Cyndi Lauper on ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ Movie: ‘It Sucked’
Cyndi Lauper was far from thrilled when her 1983 smash “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was turned into a movie. The 1985 romantic comedy of the same name starred Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt, with Parker’s character vying to win a spot on a popular dance show against her father’s wishes. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” writer Robert Hazard sold the big screen rights to his song, but Lauper refused to have her version of the hit or the lyrics she re-wrote used in the movie. “I guess it was about a couple of girls… trying to have fun,” she said dismissively in a new interview with the New Yor...