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- Ranked #24 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- In the episode "Sheen's Brain" we see that his full name is Sheen
Estevez, a reference to the acting family headed by
'Martin Sheen' (qv).
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- During the show's first season, Sydney is never shown killing
anyone. This changes in the second season, when she is shown killing
bad guys frequently.
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- Series producer 'Norman Lear' (qv) wanted the show to be shot in
black and white, but CBS refused to allow this.
- 'Jean Stapleton' (qv) decided to do the series over starring in
_Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)_ (qv). She would have
played Mrs. Teevee.
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- Despite decent ratings, CBS pulled the show when the NAACP
complained of how they believed blacks were being depicted on this
show. The syndicated reruns were pulled from circulation in 1966
after similar protests.
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- After being listed as a guest star on both this show and
_"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)_ (qv) for the previous seven
years, 'Mercedes McNab' (qv) was finally added to the opening
credits of Angel for the final 6 episodes.
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- The episode of 22 November 1963 was broken into by CBS to announce
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The actors, however,
continued performing (as it was done live until 1975), and a
complete, uninterrupted copy of this episode still survives.
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- Ranked #13 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Like in the original series, the "13" tribes/colonies (if you
include Earth) is a reference to the 13 tribes of Israel.
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# "Beauty and the Beast" (1987)
- Ranked #14 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Brandon Walsh was also the name of 'Josh Brolin' (qv)'s character in
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episodes, referred to as "Mondale". Also, 'Luke Perry' (qv) does not
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- The only members of Samantha's family to consistantly call Darrin by
his first name were Aunt Clara and Uncle Arthur.
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- In the 2-hour premier of Season 6, "Bargaining" Parts 1 and 2, we
see Willow wearing a shirt with a number on it. We then see Xander
come in wearing what looks like a football jersey with a number on
it. Later when they gang is saying goodbye to Giles, Dawn is wearing
a shirt with 07 on it. The crew got many letters asking what the
numbers were supposed to mean, but there was no connection.
Executive Producer Marti Noxon said that this was completely
unintentional and was just a wardrobe coincidence.
- The sequence with the Mutant Enemy mascot, the little monster that
goes "Grr Argh" at the end of all episodes, was changed for a total
of seven episodes:
- in Becoming Part Two (2x22) it said, 'Oh, I need a hug."
- in Amends (3x10) it wore a Santa hat and bells were jingling
- in Graduation Day Part Two (3x22) it wore a graduation cap
- in Hush (4x10) it said nothing at all
- in Once More With Feeling (6x07) it sang its "Grr Argh"
- in Storyteller (7x16) it sang, "We are as gods"
- in Chosen (7x22) it looked out at the viewers instead of looking
straight-forward
- Ranked #3 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
- In "Grave", there is a hardcover copy of a William Shatner novel in
thepile of books on the floor of the Magic Box after Giles shoots
Willow through the wall (DVD, chapter 7, 12:49).
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# "Burke's Law" (1963)
- For the show's final season in 1965-66, the format was completely
changed in order to capitalize on the popularity of spy shows like
_"Man from U.N.C.L.E., The" (1964)_ (qv) and Amos Burke himself
became a secret agent. The title of the series was changed
accordingly, but the new format proved unpopular and the show was
cancelled.
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- The freeway chases and crash scenes were filmed on nearly-finished
stretches of Southern California freeways. For the first season, the
Glendale Freeway (Highway 2) in Montrose, California was used. For
the second and subsequent seasons, the intersection of the Foothill
Freeway (Interstate 210) and the Simi Valley Freeway (Highway 118)
in Sylmar, California were used. These sections of freeway were
under construction for many years, allowing producers about a mile
of finished freeway section to use for the show. The 210 and 118
were opened in the early-1980s forcing the freeway scenes for the
last season to be shot in Long Beach, California.
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- Various California Highway Patrol cars featured in "CHiPs" were
actual "used" CHP cruisers bought at auction for the show. The age
of the cars used tended to "lag" three or four years behind the
actual cruisers used by the CHP at the time. Some of the years,
makes, and models of the CHP cruisers used: 1973 Dodge Polara, 1975
Dodge Monaco, 1976 Dodge Coronet, 1977 Dodge Monaco, 1978 Dodge
Monaco, 1979 Dodge St. Regis, 1980 Dodge Diplomat.
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- The episode "Burked" features the fictional Tangiers Casino from
_Casino (1995)_ (qv).
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- On one episode the "current patients" board had the ingredients of a
recipe for English Breakfast written on it.
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# "Cedric the Entertainer Presents" (2002)
- This show was announced to be returning for the 2003-2004 season on
Fox after "The Bernie Mac Show", in which the remaining produced
episodes would have aired. However, Fox never aired the episodes as
scheduled.
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- In "Bar Wars 3: Return of the Tecumseh" Frasier is trying to find a
babysitter and says, "I would ask my parents- but they are both
dead." In _"Frasier" (1993)_ (qv) his father is alive and well and
living with him.
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originally used by the "Kiryu" Mechagodzilla in
_Gojira tai Mekagojira (2002)_ (qv)
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- In "Raisin the Stakes", when Cleo and Abe were on top of the
cafetorium during the PTA meeting, during one frame of animation,
you see them both naked.
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- After 'Jim Davis (I)' (qv) died, a portrait of him hung above the
fireplace at Southfork as a memorial to the actor. When Miss Ellie
remarried in 1984, the picture was moved to the Ewing Oil set.
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- The characters of Clayton Farlow and his son, Dusty, get their
surname from the show's production manager 'Wayne A. Farlow' (qv).
- A character named Louella Lee Caraway, a secretary at Ewing Oil
during the first four seasons, was named after a staff writer of the
same name.
- 'Morgan Brittany' (qv) played Jenna Wade, Bobby's childhood
sweetheart, in a 1978 episode. When Jenna became a regular, Morgan
Brittany was already playing Pam and Cliff's half-sister Katherine
Wentworth, so 'Priscilla Presley' (qv) was cast in the former role.
- 'Barbara Bel Geddes' (qv) left the show temporarily in 1984 due to a
serious illness, and 'Donna Reed' (qv) took her place. When Bel
Geddes was well enough to return, Reed was fired. She sued the
producers of the show, who settled with her for an undisclosed sum
of money.
- 'Susan Howard' (qv) was only supposed to appear once as Donna
Culver, but she impressed the producers enough that she eventually
became a regular.
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# "Dancin' Days" (1978)
- Original last chapters aired in 1979, in Brazil.
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- Contrary to publicity surrounding this show's DVD release in 2003
that suggests this series was never shown in America, this early
"Danger Man" series was indeed broadcast in the US in 1961, and
under its original title.
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- Ranked #19 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- In the 1999 episode "Gangland", it is revealed that Amanda was a
foster child. 'Victoria Rowell' (qv), who played the character, was
a foster child in real life.
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then-television comedy writer 'Mel Brooks' (qv). The character of
Alan Brady was based on Sid Caesar.
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- The famous theme song actually has lyrics, which were written by
co-star 'Morey Amsterdam' (qv), though they were never used.
- Another episode filmed without a live audience was "Happy Birthday
And Too Many More". In the middle of rehearsals the cast and crew
got the news that President Kennedy was assassinated. The cast then
decided to go ahead and film the episode, but without a studio
audience present. The feeling was that no one would be in the mood
to laugh at such a somber time.
- Laura's maiden name was changed from Meeker to Meehan following
'Mary Tyler Moore' (qv)'s divorce from her first husband, Richard
Meeker.
- The task of casting Laura proved to be the most difficult. About 60
actresses auditioned for the role before Mary Tyler Moore was
chosen. She almost didn't go to the audition, but was persuaded by
her agent.
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- Debut, Death and Rebirth of Angemon (episode 1.13 "The Legend of the
Digidestined")
- Patamon digivolves to Angemon for the first time (episode 1.13 "The
Legend of the Digidestined").
- Ends the DevimonDark Gear saga (episode 1.13 "The Legend of the
Digidestined").
- Begins the Quest for Crests Saga (episode 1.14 "Departure for a New
Continent")
- Episode 1.14 "Departure for a New Continent" is the first episode to
be written by 'Jeff Nimoy' (qv) and 'Bob Buccholz' (qv), who went on
to become voice directors and story editors in the show's future
- DEBUT: Whamon and Gennai (episode 1.14 "Departure for a New
Continent").
- DEBUT: Crest of Courage (Tai) (episode 1.15 "The Dark Network of
Etemon")
- DEBUT: Skullgreymon (episode 1.16 "The Arrival of Skullgreymon")
- DEBUT: Crest of Reliability (Joe) (episode 1.16 "The Arrival of
Skullgreymon")
- DEBUT: Cockatrimon (episode 1.17 "The Crest of Sincerity")
- DEBUT: Crest of Sincerity (Mimi) (episode 1.17 "The Crest of
Sincerity")
- In episode 1.17 "The Crest of Sincerity" the setting of the cruise
ship's insides looks similar to the setting of the movie "Titanic".
- DEBUT: Piximon (episode 1.18 "The Piximon Cometh")
- DEBUT: Crest of Friendship (Matt) and the Crest of Knowledge (Izzy)
(episode 1.18 "The Piximon Cometh")
- DEBUT: Datamon (episode 1.19 "The Prisoner of the Pyramind Part 1")
- Death of Etemon (episode 1.20 "The Prisoner of the Pyramind Part 2")
- DEBUT: MetalGreymon (episode 1.20 "The Prisoner of the Pyramind Part
2")
- DEBUT: Kari Kamiya (episode 1.20 "Home Away from Home")
- The Eighth Child Saga begins (episode 1.20 "Home Away from Home").
- DEBUT: Tai and Kari's Mother (episode 1.20 "Home Away from Home")
- DEBUT: DemiDevimon (episode 1.22 "Forget About It!")
- DEBUT: WereGarurumon (episode 1.23 "WereGarurumon's Diner")
- DEBUT: Digitamamon and Vegiemon (episode 1.23 "WereGarurumon's
Diner")
- DEBUT: Pabumon, the In-Training version of Tentomon (episode 1.24
"No Questions, Please")
- DEBUT: Vademon (episode 1.24 "No Questions, Please")
- First reference to Mimi and her Princess Complex (episode 1.25
"Princess Karaoke")
- DEBUT: Gekomon, Otamamon and ShogunGekomon (episode 1.25 "Princess
Karaoke")
- When Mimi sings her song to wake up ShoganGekomon she refers to him
as Shoganmon. Throughout this episode ShogunGekomon is referred to
as Shoganmon except when he is DigiScanned (episode 1.25 "Princess
Karaoke")
- DEBUT: Garudamon (episode 1.26 "Sora's Crest of Love")
- DEBUT: Myotismon (episode 1.26 "Sora's Crest of Love")
- DEBUT: Crest of Love (Sora) and Sora's Mother (episode 1.26 "Sora's
Crest of Love")
- Episode 1.26 "Sora's Crest of Love", is intended to reveal to the
kids the traits of their Crests, which they are not supposed to have
known before now. However, the dub slips up in a few previous
episodes, identifying some Crests by name.
- DEBUT: Gatomon (episode 1.27 "The Gateway to Home")
- In the original, Nanimon was getting drunk off beer, not getting
hyperactive because of pop (episode 1.27 "The Gateway to Home").
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- The first 13 episodes are available as a DVD box set online. It is
the only full saga of Digimon so far to have been released with all
the episodes in it .
- DEBUT: Etemon, and 'Richard Epcar' (qv), who provided the voice of
Etemon, made him sound like 'Elvis Presley' (qv).
- In the original version Joes Crest is the Crest of Faith (Aka
Sincerity) which also applies to the Digi-Egg Of Reliability of
Season 2
- In the original, Mimi's Crest is the Crest of Purity (Because Mimi
hates fighting), which also applies to the Digi-Egg of Sincerity in
Season 2.
- In the US version, it is mentioned that Giga Destroyer is
MetalGreymon's most lethal attack however in the original of the
Giga Blaster Attack
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- Ranked #18 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Casting director 'John Levey' (qv) originally suggested
'Michael Beach' (qv) for the role of Dr. Peter Benton.
'John Wells (III)' (qv) felt Beach didn't complete the ensemble and
chose 'Eriq La Salle' (qv) instead. Beach eventually appeared on ER
as Al Boulet.
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- As of November 2003, five original cast members are in the series -
'Wendy Richard' (qv) and 'Adam Woodyatt' (qv), who have played
Pauline Fowler and Ian Beale continuously since 1985, and also
'June Brown' (qv) and 'Letitia Dean' (qv) and
'Leslie Grantham' (qv), who returned in 1997, 2001 and 2003
respectively.
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- For the first time since the original _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv), a
Trek series faced the real danger of cancellation by its network.
But just as TOS was saved from cancellation, a massive
letter-writing campaign by fans led to the show being renewed for a
fourth season in May 2004 - with the head of UPN acknowledging that
the campaign was instrumental in the decision to save the show from
cancellation.
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- In "Let's Go To The Hop", after the plane has crashes the pilots
say, "Oh my God we're going to die!" and "Do you remember if I
closed the garage door this morning?" - the subtitles are correctly
translated Korean.
- Ranked #12 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
- In the episode "E. Peterbus Unum" Peter mentions that he can't get
over "Party of Five" being canceled. Both "Family Guy" and "Party of
Five" were canceled and brought back after letter writing campaigns
by fans.
- Brought back an unprecidented second time after its amazing DVD
sales (record for best selling TV show on DVD), and its popularity
on Adult Swim, which a few times had a higher Neilson Rating than
broadcast television at that time slot. This was the first time a
show on pay-cable had beat Broadcast television in Nielson Rating's
history.
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# "Fantasma de la ópera, El" (1960) (mini)
- First mini-series of the cycle Narciso Ibáñez Menta's Obras Maestras
del Terror on Channel 9 in Buenos Aires.
- The interiors of the Opera of Paris were filmed in the Theater Colón
of Buenos Aires.
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- Ranked #4 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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# "Forever Knight" (1992)
- Ranked #23 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- The show's makers made certain there were no stools in the coffee
shop to purposefully distance it visually from the Cheers bar.
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- Ranked #25 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- In "The One with the Male Nanny" (9.06), as Chandler is leaving for
Tulsa, he tells Monica to have Geoffrey (who Monica claimed was the
funniest person she ever met) email him with funny Okalahoma jokes
at www.hahanotsomuch.com. This is a real web page with various
quotes from that episode.
- The last episode, as well as being appropriately called "The Last
One", is also the only episode of the entire series where the title
doesn't begin with "The One..."
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- ABC executives initially objected to the idea of a series finale
because they feared that it would hurt the show's syndication
profits.
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- 'Mary-Kate Olsen' (qv) is left-handed and 'Ashley Olsen' (qv) is
right-handed. That is why throughout the show, Michelle uses both of
her hands to write and eat, and she kicks a soccer ball, left and
right footed during one episode.
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second season it was changed to Katsopolis because of
'John Stamos' (qv)' Greek heritage.
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- 'Mary-Kate Olsen' (qv) and 'Ashley Olsen' (qv) appeared together
onscreen four times during the show's run.
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- D.J.'s junior high school (Van Atta Junior High) is named after the
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- The Tanner address is 1882 Girard Street.
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- 'Jaleel White' (qv) (Steve Urkel from
_"Family Matters" (1989)_ (qv)) once appeared on the show to visit
his cousin, who is friends with one of the girls.
- In the episode in which the family goes to Disney World, D.J. sees
Steve ('Scott Weinger' (qv)) as Aladdin in the parade.
'Scott Weinger' (qv) was the voice of Aladdin in the animated Disney
movie (_Aladdin (1992)_ (qv)).
- In the unaired pilot episode, 'John Posey (I)' (qv) plays the role
of Danny Tanner. By the time the series went to air,
'Bob Saget' (qv) landed the role.
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- In the episode "A Leela of Their Own", Leela takes advice on
Blurnsball from a descendant of Hank Aaron. He wears and Atlanta
uniform, but instead of there being a tomahawk on it, like there
would for an Braves jersey, it has a trident. This is a reference to
the episode, "The Deep South", where it is revealed that the city of
Atlanta was moved to the middle of the ocean where it sank to the
bottom of the sea.
- There were three alien languages. As of May 2004, the third has yet
to be translated.
- By the end of the series, Bender claims to be 30% iron, 40%
titanium, and 40% dolemite.
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- The character of Jess (played by Milo Ventimiglia) was suppose to
have a spin-off called "Windward Circle" which was picked up by the
WB for midseason 2004, in which the character moves in with his
estrange father (played by Rob Estes) from Connecticut to
California. But due to the high cost of filming on location in
Venice, California, the WB changed their minds and decided not to go
forward with it.
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- 'Lee Grant' (qv) was asked to play Dorothy, but she refused to play
a woman who was old enough to be a grandmother.
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- Ranked #22 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- It is a common belief that American Graffiti (1973) was the
inspiration for this series. In actuality, the pilot for the series
(seen on "Love, American Style") aired before 'George Lucas' (qv)
began production for "Graffiti". However, the success of "Graffiti"
caused producer 'Garry Marshall' (qv) to reconsider his failed pilot
and turn "Happy Days" into a series.
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# "Hawaii" (2004)
- 'Michael Madsen' (qv) was originally cast but was replaced by
'Michael Biehn' (qv) because of creative differences
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- 'Lisa Whelchel' (qv) auditioned for the part of the oldest daughter.
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during the run of the series. Once in 'Married' during a dream
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the Beach."
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- To avoid sweating (which caused his green makeup to come off),
'Lou Ferrigno' (qv) spent much of his time on the set in a
refrigerated motor home.
- The main character's first name was famously changed from Bruce to
David. However, in the comics, his first name is Robert, and here it
is David. In both mediums, Bruce is in fact his middle name. The
name Robert still lends itself to alliteration, since it can be
shortened to Bob.
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- 'Catherine Bell' (qv) guest starred in the episode "Skeleton Crew"
29 May 1996 before she became a series regular with a different
character.
