (platonic/familial only due to character age)

Jim Hopper

The Quarry

Max Brinly

Dylan Lenivy

Nick Furcillo

Charmed (1997)

Chris Halliwell

Wyatt Halliwell

Leo Wyatt

Julie and the Phantoms

Reggie Peters

Alex Mercer

Luke Patterson

Mass Effect

Garrus Vakarian

Thane Krios

Grunt

Commander Shepard (Male)

DCTV

Oliver Queen

William Clayton

Barry Allan

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Raymond Holt

Terry Jeffords

Charles Boyle

iZombie

Major Lilywhite

Blaine DeBeers

Wednesday

Xavier Thorpe

Tyler Galpin

Sheriff Galpin

Gomez Addams

Shadow and Bone

Matthias

Kaz Brekker

Jesper Fahey

Aleksander Morozova

Mal Oretsev

Tolkien World

Halbrand

Fili

Kili

Thorin Oakenshield

Bilbo Baggins

Legolas

The Covenant

Caleb Danvers

Reid Garwin

Tyler Simms

Pogue Parry

Chase Collins

Night World

James Rasmussen

Ash Redfern

John Quinn

One Piece

Monkey D Luffy

Sanji

Roronoa Zoro

Usopp

Buggy

Arlong

Shanks

Wanted Canon Female muses

Misc

Vonetta Contou / From Blood and Ash

Taryn Duarte / The Cruel Prince

Tris Prior / Divergent

Olivia Dunham / Fringe

Kelly Grayson / The Orville

Claire Finn / The Orville

Alara Kitan / The Orville

Vanessa Afron / FNAF Movie

Marnie Piper / Halloweentown

ACOTAR

Nesta Archeron

Emerie

Catrin Berdara

Lady of Autumn

Marlene McKinnon

Luna Lovegood

Ginny Weasley

Hermione Granger

Pansy Parkinson

Rowena Ravenclaw

Lily Evans/Potter

Marlene McKinnon

Female MC of Hogwarts Legacy

Poppy Sweeting

Natsai Onai

Imelda Reyes

Mirabel Garlick

Matilda Weasley

Dinah Hecat

Sirona Ryan

Victoire Weasley

Fourth Wing

Violet Sorrengail

Rhiannon Matthias

Mira Sorrengail

Sloane Mairi

Sgyael (the Dragon)

Descendants

Evie Grimhilde

Mal Bertha

Audrey Rose

Fear Street

Deena Johnson

Alice

Ziggy Berman

Twilight

Bella Swan

Esme Cullen

Rosalie Hale

Alice Cullen

MCU

Natasha Romanoff

Yelena Belova

Melina Vostokoff

Wanda Maximoff

Jane Foster

Darcy Lewis

Monica Rambeau

Karen Page

Jennifer Walters

Sylvie Laufeydottir

Makkari

Sersi

The Hunger Games

Annie Cresta

Katniss Everdeen

Johanna Mason

Shadowhunters

Clary Fray

Isabelle Lightwood

Teen Wolf

Malia Tate

Lydia Martin

Kira Yukimura

Allison Argent

Melissa McCall

Laura Hale

Satomi

Braeden

Kate Argent

Lost Girl

Bo Dennis

Kenzi Malikov

Tamsin

Lauren Lewis

CAOS

Sabrina Spellman

Rosalind Walker

Prudence Blackwood

Agatha Night

Dorcas Night

Hilda Spellman

Zelda Spellman

Fate: The Winx Saga

Bloom Peters

Terra Harvey

Beatrix

Flora

Stella

Musa

Aisha

Agents of SHIELD

Skye / Daisy Johnson

Jemma Simmons

Melinda May

Bobbi Morse

TVD/TO

Rebekah Mikaelson

Freya Mikaelson

Hope Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Elena Gilbert

Caroline Forbes

Bonnie Bennett

Katherine Petrova

Lizzie Saltzman

Josie Saltzman

OUAT

Emma Swan

Snow White

Alice Jones

Regina Mills

The Witcher

Yennefer

Cirilla

Francesca Findabair

Bridgerton

Kate Sharma

Edwina Sharma

Daphne Bridgerton

Eloise Bridgerton

Violet Bridgerton

Queen Charlotte

Lucifer

Chloe Decker

Mazikeen Smith

Linda Martin

Ella Lopez

Stranger Things

Robin Buckley

Nancy Wheeler

Eleven / Jane Hopper (no ship as kid muse)

