Remember that scene in Se7en when Brad Pitt‘s character pronounces “Marquis de Sade” as “Markee duh shah-DAY” — an allusion to the pronunciation of Sade, the pop singer who peaked in the ’80s and ’90s? Morgan Freeman tells him the correct pronunciation and Pitt goes “whatever.”
The same thing happens in this amateurish fan video about ’50s teen idol Bobby Rydell, who passed today at age 79.
Toward the end (around the 6:24 mark) the under-educated narrator talks about Rydell “for over 30 years” having performed “over 700 shows” of The Golden Boys with costars Fabian and Frankie Avalon. Except the narrator pronounces Fabian like Fabio — “FAH-bee-AHN.” The name is correctly pronounced “FAY-bee-uhn.”
