The boombox scene from 1989 teen romance Say Anything is one of those scenes so iconic that even if you haven’t seen it, you’ve seen it. It’s been parodied in everything from South Park to The Daily Show , and turned the simple action of holding up a boombox outside of someone’s window into easily understood shorthand for love, devotion and borderline-stalker tendencies. And really, if there’s only reason why you’d know John Cusack or Peter Gabriel’s song “In Your Eyes,” that’s probably it.
’80s babies were given a shriek-worthy reunion of song and actor over the weekend, at Peter Gabriel’s gig at the Hollywood Bowl. At the beginning of Gabriel’s performance of his signature love song, Cusack slinked onstage and wordlessly handed the singer a boombox, before waving his hat at the audience and exiting stage right. “Mr. John Cuasck, everybody!” the bemused singer explained to the crowd, before launching into the song. It wasn’t exactly a re-enactment of the famous scene, but it involved John Cusack, Peter Gabriel and a boombox, so close enough.
Cool moment, though the four people in the crowd that only know John Cusack as “the guy from that Julia Roberts romantic comedy” (or “the guy from that action movie where Nicolas Cage has a mullet”) must have been very confused by the entire exchange. Without any kind of context, the scene probably looked like some sort of Buddhist ritual where a singer is presented with a music-playing device before his performance for luck. Maybe Ione Skye should have showed up too, just to be on the safe side.
[Gawker]
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