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- The host of the "Love Rocket", a popular show, is named Gamey
McGameGame.
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- In the last 2 episodes, when the Devil/Dark Gundam makes its final
appearance, all the colony nations launch their Gundams to stop it.
Among those in the battle are several suits from the shows prior to
"G Gundam", including: the RX-78-2 Gundam from "Mobile Suit Gundam";
the GP-01 and GP-02 from "Gundam 0083"; the V2 Gundam from "V
Gundam"; and the Wing Gundam from "Gundam Wing", which ran after "G
Gundam" ended.
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- Mike Judge and Greg Daniels pitched the show to Fox network
executives, as an animated pencil sketch, featuring all the main
characters with Hank doing the pitch.
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- Papa Lazarou is inspired by a landlord, of the same name, that the
writers had when they were sharing a flat, who would frequently
phone them up and ask to speak to Steve Pemberton. He would continue
saying "Hello, Steve," "Is Steve there?". The League soon changed
the name to Dave.
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# "Lost" (2004)
- The most expensive pilot ever filmed, at more than $5 million -
$250,000 just to ship the wrecked plane pieces to Hawaii.
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- A spinoff of the sitcom _"Mary Tyler Moore" (1970)_ (qv), this is
one of the only dramatic series in American TV history to originate
from a comedy series.
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# "MV3" (1982)
- MV3 was a syndicated music video show for people who didn't have
cable. The show featured the latest videos and performances from new
wave artists that were currently being played on KROQ FM radio in
Los Angeles. It was filmed in local dance clubs and featured
dancers, a la American Bandstand and Soul Train, but catered to a
younger, hipper audience. It was also the first (and in some cases
ONLY) place where you could catch bands like Romeo Void, Falco, and
Heaven 17.
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- According to Ed O' Neill and David Faustino, they said that most of
their life was parodied on the show. Ed O' Neill who plays Al Bundy,
did play college football. David Faustino wanted to be a rapper,
hence his character Grandmaster B.
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# "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (1976)
- Ranked #21 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Following the conclusion of the series, 'Edward Asner' (qv)
continued to play Lou Grant in a long-running dramatic series of the
same name. This is one of the only times in TV history that a sitcom
spun off a dramatic series (another example was
_"M*A*S*H" (1972)_ (qv) which spun off
_"Trapper John, M.D." (1979)_ (qv).)
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- The series was originally conceived as a vehicle for
'Dennis Waterman' (qv), after _"Sweeney, The" (1975)_ (qv) - in
which Waterman co-starred - had finished the previous year.
Initially, 'George Cole (I)' (qv)'s character, Arthur Daley, was
more of a secondary character, finding situations for Terry
(Waterman) to get involved in each episode. But the great chemistry
between the two characters quickly made itself apparent, and as a
result Arthur was brought to the fore of storylines much more.
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- Ranked #5 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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1988 until the end of the series, first appeared in Episode: #
1.17."Footnote to Murder" as Lt. Meyer, and also #3.19, "No
Accounting for Murder", as a sleazy NYC business owner, Marty Giles.
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# "My So-Called Life" (1994)
- Ranked #16 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Although officially leaving after the show's fifth season in
1964-1965, Tim Considine's last appearance as Mike, the eldest son,
was actually in the first episode of season 6 (the series' first in
color). The episode opened with a brief scene showing Mike and
Sally's (Meredith MacRae) wedding. The episode also "launched" Barry
Livingston ("Ernie") as the new son. The characters of Mike and
Sally were mentioned in the next 2 episodes, which dealt with
Ernie's adoption. After this they were never referred to again for
the remainder of the series.
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- The reason Pearl calls Crow "Art" is because in an earlier season
Joel introduced the bots like the cast of the honeymooners, with Art
Crow instead of Art Carney. A fan then sent a picture calling Crow
"Art".
- Ranked #11 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Every episode, from the pilot on, has a title that starts with the
word "The". This is most likely a trademark of the show, like
Friends had with their titles starting with "The One With...".
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- Besides Nancy Cunningham, Oscar had another girlfriend that he
frequently mentioned named "Crazy Rhoda" Zimmerman. However, unlike
Nancy, Rhoda was mentioned but never seen.
- Felix's father was an optometrist in Chicago. In fact, one of his
father's patients was Oscar's father.
- Felix's children in "The Odd Couple" were named Leonard and Edna.
'Tony Randall' (qv)'s real name was Leonard, and his sister's name
was Edna.
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- Tom Fontana named the prison Ozwald after Warden Ozwald, who was the
real-life warden of Attica when the infamous prison riot broke out
there.
- Jefferson Keane is executed halfway through the first season because
the actor portraying him, Leon, refused to commit to a series. When
Leon asked Tom Fontana why he was being killed off, Fontana told him
it was because he said he wouldn't commit to more than four
episodes, and Leon replied that he thought he'd been talked out of
that, and actually wanted to stay.
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# "Pee-wee's Playhouse" (1986)
- Ranked #10 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
- It is often assumed that the main reason for the cancellation of the
series was Paul Reubens' indictment for obscenity in Florida, but in
fact Reubens and CBS had mutually agreed to end the show in 1991.
CBS did, however, choose not to air the reruns of episodes they had
planned for August of that year, and the final network telecast was
27 July 1991.
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- Ranked #7 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- 'Fred Gwynne' (qv) was originally to play Henry but backed out when,
in an audition for the title character, he was identified Herman
Munster, as his role on _"Munsters, The" (1964)_ (qv).
- Because the show had many young viewers and was scheduled after
football games which tended to run overtime, six fifteen-minute
episodes were produced. This was done rather than joining a
full-length episode in progress, because that would disappoint
children watching the program, and showing it later tended to put
them up at a time parents may have considered too late for their
children.
- The program-producing unit of the NBC network produced the first two
seasons. When it was cancelled, the show was sold to Columbia
Pictures Television for $60 million. Columbia produced the latter
two seasons (though there is a one year interval between them)
without NBC's involvement.
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- Ranked #15 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- 'Marc Scott Taylor' (qv) was originally hired as a technical
advisor, but became a semi-regular cast member because he could
operate electron microscopes and other complex instruments, and it
was more cost effective to give him a recurring bit-part than to
train the actors to operate the equipment convincingly. His role was
greatly expanded in an episode in which "Sam" had been poisoned, and
"Mark" helped Dr. Quincy save his life.
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# "Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)" (2000)
- The building where the detectives work is called Cope House after
the original Hopkirk: 'Ken Cope' (qv).
- SPOILER:
CAMEO('Charlie Higson' (qv)): every episode of season 1:
- 1.1: Artist talking to Randall whilst the picture is being burned.
- 1.2: ?????
- 1.3: Man on the park bench
- 1.4: Bulstrode
- 1.5: Gomez
- 1.6: Villager
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# "Road to Avonlea" (1989)
- The final episode of the third season dealt with the death of
Marilla Cuthbert. Since actress 'Colleen Dewhurst' (qv) had already
died, her "appearance" was pieced together from other films she had
been in from the same production company.
- Several characters from the film
_Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV)_ (qv) were brought back as
recurring characters in this series, most notably
'Patricia Hamilton' (qv) as Rachel Lynde and, in early years,
'Colleen Dewhurst' (qv) as Marilla Cuthbert.
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# "Robbery Homicide Division" (2002)
- Alongside 'Jack Webb' (qv)'s _"Dragnet" (1951)_ (qv), this is
considered by many to be the most accurate TV show about the
activities of the Los Angeles Police Department.
- There were several technical advisors who worked on the show: Chic
Daniel, an LAPD living legend who served more than twenty years on
SWAT; Robert Deamer, a specialist of gang enforcement who is one of
the most decorated veteran of Special Enforcement Unit
(ex-C.R.A.S.H.); and Lieutenant Todd Reinhold, an actual squad
leader of Special Weapons And Tactics.
- 'Dennis Farina' (qv) was once considered for the role of Lieutenant
Sam Cole.
- This was a revision of L.A. Takedown, Michael Mann's previous
attempt to launch a new TV show.
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- In "The Competitive Edge", a mental patient who thinks he's Doc
Holliday calls Rockford "Wyatt". James Garner played Wyatt Earp in
_Hour of the Gun (1967)_ (qv).
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- In "Homecoming" where Becky returns home, the fact that Becky was
played by a different actor was actually joked about in the show.
Roseanne says makes a comment that when she came back she barely
recognized her. At the end, the Connors are watching an old episode
of _"Bewitched" (1964)_ (qv) and discussing switching Darrens, when
Becky says "Well, the were a popular show, they could do what they
want" and that she actually liked Darren #2 better (self-referencing
the fact that she was Becky #2).
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- 'George Schlatter' (qv) did not produce the final season, but he won
the rights to those episodes in a subsequent court battle. He
dislikes these episodes so much that he does not allow them to be
shown on TV, nor are clips from them included in any retrospectives.
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- The producers' original choice for Fred Sanford was
'Cleavon Little' (qv), who turned it down due to prior commitments.
He suggested 'Redd Foxx' (qv) to them for the role of Fred Sanford.
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Kapowski and was turned down in favor of 'Tiffani Thiessen' (qv),
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- Singer 'Michael Damian' (qv) performed an alternate rendition of the
show's theme song, which was used during the first season.
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- 'Mark-Paul Gosselaar' (qv) had to dye his hair blonde every two
weeks while shooting the show.
- The episode "Day of Detention" was the final shooting for the
series.
- 'Scott Wolf (I)' (qv) and 'Denise Richards' (qv) made cameo
appearances before making it to stardom.
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- Shaggy is the only character (apart from Scooby himself) to be in
every incarnation of the series.
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- Several movie videos can be seen at Jerry's stereo shelf including
_Child's Play 2 (1990)_ (qv) in the later seasons.
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- The blue/red discrepancy of Bart's shirt is referenced in one
episode. Homer holds out Lisa (who wears a red dress) to tease a
bull, then, thinking that he can placate the bull with something
blue, he reaches for Bart, only to find him wearing his red shirt.
He asks, "Where's your blue shirt?" to which Bart replies that he
doesn't have one.
- Ranked #6 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- 'Nicol Williamson' (qv) was considered for the role of Phillip
Marlowe
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- In "Drone" it is revealed that Sasha got her ability to control Bees
after falling in Shuster Gorge. Joe Shuster along with Jerry Siegal
created Superman.
- At the charity party the end of "Fever" Pete hands Clark a CD and
tells him it's the Talon mix. If you look closely you'll see that it
is actually the soundtrack to the series.
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- Originally James Gandolfini wanted to keep the character of Richie
Aprile alive but the writers decided against it and he was killed in
Episode# 25.
- 'Max Casella' (qv), who plays Benny Fazio, originally auditioned for
the parts of Matt Bevilaqua and Jackie Aprile Jr. Both characters
are now dead but Benny is still alive.
- 'Steven R. Schirripa' (qv), who plays Bobby Bacala originally
auditioned for the role of F.B.I. agent Skip Lipari.
- Everyone in the show owns a Philips TV.
- The role of Silvio Dante was specifically written for
'Steve Van Zandt' (qv).
- 'Steven Buscemi' (qv)'s character limping in one of the episodes is
a reference to an off-Broadway production of "Resistable Rise of
Arturo Ui," where Buscemi's character is limping during the course
of the entire play. The same production also starred Dominic
Chianese and John Ventimiglia.
- In episode #37 "Pine Barrens", director 'Steve Busemi' (qv) has said
on the commentary for the DVD that he was the one who threw the
stake at Tony's head.
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# "Space Patrol" (1950)
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- Episode 1.01 "Worlds Apart Part 1" features references to Reed
Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic (the leader of the super-hero team
the Fantastic Four) and has a cameo appearance by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent
Nick Fury.
- DEBUT: Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Venom, John Jameson and Carnage
(episode 1.01 "Worlds Apart Part 1")
- One of Spider-Man's classic villains from the comics, Doctor Octopus
appears on Peter and Mary Jane's television during a news segment on
Spider-Man. Dr. Octopus' only line of dialogue is a faint grunt when
Spider-Man punches him in their brief fight (episode 1.01 "Worlds
Apart Part 1").
- The Hunter is based on classic Spider-Man villain Kraven the Hunter,
who has similar abilities to Kraven (episode 1.06 "Enter the
Hunter!")
- DEBUT: X-51 (episode 1.05 "Steel Cold Heart")
- Sins of the Fathers was the name of one of the entire season of
episodes from the 90's Spider-Man cartoon (episode 1.12 "Sins of the
Father")
- ONLY APPEARANCE OF: Mary-Jane, Nick Fury, Dr. Octopus and J. Jonah
Jameson (episode 1.01 "Worlds Apart Part 1")
- DEBUT: The Knights of Wundagore/NeXt Men (Lady Vermin, Sir Ram, Lady
Ursula, Sir Tygar) (episode 1.02 "Worlds Apart Part 2")
- DEBUT: Green Goblin/Barry Norman Osborn and Mr. Meugniot (episode
1.03 "Where Evil Nests")
- SERIES FINALE: After only 13 episodes, with 1.13 "Destiny Unleashed"
being the last, the series ends on an unresolved cliffhanger.
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- Fox aired episode 1.01 "Night of the Lizard", months before the
other Season 1 episodes as a special sneak preview.
- DEBUT: Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Aunt May, Mary-Jane Watson, J. Jonah
Jameson, Robbie Robertson (episode 1.01 "Night of the Lizard")
- DEBUT: Dr. Octopus/Otto Octavius and Anastasia Hardy (episode 1.04
"Doctor Octopus Armed and Dangerous")
- DEBUT: Alistair Smythe, Kingpin, Spencer Smythe, Norman Osborn,
Harry Osborn, Felicia Hardy and Flash Thompson (episode 1.02 "The
Spider Slayer")
- DEBUT: Scorpion/Mac Gargan (episode 1.06 "The Sting of the
Scorpion")
- DEBUT: Detective Terri Lee, Mysterio/Quentin Beck and Uncle Ben
Parker (episode 1.05 "The Menace of Mysterio")
- DEBUT: Kraven the Hunter and Dr. Mariah Crawford (episode 1.07
"Kraven the Hunter")
- DEBUT: Rhino and John Jameson (episode 1.08 "The Alien Costume Part
1")
- DEBUT: Shocker (episode 1.09 "The Costume Part 2")
- DEBUT: Lizard/Curt Connors, Margaret Connors, Eddie Brock, Billy
Connors and Debra Whitman
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- Ranked #1 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- 'Mark Allen Shepherd' (qv), in addition to his regular role as Morn,
appeared as a Bajoran officer (whom Quark asks to sit in Morn's
usual place at the bar) in the episode "Who Mourns for Morn?".
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# "Super sabado sensacional" (1983)
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- 'Andy Kaufman' (qv) created the language that Latka speaks. Before
'Carol Kane' (qv) first appeared as Simka, Kaufman taught her the
language. In fact, he invited her to dinner and refused to let her
speak English.
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- Much of the second season was based on the comic saga "The Judas
Contract" from the pages of The New Teen Titans by George Perez and
Marv Wolfman.
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- The working title for the show was "The Truth and Nothing But the
Truth. In fact, a pilot was filmed with this as the title and the
host was future _"60 Minutes" (1968)_ (qv) correspondent
'Mike Wallace' (qv).
- Motown founder 'Berry Gordy' (qv) appeared on a 1965 broadcast of
the show with his top act The Supremes.
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- In season one 'Frank Welker' (qv) voiced 7 of the 13 original
Decepticons. He provided the voices of Megatron, Soundwave, Skywarp,
Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak (screeches), and Ravage (growls). The
exceptions were Starcream (Chris Latta), Thundercracker (John
Stephenson), Shockwave (Corey Burton), and Reflector (three
identical robots with 'Chris Latta'(qv)'s voice).
- In the scene where the Autobots arrive to recover Hound, an Autobot
similar to Grapple seems to make its only appearance in the first
season. Yet we never hear him speak, he stays in vehicle mode, his
vehicle mode is slightly different to Grapple, and he is referred
too by Cliffjumper as "Hauler" (episode 0.01 "More Than Meets the
Eye Part 1").
- DEBUT: Bluestreak, Brawn, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Gears, Hound,
Huffer, Ironhide, Jazz, Laserbeak, Megatron, Mirage, Optimus Prime,
Prowl, Ratchet, Ravage, Reflector, Rumble, Shockwave, Sideswipe,
Skywarp, Soundwave, Starscream, Sunstreaker, Thundercracker,
Trailbreaker, Wheeljack and Windcharger (episode 0.01 "More Than
Meets the Eye Part 1").
- DEBUT: Roller (episode 0.02 "More Than Meets the Eye Part 2")
- The only character not referred to by name in the pilot trilogy is
Windcharger, who, unlike all the other characters, does not get
anything to do to display him for the audience (episode 0.03 "More
Than Meets the Eye Part 3")
- DEBUT: Chip Chase (episode 1.02 "Roll for It")
- DEBUT: Frenzy (episode 1.09 "Countdown to Extinction")
- DEBUT: Grimlock, Slag, and Sludge (episode 1.04 "S.O.S. Dinobots")
- DEBUT: Snarl and Swoop (episode 1.08 "War of the Dinobots")
- Episode 1.08 "War of the Dinobots" was actually set before episode
1.05-1.07 "The Ultimate Doom Part 1-3"
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- In episode 0.01 "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1", an orange Autobot
in the form of a truck crane appears briefly to haul Hound up for
repairs. This Autobots only appears in this scene, never speaks or
transforms to robot mode, and is referred to as "Hauler" by
Cliffjumper. Apparently, this was an early version of the Autobot
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suddenly began to appear during season two, beginning with episode
2.08 "A Prime Problem" and 2.03 "Dinobot Island Part 1". Their
sudden appearance was not explained. In the episodes produced after
Transformers the Movie (1986), in which Megatron
('Frank Welker' (qv)) became Galvatron ('Leonard Nimoy' (qv)),
'Frank Welker' (qv) took over the role of Galvatron, which seems
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Transformers the Movie (1986) for season 3 were:
'Neil Ross (I)' (qv) (Springer), 'Susan Blu' (qv) (Arcee),
'David Mendenhall' (qv) (Daniel Witwicky),'John Moschitta' (qv)
(Blurr), 'Stan Jones (I)' (qv) (Scourge), and
'Roger C. Carmel' (qv)(Cyclonus, Quintesson).