Max Mayfield (no ship as kid muse)

Joyce Byers

Disney

Elsa of Arendelle

Anna of Arendelle

Maleficent

Fort Salem

Abigail Bellweather

Scylla

Raelle Collar

The Quarry

Abigail Blyg

Emma Mountebank

Laura Kearney

Kaitlyn Ka

Charmed (1997)

Piper Halliwell

Phoebe Halliwell

Paige Halliwell

Mass Effect

Tali’Zorah Nar Rayya

Commander Shepard (female)

Jack / Subject Zero

The Sandman

Calliope

Johanna Constantine

Death

Rose Walker

Lyta Hall

DCTV

Felicity Smoak

Kara Danvers

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Amy Santiago

Rosa Diaz

Gina Linetti

iZombie

Liv Moore

Peyton Charles

Wednesday

Wednesday Addams

Enid Sinclair

Bianca

Yoko

Morticia Addams

Larissa Weems

Marilyn THornhill

Shadow and Bone

Alina Starkov

Inej Ghafa

NIna Zenik

Zoya Nazyalensky

Genya Safin

Tolkien World

Galadriel

Tauriel

Night World

Poppy North

Mary-Lynnette Carter

Rowan Redfern

Kestrel Redfern

Jade Redfern

One Piece

Nami

#☀️ [ wanted opposites ]#long post tw #☀️ lost in the forest [ ooc ]

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tabney2023 · 10 months

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Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016). “The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can. But alas, life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.” ~Prince Rogers Nelson

Purple Rain Deluxe (Expanded Edition, 35 songs) Available on Amazon USA

Musicology by Prince

Prince The Hits 1

Prince The Hits 2

#prince rogers nelson #purple rain #music quotes #musicians #black musicians #blackarchives #blackexcellence #blacktumblr #american culture #black american culture #soul music #music lovers #black singers #entertainment #electric guitar

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contentgreenearth · 2 years

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ACCUMULATED TYPINGS

These are people/characters (other than the 200 people from my dreams), who I've typed personally, or I've seen typed somewhere else, and I agree with the typing. To agree with a typing, the person had to type the same using my methodology as outlined in my Typing In Practice Posts.

If I actually know, or can be fairly certain of, a person's DISC and SOJT type, I will put it after their name in parenthesis. If there's a Typing In Practice post for this person, the number will also appear after their name in parenthesis

ESTJ

Astrippus (&)

Diana Ross (#11)

Lindsay Johnson/LiJo (#2)

Madonna (#12) (D/C [S] slot 21) (Te-s/Se-f)

Napoleon (&)

Paul from Tarsus in the Bible

ESTP

Adele (#13)

"Eminem " persona

Göthe (&)

"Harry Potter "

Jennifer Lopez ( #16 )(D=I [-], not on wheel)(Se T>F)

Laban in the Bible

ENTJ

C S Joseph (#17)

Donald Trump

"Darth Vader"

Lenin (&)

King Solomon in the Bible

ENTP

Ben Vasserlan (#14)

Chris from "Asura Psych" (#17)

Joshua in the Bible

Socrates (&)

Taylor Swift (#6) (D/I [S] slot 24)(Ne T>F)

ESFJ

Ariana Grande

Barnabas in the Bible

Beyonce Knowles

Bill Clinton (F-s E>I)

Doctor Mike

Elton John

"Lady Gaga" persona

Marshall Mathers (#10)(I/S/D slot 47)(Fe S>N)

Mary Wilson-Supremes (#11)(I=S)(F-s E>I)

Ronald Regan

ESFP

Aaron the Priest in the Bible

Alecia Moore/P!nk (#9)(I [S][C] slot 8)(Fe-s short dom/long aux)

Florence Ballard-Supremes (#11)

Jack from Jacksepticeye YouTube channel (#19)

Kurt Cobain-Nirvana (#18)

Michael Hutchence-INXS (#18)

Miley Cyrus (#4)

Pushkin (&)

Robin Williams/comedian

ENFJ

Joseph Göbbels (Hitler's media manager)

Kristin from "Dear Kristin" (#5)(I/D [S] Slot 26)(Fe-n/Ne-t)

Rebekah in the Bible

Simon Peter in the Bible

Tolstoy (&)

ENFP

Erik Thor (#7)(I [C][D] Slot 105)(Ne F>T)

