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The Pompatus of Love is a 1996 American comedy film that tells the story of four guys discussing women and the meaning of the word "pompatus".This made-up word is found in two Steve Miller songs, "Enter Maurice" and "The Joker", the latter of which contains the line "Some people call me Maurice / 'cause I speak of the pompatus of love".
The Pompatus of Love, a 1996 film starring Jon Cryer, featured four men discussing a number of assorted themes, including attempts to determine the meaning of the phrase. [3] Jon Cryer was also a writer of the film, and describes finding out the meaning of the phrase during a phone call with Vernon Green in his autobiography "So That Happened ...
The line "some people call me Maurice / 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love" was written after Miller heard the song "The Letter" by the Medallions. In "The Letter", writer Vernon Green made up the word puppetutes, meaning a paper-doll erotic fantasy figure; [4] however, Miller misheard the word and wrote pompatus instead.
Schenkman's debut feature film, The Pompatus of Love, was co-written with Jon Cryer & Adam Oliensis, and directed by him. [4] He then directed films such as October 22, [5] Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God… Be Back by Five, [6] and A Diva's Christmas Carol, for VH1. [7]
"The Letter" contained the nonsense lyric, "the 'puppetutes' of love", which was later picked up by the Steve Miller Band as "the pompatus of love" and used in their song "The Joker". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The song also included the nonsense word "pismotality", invented by Green.
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Her other film credits include Get on the Bus, Walking Tall, Crossover, Dungeons and Dragons, Pompatus of Love, Girl 6, Cross-Eyed, Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Dolittle 2, and Dr. Dolittle 3. She also plays the biological mother of Camryn (Tamera Mowry) and Alex (Tia Mowry) in the Disney films Twitches and Twitches Too.