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'Frank Welker' (qv)) falls into lava in episode 1.11 "Heavy Metal
War". In his next appearance (episode 2.18 "City of Steel"), he acts
quite insane. Later, in season 3, Galvatron ('Frank Welker') lands
in lava and goes insane as a result (episodes 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04
and 3.05 "Five Faces of Darkness Part 1-5".
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series (His toy tech specs do say he has them.) However, in episode
1.11 "Heavy Metal War", Megatron, using the combined powers of all
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episode 1.09 "Countdown to Extinction". Buzzsaw (condor) is the
other, and does not appear until episode 2.18 "City of Steel".
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appears in episode 3.01 "Five Faces of Darkness Part 1" and 3.10
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given to a character who first appears in the series-ending, episode
4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 "The Rebirth Part 1-3".
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- Voice director 'Wally Burr' (qv) occasionally filled in for voice
actors that were unavailable for a given episode. For example, he
provides Thundercracker's voice in the episode 2.41 "War Dawn".
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- Ranked #8 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- Ranked #20 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- The role of Ryan's wise-cracking dog Jeb was played by Zeb, a
Redbone Coonhound. Zeb's daughter sometimes filled in as Jeb's stunt
double.
- The temple, which Ryan is often seen meditating or practicing karate
in front of, is a memorial in Angles Gate Park in San Pedro, on the
southern edge of Los Angeles. The memorial houses the Korean Peace
Bell, which was given by Korea to the city during the 1976
bicentennial.
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# "Vision On" (1964)
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- In the third season episode "Hartfield's Landing", Toby Ziegler says
he watched the President's favorite movie the night before. He does
not name the movie, but his description identifies it as
_Lion in Winter, The (1968)_ (qv).
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- The opening theme song, preformed by Lillix, was remixed for the
Season 2 opening titles. The theme now lasts just under 40 seconds.
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- Legendary billiards hustler Minnesota Fats appeared on the 17
January 1965 broadcast. However, he signed in using his real name,
Rudolph Waderone Jr. and he managed to completely fool the panel.
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- Though 'Richard Markowitz' (qv) wrote the theme, he wasn't credited
for it on any episode of the series (or on the 1999 movie).
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just four episodes had aired. Afterwards, attempts were made to
interest another network in airing the remaining nine episodes,
which would have made the show one of, if not the first, American
series to change networks midway through its first season.
Ultimately, these efforts were unsuccessful, though cable broadcast
and/or DVD release of the series is likely in the future.
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(German, which translates as "The truth is out there somewhere")
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- In the season 9 episode "Daemonicus", Doggett suggests to Reyes the
killer might use human flesh to fertilise his garden - an in-joke
referencing the movie _Last Supper, The (1995)_ (qv), which starred
'Annabeth Gish' (qv).
- Ranked #2 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- DEBUT: Mesmero (episode 2.10 "Mindbender")
- During Rogue and Magneto's magnetic "dog fight", they pass by a
massive skyscraper with the letters SE lit up. The SE stands for
Stark Enterprises, an Iron Man reference (episode 2.09 "On Angel's
Wings").
- DEBUT: Scarlet Witch (episode 2.15 "The HeX Factor")
- Boom Boom leaves the Brotherhood. (episode 2.15 "The HeX Factor")
- S.H.I.E.L.D. stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage
Logistics Directorate (episode 2.14 "Operation: Rebirth").
- DEBUT and only appearance of: Captain America (episode 2.14
"Operation: Rebirth")
- Captain America is the only Marvel Superhero to cross over with
Evolution, and is the second superhero referenced during the course
of the series. The first being a small Iron Man in-joke from the
episode 2.09 "On Angels Wings".
- DEBUT: Colossus, Gambit, and Pyro (episode 2.16 "Day of Reckoning
Part 1").
- DEBUT: Bolivar Trask and the Sentinels (episode 2.16 "Day of
Reckoning Part 1").
- DEBUT: Jean uses Cerebro (episode 2.16 "Day of Reckoning Part 1").
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- Ranked #9 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30
May 2004 issue).
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- 'Rik Mayall' (qv) once remarked in an interview that The Young Ones
were designed to be a nuclear family, with Neil as the mother, Mike
as the father figure, Vyvyan as the rebellious young son and Rick as
the daughter (complete with pigtails).
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# "¿Es usted el asesino?" (1961) (mini)
- Mini series included in the cycle Narciso Ibáñez Menta's Obras
Maestras del Terror.
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- This was regarded as such a failure in the United States that when
the advance teaser trailer for _Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)_ (qv)
was made, it listed all of Steven Spielberg's previous films except
this one.
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# 1997 MTV Movie Awards (1997) (TV)
- 'Carrie Fisher' (qv) presented 'Peter Mayhew (II)' (qv), as
Chewbacca, the same award Luke and Han receive at the end of
_Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).
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# 3-4x jugatsu (1990)
- When original director 'Kinki Fukasaku' (qv) left the project,
'Kitano' (qv) was offered the chance to direct. After small script
revisions and changes, this became Kitano's directorial debut.
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- When Henry and Lucy are first at his place they see two dolphins
that Henry calls Mary-Kate and Ashley after the Olsen twins.
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- Columbia Pictures would not issue 'Larry Flynt' (qv) a ticket to the
awards (his biography _People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996)_ (qv) was
up for two Oscars) because they were afraid that he would pull some
kind of vulgar stunt and embarrass them. Flynt became angry and
began railing against the studio for allowing the film to be made
but then censoring him in real life. At the very last minute,
'Woody Harrelson' (qv) (who played him in the film) gave him his
agent's ticket.
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- 'Mark Wahlberg' (qv) turned down the role of Max California.
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# 90 Second Minute (2004)
- The original script was entitled "The Ninety Second Minute" and was
written by 'Faisal A. Qureshi' (qv). The script was originally
written with ethnic minority characters and his name was removed
from the film when it was re-written without his knowledge or
consent.
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# Aelita (1924)
- This movie became such a hit in the Soviet Union that many new
parents named their little girls "Aelita".
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- Crockett plays the "Mockingbird Quick Step" on his fiddle. The song
is a version of "Listen to the Mockingbird". It was composed in 1855
and later used by The Three Stooges as a theme song.
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# Alice (2003)
- This film was pre-selected for Cannes Film Festival (04)
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# Alles ist gut (1985)
- This is the debut movie of 'Joachim Polzer' (qv). It was one of the
first Super-16-mm production in Germany utilizing the first ARRI 16
SR (I) camera from Arnold & Richter which was modified from 16-mm to
Super-16 mm.
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# Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000) (V)
- The school's name is Clyde C. Crashcup Elementary School.
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- The exact budget: $777,777.77 and it was delivered on time and on
budget.
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# Angels with Angles (2004)
- This film was originally called "Everything's George".
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glass wall. 'Kurt Fuller' (qv) appears in both films.
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- In spite of its popularity, the film was unavailable in any form
from 1973 until 2000 due to legal tangling between
'Irving Berlin' (qv) (and later his estate) and MGM (later Turner,
and then Warner Bros). It was released again after the 1998 Broadway
revival of the stage show raised interest in seeing this film again.
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# Any Bonds Today (1942)
- This movie stands as a testament to the rapid rise in popularity of
Bugs Bunny. Only a year and a half earlier, Bugs had been introduced
to the public in _Wild Hare, A (1940)_ (qv) and already the Treasury
Department had commissioned a special Bugs film to sell war bonds.
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- Billy Wilder also used the character name Sheldrake in _Sunset Blvd.
(1950)_(qv),_Ace in the Hole (1951)_(qv), and _Kiss Me, Stupid
(1964)_(qv).
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- The office Christmas party scene was actually filmed on December 23,
1959, so as to catch everybody in the proper holiday mood. Wilder
filmed almost all of it on the first take, stating to an observer,
"I wish it were always this easy. Today, I can just shout 'action'
and stand back."
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- During some sequences, the sound of the helicopters was created on a
synthesizer to blend in with the music.
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- "The Golden Bough", by James Frazer, is one of the books on Kurtz's
night table. It is an anthropological study of rites in several
cultures in which a young usurper ritually kills an aging king and
inherits his throne.
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- CAMEO('Ted Raimi' (qv)): at least four characters: The cowardly
warrior who doesn't want to die, the man who shouts "you can count
on my steel", the swordsman with an eye-patch and the S-mart's store
clerk.
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- CAMEO ('Ted Raimi' (qv)): Wearing a mustache, tells Ash "You can
count on my steel."
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- DIRTRADE('Sam Raimi' (qv)):[shemp]: 'Campbell, Don (I)' (qv) and
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- DIRTRADE('Sam Raimi' (qv)):[3-stooges]: The skeletons do a classic
routine.
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- There is an alternate version where a Deadite holds the severed head
of the Cowardly Warrior (Ted Raimi). This character was scared and
didn't want to die.
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# Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
- 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)'s last film before being elected
governor of California.
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- 68,894 extras from 13 different countries worked on this film. This
is one of the largest number of extras to ever appear in a single
picture. The 1,243 extras listed on the IMDb page (and also in the
original program book) were only the extras who worked on the film
in Hollywood, California alone.
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# Ask the Dust (2005)
- 'Val Kilmer' (qv) was originally involved but dropped out for
unspecified reasons.
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show was finished every day. He averaged about one or two hours'
sleep during production. The bulk of the production was filmed from
6pm to 6am, with the daylight scenes filmed at the weekend.
- Michael J. Fox had to learn to skateboard for the film.
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- The inspiration for the film largely stems from Bob Gale discovering
his father's high school yearbook and wondering whether he would
have been friends with his father as a teenager.
- There are only about 32 special effects shots in the entire film.
- The production ultimately used three real De Loreans.
- It took three hours in make-up to turn the 23-year-old
'Lea Thompson' (qv) into the 47-year-old Lorraine.
- Playing at the Hill Valley cinema is
_Cattle Queen of Montana (1955)_ (qv) starring
'Barbara Stanwyck' (qv) and 'Ronald Reagan' (qv); the latter of
course was the President of the United States in 1985, the year the
film was made.
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- 'Spencer Tracy' (qv)'s last completed MGM film, after two decades
with the studio.
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- According to one biographer of Spencer Tracey, the script did not
originally call for the lead character to be a one-armed man. The
producers were keen to get Tracey but didn't think he'd be
interested, so they gave the character his disability on the basis
that no actor can resist playing a physical impairment.
- The script called for Tracey's character to light matches one
handed. Tracey had difficulty with this and convinced the director
to let him use a zippo as every veteran he ever met had one.
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- The two award ceremony scenes are parodies of two real award
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DelaCroix is fumbling around and yelling "Show me the Money!" is a
jab at 'Cuba Gooding Jr.' (qv)'s enthusiatic victory speech for
winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor; the second scene, in
which DelaCroix becomes a teary-eyed brown-noser to
'Matthew Modine' (qv) is a shot at 'Ving Rhames' (qv)' Golden Globe
victory in which he gave teary-eyed kudos to 'Jack Lemmon' (qv).
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- The band that plays on "Mantan's New Millennium Minstrel Show" (the
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Philadelphia.
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- When Duane checks into the Hotel Broslin he takes out a wad of cash.
According to 'Frank Henenlotter' (qv), the film's director, this was
the film's entire budget.
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- Most shots of Batman in costume during a fight scene was done by
Michael Keaton's stunt double, Dave Lea.
- Director Tim Burton and Michael Keaton did a lot of re-writing
during production. The most notable re-write is the opening scene in
which Batman says, "I'm Batman." In the script Batman was to reply
"I am the night." The other notable re-write is the showdown between
Batman and the Joker.
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- At one point during pre-production, director Tim Burton, wanted to
turn Frank Miller's 1986 comic "The Dark Knight Returns" into the
new movie. However, Warner Bros. wanted to introduce the "dark"
Batman before having a movie about his last days as a crime fighter.
Not to mention that a DKR movie would be about four hours long.
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- SPOILER: In the film Jack Napier a/k/a The Joker is the murderer of
Batman's parents. In the comics the murderer is a character named
Joe Chill.
- Anton Furst's designs for Gotham City were incorporated into the
comics during the early '90s. The design was removed during the "No
Man's Land" ark.
- The movie's "Vicki Vale" is actually based on 1970s Bruce Wayne
girlfriend, Silver St. Cloud, a name deemed too silly for a movie
character. However, in the comics there was a character named Vicki
Vale, who was a reporter, and appeared in the comics throughout the
'40s and '60s.
- In the comics The Joker's real name was never revealed. He was
simply known as The Red Hood.
- The character of Alexander Knox ('Robert Wahl' (qv)) was a character
created for the movie. In the script the character was killed during
the parade scene.
- In the comics Vicki Vale was a redhead and one of Batman's first
lovers. The character always suspected that Bruce Wayne was Batman
and competed for Batman's affection with Batwoman (a female Batman
and predecessor to Batgirl).
- In the comics Batman never finds the killer of his parents. The
feeling is that if he solved the crime of who killed his parents,
there goes his motivation to be Batman. In the movie Batman solves
the mystery and as a result in _Batman Returns (1992)_ (qv) he is
losing his motivation. Originally director Tim Burton wanted to
simply end this franchise as a trilogy and turn
_Batman Forever (1995)_ (qv) into Batman's redemption.
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- Filming began on 22 May 2004 at Senate House (a property belonging
to the University of London, just off Russell Square). The front of
the building was made up as the Gotham City courts, complete with
New York-style taxis and Gotham Police Department cars.
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- The language they "made up" was actually Croatian.
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- The idea for the movie came from a night Richard Linklater spent a
night walking around Philadelphia with Amy, a woman he met.
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- Originally there was a different last shot planned for the funeral
sequence at the end of the film. Director 'Hal Ashby' (qv) was
chatting with another director one day about filming when he
commented how well everything was going. "It's like walking on air,"
he said, then suddenly was struck with a thought. He changed the
last shot to the one that appears now in the movie.
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# Believers, The (1987)
- The following performers were considered for various roles John
Sayles, Giancario Glannlnl, Gerard Depardieu, Alan Delon, Klaus
Maria Brandauer, Jean Louis Tringent, Omar Sharif, Carole Bouquet,
Liv Ullman, Maria Schell, Dominique Sanda, Marle-France Pister,
Ornella Muti, Jeanne Moreau, Sophia Loren, Marthe Keller, Isabelle
Huppert, Leslie Caron, Brigette Bardot, Marie-Christie Barrault,
Fanny Ardant, Ursula Andress, Bibi Anderson, Isabelle Adjani, Klaus
Kinski, Marcello Mastroloni and Toshiro Mifune
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- 'David Cronenberg' (qv) was asked to direct but turned it down.
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# Big Bird Cage, The (1972)
- At the beginning of the film, when Terry ('Anitra Ford' (qv)) is
taken to the prison by boat. The cove that she is dropped off at is
the same one that was subsequently used for the location of the
Kurtz compound in _Apocalypse Now (1979)_ (qv) (both films were shot
in the Philippines).
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# Big Circus, The (1959)
- SPOILER: 'David Nelson (I)' (qv) was cast due his clean cut image
from his years on the television series
_"Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The" (1952)_ (qv). Using him in
the role of Tommy made the character the one the audience would
least suspect.
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# Bijoutiers du clair de lune, Les (1958)
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- The footage for Napoleon's battle in Austria (presumably Austerlitz)
was taken from the American movie _War and Peace (1954)_ (qv).
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# Billionaire Boys Club (1987) (TV)
- Based on the true story of the Billionare Boys Club which formed in
1983.
- In 2003, BBC leader, Joe Hunt filed a habeus corpus petition in the
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge his life sentence
without possibility of parole. The Court upheld the sentence.
- The real Joe Hunt claimed that The BBC referred to The Bombay
Bicycle Club, named after a Chicago club. The media gave it the
name, The Billionaire Boys Club.
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# Biohazard (2002/I) (VG)
- A full remake of the original _Biohazard (1996) (VG)_ (qv), the new
version includes an altered mansion layout with brand new rooms and
enemies and new plot elements that take into account developments in
the later Biohazard games. Also, the entire script was retranslated,
eliminating the notoriously poor English dialogue that was present
in the original.
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lists nineteen. Eighteen of the soldiers who died were Rangers.
There was also a soldier, PFC James Martin, from 2-14 Infantry, 10th
Mountain Division, who died during the battles of 3/4 October. The
2-14 Infantry was the Army unit sent in to rescue the Rangers.
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- Many of the screams heard are stock sound effects that can also be
heard in many Republic movie serials.
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# Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
- At the dinner party at the beginning, a portrait of Captain
Blackadder from "Blackadder Goes Forth" is positioned on the wall
behind the present Blackadder.
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Nourse called "The Bladerunner". William S. Burroughs wrote a
screenplay based on the Nourse book, and a novella entitled "Blade
Runner: A Movie." Ridley Scott bought the rights to the title but
not the screenplay or the book. The Burroughs composition defines a
blade runner as a person who sells illegal surgical instruments.
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# Bombay to Goa (1972)
- 'Mehmood' (qv) offered the the role of Ravikumar to future Indian
Prime Minister 'Rajiv Gandhi' (qv).
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- SPOILER: To confuse the audiences and increase tension, Michael
Rooker played the masked killer in several scenes.
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- In the scene in the La Rochelle bar, 'Otto Sander' (qv) (Thomsen)
was really drunk.
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# Borrowing Time (2004)
- Contains large amounts of stop-motion animation, using miniatures,
hundreds of photographic cutouts, and live actors.
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- As Brian wakes up for the first time in his bed, his head covered in
blood, an album poster is spotted on the wall, Slayer's "Reign In
Blood".
