Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains

Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains The Academy Award-nominated beauty (Unfaithful) was only 15 years old when she played Corinne “Third-Degree” Burns in Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, a film about three young girls who form a punk rock group and get their 15 minutes of fame before crashing and burning out.

Shot in 1980, The Fabulous Stains is set for a DVD release on September 16 by Rhino, which is heralding the movie as a “lost classic” to kick off its new Rock ‘N’ Roll Cinema line. And while it’s a snapshot of an era when punk soon morphed into New Wave and might have contributed indirectly to the rise of such popular and phenomenal female artists as Joan Jett, the Go-Go’s, Cyndi Lauper, and, yes, Madonna, the movie is anything but a classic.

After all, the film received only a very limited theatrical release in 1981, then vanished. Lane made her acting debut alongside Sir Laurence Olivier two years earlier in A Little Romance , which landed her on the cover of Time magazine. She became a teen queen in the early ’80s, appearing in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, then as sexy rock ‘n’ roll queen Ellen Aim in Streets of Fire, Walter Hill’s terrific rock ‘n’ roll fable. Her career continues to thrive, and at the end of the month she can be seen in Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere, her co-star in The Cotton Club and Unfaithful. Look for a review of Rodanthe later in the week.

Lane’s success before the age of 20 probably had a lot to do with unleashing The Fabulous Stains on the public again. As burgeoning cable networks like USA were looking for anything to program, The Fabulous Stains soon found its way onto Night Flight, the trend-setting show that picked up movies regarded as cult favorites.

Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains

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