Frank James

Ghazali (&)

Hans Christian Andersen (&)

King David in the Bible

Michael Jackson (#3)

Oscar Wilde

Prince Rogers Nelson

ISTJ

Jacob in the Bible

Plato (&)

St. Augustine (&) (FP to TJ in transit)

ISTP

Epicurus (&)

John son of Zebedee in the Bible

Moses in the Bible

INTJ

Blaise Pascal (&)

Einstein (&)

Elijah in the Bible

George W Bush

Jung

INTP

Lao Tsu (&)

Nietzsche

ISFJ

Akhmatova (&)

Isaac in the Bible

ISFP

Alicia Argello-Cook/Alicia Keys (#15) (S/D [C], slot 132) (S-f I>E)

Nehemiah in the Bible

Stefani Germanotta (#8)

INFJ

Adolf Hitler

Isabel Myers-MBTI inventor

INFP

Abraham in the Bible

Rousseau (&)

This is all I have for now. I will add and edit as I get more. (*) means I have typed the person as such, using my method. I just haven't written the Typing In Practice post for that person yet 🙃

(&) is a new symbol I'm adding to represent mass typings from "The Syntax of Love " by Afansayev. There will be so many, I'm not going to do Typing In Practice Posts for them, but I will place the people I was successfully able to type from that book, in SOJT, to this list

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thesparkwhowalks · 2 years

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Since I shall be touring the onetime home of the late Prince Rogers Nelson again in one week (well, less than if we’re counting hours), I thought I would share the pictures from the last trip. They only allow you to take photos in one specific area, since Prince is a private MF even in death. BTW, it is a fucking bananas place to visit. Not for the reasons you think though. It is clearly, obviously, and unequivocally not a house. It’s in an industrial area, it’s a blocky industrial building, it has a sizable parking lot, a lobby, offices, a break room, etc. And it was like that before he died! The breakroom thing, a kitchenette coffee area designed to look kinda like a diner off the main atrium, just sorta has a couch and TV jammed in one corner. With a little wicker basket of blankets. That’s where he watched basketball games. EDIT: Added old news photos of Paisley Park to give you an idea of how not a house it is.

#Prince #prince and the revolution #prince and the new power generation #paisley park #music #museum #no tours visit his chambers on the second floor #perhaps those were more homey

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justifiedmadness · 11 months

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starfishandcoffee · 21 hours

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You better run to the light, leave your past behind All things will be fine Still would stand all time

#prince #prince rogers nelson #graffiti bridge era #♥#prince edit

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agentfranktwist · 1 year

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U R THE 1: The Lost Prince Cover of ALF’s Biggest Hit

By Juan Cobo

Around the world, millions of fans of the late Prince Rogers Nelson have mourned the legend’s death since 2016, but one light in the darkness has been the promise of previously unheard material unleashed from the infamous “Vault” — Prince’s mythical and vast catalogue of unreleased songs and music videos. Originally began as an effort to surreptitiously hide material from his label at the time, Warner Bros., the Vault became synonymous with content the incredibly prolific artist deemed either not worthy or ready to release to the public.

Recently, Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson, and half-siblings, Sharon, Norrine, and John Nelson, Jr., the executors of Prince’s estate, have delighted fans by piecing out various tracks and videos in the wake of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s death. They’ve only scratched the surface of what’s to come, but perhaps the strangest revelation so far is an aborted collaboration with another 80s breakout star: none other than TV’s ALF.

ALF, created by puppeteer and voice-over artist Paul Fusco (who also voiced the titular character), ran for four seasons on NBC between 1986 and 1990. While initially a ratings and pop culture juggernaut, it was cancelled after its final season before receiving a poorly reviewed movie-length epilogue episode, Project: ALF, several years later — sadly, long after most viewers had moved on. Its eponymous protagonist was a furry, hard-partying refugee from the doomed planet Melmac, who took shelter in the suburban home of the Tanners, an American nuclear family in the Reagan-era 1980s.