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Monster speak, but was overruled. Since he was required to speak in
this film, Karloff was not able to remove his partial bridgework as
he had done to help give the Monster his sunken cheek appearance in
the first film. That's why The Monster appears fuller of face in the
sequel.
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# Broken (2003/I)
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- This film has been the subject of controversy for decades over
whether it should be considered part of the official Universal
Horror series (thus making it a sequel to
_House of Dracula (1948)_ (qv)) or a non-canon, standalone film.
- 'Glenn Strange' (qv) speaks for the first time as The Monster. This
film marks the first time since _Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)_ (qv)
that the character has spoken, though it does not explain how The
Monster has regained his voice.
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# Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
- The running time of this documentary is more than double the length
of the film that it profiles.
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- 'Maria Schneider' (qv) was originally supposed to play Drusilla and
actually started shooting some scenes, but she changed her mind
while filming a sex scene with 'Malcolm McDowell' (qv). Deeply
disturbed by her skimpy toga and the graphic incest scenes, she
walked off the set bad-mouthing the production.
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- Deodato was inspired to make the movie after seeing his son watching
the violent news on TV, and thinking about how the journalists focus
on the violence.
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- The short sequence in the beginning of the film which involves two
animated cars wrecking the 20th Century Fox logo was created by
'Hal Needham' (qv), who did a similar one for another studio when
releasing _Smokey and the Bandit (1977)_ (qv). At first, Fox didn't
appreciate the notion of wrecking their logo, but soon found it
would be appealing to audiences if it were left in.
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- The difference of height between 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) and
'Ingrid Bergman' (qv) changes throughout the film. This is because
Bergman was actually a few inches taller than Bogart, though to
create the illusion that it was vice versa, 'Michael Curtiz' (qv)
had Bogart stand on boxes and sit on pillows in some shots, or had
Bergman slouch down (as evident when she sits on the couch in the
"franc for your thoughts" scene).
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# Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1988) (VG)
- The Gameboy title is Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge.
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- This film inspired NBC to make two different pilots which aired on
consecutive days in 1971. One pilot starred
'Lesley Ann Warren' (qv), and the other, 'Forrest Tucker' (qv).
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- References to other 'Stephen King (I)' (qv) works:
- 'Woods, James' watches _Dead Zone, The (1983)_ (qv) and inquires,
"Who writes this crap?"
- The cat is chased by a St. Bernard, a reference to
_Cujo (1983)_ (qv).
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sticker saying, "I am Christine," a reference to
_Christine (1983)_ (qv).
- Also, Cressner promises 'Robert Hays (I)' (qv)' character that if
he wins their bet he'll get, "the girl, the gold watch, and
everything," a reference to
_Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything, The (1980) (TV)_ (qv), which
starred Hays.
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- 'Stephen King (I)' (qv) wrote this script with 'Drew Barrymore' (qv)
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- The monologue delivered by Berry in the preview is taken from the
movie _Crow, The (1994)_ (qv) with minor editing to fit the movie
(e.g. "crow" to "cat")
- Due to a scheduling conflict, 'Graeme Revell' (qv) and
'William Orbit' (qv) had to withdraw from their scoring duties. The
new composer is 'Klaus Badelt' (qv).
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# Cavalry Patrol (1956) (TV)
- This pilot was developed for a proposed summer replacement series
for "Our Miss Brooks", however CBS chose "Zane Grey Theatre"
instead.
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# Chameleon Killer (2003) (V)
- 'Violet Flame' (qv) was originally supposed to play the dual roles
of Ellie and Trish from the beginning. Later, 'Matt Spease' (qv)
cast an actress to play Trish, but once Violet arrived to do her
scenes the actress backed out and Violet agreed to play the dual
roles anyway.
- Violet Flame was hired for the role of Ellie Richards because of her
physicality. The character is required to do many scenes that
included fighting and her own stunt work, it only fitting that she
was played by a pro wrestler.
- The role of Sherrif Garris was originally written with actor
'Daniel Ramme' (qv) in mind, but when director Matt Spease met
Daniel's father 'Brian Ramme' (qv), he cast him in the role instead
and Daniel ended up playing the much smaller role of Al Donaldson.
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# Champeen, The (1923)
- The first appearance of 'Johnny Downs (I)' (qv), then age 9.
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- The mobile phones the angels use are the Nokia 8260
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# Chartreuse de Parme, La (1948)
- The film was presented in Italy in two separate episodes, "L'ombra
del patibolo" and "Amanti senza speranza". They were released
respectively on 21st February and 24th February 1948
- During the shooting, all Italian actors spoke their lines in French.
They were all dubbed afterwards.
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- 'Quentin Tarantino' (qv) paid a visit to the set during filming at
the stadium at the University of Texas.
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# Chi l'ha vista morire? (1972)
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# Chicken Feed (1927)
- This was 'Johnny Downs (I)' (qv)'s last appearance as an "Our
Gang"er. He had been in Our Gang for five years and acted in 24
installments.
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- 'Philip Lambro' (qv) was originally hired to write the film's music
score but it was rejected at the last minute by producer
'Robert Evans (I)' (qv), leaving 'Jerry Goldsmith' (qv) only ten
days to write and record the new score.
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- Originally "Rated R for violence" as was the first film
_Pitch Black (2000)_ (qv). Universal appealed the rating and
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- SPOILER: The subjective take in which we see Buscape's point of
view, after Zé Pequeno (Leandro Firmino da Hora) is killed by the
Runts, was shot by Alexandre Rodrigues, who played Buscape.
Photography Director César Charlone insisted on teaching Rodrigues
how to handle the camera, telling director Fernando Meirelles that
was really important that the boy did the shot, just like his
character. Meirelles accepted the suggestion.
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- According to 'Ilene Woods' (qv), who did the voice for Cinderella,
it was 'Walt Disney' (qv) who suggested the layered harmonies in the
"Sweet, Sweet Nightengale" sequence. She thinks that it might have
been the first time that it was attempted.
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# Circuit 2: The Final Punch, The (2002) (V)
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- Even though a print of the film did not exist, this was the version
that 20th Century-Fox was inspired to remake in 1958, the result
being _Cleopatra (1963)_ (qv) starring 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv)
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- "Korova" is Russian for "Cow", hence the name "The Korova Milk Bar."
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overruled 23 to 1.
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- 'Hans Zimmer' (qv) was attached to the film, in an early stage. He
was replaced by 'James Newton Howard' (qv), probably by scheduling
conflicts.
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- Don Swan ('Mark Hamill (I)' (qv)) interviews 'Kevin Smith (I)' (qv)
in the movie and asks him about Smith's fictional first draft of the
'Commander Courage' movie. Smith mentions the movie's producers
constantly hounding him over adding a giant spider to the 'Courage'
script for no reason, among other problems. The scene is directly
referencing Smith's famous real-life hassles attempting to draft a
'Superman' script for Warner Bros.
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# Command Approved (2000)
- The ship that is the centerpiece of the movie is a Type 23 Frigate,
which was played by the real-life Royal Navy frigates HMS Monmouth
and HMS Montrose.
- At one point the ship fires a Seawolf missile to deal with an
incoming target. You can just make out the missile waver slightly
when it fires. When this sequence was filmed, the missile veered
right off course and came worryingly close to shipping in the area.
- The movie is the centerpiece of a navy-funded tourist attraction in
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England. It is designed to demonstrate
what the modern Royal Navy gets up to, and is accompanied by
helicopter, ship and weapons simulators.
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- The performers first had to show musical talent, then they were
given parts for which to read. After they were cast, there was a
very long rehearsal period both for the music and the dramatic
scenes.
- Alan Parker said that the reason he chose this project was because
it combined two elements that make him the most comfortable: staging
musical scenes and working with young people.
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# Communion (1976)
- Delia Sheppard who played 12-year-old Alice was nineteen during the
making of the film.
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# Comte de Monte Cristo, Le (1943)
- The film was presented to the French public in two parts: "Edmond
Dantès" and "Le châtiment" released respectively on 21st January and
26th February 1943. Similarly, it was also presented in two parts in
Italy. They were called "Il conte di Montecristo" and "La rivincita
di Montecristo" and respectively released on 12th and 17th November
1943.
- In the Italian version, the part of Haydée is played by Bianca Della
Corte; whereas it is played by Lise Delamare in the French one. The
rest of the cast is identical in both versions.
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- The life of Conan oddly mirrors that of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Conan's formative years are spent in a small village, then spent in
hard manual labor as a slave. Then Conan gains fame and wealth
through his physical prowess. Although at first given to wine and
women, he eventually abandons his hedonism and uses his skills for
acts of heroism. Eventually, Conan becomes a king. In real life,
Schwarzenegger was born in a small Austrian village and spent his
life bodybuilding. He then becomes famous and wealthy through
bodybuilding competitions and action/adventure movies.
Schwarzenegger engaged in drug use and womanizing in his past, but
gave those up later in life and then campaigned for social causes.
Eventually, he was elected Governor of California.
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- Toward the end when Beldar asks Ronnie if he could have 55 words
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- 'Bruce Campbell (I)' (qv) auditioned for the role of Dr. Peter
Elliot. He was given the small part of Charles Travis instead.
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- At the beginning of the "It's War!" Chapter, we see a newspaper with
a squirrel soldier on it, called "The Midday Federal", headline
"WAR". it also reads "In other news:" - "King Bee's Love Triangle"
and "Ugas Die In Boulder Tragedy".
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- Dr. Arroway hypothesizes that the message could be an "Encyclopaedia
Galactica", a concept envisioned by Carl Sagan as well, featured
prominently in the TV series "Cosmos" and meant to be an planetary
database for all the worlds within the Milky Way Galaxy.
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- All the actors in the film worked for scale due to the film's
budget.
- The long shots of Garrison, New Jersey featuring the water tower was
added in post-production and was one of the first CGI shots
according to director James Mangold.
- In the scene in which Ray Liotta confronts Robert Patrick in the bar
Liotta shoves a rubber dart up his left nostril.
- Robert Patrick got the part after running into actor Peter Berg and
the film's music supervisor, Meryl Poster who were staying in the
same hotel in New York. He got the script and then read for director
James Mangold a few days later.
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- In the original script when Nick Chen walks in on Henry Vu being fed
grapes in the bath, she was supposed to be giving him oral sex.
'Yun-Fat Chow' (qv) said that Chen would not continue a relationship
with May after witnessing this act, and the grape-feeding was
suggested.
- The car chase sequence was trimmed down by censors and is available
as a feature on the New Line DVD.
- SPOILER: In the bathroom scene, where 'Yun-Fat Chow' (qv) reacts to
finding out that 'Mark Wahlberg' (qv) is working undercover, the
script called for him to break mirrors and knock a hand-dryer off
the wall. Ths was decided to be an American response with physical
violence, and the breathing technique was used.
- The close-ups of 'Yun-Fat Chow' (qv) shooting a criminal at point
blank range with a small revolver (as in the opening, and massage
parlor raids) were directly inspired by the famous photograph of a
Vietnamese soldier committing an execution.
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- The role of Vic Ajax was originally intended for
'Bruce Campbell (I)' (qv)
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- The LA punk band The Germs recorded five or so songs expressly for
the soundtrack to this movie, although in the actual event, only
"Lion's Share" was actually used. During the recording sessions,
director 'William Friedkin' (qv) was so energized by the Germs'
playing that he took to doing the "pogo" dance around the engineer's
booth.
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- Gwen Verdon was famous on Broadway for her hip movements, especially
her "bumps", as they are called, but in 1958 "bumps" were not
allowed in films, so her first number, "A Little Brains", contains
odd static pauses where she had done "bumps" on stage.
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- The first time 'Colin Farrell (I)' (qv) had been able to use his own
Irish accent in an American movie.
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- 'Bill Paxton' (qv) was almost cast as Peyton Westlake.
- 'Julia Roberts' (qv) was almost cast as Julie Hastings before she
got the role in _Pretty Woman (1990)_ (qv) and had to be replaced.
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a non-fiction novel by 'Art Bell (I)' (qv) and
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- 'Roland Emmerich' (qv), out of his own pocket, paid $200,000 to make
the production 'carbon-neutral' - the first of it's kind in
Hollywood - all carbon dioxide emitted by the production is offset
by the planting of trees, and investments in renewable energy.
- Roland Emmerich confided that the Statue of Liberty would be turned
over by the force of the massive amount of water flowing around it
but said he wanted to create a symbol of American values that stood
up to the forces.
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it a "subsurface storage facility".
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- in the scene change right after Logan tells the zombie that it needs
to sit in the dark and think about what it did, and punishes it by
turning off the light, a little bit of the "Zombie March" music from
Dawn of the Dead can be heard in the scene change.
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- When The Jackal meets his weapons supplier and as the two discuss
the weapon, a picture of President John F. Kennedy is on the coffee
table.
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# De ángeles, flores y fuentes (2005)
- This is the first Mexican movie conceived and released entirely by a
Guadalajara-native or -based crew in decades. Many of the actors,
like Eduardo España, Juan Pablo Abitia and Sherlyn were also born in
Guadalajara.
- The movie is divided in three chapters, each one by a different
director: The chapter Hell (Infierno) is directed by Francisco
Rodríguez, Heaven (Paraíso) by Rodolfo Guzmán, and Pugatory
(Purgatorio) by Héctor Rodríguez
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from William Blake's "The Everlasting Gospel".
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Blake's poem "Auguries of Innocence".
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- The names of the two marshals that Johnny Depp kills are Lee and
Marvin, an homage to 'Marvin, Lee' (qv) .
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- 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv) wanted the Simon Phoenix character to be
played by 'Chan, Jackie'. Chan refused, since Asian audiences don't
like the idea of actors who have always played heroes suddenly
playing evil characters.
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- Released on the "Disney Treasures On The Front Lines" DVD for the
first time since 1942.
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- This is the only film in the "El Mariachi" series to state the
Mariachi's real first name: Benito.
- This is also the only film in the series to show the Mariachi
smoking, which is a contradiction of his claim in the first film
that he doesn't do so because "his voice is his life".
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- Filmed the day Diane Linkletter took her own life.
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- Actual furniture from the original New Rochelle living room set was
located and used - minus the ottoman.
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# Diddy Kong Racing (1997) (VG)
- From the other playable characters, both Banjo and Conker got their
own games (Banjo-Kazooie and later Banjo-Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day
and currently in the making Conker: Live and Uncut). Diddy himself
started as a sidekick in Donkey Kong Country for the SNES.
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terrorists are not from Germany but from "Europe". This has been
fixed for the Special Edition VHS and later home video releases. The
only instances of incorrect use of German are ALan Rickman's (Hans
Gruber) lines.
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- 'Sam Phillips (I)' (qv), in real life a pop singer, was invited to
test for the role based upon a photo from one of her CD covers.
- The bridge from which John and Zeus jump to the container ship in
the harbor is the Cooper River Bridge that connects Charleston and
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. A new bridge is currently under
construction, and the two existing bridges that have long been a
symbol of Charleston will likely be converted into artificial reefs.
Much of the film was shot in the Charleston area, including the
subway station which was built on a stage in Mount Pleasant.
- As in the previous _Die Hard (1988)_ (qv), the German spoken in this
movie is mostly grammatically incorrect. A few lines are so wrong
that they have to be considered gibberish (most notably the exchange
of the fake cops, who are given the briefcase bomb by Zeus
('Samuel L. Jackson' (qv))).
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- Footage of the exterior shot of the train scene was recycled from
the movie _Narrow Margin (1990)_ (qv).
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- Only 'Jim Jarmusch' (qv) film made with "American money" as Jarmusch
himself calls it. He says that he prefers not to have his films
funded by Americans because there are too many "strings attached".
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- Author 'Ian Fleming (I)' (qv) wanted his cousin 'Lee, Christopher'
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and 'Rex Harrison (I)' (qv).
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'William Franklyn' (qv), 'Ian Hendry (I)' (qv) (co-star of
"Avengers, The") and 'Richard Burton (I)' (qv).
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# Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
- 'Jessica Simpson' (qv), in getting the part of Daisy Duke, beat out
'Brittney Spears' (qv), 'Mandy Moore' (qv) and 'Jessica Biel' (qv)
for the role.
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- In addition, the two characters who mention pineapples are both
named He Zhiwu (though the character in Chungking Express is a cop,
and the character in this film is a former criminal) and both are
played by the actor Takeshi Kaneshiro.
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- Along with _Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)_ (qv) Disney once said that
this film will never be released again in any format. However, both
films have been released on a DVD set chronicling the studio's WWII
films in 2004.
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- When Kuzco is being chased by the jaguars, some of the leaves in the
background resemble skulls.
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# Enchanted Cafe, The (1903)
- Probably a non-U.S. production.
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- The tune sung by the U-Boat crew on the ocean floor between depth
charge attacks is from an 18th century march called "Der Dessauer
Marsch". As a more popular song, it's also known by the first line
of lyrics: "So leben wir".
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- Writer and director Kurt Wimmer invented the martial arts style of
gunfighting for this movie in his backyard.
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- The Warden, who is never named during the film, at one point refers
to his "predecessors, Wardens Johnston and Blackwell." Warden
Blackwell was the actual warden at the time of Frank Morris's
escape, and this script reference was clearly done to avoid legal
trouble.
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# Escaped (1903)
- The plot summary is identical to Lubin's _Captured_ (1903)( qv).
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- On the tape, in which the demon resurrection passages are read
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- 'Betsy Baker' (qv) lost her eye lashes in the process of removing
her facial mold.
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# Evil On Queen Street: Ascension (2004) (V)
- The Demon is played by 'E.H. Jenkins' (qv) in the new footage, but
during most of the original footage it is 'Isaak Partlow' (qv)
playing the role. He is credited as a stand in for The Demon on the
credits.
- 'Matt Spease' (qv) never uses a stunt double for any of his scenes.
All the action and fight scenes he does in the films is really him.
- 'Rodney Duncan' (qv) used to wrestle under the name Blade Runner.
