Picture Far From Heaven done as a farce with a drag queen in the Julianne Moore role. Or don't picture it — Die is still hotly hilarious. Charles Busch, the Broadway playwright (Taboo) and diva, brings high style and dazzling diction to the role of Angela Arden, a washed-up singer whose neurotic daughter, Edith (Natasha Lyonne), is miffed that Angela has killed her rich husband (Philip Baker Hall), who is Edith's daddy. Studly son Lance (Stark Sands) is more forgiving, until mommie gets in bed with tennis pro Tony (Jason Priestley, showing comic gifts here that 90210 never investigated). It seems Tony has been screwing Lance as well. Ah, family. Director Mark Rucker can't disguise the film's origins as a theater piece. But Busch, as screenwriter and star, is a true goddess.

“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.