While not immediately available for release, Sharon Nelson teased the project’s origins in this exclusive interview: “Prince never really watched too much TV, but caught ALF fever early on. Everybody loved ALF when it first started, but Prince really loved ALF. He taped every episode. Everyone knows my brother was, in terms of technology, what folks call now an ‘early adopter.’ He actually wired together two tape players so he could edit out the commercials and loop the full episodes to watch on repeat without having to rewind. Before DVDs, he had every episode on a VHS tape of its own, so each tape had one episode recorded at maximum 6-hour recording capacity, so they all have one episode repeated 16 times. He spray-painted each one gold and wrote which one it was in purple nail polish. Prince recorded songs all night sometimes, so he left it going in the background and would watch it with the band during food breaks. Even when he got the DVDs he wouldn’t throw away those tapes. He was like, ‘No, I made those, sis, can’t do it.’”

Prince, like millions of viewers across the globe, instantly fell in love with the cat-eating extraterrestrial prankster, but was especially moved by the first season episode, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?” in which ALF (an acronym for “alien life form”), née Gordon Shumway, writes and records a love song for Lynn Tanner, the teenage daughter of his human hosts, as well as shooting an accompanying music video in the Tanner family garage.

As guitarist Wendy Melvoin recalls, “Prince got really emotional after the episode from the week before, the one where ALF gets really lonely and tries to call his ex-girlfriend, Rhonda, in outer space because he’s hung up on that stupid Beach Boys song, ‘Help Me, Rhonda.’ Prince couldn’t keep his shit together that night and sent us all home early. We didn’t hear from him for about a week. Driving his motorcycle and purifying himself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka or something, right? A lot of his songs are about, like, missing people, like, this huge sense of longing and distance, and I think he related to that. So when he saw that next one, the one where ALF writes the song for the human girl, his mind was like, completely blown all over again.” Keyboardist Lisa Coleman added, “I think ALF’s song reminded him of ‘Delirious.’ Like, go compare the lyrics and song structure and get back to me.”

“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?” aired on November 17, 1986. The resulting video, “You’re the One Who’s Out of This World,” became a pre-internet viral sensation, even receiving play on MTV, plus the syndicated music video platform Night Flight, as well as NBC’s own Friday Night Videos. The song itself, with lyrics written by Tom Pratchett and music by the show’s composer, the appropriately named Alf Clausen, received its own top-selling 7” 45 pressing, with the theme from ALF (written by Clausen and Tom Kramer) as a B-side.

“Prince immediately wanted to cover the track and work with ALF,” says drummer Bobby Z. “He felt like it was something he should have written and reached out to Paul Fusco and NBC, but merchandising rights between Prince and the ALF people prevented a team-up. The whole thing died on the vine.”

Re-recorded with The Revolution and retitled “U R the 1”, Prince personally directed a shot-by-shot remake of the video to pitch the network about a possible duet, but was immediately met with a cease-and-desist letter by NBC. The track and the video have subsequently never been heard or seen, but that may soon change.

Prince’s Purple Rain co-star and frequent collaborator, Morris Day, of fellow Minneapolis band, The Time, offers an alternate theory: “That motherfucker was always going on about ALF. On and on. All night. You know what it was? That cat was jealous of when Michael Jackson took them pictures with E.T., and even did some kind of book on tape for kids or some shit. Him and Michael Jackson was always competing, and I think Prince just wanted his own little alien movie friend, but that’s just me.”

Day continues, “Prince even wrote another song for him and ALF to do together that was gonna be a jokey Sesame Street-style song, you know, like when musicians go on Sesame Street and do funny versions of their big songs to do with them Muppets — and Prince had a thing for Muppets, but you didn’t hear that from me — and it was gonna be really freaky. I mean really freaky. You know how ALF liked to eat cats? Well, you know what Prince liked to eat — I ain’t gonna say — so you can follow my innuendo. It was called ‘Darling Lucky,’ ‘cuz ALF was always trying to eat the family’s cat, Lucky. He thought that shit was hilarious. I disagreed, but that’s just me.”

When asked to elaborate, Mr. Day emphasized, “Look, man, there’s only two things you need to know about me — I don’t smoke weed, and I don’t eat pussy.”

Producer and keyboardist Dr. Fink challenges Day’s statements. “Hey, babe, who would you rather listen to? Michael Jackson sapping it up with E.T., who can barely fucking speak, by the way, or fucking Prince rapping with ALF? I know who I’d rather jam with. And he doesn’t eat pussy? Personally, I’d go ask Morris if he eats asshole.”