One of his favorite moves was the DDT, which he uses on The Demon in
the final battle scene. He originally wanted to do his finishing
move the Jackknife Powerbomb, but the actor playing The Demon (E.H.
Jenkins) objected to it. So the DDT was all that made it into the
film.
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- Originally the character of Alexia was supposed to be a supporting
one, she was to have been killed during the early moments of the
film (à la _Psycho (1960)_ (qv)). Then the rest of the film would
have been Nick Wilson trying to avenge her death with the help of
Damien Thompson. But after pro wrestler 'Violet Flame' (qv) was cast
in the role, 'Matt Spease' (qv) reworked the script and combined
elements of the Alexia and Damien characters into one... Alexia
Thompson.
- Since Violet Flame is a pro wrestler, Matt Spease wrote in her
finishing move the Double Underhook DDT in two separate fight scenes
(one vs. The Demon and one vs. Nick).
- Matt Spease used to do a lot of wrestling, so he implemented his old
finishing move the Death Drop (Diamond Cutter) into his character's
first fight with The Demon.
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# Expansion and Contraction (1903)
- Probably a non-U.S. production.
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# F*Stop (2004)
- Based on the award winning feature screenplay "The Assistance of
Vice", winner of the Jack Nicholson Prize in Screenwriting
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- Fooly cooly (pronounced "foo-ree coo-ree") is a Japanese slang term
for groping a woman's breasts.
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- 'Kar Wai Wong' (qv) was shooting the finale, and editing the film a
little over a week before its debut at Cannes.
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movie was given what has been called "the longest standing ovation
in the history of the festival". Although the exact length of the
applause is a matter of debate, journalists at the screening have
reported it being in the area of 15 to 25 minutes.
- The film is the first ever Documentary to win the Palm d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival.
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- 'Nigel DeBrulier' (qv) was used as the model for the sorcerer.
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- Walter's boat, which he bought from one Mr. Van De Hoven, is named
"Vrolijkheid", which is Dutch for "Cheerfulness".
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- John Waters still has the "lectric' chair" and keeps it in his
Baltimore home.
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- As with most pre-CG-effects movies about the Pacific War, the planes
standing in for the A6M2 Zeroes are actually specially-modified AT-6
Texans mocked up to look like Zeroes (since from the side (but not
the wings), the two planes are remarkably similar).
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- In the tank gang in the dentist's office, Gurgle - the little purple
and yellow fish who's a germ-o-phobic - is the only one never
mentioned by name
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- 'David Cronenberg' (qv) was offered the chance to direct but turned
it down.
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- At the beginning of the drive-in, there is a sign that says: "Coming
Soon: Gorge Lucas TAR WARS"
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- Studio records show that 'Abe Dinovitch' (qv) and
'Maude Erickson' (qv) filmed a production number with
'Judy Garland (I)' (qv), but it was cut before the final release.
Similarly, 'Six Hits and a Miss' (qv) was filmed in another number
cut from before release.
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- 'Barry Sonnefeld' (qv) was offered the chance to direct this film.
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# Fortunate Son (2004)
- Won First Place in Fiction Filmmaking at the Oregon Forest Film
festival - 2004.
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- The Monster in this film does not physically resemble Mary Shelley's
character. It was make-up artist Jack Pierce who came up with
innovations such as the Monster's flat head, the bolts through the
neck, the droopy eyelids, and the poorly-fitted suit. Any future
Frankenstein film that features any of these physical abnormalities
is taking its inspiration from Pierce's make-up work.
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# Frau meiner Träume, Die (1944)
- The first German Color Film.
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- Throughout the final scene, the mummified head of Mrs. Voorhees is
noticeably an actress wearing makeup rather than a fake head. The
final shot is a close-up of the head, ending in a freeze frame
before the credits roll. Originally this shot ended with Mrs.
Voorhees opening her eyes and smiling, but at the last minute Steve
Miner decided this effect was hokey and cheapened the movie's
impact.
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- The original cut of the film ran an hour longer.
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# Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
- Broadway star 'Gwen Verdon' (qv) had one number as a hotel maid, but
her sexy moves were deemed obscene. She was cut, although her name
appears in some cast lists, and her scene re-shot with a non-musical
performer.
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family had ever had any history of mental illness, she replies she
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# Gift from Heaven, A (1994)
- Based on David Steen's stage play of the same title, which premiered
at the Chamber Theater in Los Angeles in 1988. David produced and
played the only male character, winning awards for acting, producing
and writing.
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- Originally, both 'Brianna Banks' (qv) and 'Jenna Jameson' (qv) were
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- Whereas regular monster Mothra appears once again, this film marks
the long-awaited return of Toho Monsters that have not been seen in
decades, including Angilas (last seen in
_Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974)_ (qv)), Rodan (last seen in
_Gojira VS Mekagojira (1993)_ (qv)), and Gigan (not seen since
_Gojira tai Megaro (1973)_ (qv)). Kumonga (Spiga) and Manda were
last seen in _Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)_ (qv)), and Kamakiras
(Gimantis) and Godzilla's son Minilla were last seen in
_Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969)_ (qv). There are
also returns from monsters not seen since their first appearances,
such as Ebirah (from
_Gojira-Ebira-Mosura: Nankai no daiketto (1966)_ (qv), not counting
his stock-footage appearance in
_Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969)_ (qv)!), Hedorah
(from _Gojira tai Hedora (1971)_ (qv)) and King Shisâ (from
_Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974)_ (qv)).
- Veteran actor 'Akira Takarada' (qv) makes his sixth appearance in a
Godzilla film, playing UN Secretary General Naotaro Daigo. His first
was in the original _Gojira (1954)_ (qv), in which he played Hideto
Ogata (he was 19 at the time). This is a fitting tribute to the
first film from 50 years earlier. He was previously in
_Gojira VS Mosura (1992)_ (qv) as Joji Minamino.
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- While spying on Ashley in the library, the three books that Pipe
pretends to read are: Of Mice and Men (Cliff Notes), For Whom the
Bell Tolls, and Heavier Than Heaven (a Kurt Cobain biography). All
three books feature main characters that are shot and killed at the
end.
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Robinson, but she declined.
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- There are several references to the humor website Somethingawful.com
including the title SA Goon when your score is between 1000 and
1010, and there is a newspaper called Front Page News, a reference
to the Front Page of Somethingawful.
- In the mission "Autocide", Tommy has to kill a group of men with
similar names to characters in games similar to the Grand Theft Auto
games. Specificly, he must kill Mike Griffin (Mace Griffin: Bounty
Hunter), Dick Tanner (Tanner from the Driver series), Marcus
Hammond, Franco Carter (Mark Hammond and Frank Carter from Getaway,
The), Nick King (Nick Kang from True Crime: Streets of L.A.), and
Charlie Dilson (Charlie Jolson, also from Getaway, The).
- Two of the missions are called "Copland" and "No Escape". These are
both titles of movies with Ray Liotta who voices Tommy Vercetti.
- During one scene, Diaz shoots an unplugged VCR because it wouldn't
eject "my favorite El Burro movie". El Burro is a gang leader in
Grand Theft Auto 3, who specialized in pornographic videos.
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- 'Pat Birch' (qv), the director of this film, was the dance
choreographer in the original.
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# Guns A-Poppin (1957)
- The cabin set used in this film was also used in the Three Stooges
shorts _Idiots DeLuxe (1945)_ (qv), _Horsing Around (1957)_ (qv),
and _Oil's Well That Ends Well (1958)_ (qv).
- Uses stock footage from the 1945 short "Idiots DeLuxe". Reused
scenes include Moe's testimony in court, the bear eating the
Stooges' breakfast, and Moe enjoying his breakfast.
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- The security guard is named Barney after Lecter's guard in
_Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)_ (qv).
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- The initial murder was also an homage to _Psycho (1960)_ (qv) in
which the viewer never actually sees the knife penetrate skin.
- The only Halloween film to be rated PG.
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# Hansel and Gretel (1988)
- Was originally to be filmed in Budapest, Hungary.
- There was a lot of debate as to how to destroy the witch's house at
the end of the movie. Some wanted to blow it up, and the director
(Len Talan) wanted to take it apart in stop-action, to have it turn
to ruins, which was too time-consuming. Finally the construction
supervisor, Aria Benishay, came up with an idea. He contacted the
local fire department near the woods where the witch's house had
been built and got them to assist the crew by pumping fire-fighting
foam through the back of the set and out the windows and roof. Large
quantities of food coloring were added and with a couple of
fireballs and colored smokebombs, they had their scene.
- To save money, the Cannon Movie Tales films were shot two-at-a-time.
Hansel and Gretel was shot simultaneously with
_Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1987)_ (qv). This wasn't the
best of situations in that often the two crews would be competing
for the limited equipment, costumes and sets.
- The US. theatrical release was cancelled when
_Rumpelstiltskin (1987)_ (qv) flopped at the box-office.
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# Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
- There were no White Castles in the filming location so a building
was trucked in.
- White Castle is the first fast food Hamburger in America. It was at
first mainly eaten mainly by factory workers and was looked down
upon.
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Watson (Harry and Hermione) and worked extensively to create
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opted to do _Hellboy (2004)_ (qv) instead.
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- 'Gary Oldman' (qv) says he accepted the role of Sirius Black because
he "needed the work". He hadn't acted for over a year. His last film
was _Sin (2003/I)_ (qv), which was filmed in 2002.
- Director Cuaron coached Daniel Radcliffe in one scene where the
latter had to act awed: "Pretend you're seeing Cameron Diaz in a
G-string". It worked.
- A clause in Cuaron's contract forbade the director from cursing in
front of the kids on set.
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# Hearts Divided (1936)
- The play opened on Broadway, New York City, New York, USA on 7
September 1908 and had only 24 performances. It was based on the
actual marriage of Napoleon's brother to Elizabeth Patterson, but it
eventually was annulled by order of Napoleon.
- Eighteen minutes were cut from preview version of the film before
its actual release, eliminating several actors listed in studio
records and casting call lists. These include (with their character
names): 'Hattie McDaniel' (qv) (Mammy), 'Hobart Cavanaugh' (qv)
(Innkeeper), 'Clinton Rosemond' (qv) (Black Man) and
'George Davis (I)' (qv) (French Sailor).
- 'Dick Powell (I)' (qv) was cast at 'Marion Davies' (qv)' request.
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- This was the first Disney animated feature to be inspired by
mythology rather than a fairy tale.
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- The film was heavily cut upon it's release, eliminating much of the
relationship between Jennifer Connelly and Kristy Swanson's
characters, along with more scenes involving the Nazi's and the
other groups activities and relationships going throughout the
University.
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- 'Sam Elliott' (qv) and 'Terrence Stamp' (qv) were offered the role
of John Ryder
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# Hollywood Ten, The (1956)
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# Home (2004/II)
- Writer-director Ghimire shot quickly, completing the shoot in only
two days.
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# Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma, A (2002)
- Petaluma, California is nicknamed "The eggbasket of the world".
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- Dedicated to Dennis Fimple, 1940-2002.
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# Hung Hsi-Kuan (1977)
- DIRETRADE('Chia-Liang Liu' (qv)): Opening credits show a
demonstration of martial arts against an empty backdrop.
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- 'Larry Hagman' (qv) declined to do the film because he was too busy
with _"Dallas" (1978)_ (qv).
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- 'Trevor Jones (I)' (qv) has been replaced on the project with
'Marco Beltrami' (qv).
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- 'Ken Jenkins (I)' (qv), who plays "Jim Holly" (the organizer of the
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purely coincidental. Dan Jenkins is not the son of actor Ken
Jenkins. Daniel Jenkins is his son. He is only credited as Daniel or
Daniel H. Jenkins.
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- Only one curse word - "shit" - is uttered once in each Indiana Jones
movie. In this film (in an odd twist), a German officer says it in
his native language right before Indy shoots him during the Castle
Brunwald rescue.
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- Only one curse word - "shit" - is uttered once in each Indiana Jones
movie. In this film, Indy says it when he is surrounded my Mola
Ram's men on the rope bridge.
# Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (2003) (V)
- This documentary is featured on the 4th disc of The Adventures of
Indiana Jones DVD set, released in October of 2003.
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# Internet Dating (2004)
- Based on writer Jean Franzblau's true experiences looking for
romance on the web.
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- It is the first Canadian film ever to win The Best French Film of
the Year award at the Cesars (France's national film awards).
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# It Runs in the Family (1994)
- 'Tedde Moore' (qv), who plays Miss Shields, is the only person from
_Christmas Story, A (1983)_ (qv) to reprise her role for the sequel.
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- Is the only film that stars both 'Jack Lemmon' (qv) and
'Walter Matthau' (qv) without the two of them sharing a scene
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# Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999) (TV)
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# Journey Into Fear (1943)
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- This features the final appearance of Baran (aka Varan).
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- Work on this sequel started ten days after the release of the first
film.
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# Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
- This was originally planned for production after
_Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936)_ (qv). The huge success of the previous
service comedies, _Buck Privates (1940)_ (qv) and
_In the Navy (1940)_ (qv), caused Universal to produce this first.
The War Department also announced a recruitment campaign called
"Keep 'em Flying Week" which Universal could use as a patriotic
tie-in.
- The original trailer was actually a one reel recruitment short,
running about 9 minutes, for the Army Air Corps which included clips
from this film.
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- The video was narrated by the producer, 'Steven Vasquez' (qv).
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- Chaplin's first feature length film.
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which is a phrase taken from the 'Kinji Fukasaku' (qv) film
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- The sequence where the Bride fights behind the blue-screen and we
can see her silhouette, is a reference to
_SF: Episode One (1998)_ (qv).
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- The shot where the Bride splits a baseball in two with a samurai
sword was done for real on the set. It was done by 'Zoe Bell' (qv),
Uma Thurman's stunt double.
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chapter, at Bill's Hacienda, both Thurman's and Carradine's
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- In the scene where Uma Thurman is being buried alive, the master
shot has the pickup's headlights illuminating the graveyard. On the
right of the screen, the exhumed body's gnarled hand casts a
bunny-shaped shadow on its coffin.
- The gun that Bill uses appears to be a Colt Single Action Army, or
"Peacemaker", Bisley model (due to the curved design of the grip).
It is obviously chambered for .45 Colt as seen on the back of the
bullet fired in the internal gun shot in
_Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)_ (qv).
- Elle says, "Now, you should listen to this, 'cause this concerns
you." 'Samuel L. Jackson' (qv) says the same line in
_Jackie Brown (1997)_ (qv).
- _Pulp Fiction (1994)_ (qv) references: In the flashback scene when
the Bride finds out she's pregnant, and the assassin and her are at
a stand off, The Bride says that she is the "deadliest women in the
world". In the "Fox Force 5" pilot, Uma Thurman's character is said
to be the "deadliest women in the world with a knife"
- At the wedding rehearsal, Bill says to the Bride, "I'm more or less
particular who my gal marries." This is a reference to
_His Girl Friday (1940)_ (qv), in which 'Cary Grant' (qv)'s
character by says the same thing. 'Howard Hawks' (qv), the director
of His Girl Friday, is one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite
directors.
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# King Arthur (2004)
- 'Laurence Fishburne' (qv) narrated the teaser trailer
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# King of the Moon (2004)
- Premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. Based on the two-man
play, King of the Moon by Scott Alan Smith and Adam Paul which ran
at the HBO Workspace a record 5 times and the Groundlings theater in
LA. The play was directed by Elizabeth Sampson. It premiered in New
York City at the Present Company in 1998.
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# Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang (2005)
- 'Val Kilmer' (qv) had to quickly lose the 50 pounds gained for his
plump role in 'Oliver Stone' (qv)'s _Alexander (2004)_ (qv) in order
to play his fit GQ character for this film.
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'Andrei Tarkovsky' (qv)'s _Solyaris (1972)_ (qv) was a great
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famous director in Hungary.
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- The famous "With this axe, I rule!" line at the end of the movie is
actually the title of a Robert E. Howard short story about Kull.
This story was later rewritten as "The Phoenix on the Sword", the
first Conan story.
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- 'Jerry Goldsmith' (qv), who got an Academy Award nomination for this
movie's score, replaced 'Elmer Bernstein' (qv).
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- In the 1999 video release, some scenes had pieces of dialogue
missing that had been part of the original theatrical release. This
was believed to be caused by the studio restoration process that
incorporated both US and international formats of the film, which
inadvertently created a hybrid version. Disney often produces
different international and foreign versions of their films to make
the foreign dialogue fit.
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- 'Javed Akhtar' (qv) returns to scriptwriting in this movie after
more than 14 years. _Main Azaad Hoon (1989)_ (qv) was the last movie
in which he wrote.
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# Last Dinosaur, The (1977) (TV)
- This was originally scheduled for theatrical release in the United
States. The release was cancelled and the film premiered, in edited
form, as a TV-movie on U.S. network television. This edited version
became the U.S. version used for television showings and video
releases.
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# Laura (1968) (TV)
- 'George Sanders' (qv) and 'Robert Stack' (qv) had appeared years
earlier in another television adaptation of "Laura", broadcast on
the anthology series "The 20th Century Fox Hour", playing the same
roles they did in the 1968 TV version. That 1950s version, which
runs only an hour, is sometimes rebroadcast on the Fox Movie Channel
as part of their series "Hour of Stars".
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- Captain Nemo, in Indian, is seen performing Martial Arts throughout
the movie. The Martial Arts discipline of Shin Sun Do is thought to
have originated in India.
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# Leopard Man, The (1943)
- The black leopard was named Dynamite. It was the same cat that
'Val Lewton' (qv) used for _Cat People (1942)_ (qv).
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- 'Franco Zeffirelli' (qv) reportedly decided to offer
'Mel Gibson (I)' (qv) the role of Hamlet after seeing his suicide
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- In one scene, Riggs and Murtaugh congratulate one another on their
promotions by rapidly alternating between handshakes and salutes.
This is similar to scenes in _Forever Young (1992)_ (qv) between
'Mel Gibson (I)' (qv) and 'George Wendt (I)' (qv).
