You won't feel too much like a jerk watching this rock & roll hostage comedy. There are laugh licks and spirited performances. It's fluff done with flair about an L.A. band called the Lone Rangers — never mind that three people can't be lone. Lead singer Chazz (Brendan Fraser), bassist Rex (Steve Buscemi) and drummer Pip (Adam Sandler) just want to rock, man, but no radio station will play their tape. So they hold a gun on smartass DJ Ian (Joe Mantegna) and sleazy program manager Milo (Michael McKean). The gun is only a water pistol, but Milo and Ian don't know that. The Lone Rangers are suddenly badass media sensations who have the world ready to listen. But the boneheads can't find their demo.

The Rich Wilkes script is a dumbed-down "Dog Day Afternoon." But director Michael Lehmann, a long way from the keen wit of Heathers, hasn't lost his touch with actors. Fraser and Buscemi are deadpan delights. And Sandler, Opera Man on "SNL," is a red-hot screen find. There are also cameos from Michael Richards, Chris Farley and Beavis and Butt-head. "You guys suck," B&B tell the band. They're right. But thanks to a gifted cast of zanies, "Airheads" doesn't.

“Everyday People”

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.