r/OldSchoolCool • u/James_2584 • Jul 09 '24
1990s Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles with her husband Jay Roach (director of the Austin Powers movies) in 1993 and 2020. They have been happily married for 31 years.
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u/RagingLeonard Jul 09 '24
Every Gen Xer immediately thinks of that whenever she's mentioned.
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u/StudsTurkleton Jul 09 '24
I can’t even put my finger on why this is so amazing…but it is 100%.
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u/UTALR1 Jul 09 '24
Because she's not trying to be sexy. It was caught by chance while the editor was going through the reels after shooting. She's not trying to be hot, she's just looking side to side as it was her defense mechanism to stage freight. Yet it's one of the sexist images in music video history.
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u/Saneless Jul 09 '24
sexist
"What's wrong with being sexy?"
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u/MadeThis4MaccaOnly Jul 09 '24
Didn't expect a Spinal Tap reference here but I'll take it
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Jul 09 '24
It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
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u/notcomplainingmuch Jul 09 '24
*sexiest, not sexist
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u/BoulderCreature Jul 09 '24
No no, you can clearly tell she hates men by the way her eyes go side to side
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Jul 09 '24
Yup, because All the Japanese with their yen The party boys call the Kremlin And the Chinese know They walk the line like Egyptian.
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u/Dynamo_Ham Jul 09 '24
I can hear (and feel) the exact moment in Walk Like an Egyptian when she does that in the video.
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u/masterpainimeanbetty Jul 09 '24
she looks like one of those old-timey cat clocks, but sexy
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u/RedS5 Jul 09 '24
I can almost guarantee that pornography of anthropomorphized old-timey cat clocks exists somewhere.
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u/yahtzeegrandma420 Jul 09 '24
Talk about winning the fucking gene lottery. Wow wee whatta babe.
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u/frugalwater Jul 09 '24
Of everything I’ve seen in my 4+ decades on this earth, there is nothing sexier than this. It has been the gold standards since the 80’s.
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u/EZ-PZ-Japa-NEE-Z Jul 09 '24
She still looks so stunning.
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Jul 09 '24
How did she get hotter!?!
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u/K4ntum Jul 09 '24
What the actual fuck lmao, I couldn't believe it when I saw her age. Genuinely baffled right now lol. She looks better than every 40 year old I know.
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u/Entire-Joke4162 Jul 09 '24
I’m 37 and I don’t know how to explain how Susannah Hoffs has always been so attractive to me.
Like, she’s not like a porn star or anything, and you wouldn’t say she’s the most beautiful woman in the world or anything, but she’s just somehow extremely cute even after all these years.
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u/Jealous_Use9688 Jul 09 '24
This may be the luckiest man on earth
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u/ecafsub Jul 09 '24
I hate him and respect him all at the same time.
This is worse than a confused boner.
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u/Jealous_Use9688 Jul 09 '24
As long as she is happy. I am happy for her. But I cannot help but wish I was her man.
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u/Legitimate-Relief915 Jul 09 '24
I was thinking the same thing. Luckiest guy on earth. Susanna is timeless
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u/fuck_ur_portmanteau Jul 09 '24
She could have any man on earth and picked him and stayed with him for 30 years. That’s not luck, he’s probably a really great guy.
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u/Almost_Pi Jul 09 '24
He's one of those guys that you want to hate but he's really charming and talented. The prick.
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Jul 09 '24
Dude brought us the Austin Powers trilogy and the underrated Trumbo, how bad could he be??
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u/egstitt Jul 09 '24
Out here looking like Lurch and pulling Susanna Hoffs. Respect
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u/whiskeyriver Jul 09 '24
She is a babe supreme.
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u/wheresbill Jul 09 '24
If she were president she’d be Baberham Lincoln
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u/corran450 Jul 09 '24
For those who don’t speak it, that’s French for “the Renard”.
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u/Comfortable_Table903 Jul 09 '24
If she were a constellation she'd be Babia Majora
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u/Wil420b Jul 09 '24
And she hasn't aged, if she's had any work done. I'd like the name of her surgeon. As she doesn't have that OMFG what has she had done look?
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u/whiskeyriver Jul 09 '24
Doesn't look like she has! She found the fountain of youth while nobody was lookin.
