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Post by mikef6 on May 11, 2019 2:39:40 GMT
A lot of people (including me for a long time) thought that director Joseph Losey was English because of his long residency in London, his work with Harold Pinter, and his well-known output of British films. But he was born and raised in La Crosse, Wisconsin and was a high school classmate with another future movie director, Nicholas Ray.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 15, 2019 23:12:32 GMT
Country singer Carrie Underwood married Canadian hockey player and actor, Mike Fisher, which would make her...Carrie Fisher!
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 17, 2019 15:36:15 GMT
The first movie to be offically rated R was a crime caper called The Split, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, and Ernest Borgnine.
The MPAA ratings came in effect on November 1, 1968; The Split was released on November 4, 1968.
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Post by mikef6 on May 25, 2019 0:46:22 GMT
I have been watching a lot of B-crime movies from the '40s lately so I keep running across Luther Adler. Until I looked him up on Wikipedia, I never made the connection to Stella Adler, acting school founder, teacher, and one of the major architects of the modern American Method style for actor training and role preparation. They were brother and sister.
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Post by Eλευθερί on May 26, 2019 7:10:29 GMT
Ralph Richardson's first wife died from complications of encephalitis lethargica--the mysterious neurological disease of the patients Dr Oliver Sacks described in Awakenings (Sacks was played, as Dr "Sayer," by Robin Williams in the 1990 film adaptation of the book).
There was an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica cases in the decade after WWI. The cause has never been conclusively determined, and there has never been a recurrence.
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Post by Eλευθερί on May 26, 2019 9:37:35 GMT
In the film Awakenings, based on a true story recounted by Dr Oliver Sacks, Dr Sayer (Robin Williams) rebuffs the overtures of nurse Eleanor (Julie Kavner), explaining to another character, Leonard (Robert De Niro), that the reason is that he has always been awkward in personal interactions with other people. SPOILER follows: At the end of the film, Dr Sayer gets up the courage to ask Eleanor out on a date. It's as if he'd been interested in her all along. In real life--while Oliver Sacks really was autistic and had a number of fascinating quirks that he described in his writings and interviews*, he was actually gay. But (I think) he didn't come out of the closet to the public until he finished his autobiography On The Move: A Life in 2014, at the age of 81. (He'd also been celibate for 35 years, since his 40s, until he met his partner in his 70s.) *for example here: www.wnycstudios.org/story/91641-how-much-is-too-much
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jun 9, 2019 1:14:00 GMT
Nichell Nichols (Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek) - sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton - decided to not leave the Star Trek tv show as she had been planning after being told by Martin Luther King that he was her greatest fan and that she was doing vital work serving as a role model for young women and children across the country, who saw a black woman as an equal to the other starship crew members in her character - she was romantically involved with Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry for several years in the 1960s (!!)
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 4, 2019 7:12:30 GMT
There are no tigers in Africa.
Or, more precisely, there are no tigers native to Africa.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 4, 2019 17:34:25 GMT
Going through the cast of Marathon Man 1976, I found the name Ben Dova, he played a small but important part in the movie as Laurence Olivier's characters brother who is killed early in the movie, and sets the story into motion. Ben Dova was once a famous vaudeville artist who did specialities like this:
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 5, 2019 6:33:25 GMT
Lots of interesting tidbits in the DVD commentary to Excalibur by director John Boorman.
Boorman says the first two nights of work produced no usable film--it was too underexposed; the director of photography subsequently had a nervous breakdown & left the production. His replacement, Alex Thomson, hadn't been able to get work on high-profile films after having been fired from Jesus Christ Superstar years earlier. Thomson went on to win an Oscar nomination for his work on Excalibur.
Helen Mirren (Morgana) and Nicol Williamson (Merlin), when asked to participate in the production, each said that they couldn't work with the other because they weren't on speaking terms after having worked in a disastrous performance of Macbeth. Boorman convinced them to take the roles, and Mirren said in a later interview that she and Williamson became friends as a result.
Boorman said he was frustrated that he couldn't get Mirren and Boorman to pronounce the words of an ancient Irish spell the same way. Her character was supposed to have learned how to say it from his, so she should have sounded the same way he did, but they wouldn't do it. lol
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 7, 2019 11:03:37 GMT
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 7, 2019 19:54:52 GMT
Max von Sydow is French. (And Gerard Depardieu is Russian, and Tina Turner is Swiss.) I'm sure Garth Game regulars know this, but it's news to me: Natalie Wood, although born in San Francisco, was the daughter of Russian immigrants. Her name at birth was Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, and she spoke fluent Russian. Also, her sister is Lana Wood.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 8, 2019 20:34:20 GMT
Sesame Street once featured a character named Meryl Sheep, an homage to actress Meryl Streep.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 14, 2019 12:35:44 GMT
Survivor: Panama (Season 12) winner, Aras Baskauskas (who also later appeared on Survivor: Blood vs. Water), is the grandson of actor Macdonald Carey ( Shadow of a Doubt). His brother, Vytas Baskauskas, appeared with him on Survivor: Blood vs. Water (Season 27). Aras Vytas Macdonald Carey
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Post by sostie on Jul 15, 2019 10:03:56 GMT
I watched some of Executive Decision last night. Noticed that the plane being hijacked was from Oceanic Airlines. Which I remembered was also the airline in the TV show Lost. Looked then up online and it seems they are the go to fictional Airline in various media Oceanic AirlinesAnd there was a link on the Wiki page to Morley Cigarettes..the go to brand on the big and small screen Morley
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 18, 2019 11:01:52 GMT
Sarah Sutherland, who played Catherine Meyer on Veep, is the daughter of Kiefer Sutherland and Camelia Kath, and the granddaughter of Donald Sutherland.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 20, 2019 14:06:29 GMT
British actor David Tomlinson. Now you know who it is. His father was well-respected London solicitor, Clarence Samuel Tomlinson, weekdays he worked in London and weekends he was with his family. Something that wasn't known until much later was that his father also had another family in London, and none knew about the other. Another thing I also read about is that, during the war, he served as a flight instructor in Canada, while there he met and married Mary Lindsay Hiddingh, her father was the vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company, she had been widowed in 1941 when her husband was killed in action, leaving her to care for their two young sons. Tomlinson married Mary in September 1943, but on 2 December 1943 she killed herself and her two sons in a murder-suicide by jumping from a hotel in New York. Such strange tragedies.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 30, 2019 22:59:25 GMT
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