Appearances in Popular Culture
- The song is played during the Manhattan gallery scene in the hip-hop film Wild Style (1983)
- Blondie's recording is featured in the film 200 Cigarettes (1999)
- The song appears in the film The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
- Blondie's version is used on Nip/Tuck last chapter of its first season, "Escobar Gallardo".
- The Blondie track is also featured in the Steve McQueen film Shame (2011).
- The hook's melody is used in dubstep producer Doctor P's song "Galaxies & Stars."
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Famous quotes containing the words appearances, popular and/or culture:
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)