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the same characters: Aside from 'Mel Gibson (I)' (qv) and
'Danny Glover' (qv) as Riggs and Murtaugh, respectively,
'Darlene Love' (qv) plays Murtaugh's wife, 'Tracy Wolf' (qv),
'Damon Hines' (qv) and 'Ebonie Smith' (qv) are Murtaugh's kids,
'Steve Kahan' (qv) is Captain Murphy and 'Mary Ellen Trainor' (qv)
plays the police psychiatrist, Dr. Woods. In addition, Riggs' dog,
Sam, appears in Lethal Weapons 1,2 and 4. A deleted scene featuring
him was reinstated for the director's cut of Lethal Weapon 3. So, in
a way, he's the ninth regular character.
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- 'Jackie Chan (I)' (qv) was considered for the role of Wah Sing Su,
but turned it down, because he chooses never to play the villain in
a movie.
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# Liberace (1988) (TV)
- Pianist, composer and artist Mike Garson played all the piano pieces
in the style of Liberace for the close-up shots. During filming he
was adorned with a variety of flashy jewelry - which Garson assumed
were props. One evening after filming, he forgot to remove the rings
and, when he got home, received a call from the producers informing
him that the rings were, in fact, Liberace's real rings.
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- Theatrically re-released in the US on 30 April 2004 for its 25th
anniversary, two months after the theatrical release of
_Passion of the Christ, The (2004)_ (qv).
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sounds as the flying cars in _"Jetsons, The" (1962)_ (qv).
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_Lady and the Tramp (1955)_ (qv)
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# Ling qi po ren (1984)
- At this point in his career, 'Yun-Fat Chow' (qv) was working on
several films in a day. his haircut and clothing is exactly as it
was in _Dang doi lai ming (1984)_ (qv), most likely due to working
on both films in the same day.
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- The first Disney animated film to actually depict the death of a
character (Mufasa). Previously, the death of a character was either
off-screen or implied. Later in Pocahontas, the actual death of a
human character is depicted.
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- The parking deck where everyone is picked up and dropped off by the
bus in the city was the parking deck for the Omni in the '80s (CNN
today).
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- In Greek mythology, the God of the Sea is Poseidon. Triton, however,
is one of his sons.
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# Little Secrets (2001)
- 'Michael Angarano' (qv) (Philip) didn't have to audition for the
movie.
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# Loose Cannons: Campus Security (2000) (V)
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Golden Globes, after _Godfather: Part III, The (1990)_ (qv) and the
only time that a third movie has won the Best Picture Oscar.
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# Lost Paradise (1993/I)
- 'Robert Hyatt' (qv) is the first American director to make an all
Vietnamese cast and language film in the United States.
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- In an interview for "TV Guide" prior to the film's release, it was
mentioned that Jonathan Harris (Dr. Zachary Smith on the TV series)
was offered a small role in the movie. He bluntly stated, "I will
have you know I have never done a walk-on or bit part in my life!
And I do not intend to start now!"
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- Suntory whisky is actually not on the current menu at the New York
Bar in the Park Hyatt hotel, although two "Lost in Translation"
themed drinks (the L.I.T and the Sofia) are available.
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# Love Field (1992)
- The license plate on one of the main vehicles in the film is BDR529,
the same as the license plate of the Bluesmobile in
_Blues Brothers, The (1980)_ (qv).
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- 'Martita Roca' (qv) was first cast to play the leading role of
Sofia, but then producers thought she would be better as Monica,
Sofia's cousin.
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- The Italian title of the movie, "Amami Teneramente", literally
translates as "Love Me Tender", which is of course the title of
Elvis' first movie (known in Italy as "Fratelli Rivali" i.e. "Rival
Brothers").
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- DIRCAMEO('Demian Lichetenstein' (qv)):
- CAMEO('Miklos Wright' (qv)):
- 'Bruce Payne' (qv), the executive producer of the film was
originally going to play the villain, Bruce, but had a scheduling
conflict.
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- This film was already made in late 1919, but shelved for several
years.
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- The movie is divided in two chapters: "Lucía" and "El Sexo" which
gives its title to the movie.
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# Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)
- 'Bruce Campbell (I)' (qv) (Ray) also plays the Brain Surgeon who
appears in Hank's nightmares
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# Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
- When nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,
it was nominated under the title "My Night with Maud" because at the
time it had no US distibutor.
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# Macbeth (1982/II) (TV)
- The film is comprised of two uninterrupted shots, the first a
5-minute segment preceding the credits and the remainder a 67-minute
segment shot largely in close-ups.
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- The film references a novel by Russell Hoban called "Riddley Walker"
about a hero travelling in post-apocalpytic England.
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- 'Sándor Lukács' (qv) met his future wife on the set of this movie.
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- Directly after the scene in the garage where Callahan is threatened
by the motorcycle cops, the cycles drove out and every single one of
them crashed. Clint Eastwood said, "I've been threatened by the
Keystone Cops."
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- 'Robert De Niro' (qv), 'Will Smith (I)' (qv) and 'Bruce Willis' (qv)
were offered the role of Creasy.
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- Just before Creasy walks into the Rave Club, there's a brief break
in the music where an audio sample from
_Requiem for a Dream (2000)_ (qv) can be heard. It's Christopher
McDonald's character Tabby Tibbons saying, "We got a winner!"
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- 'Emma Thompson' (qv) and 'Jessica Lange' (qv) where considered for
the role of Eleanor Shaw.
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- In the original novel, the enemy ship was USS Norfolk, but the plot
was changed so that the French would be the bad guys instead of the
Americans.
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- In the final battle versus Sirleena, J says, "I've got the latest
smackdown for your candy ass". This phrase was coined by The Rock
when he was a full-time professional wrestler.
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- This was the first film ever to be registered in the "Memory of the
World-Register" of the UNESCO in 2001.
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- The theatrical release of this film was as part of the reissue of
_Rescuers, The (1977)_ (qv).
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- Replaced the Magic Kingdom's "Legend of the Lion King" puppet show
attraction.
- Features the one of the largest seamless screens in the world.
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- According to his book, 'Brad Davis (I)' (qv) had a drug problem of
his own while promoting this film.
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- There is a shot in the opening airport sequence where we see a long
haired, darkly dressed man quickly walk off camera. That man looks
very much like director 'Alan Parker' (qv) at the time.
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- The movie was originaly planed as vehicle for 'Jack Oakie (I)' (qv),
Gertude Michael and 'Edward Everett Horton' (qv). When it was
decided that it would be a 'Harold Lloyd' (qv) starrer, Horton was
replaced by 'Adolphe Menjou' (qv). Instead of 'Helen Mack' (qv),
originally 'Sally Blane' (qv) was cast. Due to illness,
'Ida Lupino' (qv) was replaced by 'Dorothy Wilson (I)' (qv).
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- Michael Mantenuto got into a fight with another player who picked on
him and other guys on the ice during tryouts. He apologized to
director Gavin O'Connor afterwards, to which Gavin responded, "No,
that was good." Michael ended up winning the part of Jack
O'Callahan, the defenseman dubbed "the first one to drop his
gloves".
- The scene where Herb Brooks makes the team skate back and forth on
the ice all night, after their 3-3 tie with Norway, was actually
done by the real actors over a span of three days - 12 hours a day.
The director wanted the moment to be as realistic as possible.
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# Missing, The (2003/I)
- 'Val Kilmer' (qv) who lives on a nearby New Mexico ranch agreed to a
cameo in this film secondary to his work with New Mexico's Film
Investment Program.
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- The film was considered very controversial at the time of its
release because even though it was a work of fiction, it was
obviously based on a actual case and many felt too many facts
concerning the actual case were distorted or left out.
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- The original title: "A Love Supreme".
- Although the scenes take place over ten years apart, the same kids
ask the exact same question in both the opening and closing
sequences.
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- Aileen Wuornos, a notoriously uncooperative person, gave director
Patty Jenkins access to hundreds of letters she had written and
received in order to gain insight into Aileen's life.
- 'Patty Jenkins' (qv) has said that she knew 'Charlize Theron' (qv)
was perfect for the role of Aileen Wuornos when she awoke to a scene
of _Devil's Advocate, The (1997)_ (qv) on television. Jenkins at the
time was writing her film Monster. She said that an actress that
would allow a closeup of her nose running, as Theron did, would be
open enough to pull off the challenging role of Wuornos.
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- A screening of the film was held at Salem State College's auditorium
in Salem, Massachusetts which is adjacent to Marblehead where the
film took place.
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# Mozart & the Whale (2004)
- The project was originally planned for 'Steven Spielberg' (qv) but
due to his workload it eventually landed in the hands of critically
acclaimed Norwegian director 'Petter Næss' (qv). This will be his
first US production.
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- When King Tutankhamen's tomb was found on 4 November 1922 the person
in charge was Lord George Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon. Along with him
was his daughter Lady Evelyn. Rachel Weisz's character is named
Evelyn Carnahan. Originally, her character was meant to be Evelyn
Carnarvon, and her and her brother were to be the children of the
"cursed" Lord Herbert. The only evidence of this left in the film is
in the line where Evelyn tells O'Connell that her father was a
"very, very famous explorer." The Mummy novelization goes into a bit
more detail on her backstory.
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- 'Rex Reed' (qv) originally refused to say the line, "Where are my
tits? Where are my tits?". However, the producers informed him that
if he didn't say the line, they would use an establishing shot with
a voice impressionist yelling "WHERE ARE MY TITS? WHERE ARE MY
TITS?". He reluctantly agreed to say the line.
- Trailers include many alternate takes, and one additional snippet of
dialogue; In the hospital at the end, Myron asks the doctor if he's
a boy or a girl, and the doctor says that he can't tell from where
he's standing.
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Brantseg (who would later take over both the puppeteering and voice
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- When Universal originally released the movie, they thought that a
limited release in a select group of "college towns" (where they
believed MST3K was most appreciated) over a longer period of time
would lead to a box office bonanza and keep it from having to
compete with the early summer blockbusters like
_Twister (1996)_ (qv) and _Mission: Impossible (1996)_ (qv) Instead,
very few fans of the show were even aware that the movie had been
released and the film languished in relative obscurity throughout
the spring and early summer. This was the first (and last) time that
Universal attempted such a plan.
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- The story told on American Maniacs about Mickey killing a cop after
asking him for directions is taken almost verbatim from a story made
up by J. Edgar Hoover about bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker during the thirties to try and quell positive public opinion
on the two. According to Hoover, Barrow questioned a lone patrol
officer in Oklahoma City for directions and then blew his head off
with a shotgun; it was later realized that Hoover, in authoring the
tale, forgot to add in how it could be known that Barrow was
responsible if there were no witnesses.
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# Never Die Alone (2004)
- 'Henry Gibson (I)' (qv), who has a brief silent cameo near the end
of the film as the funeral home director who steals King David's
watch and ring, is the father of screenwriter
'James Gibson (V)' (qv).
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- A picture of Heather Langenkamp that was on John Saxon's desk in the
original movie can be seen on a shelf in Wes Craven's house
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- The film is loosely based upon director 'Gary Oldman' (qv)'s own
life growing up in London.
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- The little girl that stares at Corso at the Paris Airport is played
by 'Roman Polanski' (qv)'s daughter Morgan.
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# Northwest Passage (1940)
- MGM initially planned that this movie should be part of a cinematic
series, but the intended sequel was scrapped due to the lengthy
production obstacles which plagued the film.
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- Alex Hidell, the name of the assassin in the film, was also a name
used as an alias by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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# Now I'll Tell One (1927)
- In 1993, on the first European Laurel & Hardy fan convention ("Sons
of the Desert"), the second reel of this comedy was re-screened for
the first time after the Second World War. Until then, this movie
was believed to be a Stan Laurel solo appearance. The first reel is
still missing.
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# Now You Know (2002)
- The script was written in about 2-3 months. And the movie was shot
18 days.
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# Oblivion (1994)
- The name of 'George Takei' (qv)'s character, Doc Valentine, is taken
from a company that sells sex toys.
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# Occhi dalle stelle (1978)
- For the English language version, another actor dubbed in the voice
for Martin Balsam's character.
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- Some scenes which suppose to be on Amsterdam station were filmed at
Haarlem train station (20 km away). Signs on the platform indicates
"Amsterdam centraal" but on the real platform it's saying "Amsterdam
Centraal".
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- Abbott and Costello were big radio stars when they made this, their
debut film. The voices are heard before they appear on screen.
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# One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
- The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 15
February 1933 and ran for 322 performances. The opening cast
included 'Percy Helton' (qv) and 'Lloyd Nolan' (qv).
- The AFI Catalogue lists the copyright length of 2734.36 m (which
calculates to a running time of 100 minutes), 8 reels and a running
time of 85 minutes. The film length is probably an error, since it
is incompatible with the listed time, or else severe cuts was made
after the copyright registration.
- After 'Fredric March' (qv) read the play, he told
'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) about it, and Cooper urged Paramount to buy
the film rights to it.
- Although a Paramount film, Warner Bros. acquired the rights for the
1948 remake, so it is in the Turner library with a running time of
69 minutes. However, some cutting of the original must have taken
place, because both 'Clara Blandick' (qv) (who is credited onscreen)
and 'Sam Hardy' (qv) do not appear in their print.
- There were three early television productions of the play: in 1949,
1957 and 1959.
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- This is the first film to be made in Afghanistan since the fall of
the Taliban. Previously all filming had been banned.
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# Ososhiki (1984)
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- 'Craig T. Nelson' (qv) was nicknamed 'Fish', by
'Sam Peckinpah' (qv), because he had to stay under water in the
swimming scene
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# Otto - Der Außerfriesische (1989)
- The lighthouse shown in the movie is the smallest lighthouse in
Germany and can now be rented as a wedding chapel.
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"Westerdam".
- 'Donald O'Connor' (qv)'s last film appearance.
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# Pageant (2002)
- Pigeon Man Dan Eggleston was racing between sets of this movie and
_Miss Congeniality (2000)_ (qv), which was being shot on many of the
same sets and streets, yet on different days.
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# Pakkuman (1980) (VG)
- Pac Man was modeled after a piece of pizza
- One of the most "cloned" coin-op games of all time, with over 100
variants.
- The original title was intended to be "Puck-Man", until marketers
realized that materials used to promote the game could be vandalized
by having a portion of the letter "P" removed, completely changing
the way the name is read.
- The highest possible score in Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points. The first
known person ever to achieve a perfect score was an American named
Billy Mitchell on 3 July 1999. It took him six hours and he had to
endure 256 levels. On the final level, and due to a programming
limitation, there is only half of the maze, the right side of the
screen contains garbage characters. Once the ultimate score is
reached, the game locks up, and would require a restart.
- The title of the game was derived from the Japanese word
"paku-paku", the onomatopoeic sound of someone flapping one's mouth
open and closed.
- These are the ghosts (USA "nickname"/ Japan "nickname"):
- Red ghost: Shadow "Blinky" / Oikake "Akabei"
- Pink ghost: Speedy "Pinky" / Machibuse "Pinky"
- Blue ghost: Bashful "Inky" / Kimagure "Aosuke"
- Orange ghost: Pokey "Clyde" / Oboke "Guzuta"
# Pakners (2003)
- Pakners is a corruption of the word "partner".
- 'Fernando Poe Jr.' (qv) said this movie is his tribute to 'Efren
'Bata' Reyes' (qv) for putting the Philippines in the sports world
map because of Reyes' supremacy in billiards.
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# Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998) (VG)
- Despite rave reviews and a cult following, this four-disk epic game
was poorly marketed. The Sega Saturn was not selling very well and
the end of its production was right around the corner as the
Dreamcast was waiting in the wings. Team Andromeda, the in-house
team that made the Saturn titles, grew from 20 members to 40. The
team had trouble making the battle parts. As a result of the game on
a poorly-selling system such as Saturn, only a few copies of this
game were ever released and sold copies were auctioned off at eBay
with bids as high as $172.50. Obviously, the game did not sell well
in its release and Team Andromeda dissolved (development of the
fourth game, which was for Xbox, was done by Smilebit).
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# Pardon My Sarong (1942)
- Universal had smash hits with Abbott and Costello's service
comedies. With this film, they tried to duplicate the box office
success that Paramount was having with the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope
"Road" pictures. The experiment worked and this film exceeded the
box office grosses of their service comedies to become Abbott and
Costello's biggest hit to date.
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- When Hallie arrives in London and meets Martin at the airport, at
the point where the two begin their greeting you can see Lindsay
Lohan's mother holding her brother Dakota and beside her is
Lindsay's other brother Michael and sister Aliana.
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- In a rarity for Hollywood releases, re-entered the #1 spot at the
box office for the weekend of Good Friday, 2004.
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# Passport to Paris (1999) (V)
- The Olsen twins get their first film-kiss in this movie.
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- DIRTRADE('John Woo' (qv)): [reflections]: When Jennings meets with
the Rachel-Double in the Cafe, he sees her in the silver top of a
sugar pot
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from Mel's Diner from the sitcom _"Alice" (1976)_ , which was shot
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- The producers were set on casting 'Bill Murray (I)' (qv) as Larry
Flynt but according the 'Milos Foreman' (qv), Murray never returned
his phone calls.
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- DIRTRADE('Sergio Leone' (qv)):[theme]: Monco, Colonel Mortimer, and
Indio.
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- 'Sergio Leone' (qv) originally wanted 'Lee Marvin' (qv) for the role
of Douglas Mortimer.
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- This is the first film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the
Cesars (France's national film award) with not a single word of
French is spoken in it.
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company as its product image. The characters in this movie, however,
have no similarity to Pido Dido.
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- The real Pillow Book was written by Sei Shonagon at about the same
time as Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji which has the honor of
being the world's first novel. In fact, it has been said that Sei
Shonogon and Lady Murasaki were rivals in the court of Heian.
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- 'Jackie Chan' (qv) was considered for the part of Clouseau's
assistant, Kato.
- 'Ivan Reitman' (qv) was originally going to direct the film, but
chose not to, staying on as producer of the film.
