“[singing] Telling the truth can be dangerous business; / Honest and popular don’t go hand in hand. / If you admit that you play the accordion, / No one will hire you in a rock ‘n’ roll band. / But we can sing out hearts out. / And if we’re lucky, then no neighbors complain. / Because life is the way we audition for God; / Let us pray that we all get the job.”

– Lyle Rogers (Warren Beatty) & Chuck Clarke (Dustin Hoffman), Ishtar (1987), written and directed by Elaine May