Old Time Rock and Roll the 1983 film "Risky Business", starring Tom Cruise. Cruise's character, Joel Goodson, famously lip-syncs and dances in his underwear as this song plays after his parents leave him home alone. In 1986, the song was also featured in the TV series ""ALF"", in a caricature of the before mentioned Tom cruise scene, in which Alf has similarly been left home alone and trashed the house. Activision created a series of "" television commercials directed by Brett Ratner based on the scene, each featuring a different set of celebrities lip-sync to the lyrics while using the new instrument controllers. The first
Rock 'n' Roll (play) play was attended by first president of the post-Communist Czech Republic and leading figure of the Velvet Revolution, Václav Havel (a friend of Stoppard's) and rock star Mick Jagger, whose band, The Rolling Stones features in the final scene of the play (and who has also previously worked with Stoppard, having produced the film "Enigma", for which Stoppard wrote the screenplay, and who, along with his production company Jagged Films, has "approached" Stoppard "for the movie rights" to the play "Rock 'n' Roll".) The play premiered in Prague's historic National Theatre (Národní Divadlo) in February 2007. It features opening and