As for Day’s lurid claim that “Prince had a thing for Muppets,” whatever the late musician’s fantasies were, they would be fulfilled when (performing at the time as The Artist Formerly Known As) Prince hosted the second season premiere of ABC/Disney Channel’s Muppets Tonight on September 13, 1997. Prince was reportedly crestfallen that Miss Piggy would not be featured in the episode. Day muses that, “Miss Piggy was probably the only famous bitch that skinny motherfucker didn’t get to pork, if you follow my pun. Ha!”

When reached for comment on “U R the 1,” former NBC executive Sandra Allen stated that, “At the time, the whole fucking Michael Jackson and E.T. thing seemed like a wholesome idea and we didn’t want to compete with something as potentially controversial as an ALF and Prince thing. I wish I fucking knew what we all know now — first Michael fucking Jackson, and who fucking knows what they’ll eventually fucking dig up on Spielberg? But ALF and Prince were pushing a lot of fucking buttons at the time and I already had to put out a lot of fires about whether David Letterman was weird. I’m like, ‘What the fuck do you mean is he weird?! Fuck off!’ I’ve got irate mothers who bought ALF dolls writing me and asking me why ALF is drinking beer! So I call Paul Fusco and he says, ‘Tell those bitches that ALF is a 285-year old alien and can drink whatever the fuck he wants.’ Remember, this is when Tipper fucking Gore was running around putting fucking warning stickers on record albums and getting in a pissing contest with Jello Biafra on the fucking Oprah show. These were weird fucking times, man. In hindsight, we made a huge fucking mistake. I hope they put the fucking thing on fucking YouTube or some shit finally.”

Known in the 1980s for romancing a steady string of the era’s most stunning women, including Batman beauty Kim Basinger, Sherilyn Fenn of Twin Peaks, Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles (for whom he wrote the band’s #2 hit “Manic Monday”), and Madonna, Prince, like ALF, similarly fell for and briefly dated Andrea Elson, the actress who played the hirsute alien’s unrequited crush, Lynn Tanner — eleven years his junior. Elson, now a licensed yoga instructor in Bangor, Maine, says, “He was incredible — sweet and charming and goofy. But looking back, I think he wanted to somehow live, not vicariously through ALF, but the other way around — like he wanted to make ALF’s fantasies about Lynn real through him with me. When he played me his version of ALF’s song, I thought he’d really written it for me.” Prince was 28 at the time of recording “U R the 1.” Minnesota age of consent is 16.

Despite being exiled to the Vault, rumors have persisted for years that “U R the 1” was not the one and only collaboration between Prince and ALF.

Aired on February 16, 1996 by ABC, just two days after Prince’s Valentine’s Day wedding to dancer Mayte Garcia, Project: ALF was a made-for-TV movie meant to wrap up the original series’ shocking cliffhanger, wherein ALF is abducted by the military, presumably for experimentation. Some claim that this timing is no mere coincidence. Halfway through the TV special, a road trip montage featuring a newly escaped ALF riding through the desert in a pink Cadillac convertible is accompanied by a suspiciously Prince-sounding tune called “Just Wanna Drive,” credited on imdb.com to “The JL Band.” Although the unidentified singer is obviously not Prince, the song does bear a few of the Purple One’s hallmarks when in full-on classic rock mode. Despite a lengthy Internet search, no information is available about “The JL Band,” which has led to speculation amongst die-hard fans that Prince actually wrote, composed, and produced the track, but was forced by contractual circumstances to use a band of professional ringers to complete the final product. Prince’s ex-wife, Garcia, seems to confirm these rumors, explaining, “Prince was excited to hear about the new ALF movie and somehow managed to get a copy of the rough cut. He wrote and recorded “Just Wanna Drive” in one day. Everyone was excited about it — except Warner Bros.” Indeed, Prince’s controversial, decade-plus contract with Warner Bros. was finally set to expire following the release of the Chaos and Disorder LP that July, and rather than let the track fall into the hands of the label, Prince chose out of spite to give away his writing credits and hire a group of studio musicians instead.

“Prince wanted one last chance to do the ALF thing, but the timing was off by a couple months. And he wanted the song to air as a combined wedding and Valentine’s present to the both of us. He was disappointed it wasn’t his voice, but he was still happy he’d managed to sneak it in somehow and finally be a part of ALF,” said an emotional Ms. Garcia, whose memoir, “The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince,” was released in 2017. The Project: ALF incident is not mentioned in the manuscript.

“The JL Band” could not be reached for comment. The final owner of the rights to “Just Wanna Drive” remains unknown.

