Billy Vera

Um, [clears throat] Tracy Pollan plays, uh, Pollan, Pollan, Pollan? I always get the name.

Plays Ellen, who, sort of this, this girl who he has a crush on and, on the show, and then they fall in love in real life, but what's funny about that is [coughs] um, when they meet, they play that song by Billy Vera, At This Moment, which was, like, I think cracked the top 100 barely when it came out in, like, '82.

Um, but they play it, and they play it again when he writes the breakup letter to her on the show.

You know, "What do you think I would do at this moment?" And it's so popular, television's, that show's so popular, that the song's re-released and goes to number one.

I think it's number one for, like, three weeks.

Two or three weeks at least.

So Billy Vera, who later, by the way, plays Duke, um, the bookie on 90210 who rush- w- wants to rough Brandon up.

Uh, the same guy, Billy Vera, and The Beaters.

Plays Ellen, who, sort of this, this girl who he has a crush on and, on the show, and then they fall in love in real life.

But what's funny about that is, [coughs] um, when they meet they play that song by Billy Vera, "At This Moment," which was, like, I think cracked the top 100 barely when it came out in, like, '82.

Um, but they play it, and they play it again when he writes the breakup letter to her on the show.

You know, "What do you think I would do at this moment?" And it's so popular, television s- that show's so popular, that the song's re-released and goes to number one.

I think it's number one for, like, three weeks.

Two or three weeks at least.

So Billy Vera, who later, by the way, plays Duke, um, the bookie on 90210 who rough, w- wants to rough Brandon up.

Uh, the same guy, Billy Vera, and The Beaters.

He's a rock star.

And I love the fact that Billy Vera and the Beaters are there as the band.

And it's just a great, great, great scene.

Do you guys have any favorite quotes in the film? There's some funny lines in there.

Howe and the filmmakers decided not to go with a rock music score for the film and opted for an electronic one instead.

Howe wanted to integrate music and sound effects so that everyone would emerge or everything would emerge on the soundtrack with no distinction between music and sound.

uh buckaroo i want to mention here too that most of the real band playing with buckaroo bonsai is in fact billy vera and the beaters uh for those of you that don't know who billy vera the beaters are they had a number one hit in 1987 called at this moment very good song very published song but uh lacey i want to get your thoughts on the music

uh liked the music during um and throughout um i'm again i'm not really a music person i really only connect with music through soundtracks so this is one of the first ones where i was like this is really kind of it's got really good flow i liked it