Things you didn't know....(SeattleSt) Last weekend, Seattlest revisited the other Shorewood High School for our 20-year reunion. And it's been 20 years since Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court left Lakeside High, so on our flight to Milwaukee, we got reacquainted with Cameron Crowe's Say Anything.... Singles gets the Seattle-centric attention, but Say Anything... is the movie where Seattle first caught our eye, several years before we actually moved to the land of the Gas 'n' Sip.
FACT: The boombox scene gets all the attention, but according to Ione Skye, if she hadn't been dating Anthony Kiedis and Cusack hadn't been in love with someone else, they would've gone home together after they filmed the sequence where Lloyd teaches Diane how to drive. Ah, the romance of stick shift.
FACT: Speaking of the boombox scene, the shot used in the film was the last take of the last shot on the last day of filming. And it took a while to figure out what song would be playing. In the screenplay, Crowe said it was Billy Idol's "To Be a Lover." On set, Cusack was blasting Fishbone's "Turn the Other Way." At some point, Crowe asked the Smithereens to write a song. They came up with "A Girl Like You," but Crowe pulled it from the film because the lyrics mirrored the plot too closely. (It was the Smithereens' first top 40 hit, though, when it came out on the album 11.) Crowe stumbled across "In Your Eyes" on a wedding mix tape he'd made for his wife, and Peter Gabriel agreed to let them include it once the studio sent him a copy Say Anything... instead of the John Belushi bio-pic Wired, their initial shipping error. And at first, during the scene when Lloyd is leaving his sister's apartment to go to England with Diane, they were going to play "In Your Eyes" again, but Cusack and Crowe decided that was "too pussy." So we get the Replacements' "Within Your Reach" instead.
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