In commemoration of this unbearably anxiety-inducing, nausea-producing week, we’re watching the lousiest musical numbers ever filmed. We began yesterday with the dreaded Ritz Brothers doing a ludicrous number in ‘The Goldwyn Follies’ and continue today with the climactic number from the catastrophic 1984 sort-of-comedy “Rhinestone”, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton. The story of the making of the film is a good deal more interesting than the film itself–lots of bad behavior from Stallone, unnecessary rewrites, directors being replaced etc. The above number speaks for itself–there really isn’t anything to add except that somehow the film that it’s in was greenlit by Twentieth Century Fox. In the end, the best thing to come out of ‘Rhinestone’ was a very funny quote from, of all people, Dolly Parton. In her 1994 autobiography, Parton said of the film’s box-office failure: “I guess the public didn’t want to see Sylvester Stallone do comedy – or see me do Sylvester Stallone.”