Splish Splash (song) (possibly a play on Murray the K). It was also featured as a DTV music video on The Disney Channel, set mostly to clips of Disney characters bathing, particularly from the 1948 cartoon "Mickey and the Seal" (illustrating the singer's bath in the first verse), but also "Mickey's Birthday Party" (to illustrate the party he walks in on). Kevin Spacey performs the song in the Bobby Darin biopic "Beyond the Sea". The song was also featured on an insert on Sesame Street where the Zoo keepers at the Bronx Zoo are washing the elephants. The song can also be heard
Beyond the Sea (film) "The Shipping News", was hired to write a new draft for "Beyond the Sea". Epperson's script included Darin's penchant for orgies after his divorce with Sandra Dee. Spacey, finding the Epperson script to be overtly dark and morbid, began to rewrite "Beyond the Sea", incorporating info from the 1987 Lewis Colick script. Spacey acknowledged he portrayed Darin in an exaggeratedly sympathetic way, and decided not to centrally depict the darker side of Darin's life. "The other scripts made Bobby [Darin] a rather unlikable figure," he explained. "I was not interested in making a conventional biopic, as you can see from