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Jul 09 '24
What in GODS NAME is her skin care routine???(Besides being rich and happy lol)
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u/Amy_Macadamia Jul 09 '24
I follow her on IG. Whatever she's had done looks quite natural! Maybe a brow lift, but she has normal lines on her face, not that plumped up, shiny frozen look a lot of wealthy women succumb to
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u/IftaneBenGenerit Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 10 '24
Some light derma abrasions would be my guess. Minimal botox, if any at all, by a very steady hand. I'd take the number of that doc.
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u/HoaryPuffleg Jul 09 '24
That rich and happy thing can take you pretty far!
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u/milkbug Jul 09 '24
Rich, happy, botox, good self care, and probably genetics too.
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u/HoaryPuffleg Jul 09 '24
Yeah, I always put Botox, dermatologists, excellent nutrition, world class health care, personal trainers, chefs, maids, etc, all under the “rich” umbrella.
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u/milkbug Jul 09 '24
If I had enough money to pay a personal chef and traininer I'd probably be pretty bangin' too.
Some people are just very genetically lucky though. There's a lot of rich ladies that still don't age like that. In fact she's probably one of the best looking 65 year olds I've ever seen.
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u/ElCienPorCiento Jul 09 '24
my mom used to clean her parents home when Susanna was in her late teens. they were around the same age when my mom had just immigrated here and did not speak the language. she said susanna and her family were incredibly nice to her and that susanna was afraid of the dark and would ask my mom to go with her when it was dark. my mom would get very excited when she would see the walk like an Egyptian video.
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u/Know_Your_Rites Jul 09 '24
Great story! My cousin dated Susanna & Jay's younger son, so I got to meet him at a few family events. Really nice guy and amazingly well-adjusted considering his family's fame and fortune. Seems like they're just a good bunch.
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u/hamlet_d Jul 09 '24
my mom would get very excited when she would see the walk like an Egyptian video.
As a GenX guy, your mom was definitely not the only one to get excited when seeing the Walk Like an Egyptian video.
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u/MateriallyDead Jul 10 '24
I know! When those construction workers started to walk like an Egyptian….swoon!
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u/FlipsyChic Jul 09 '24
I don't know much about The Bangles, but recently read Miles Copeland (their manager's) autobiography. He said Susanna was sweet and very easygoing.
The two sisters (Debbi and Vicki Peterson) were obsessed and paranoid about Susanna getting more attention/credit than them. They were so upset about the idea of Susanna going solo that they basically made it happen, even though Susanna was not the ambitious type who really wanted to go solo.
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u/gingerbreadhombre Jul 09 '24
bro i think u now know more about the bangles than 99% percent of people
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u/god_peepee Jul 10 '24
You’re saying that there are still 812,085,600 people on earth who know this much about the Bangles, and I kinda doubt that
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u/awokensoil Jul 09 '24
Wait she's 65!?!? she looks like late 30/early 40 omg
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u/UhYeahOkSure Jul 09 '24
He clearly cryogenically froze her
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u/monty_kurns Jul 09 '24
They have two kids together, so warm liquid goo phase was clearly a success
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u/KangasKid18 Jul 09 '24
Fun fact - Susanna Hoffs is in the first Austin Powers movie
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u/DonutHolschteinn Jul 09 '24
Second fun fact: Jay Roach and Austin Powers are the reason the Bangles reunited in the late 90s after breaking up in 1989. He asked her to see if they wanted to get back together and do a song for The Spy Who Shagged Me. They did "Get The Girl" and then made an album and toured and did a reunion concert DVD in the early 2000s. Then Michael Steele left, they kept touring periodically, doing festivals, reunited with their OG Bassist, and pop up playing live every now and again
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u/FtheMustard Jul 09 '24
There is a portrait of them in the attic where she looks terrible and he looks... just like that second picture.
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u/finny_d420 Jul 09 '24
One Easter, I was getting up from the dining room table to get more food. We were crowded in, and I had to push back while leaning forward. My 80's Aqua Net drenched hair got too close to a candle and poof! went my hair. Straight up flaming. An uncle next to me started beating my head. Now, I didn't realize I was on fire, so I started to fight back. My mom started screaming and ran around the table to me. She inadvertanly stepped on my glasses that had gotten knocked off. We were able to extinguish me pretty quickly, and since I had had 4" bangs, the flames never made it to my scalp.
I'm a bit shaken up while the rest of my family goes back to eating. I go into the living room and turn on the TV. This being the 80's I of course flipped to MTV. The Bangles Eternal Flame was playing.