- In the early stages of development, 'Chris Tucker' (qv) was
originally considered for the role of Clouseau with
'Ivan Reitman' (qv) directing.
- This film will mark the eighth time that 'Henry Mancini' (qv)'s
famous theme will be used to open the film or be used in the music
in the film.
- 'Christophe Beck' (qv) is the first composer other than the late
Henry Mancini to write the music for the Pink Panther movies.
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- The first Broadway musical to be advertised in a television
commercial.
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- In the original stage version, Catherine has a solo entitled "I
Guess I'll Miss the Man" after Pippin leaves her. The song does not
appear in this version, but is still in the play today.
- Several smaller numbers which appear in the original and current
versions of the show do not appear in this version. One is entitled
"There He Was" and is performed by Catherine when she first finds
Pippin. Another is "Prayer for Duck" which Pippin sings over the
body of Theo's dying duck, a sequence which is absent from this
version.
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- three uses of the song "(Yo Ho, Yo Ho) A Pirate's Life for Me" by
X. Atencio and George Bruns in the opening scene (sung by young
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- 'Jimmy Buffett' (qv) was offered a role as a pirate, but had to
decline due to previous engagements.
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# Pizza Man (2004)
- Official Selection of the South by Southwest Film Festival
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- Mrs. Freeling's line "Mmmm... smell that mimosa." is taken directly
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panned along with 'JoBeth Williams' (qv), who was getting some
cleaning materials, several crew members quickly set an already
organized pyramid of chairs on the table, then took the single
chairs away before the camera scrolled back. See Goofs entry.
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- 'Bob Clark (III)' (qv) directed this film at the same time he was
helming _Christmas Story, A (1983)_ (qv). Even the "major award"
(the racy mannequin's leg in fishnet stockings-lamp) makes an
appearance when the kids are performing the swordfight scene of
"Romeo and Juliet" onstage.
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# Possession (2002)
- A large part of Church Street in Whitby was dressed to give it the
appearance of a 18/19th century fishing town. 'Gwyneth Paltrow' (qv)
insisted that the whole place was screened off so that she was not
visible to the small crowd of on-lookers. 'Jeremy Northam' (qv),
however, took time to go and talk about the film to the bystanders.
Miss Paltrow also turned down an offer from the local dignitaries to
meet the mayor and be shown around the town. The Whitby Gazette
carried a massive banner headline declaring "PALTROW SNUBS WHITBY".
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# Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
- This documentary is featured on the Two-Disc Special Edition DVD for
_Cardinal, The (1963)_ (qv)
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- 'Gina Gershon' (qv) took guitar lessons from 'Joan Jett' (qv) when
preparing for this movie.
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- When Goofy's polka-dotted underpants are impaled upon the guard's
spear, you can see that they have the word "MOM" printed on the
backside. Now that this film is on DVD (The Walt Disney Treasures
Collection: Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 2), it can easily be
slowed down and seen.
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# Princess of Mars, A (2006)
- 'Robert Rodriguez' (qv) had originally been signed and announced as
director and had begun pre-production in 2004 (it would have been
his largest project to date with starting budget reported at $100
million). However, when Rodriguez resigned from the Directors' Guild
of America (DGA) the same year (due to a dispute over his film
_Sin City (2005)_ (qv)), Paramount was forced to replace him. The
studio has a long-standing arrangement with the DGA in which only
the organization's members may direct Paramount films.
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- The T-shirt that Jimmy gives to Vincent after they get hosed down
bears the logo for the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. This is not a
joke. The Banana slug really is the UCSC official mascot.
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- The license plate on Frank Castle's car reads "Year One". This is
the auto customizer that worked on the GTO. It was just a
coincidence that Punisher also had a Year One title.
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- When Sewell and Gemma are talking in private, Gerry wants to know
what they're talking about. One of his mates comments: "What are
you? Inspector fucking Morse?" _"Inspector Morse" (1987)_ (qv) was a
highly acclaimed TV series starring 'John Thaw' (qv) and
'Kevin Whately' (qv), who plays Mr. Caird in this movie.
- Though in the movie Gerry McCarten is a die-hard Newcastle fan, in
real life 'Chris Beattie' (qv) supports Sunderland.
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lines were simply wrong. On the recent DVD release, none German
lines are wrong. The majority of the German lines seems to be spoken
by native German speakers with a slight south-German accent.
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- Only one curse word - "shit" - is uttered once in each Indiana Jones
movie. In this film, Indy says it when he sees that the Germans have
caught up with his escape boat.
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- Based on the true story of Robert Trenton Chase, "The Vampire
Killer" who killed six people in the course of four days in January
1978.
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- 'Jean Harlow' (qv) wore a wig for this film. Because this film was
filmed in black and white, to make up for the subtle change in hair
color by the wig, her makeup was made more dramatic, to highlight
the nature of her character.
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- Based upon characters from an extensive series of spy/fantasy novels
called "The Destroyer".
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- 'Nina Siemaszko' (qv) appears as McKlusky in a deleted scene.
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- When Matt and Alice return to the mansion at the end of the movie
the case Alice is carrying is just a box covered in foil. The actual
case was locked inside a studio.
- When Matt's arm begins to mutate there are no digital effects until
the very end.
- In the first draft of the script Kaplain was simply referred to as
"Twelve". His full name was Isiab Tagawa Mercurio.
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# Return of Count Yorga, The (1971)
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# Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
- The original production plans were delayed in favor of another of
Abbott and Costello's service comedies,
_Keep 'Em Flying (1941)_ (qv), which were proving to be huge box
office hits for Universal.
- This was the last Abbott and Costello film to be directed by
'Arthur Lubin' (qv). Like their previous collaborations, this became
one of the biggest hits of the year.
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- Ford recycled the stampeding of the pony herd sound effect from
_She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)_ (qv) for the rescue charge.
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# Rio Rita (1942)
- In order to make more money from Abbott and Costello, Universal
agreed to loan out the team to MGM for one picture per year. This
was the first MGM production made under that deal.
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- As RoboCop approaches Dick Jones's office in his first attempt to
arrest him, Jones is tapping his fingers in time to the incidental
music.
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# Roger & Me (1989)
- When 'Michael Moore (II)' (qv) is narrating that he went to Detroit
looking for Roger Smith in suburbs such as Bloomfield Hills, Grosse
Pointe, Birmingham, etc. the homes depicted are actually located in
the upscale Flint neighborhood known as Woodcroft Estates (known to
locals as "Miller Road Mansions"). This area, established in 1925,
was built to take advantage of the country atmosphere and nearby
city. The estates offered riding stables, swimming pools, and nearby
tennis and golf. Prominent auto industrialists who made their homes
here included GM President H. Curtice (1810 Overhill Dr.) Buick
President E.T. Strong (2810 Parkside Dr.) and Buick Engineer F.A.
Bower (2630 Parkside Drive). Woodcroft Estates is located near the
intersection of Hammerburg and Miller Road. Moore likely used
footage from these homes for convenience rather than actually
driving all over Detroit to film a single house from each area.
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- The song which Sean sings that "segues into Counting Crows" is "Anna
Begins", from the 1993 album "August And Everything After".
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- Both of the film's previous working titles are referenced in the
film. After arriving in South America, Beck passes a sign that reads
"Helldorado", and in the jungle, Travis tells Beck, "Welcome to the
jungle..."
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# Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976)
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- 'Maria Isabel Lopez' (qv) was introduced in this movie.
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- The title was changed to "Girls Of Summer" for the film's television
debut, ostensibly to fool viewers who had already seen the film or
perhaps because it was a dud at the box office.
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# Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989) (TV)
- 'Eddie Murphy (I)' (qv) refused to attend but he sent his close
friends in his place. They were credited as Eddie Murphy's
Entourage.
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- It is a mystery to 'Brian De Palma' (qv) himself whether the cocaine
that Tony sniffs during the ending is indeed real. Al Pacino has
been asked this question but he says he prefers not to say, as in
his own words "It would take away someone's belief of it."
- The cocaine throughout the film was suppose to be dried milk, but
was dropped because it didn't fit well when the scene was shot.
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- SPOILER: Shortly before shooting John Doe, a flash of Mills' wife's
face appears on the screen, a technique that David Fincher uses
again in _Fight Club (1999)_ (qv).
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- For preparation on his traumatic scene in the interrogation room,
'Leland Orser' (qv) would breathe in and out very rapidly so that
his body would be overly saturated with oxygen; giving him the
ability to hyperventilate.
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- Based in part upon a legend that 'Max Schreck' (qv) was in reality a
vampire which is why he played the role of Orlock/Dracula so well.
Some variations of the legend suggest that Nosferatu was the only
film Shreck made, though in reality he was already a stage and
screen veteran by the time Nosferatu was shot, and would appear in
many non-Vampiric roles before his death in 1936.
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# Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
- 'Christopher Rhodes' (qv) was filming _Tiger Bay (1959)_ (qv) at the
same time
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# Shao Lin san shih liu fang (1978)
- DirTrade('Chia-Liang Liu' (qv): Opening credits show a demonstration
of martial arts against an empty backdrop.
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The Dumas novel involved a man falsely imprisoned for a crime, who
later makes a daring escape. After escaping, he acquired hidden
treasure which he learn about in jail, and executed a plan of
revenge against those who imprisoned him.
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- The literal English translation of the Chinese title is "Ambushed
from ten directions".
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# Shih ba pan wu yi (1982)
- DirTrade('Chia-Liang Liu' (qv): Opening credits show a demonstration
of martial arts against an empty backdrop.
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- Although he won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role,
'Geoffrey Rush' (qv) only appears in the movie for about half an
hour.
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# Show of Force, A (1990)
- Based on the actual 1978 cover-up of the shooting deaths of Carlos
Soto Arrivi and Arnaldo Dario Rosado at Cerro Maravilla mountain in
Puerto Rico.
- Pricilla Pointer, Amy Irving's real-life mother, plays her mother,
"Alice Ryan" in this movie.
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- 'Chris Farley' (qv) was originally cast as Shrek and even recorded
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Saturday Night Live performer, 'Mike Myers' (qv). A remnant of
Farley remains when Shrek uses "finger quotes" - a trademark of
Farley's character Matt Foley.
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- The song "Welcome to Duloc", which is sung by the wooden dolls in
the cabinet at the entrance to Duloc, is not only a parody of
Disney's "It's a Small World", but is in the same key and has the
same beats per minute (tempo) as the Disney song.
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'Cameron Diaz' (qv)'s. PDI/Dreamworks had to get Cameron Diaz's
permission to include the poster of "Sir Justin" in the movie, as it
is a direct reference to the fact that the two were dating at the
time of the movie.
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from each other. This is a reference to part of 'Lewis Black' (qv)'s
routine, in which he describes seeing the end of the world in
Houston, where there are two Starbucks across the street from each
other.
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- The potion the fairy godmother gives to the King to make Fiona fall
in love with the first man she kisses is labeled "IX", making the
bottle "Love Potion Number 9".
- The giant cookie's name is "Mongo", a reference to the movie
_Blazing Saddles (1974)_ (qv) where the giant's name was also Mongo.
- The entrance to Far Far Away closely resembles the entrance to the
Paramount Studios lot.
- There are some other spoofs of famous signs and stores in the
background of Far Far Away:
- Burger Prince (Burger King)
- Olde Knavery (Old Navy)
- Far Far Away sign (Hollywood sign)
- Saxon Fifth Avenue (Sax Fifth Avenue)
- Romeo Drive (Rodeo Drive)
- Versarchery (Versace)
- Gap Queen (Gap Kids)
- Farbucks Coffee (Starbucks)
- Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy)
- Tower of London Records (Tower Records).
- Scored the biggest opening ever for an animated film, topping
_Finding Nemo (2003)_ (qv)'s $70.2 million opening
- In the pre-ball red carpet scene, the announcer says that "the abs
are fab", a reference to the television series
_"Absolutely Fabulous" (1992)_ (qv) (often called Ab Fab) of which
'Jennifer Saunders' (qv), who plays Dama Fortuna, wrote and starred
in.
- As donkey passes out he says, "I'm Coming Elizabeth," a reference to
Fred Sanford from the sitcom _"Sanford and Son" (1972)_ (qv)
- 'Antonio Banderas' (qv) as "Puss In Boots" uses his sword to write a
"P" on a tree with three strokes. He also played "Zorro" in
_Mask of Zorro, The (1998)_ (qv), who is known for using his sword
to write "Z" with three strokes.
- The fireworks over the castle during the final scene resemble the
fireworks over the Magic Kingdom castle in the opening titles of
_"Disneyland" (1954)_ (qv).
- In the tavern "The Poison Apple", the man with the hook playing the
piano is voiced by Tom Waits (singing 'Little Drop of Poison') and
then again by Nick Cave (singing 'People Ain't No Good').
- The Giant Gingerbread Man's last words "Be good" are a reference to
_E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)_ (qv).
- The Gingerbread Man's legs have been re-attached with little bands
of frosting.
- When Shrek and Fiona arrive in Far Far Away, they pass a movie
theater playing Lethal Arrow 4.
- In the opening "Honeymoon Montage" when Fiona wipes the mud off of
Shrek while he hangs upside down and kisses him is in reference to
_Spider-Man (2002)_ (qv) when Mary Jane kisses Spiderman in the same
manner.
- In the fight scene with Shrek, Puss in Boots tears out from the
chest of Shrek's clothing, in reference to the alien bursting out of
Kane's chest in _Alien (1979)_ (qv)
- SPOILER: There are numerous references to the King being a frog
throughout the movie:
- He has a painting of his human self standing over a pond next to
his bed.
- His wife reminds him of their first date by the lake, their "first
kiss"
- His bedsheets and most of his furniture is leafy green.
- A female frog in the bar asks him, "Don't I know you from
somewhere?"
- In the dining room scene, Donkey addresses the Queen as "Lillian,"
though this is not the character's name as listed in the credits.
Lillian is the name of 'Eddie Murphy (I)' (qv)'s mother.
- At one point, Dame Fortuna remarks "Not that there's anything wrong
with that!", a _"Seinfeld" (1990)_ (qv) reference.
- In the Honeymoon Montage at the beginning of the film, the couple is
seen being fitted for wedding rings. The shots of the rings being
forged are a parody of the forging of the rings of power from
_Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)_ (qv)
- Puss in Boots reaching back tog grab his hat just before the trap
door falls is a reference to Indiana Jones.
- Various characters from other movies and stories show up in the
background all through-out the movie:
- Captain Hook is the piano player in "The Poison Apple" hangout
- Two of the guests in The Poison Apple are the talking trees from
"The Wizard Of Oz"
- During The Fairy Godmother's singing while trying to get Fiona to
change her life, among the furniture flying around the room are
Lumiere (the candelabra) and Cogsworth (the clock) from Disney's
"Beauty And The Beast"
- During the opening scenes after an ocean wave covers Shrek and
Fiona, Ariel from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" ends up kissing
Shrek instead of Fiona, who then comes up and flings Ariel out to
sea, where sharks attack her
- Hansel (of the story Hansel and Gretel), is shown to be the owner
of "Hansel's Honeymoon Hideaway, the honeymoon cottage Shrek and
Fiona stat at. It to, is made out of cookies and candy (just like
the witch's house in the story)
- Little Red Riding Hood knocks on the door at the honeymoon
cottage, and when Shrek and Fiona open the door, she screams and
runs away, leaving her basket
- One of the fairies Shrek captures in a jar at the mud sauna is
Tinkerbell, Peter Pan's little sidekick
- In the COPS montage, the camera following a "white bronco", is a
direct reference to the infamous 1994 California highway chase where
cops were chasing O.J. Simpson in a white Ford Bronco
- During the dinner scene with the Queen, King, Fiona, Shrek, and
Donkey at the table go through each other's names twice, ending with
Donkey smiling and referring to himself. This is a reference to
_Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)_ (qv) where the characters go
through each others' names in a chaotic roundabout.
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- While the film was originally intended to have a theatrical release,
because of the big similarities with _Scary Movie (2000)_ (qv) and
the popularity of that previous film it was decided to release it
direct-to-video.
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- CAMEO('Edward Saxon' (qv)): head in jar
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- This was filmed in 10 days.
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- 'Brad Pitt' (qv) and 'Juliette Lewis' (qv) were attached to star,
but left the film because of scheduling conflicts.
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# Sims, The (2000) (VG)
- At over 10 million units sold it is the best selling PC game.
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Unfortunately, by resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was also forced
to relinquish his director's seat on the film
_Princess of Mars, A (2006)_ (qv) for Paramount. Rodriguez had
already signed-on and been announced as director of that film when
the DGA situation took place, planning to begin filming soon after
wrapping this film.
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- Based upon the 'Martin Caidin' (qv) novel Cyborg, this was the only
film adaptation of any of Caidin's original four Cyborg/Six Million
Dollar Man novels. The remaining three: Operation Nuke, High
Crystal, and Cyborg IV, were never adapted by the TV series.
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# Skenbart - en film om tåg (2003)
- The exterior scenes for the movie, while it's set in the winter of
1945, was filmed during mid-summer in Sweden.
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- For the teaser trailer, the main theme song used is derived from the
_"Stargate SG-1" (1997)_ (qv) theme.
- The film originally started out as a six-minute reel put together by
'Kerry Conran' (qv) of CGI robots trampling through New York City.
Producer 'Jon Avnet' (qv) came across the reel and was deeply
impressed, so he approached Conran with the idea of turning it into
a full-length production.
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# Sledge: The Untold Story (2004)
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- 'Woody Allen' (qv) plays clarinet in the music score.
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- Second only to Dumbo (who didn't speak at all), this Disney title
character has very few lines of actual dialogue throughout the
entire film. In fact, Briar Rose/Aurora says nothing at all in the
film's second half.
- The Disneyland castle was named for this film, even though the park
opened four years prior to the film's release.
- The little-known second half of the original Sleeping Beauty fable
involves the Prince's attempts to protect Sleeping Beauty and their
children from his mother who is an ogress. In the end, of course,
she is thwarted and jumps into a pot of live serpents to avoid being
killed by her own son.
