Desperate Living - Tributes

Tributes

• The musician and band Marilyn Manson include a tribute to Desperate Living on their 1994 album, Portrait of an American Family. The last track on the album has a recording of Mink Stole's character, Peggy Gravel, shouting at children playing baseball (having just broken her window). The line is spoken as follows:

  "Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some communist daycare center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!"

  • The sound of a ringing telephone is then heard on a loop before, at the very end of the track, a message from the Marilyn Manson Family Intervention Hotline answering machine is heard, specifically a mother asking for her son's name to be removed from the band's mailing list.
• The musical Miss Saigon features a musical scene with the first words being "Coo-Coo Princess".
• Horse the Band's 2009 album was titled Desperate Living after the film.
• Japanese director Tomoaki Hosoyama's early pink film Lesbian Harem (1987) is an homage to Desperate Living.