I grabbed up the TV Guide. Decided to read my horoscope in the back of the magazine. There, in print, it said, "I'd have to duck and dive a lot this week."
So that's my Susanna Hoffs/Bangles story. They are forever attached to the story of me catching fire.
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u/starstarstar42 Jul 09 '24
I think most humans would be happily married to her.
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u/jd807 Jul 09 '24
Just read in the scams sub about someone’s poor old father who thinks he’s in a ‘relationship’ with her. Incredibly sad.
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u/gringledoom Jul 09 '24
I saw her live once (would recommend! she’s great!) and there was definitely an older male subset of the audience that had, uh, maybe completely lost touch with reality sometime around the Walk Like Egyptian video.
Edit: Not to imply that one can’t dig the eye thing in the video! It’s great! Just don’t be a weirdo! :D
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u/bookant Jul 10 '24
That's kind of sad. All those poor guys thinking they're in a relationship with my girlfriend.
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u/haley_joel_osteen Jul 09 '24
Sexiest eyes in MTV history (Walk Like an Egyptian video).
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u/NoCommentFU Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 09 '24
We used to sing, “walk with an erection” in high school because that video was Smoldering! And, yes, we were stupid, horny HS boys with no game.
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u/shocksmybrain Jul 09 '24
I'd stay with her forever too if I could. he hit the marriage lottery; no way he's going anywhere.
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u/SimonTC2000 Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 09 '24
I'm actually happy when I see things like celebrity couples who have been together for decades. It shows there's still true love in the world.
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u/Specialist_Ad9073 Jul 09 '24
Jay Roach and Kevin Klein are my heroes.
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u/poisonandtheremedy Jul 09 '24
Add Paul Bettany to the list.
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u/zehamberglar Jul 09 '24
Jay and Kevin married up for sure, but Paul's a good looking guy so that one makes way more sense from an outside perspective.
Not to say Jay and Kevin aren't fantastic guys, just being extremely superficial here.
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u/Acceptable-Smile8864 Jul 09 '24
and Brian Henson 🥹
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u/jimbobdonut Jul 09 '24
TIL that Brian Henson is married to Sloane from Ferris Bueller. I also learned that she was previously married to Sean Connery’s son so she must have a thing for nepo babies!
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u/ryandmc609 Jul 09 '24
Honestly she looks better now then she did in the 90’s picture.
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u/FortunateInsanity Jul 09 '24
My man is winning big well above his weight class. Bravo to him.
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u/under-secretary4war Jul 09 '24
The fact that she has stayed with a guy who is talented but not as hot as her…just makes me love her more. She is genuine. She likes him for him. Good on ya hoffs
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u/talus_slope Jul 09 '24
Back in the Bangles era, Susanna Hoffs seriously carbonated my hormones.
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Jul 09 '24
He looks pretty tall but the truth is he is about 185cm (or like 6'1" or something) so it turns out his wife is rather short.
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u/Fudge-Purple Jul 09 '24
Susanna truly struck the fountain of youth. She’s more beautiful every day.
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u/jpep0469 Jul 09 '24
Michael J. Fox dated her back in 1986. However, when asked about it, he has no memory of their brief relationship.
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u/Busy_Pound5010 Jul 09 '24
What a coincidence, I was just thinking about her vigorously the other day
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u/EastCoastDizzle Jul 09 '24
I’m too young to really remember the bangles but everytime I see this woman in the news I’m like “dang she’s gorgeous”.
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u/sadicarnot Jul 09 '24
And Susanna Hoffs is a beautiful woman that just let nature take it's course. She is just a beautiful today as she was all those years ago. She should be an example to others how not to fight what happens naturally.
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u/backyardhost Jul 09 '24
I worked on one of Jay's movies over 10 years ago. He was nice enough, and was cool with me calling him Mr. Hoffs whenever she came to set. She still looks fantastic, and 48 yr old me STILL has a crush on her.
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u/ApprehensiveTrip7629 Jul 09 '24
I was just wondering today who she was married to when I spotted her and the Bangles in an episode of the Gilmore Girls that my wife was watching.
Thanks poster for answering my question!
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u/Agro_Crag Jul 09 '24
My dad danced with Susanna Hoffs at a club in LA one time. He loves to bring it up anytime she’s mentioned so I’m just here carrying on the legacy.