Three Nevada guys — 18 and horny. Stolen money. 1962. Marilyn Monroe. You expect little from a comedy that combines those elements, and "Calendar Girl" delivers. Jason Priestley, the likable star of TV's Beverly Hills, 90210, stars as Roy Darpinian, a Fonz type in speech and manner, which can probably be traced to screenwriter Paul W. Shapiro's early experiences doing scripts on spec for Happy Days. Roy lusts for a date with MM before shipping out for the Army. Heading for L.A. with money lifted from his loan-shark bosses, Roy drags along his two buds — nerdy Ned (Gabriel Olds) and nervous Scott (Jerry O'Connell). They don't think Roy has a chance ("You have no brains, and you fart").

Ninety laugh-free minutes later, Monroe (Stephanie Anderson) has changed each boy's life in singularly unexciting ways. Director John Whitesell tries to compensate with titillation — Priestley even shows his buns on a nude beach — but Calendar Girl is clearly waiting to catch the next ride to video oblivion.

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."