No release date has been given for the debut of “U R the 1,” but experts at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses have confirmed that Prince owned the most comprehensive collection of ALF memorabilia in the world, from plush dolls and trading cards to T- shirts and DVD box-sets. Prince’s personal VHS tapes of the series have yet to be appraised, but are expected to raise unprecedented bidding offers from music collectors.

It was no secret that Prince’s tumultuous relationship with his father, jazz musician John L. Nelson, Sr., was the inspiration for the plot of the smash hit film Purple Rain, but watching ALF together helped them forgive and forget. Sharon Nelson remembered that, “Every week, before practice, when the show was on, Prince would have Pop picked up in a limousine and driven to Paisley Park. Prince would cook something up and they’d watch it together before the band got there — just father and son time, you know? It was a special part of his routine. After the show was over, they would jam a little bit, and that eventually became the score for Under The Cherry Moon, and then the soundtrack album for the movie, Parade. It reminded me of how Willie, the dad on the show, and ALF would butt heads for a while, but always came together in the end. If you watch it, remember that Willie tries to help ALF write the music to ALF’s lyrics, even suggesting different keys, but ALF has to do it his own way. Prince and Pop, and ALF and Willie were kind of like that, and I think they saw that, too, and it was a big part of their healing.”

When asked for clarification on the star’s obsession with the wise-cracking alien, Ms. Nelson offered: “I guess Prince related to ALF on a few levels. They were both musically gifted outsiders who couldn’t interact with the outside world for fear of being tortured by the government. They were both very funny and secretly generous and entirely misunderstood. I always used to joke that they were both short and hairy, too. In terms of originality, our father used to joke that Prince must have come from the planet right next to Melmac.”

Originally published in The Alameda Murmur.

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Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch, 1929) Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth, Eugene Pallette, E.H. Calvert, Edgar Norton, Lionel Belmore. Screenplay: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton, based on a play by Leon Xanrof and Jules Chancel. Cinematography: Victor Milner. Art direction: Hans Dreier. Film editing: Merrill G. White. Costume design: Travis Banton. Music: Victor Schertzinger. It irritates me a little to think that MGM, thanks largely to those That's Entertainment clip shows in the 1970s, is celebrated for its movie musicals, when in fact the genre was pioneered and perfected at other studios: Warner Bros. with its Busby Berkeley dance spectacles, RKO with its Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers cycle, and Paramount, where Ernst Lubitsch virtually invented the story musical with The Love Parade and subsequent re-teamings of Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. (Oddly, today MacDonald is better known for her inferior and unsexy MGM teaming with Nelson Eddy.) MGM didn't achieve musical greatness until the end of the 1930s, when after the success of The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), the studio put its associate producer, Arthur Freed, in charge of the film musicals unit. True, MGM had won a best-picture Oscar with The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont, 1929), but that was a standard backstage musical, not one in which the songs and dances are fully integrated into the plot. Besides, it's almost unwatchable today, whereas thanks to the charm of Chevalier and the sexiness of MacDonald in her revealing pre-Code frippery, but most of all to what is known as "the Lubitsch touch," The Love Parade is still enjoyable. Lubitsch's "touch" as a director was based on a sly conviction that the audience would get the joke, usually a naughty one, and it was perfected during the silent era, when things had to be shown, not told. So the film opens with a mostly silent demonstration of why Count Alfred Renard (Chevalier) has caused such a scandal with his dalliances in Paris that he has to be recalled to Sylvania and rebuked by Queen Louise (MacDonald). But this is also a film that wittily integrates sound into its sight gags, as the entire Sylvanian court eavesdrops on the burgeoning love of Alfred and Louise. The plot, derived by screenwriters Guy Bolton and Ernest Vajda from a French play, is standard, slightly sexist stuff about the prince consort, Alfred, feeling miffed by the fact that his marriage to the queen leaves him with nothing to do, but it's carried off well by the leads, as well as the saucy servants, Jacques (Lupino Lane) and Lulu (Lillian Roth), and a court full of skilled character actors like Eugene Pallette, Edgar Norton, and Lionel Belmore. It's too bad that the song score by lyricist Clifford Grey and composer Victor Schertzinger isn't better -- there are too many reprises of "Dream Lover," for example -- but Lubitsch's staging compensates for its weakness.

#The Love Parade #Ernst Lubitsch #Jeanette MacDonald #Maurice Chevalier

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