Take a tired formula about a hostage situation in a small town where a mob accountant (Kevin Pollak) and his brat son and jailbait daughter are held captive at home by three psychos. Add Bruce Willis, hamming it up as a burnt-out L.A. hostage negotiator who comes to said small town to take the easy job of police chief, only to be called back to duty by sneaking into the house and saving the day. Stir with a director, Florent Siri, who has no shame about stealing every sadistic suspense trick from the Die Hard series. Serve to a gullible audience willing to pay top dollar for secondhand goods. Keep serving for as long as you can get away with it.

“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.