Diane Lane, The Early Years!

By Jeff Lyons on Sep 16, 2008 in Movies, People We Like, Videos


Okay, been busy of late so I ripped off this post idea from our pal McG at PhillyBurbs. I loved “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains”when I was a kid, but haven’t seen it since. I’m sure it’s quite bad and the fake punk music has to be laughable, but a young Diane Lane stars in it and that is reason enough to give it a viewing.

The legendary late-night cult classic film, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is finally coming to DVD! The 1981 film features a very young Diane Lane (she was hot even then), as well as Laura Dern along side real-life punkers Steve Jones and Paul Cook (Sex Pistols) and Paul Simonon (The Clash). PhillyBurbs

Worst fake band ever in a movie? Mystery from “Satisfaction”… Julie Roberts on bass? Ugh. Best fake band ever in a TV show? Dregs of Humanity from “It’s Your Move.” (Like the Bateman sibling connection? Pretty slick.)

More Diane? Yes, please. Miss Lane’s 1979 film debut was the splendid “A Little Romance” which was on HBO around the clock back in the day. After viewing, every young American boy wanted to be an insouciant young, girl-getting French mop-top or at least beat the crap out of one.


I know she was the hottie in “The Outsiders,” but more importantly, Miss Lane co-starred with Mr. Roaster himself, Kenny Roger, in his triumphant film debut “Six Pack”. This auto racing film ruled! It had to. With the vivacious Lane, the lovely Col. Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers and Farmer Ted from Sixteen Candles as part of the pit crew, how could it not.


After many memorable teen roles in which she shined, Diane grew up and went away for a while (read: made some really bad movies).

Thankfully she came back in full force having sex with Richard Gere on screen (a very good way to get noticed again). This put her back in the A-list and she went on to make a bunch of films I would never see… except that Dog movie with John Cusack… what happened Lane Meyer? Where did it all go wrong.

Super-tangential, not-interesting factoid: My cousin’s friend hung out with Diane Lane and her hubby Josh “Brand Walsh” Brolin in a dive-ish bar in NYC recently. They just sat at the bar, smoked some cigs, had some beers and watched a baseball game. He said they were very cool and very low key.

Wish I was there, I would have totally ruined the chill scene with a bunch of fumbling, Farleyesque “remember when…” non-questions. That would have been awesome.

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3 Comment(s)

  1. Actually don’t laugh, but I was about ten when “Satisfaction” came out and I thought that was just the coolest movie ever! I wanted to play bass after seeing Julia Roberts mime the bass in that film! And if I remember didn’t Justine Bateman actually do her own singing in that film?

    Anyway I didn’t see “Ladies and Gentelman”…. till much later and it’s just one of the coolest 80’s teen rock chick flicks! Now that it’s on DVD hopefully it will inspire a whole new group of young girls to pick up the guitar!

    In terms of Diane Lane’s recent films, I really liked “Under the Tuscan Sun” it’s a total chick flick and “Unfaithful” was just awesome! I wanna be married to Richard Gere and have a hot passionate affair with Oliver Martinez!!

    Amy | Sep 16, 2008 | Reply

  2. Hey little bit of trivia about “Satisfaction”, Britta Phillips from Luna played the lead guitarist!

    Amy | Sep 16, 2008 | Reply

  3. That is excellent trivia, Amy. Love me the Luna.

    Oddly enough Britta was in a recent movie called “House of Satisfaction” about a rock musician? her life has come full circle.

    Jeff Lyons | Sep 16, 2008 | Reply

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