- This and _Little Mermaid, The (1989)_ (qv) are the only animated
Disney films in which the Prince is given a name.
# Sleeping Beauty (1987)
- A fountain seen in this movie can be found in other fairy tale
re-tellings by the same company such as
_Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin (1987)_ (qv).
- To save money, the Cannon Movie Tales films were shot two-at-a-time.
Hansel and Gretel was shot simultaneously with
_Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel (1987)_ (qv). This wasn't the
best of situations in that often the two crews would be competing
for the limited equipment, costumes and sets.
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# Snatcher CD-ROMantic (1992) (VG)
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- Leonard Adleman is one of the three mathematicians who invented the
RSA (he's the "A") cryptosystem, currently the preeminent method of
encrypting any form of data in the world. Adleman served as a
mathematical consultant on the film, and spent several days
constructing the slides Janek displays at the college symposium on
"unbreakable codes" (which took Adleman a considerable amount of
time to create using primitive early-'90s computer graphics
technology). In the end, director Robinson had the slides transposed
as oil crayon scribbles, on account of the notion that "that's what
a regular mathematician would have done". Adleman later remarked
that this was indeed true and what he would have done, and would
have saved him days if only he'd known.
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# Son of the Sheik, The (1926)
- 'Rudolph Valentino' (qv) personally picked 'Vilma Banky' (qv) as his
leading lady for this film, which would be his last.
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- This reconstruction-era costume drama was the very first film
produced by Walt Disney to employ professional actors.
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- 'Charmian Carr' (qv) sings "I am sixteen going on seventeen". In
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# Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon, The (1994) (V)
- This documentary is featured on both the 2-Disc Five Star Collection
and 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVDs for
_Sound of Music, The (1965)_ (qv).
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- A picture of Bosko, Warner Bros. first cartoon star, can be seen
hanging on the wall of the meeting hall, in the scene where Yosemite
Sam confronts the aliens.
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- The bar that 'Val Kilmer' (qv) enters to pay the bartender money is
the same bar as in _Shaft (2000)_ (qv).
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# Specialist, The (1994)
- 'Steven Seagal' (qv) was offered the chance to star and direct this
film but he wanted $9 million for it. The studio didn't want to pay
him that much and offered it to 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv) instead.
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- The gang sing "I ran all the way home" - this was the theme tune to,
_All the Way Home (1981) (TV)_ (qv) which starred
'Frances Lee McCain' (qv), Gordie's mother.
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- CAMEO('Majel Barrett' (qv)): in one of the pre-time travel scenes at
Starfleet HQ in San Francisco. Her line begins with "We need that
power..."
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tries to use his phaser, though it doesn't work. It is also one
which no cast member from this film is killed, as the only deaths
were from the film clip from Star Trek 3.
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- The different colored turtlenecks worn by Starfleet officers
indicate what division they belong to. White - Command; Gold -
Engineering; Gray - Science; Light Green - Medical; Red - Cadets and
Trainees; and Black - Enlisted.
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- Several scenes were filmed showing Luke on Tatooine, such as
interacting with his friends on Tatooine (before Biggs leaves for
the Rebellion), and seeing the rebel space battle through his
macrobinoculars. The inclusion of these scenes in other versions of
the story (e.g. comic books, "Story of Star Wars" kids' book,
novel), sometimes with stills from the footage, has led many fans to
swear they saw them on film. Those scenes have never appeared in any
release of the movie.
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battle in _Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- Most of the rebel ground troops in the Hoth battle were Norwegian
extras. Because they didn't speak any English, Irvin Kirshner had to
"act out" what he wanted them to do, by pointing in the direction of
the "enemy" (which wasn't visible during shooting) and demonstrating
the recoil motion he wanted for the blaster rifles.
- With the exception of being sucked out of a Cloud City window,
'Mark Hamill (I)' (qv) did all of his own stunts.
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decision was made to go to short creatures with short fur rather
than very tall creatures with longer fur and, hence, the Ewoks were
created (Ewok may very well have been created by rearranging the
sounds in the word "Wookiee"). George Lucas' had to scrap the Wookie
idea since he established Chewbacca's affinity with technology which
leads you to believe Wookies are a technologically advanced species.
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- Rumor has it that Nien Numb speaks a Kenyan dialect, and one of his
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Nien Nunb had only one long lone in ROTJ. It was something like
"Atiriri inyui mwi haria muke haha." which is roughly translated
from the African tribal language Kikuyo, meaning, "You guys over
there, come over here."
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# Star of Christmas, The (2002) (V)
- Although this film was produced and released prior to
_Veggietales: The Easter Carol (2004)_ (qv) (V), that story was
actually written first. The two were written as a matched set of
"bookends" for the two most important holidays in Christianity.
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- The only 'John Carpenter (I)' (qv) film to have an Academy Award
nomination ('Jeff Bridges' (qv)).
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# Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) (V)
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- Based on test screenings, 'Nicole Kidman' (qv) had to stop filming
_Interpreter, The (2005)_ (qv) for a few days to do a little extra
shooting.
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- 'Martin Sheen' (qv) and 'Jack Albertson' (qv) reprised their roles
(Timothy Cleary and John Cleary) in this film after previously
playing the characters in the stage version on Broadway.
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- The speech President Nimerov dictates at the end of the film is
taken from a speech given by John F. Kennedy.
- Author Tom Clancy noted that the CIA, in real life, wouldn't have
the constitutional power to have been able to find out about Jack
Ryan's love life, as Morgan Freeman did with Ben Affleck
- The wintry Moscow scene was shot in the summer, so the snow is
artificial
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# Surf Fuckers (2003) (V)
- Professional kitesurfer and Guinness Book of Records holder Neil
Hutchinson was contracted for kite-surfing action
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# Swap (2004)
- The HQ of the special agents is the same building that was used as
"Cyberdine" in _Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)_ (qv)
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- Keni Thomas, lead singer of the band "Cornbread" that plays in the
fair scene is a real-life survivor of Task Force Ranger and is
portrayed in the film "Blackhawk Down" (the trooper with the
inhaler).
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- When Christina is in the back seat of the car trying to find the
mysterious smell there is an "In Style" magazine with
'Cameron Diaz' (qv) on the cover.
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- The helicopter is a Sikorsky S-64 (CH-54) Flying Crane. It is now
being used to fight bush fires across Australia.
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# Tanging Ina, Ang (2003)
- 'Aga Muhlach' (qv), and 'Robin Padilla' (qv) and
'Jestoni Alarcon' (qv) were initially set to play the three
husbands. Only Jestoni remained in the final, while
'Edu Manzano' (qv) and 'Tonton Gutierrez' were later filled in.
- This is 'Ai-Ai de las Alas' (qv) first major movie after 13 years in
show business.
- Released in the Philippines on the same date with _Pakners_ (2003)
in which 'Ai-Ai de las Alas' (qv) is in the supporting cast.
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- The building used for the entrance to April's apartment is the
office to the New York location of Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
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# Tell Your Children (1938)
- If you still frame the newspaper which flashes on screen just before
the verdict is announced at the end of the film, underneath the
headline is another front-page news story which bears the smaller
headline: DICK TRACY, G-MEN LEAD SUCCESSFUL RAID.
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- Crichton was fired from writing the screenplay due to the fact that
his script did not follow the novel (which he had written) closely
enough.
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- Inspired by the story of 'Merhan Nasseri' (qv), an Iranian refugee.
In 1988, he landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris after
being denied entry into England because his passport and United
Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. French authorities
would not let him leave the airport, and there stayed, in Terminal
One, a stateless person with nowhere else to go. He has since been
granted permission to either enter France or return to his own
country. He instead chooses to continue to live in the terminal and
tell his story to those who will listen.
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- 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)'s last starring role (but not his last
acting role) before being elected governor of California on 7
October 2003.
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# Their First Mistake (1932)
- DIRCAMEO('George Marshall' (qv))" neighbor
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# Three Live Ghosts (1935)
- The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 29
September 1920 and ran for 250 performances. It was produced by
'Max Marcin' (qv), the production associate of this movie, and
included in its cast 'Charles McNaughton' (qv) and
'Beryl Mercer' (qv), both of whom are in this film.
- 'Beryl Mercer' (qv), 'Charles McNaughton' (qv) and
'Claud Allister' (qv) originated their roles in the 1929 version of
the movie.
- The film actually started filming on 6 November 1935, but was halted
on 8 November 1935 for script revisions. MGM then decided to scrap
what had already been filmed and replaced cast members
'Ann Loring' (qv) (who had the romantic lead), 'Una O'Connor' (qv),
'Charles Butterworth' (qv), 'May Robson' (qv) and
'David Thursby' (qv). The setting was also changed from a
contemporay one to World War I.
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- Following filming of a flying stunt on M40 motorway in
Buckinghamshire (which was newly completed but not yet open to
traffic) 'Joan Hughes' (qv) (pilot of the Tiger Moth) was charged
but later acquitted of seven counts of dangerous flying when the
'plane failed to make contact with the surface of the while passing
under a bridge. A crosswind had prevented Hughes from landing the
plane on the road before passing under the bridge as stipulated as a
condition of permission to use the location. 'Norman Foster' (who
supervised the shooting of this scene) was also charged but
acquitted of three counts of aiding and abetting. In addition to the
court case filming permission was revoked immediately, leading to
the sequence being completed with a miniature set of the site and
the model aircraft used for other flying sequences.
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- At one point in the film, Virgil says, "I've got a tiger in my
tank." This was the slogan of an ESSO advertising campaign in the UK
("Put A Tiger In Your Tank") at the time the film was being
scripted.
- The Thunderbirds puppets are famous for their disproportionate
appearance in both the TV series and the first film ('Thunderbirds
are GO!'). For this, their final outing, the puppets were redesigned
with closer to normal proportions.
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- Although very distinctly different, the appearances of both Scott
Tracy and Paul Travers were based on 'Sean Connery' (qv) by their
respective modellers.
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# Tintin et les oranges bleues (1964)
- On the wall of Bianca Castafiore's dressing room can be seen a
poster for Teatro La Latina (a well-known theatre in Madrid,
property of 'Lina Morgan' (qv)), announcing performances by, between
others, 'Antonio Casal' (qv), 'Juanito Navarro' (qv),
'Marujita Díaz' (qv) and 'Lina Morgan' (qv) herself, all of them
well-known Spanish comedy or musical performers.
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- A year after the film came out, 'John Pankow' (qv) met an undercover
NYPD cop in a coffee shop who told John that his panicking during
the highway chase scene was a completely accurate and realistic
response to such a situation.
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# Tokyo Pop (1988)
- The band performing on stage immediately following the credits (the
singer has the big pigtails) is the Japanese band, Papaya Paranoia.
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- This is a translation of what Doc and Johnny Ringo are saying to one
another. They are various lines from assorted classic Greek plays:
Doc Holliday: In vino veritas. (In wine there is truth.) Johnny
Ringo: Age quod agis. (Do what you do.) Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus
Apella, non ego. (Let Apella the Jew believe, not I.) Johnny Ringo:
Iuventus stultorum magister. (Youth is the teacher of fools.) Doc
Holliday: In pace requiescat. (May he rest in peace.)
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# Toolbox Murders (2003)
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Willard and naval consultant Semkin.
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- Both 'John Carpenter (I)' (qv) and 'David Cronenberg' (qv) turned
down the chance to direct.
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This is an in-joke and a fact: When the original Toy Story was
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- Alonzo's car is a 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo, with some modifications:
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# Tramp and the Dictator, The (2002)
- This documentary is featured on the 2-Disc Charlie Chaplin
Collection DVD for 'Great Dictator, The (1940)' (qv), released in
2003.
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the Greeks captured Troy, Helen and Menelaus were reunited and
returned to Sparta. In the film, Menelaus is slain by Hector, while
Helen escapes Troy with Andromache, Aeneas, and the other Trojan
refugees.
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movie. He felt that an actress couldn't live up to the audience's
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- As Achilles strolls along the beach and among the unpacking Greeks,
he teases Odysseus about being the last one to show up. This is an
in-joke for those familiar with the Odyssey, which tells the story
of how, due to the animosity of various gods, Odysseus was the last
Greek to return home from Troy.
- When Paris is helping the citizens of Troy escape, he hands Priam's
sword to a young man named Aeneas and tells him that as long as the
sword is in the hands of a son of Troy, the Trojans will survive.
This is an obvious reference to Virgil's Roman epic "Aeneid", which
tells the story of a prince of Troy named Aeneas leading the
survivors of Troy through a series of hardships before finally
settling in Italy and founding Rome.
- In Homer's Iliad, Patroclus is not Achilles' cousin, he is his
foster brother and, according to many scholars, Achilles' lover.
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# Uchu kara no messeji (1978)
- Portions of this film were spliced into "Astron Belt", the first
laserdisc-based arcade game.
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# Un amour de sorcière (1997)
- Was filmed twice (once in French and once in English)
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- The "German couple" which tries to buy Bramasole when the main
character appears on the scene has been edited into a French couple
in the German dubbing of the movie.
- Every time a group of nuns is seen on screen, they are eating: first
at the market, then sitting on a terrace and finally during the
wedding.
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- The name of the city where the film took place is never mentioned.
However Michale's address that we can see on Selene's computer shows
that the city is Budapest.
- After the underground station fight, the tunnels where Selena kills
a Lycan is a champagne cellar.
- In the DVD commentary the director tells that the reason why he
choose Budapest, is because the old gothic style buildings in the
city. Budapest was called in the 20th century, the Paris of East
Europe.
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# Vampire Hunter D (2000)
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# Vampire Hunters Club, The (2001) (V)
- 'Carla Laemmle' (qv), who plays an elderly vampire, had a small role
in the original Dracula (1931/I).
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- The symbol on the necklace that Daniel Baldwin wears in the movie is
the Nordic rune meaning "Protector"
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However, in 1953, Universal did feature the monster in the comedy
_Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)_ (qv).
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- Next to Mr. Nezzer's desk is a chocolate bunny under glass. This is
a reference to _VeggieTales: Rack, Shack & Benny (1995)_ (qv), in
which Mr. Nezzer ran another Easter-oriented business - a chocolate
bunny factory.
- The stained glass was created as a plot device to help tell the
story of Easter without having to show Jesus as a vegetable.
# VeggieTales: Are You My Neighbor? (1995) (V)
- The first segment, "The Story of Flibber-o-loo," which is written in
rhyming verse and tells the tale of two towns at odds with each
other, appears to be an homage to 'Dr. Seuss' (qv)'s "The Butter
Battle Book".
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- Bob the Tomato, a regular VeggieTales character, does not appear in
this episode.
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- Hitchcock had originally opted another location for the famous
staircase sequence, but associate producer 'Herbert Coleman' (qv)'s
daughter (Judy Lanini) suggested the Mission at San Juan Bautista
(the location that was eventually used for filming) as a more
suitable location for filming.
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# Victory Through Air Power (1943)
- RKO Radio Pictures (Disney's usual distributor) saw no profit in
this movie, and refused to carry it. Walt Disney therefore
contracted with United Artists for theater distribution.
- After its initial release and re-release in 1943-44, the film was
shelved and never publicly released or screened again for 60 years.
Only the opening fragment of the "History of Flight" was shown on
Disney specials. This changed in May 2004, when Disney released a
fully re-mastered and uncut version of "Victory Through Air Power"
on the Disney Masterpieces "On the Front Lines" DVD set.
- After seeing the movie (at Winston Churchill's urging), Franklin D.
Roosevelt finally committed to a full strategic air campaign against
Germany.
- All of Seversky's live-action monologue sequences were filmed on the
Disney backlot late at night to avoid noise pollution from the
nearby Lockheed aircraft factory.
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- 'Maud Adams' (qv) happened to be visiting San Francisco when the
film was in production there. 'Roger Moore (I)' (qv) got her to
appear as an uncredited extra in a crowd scene, making her the only
actress to appear in 3 Bond films (excluding actresses in recurring
roles), after _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv) and
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# Vinnare och förlorare (2005)
- 'Daniel Gustavsson' (qv) went a week on a trotter school to learn
the basic of handling a horse.
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# Violence Jack bangaihen (1986) (V)
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- In 2002, a print of the film was discovered in a barn in France. It
was amazing in that not only is it the most complete cut of the
film, but it was entirely hand-colored. The film was restored and
premiered at the Pordonone Silent Film Festival the following year.
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- The script was written in 28 days (in 1995) and the final production
was shot in 26 days (in 1998).
- The inspiration for Ed Fanelli, the father and lead rapist came from
'Dennis Hopper' (qv)'s role as Frank Booth in
_Blue Velvet (1986)_ (qv)
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- Formerly offered in 8mm and Super 8 home movie versions.
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- The line "What's the matter, you got knocked the fuck out?" is also
said in the films, Friday and Next Friday, co-written by D.J.Pooh
and Ice Cube.
- 'Tommy Chong' (qv)'s last on screen appearance.
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- Ray Romano's brother and dad appear in the bar scene where Romano is
laughing at how Sally turned down the president for a kiss. His
dad's the bartender and his brother's sitting next to him.
- When Sally is being hounded by reporters for the first time about
her involvement with the president and one of them asks "Have you
guys had sex yet?", that guy wasn't an actor, but a personal friend
of Ray's and a stand-up comedian who used to open up for him
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- A major controversy developed because 'Carol Lawrence (I)' (qv), who
played Maria in the stage version, was passed over for the role in
favor of 'Natalie Wood (I)' (qv).
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# What NOW Caper, The (1989) (V)
- Originally sold through mail order in 1989 on VHS and Betamax for
$29.95.
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# Who Done It? (1942)
- This was the first Abbott and Costello film that did not contain
musical numbers. As a result, it was shortest film that they had
made to date.
- The "watts-volts" routine was not in the script. It was created by
Abbott and Costello on the set.
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- 'Richard Dreyfus' (qv) claims to have no memory of the filming of
this film. This was a side effect to his heavy drug use during the
early-1980s.
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- Jean Stapleton' (qv) was the first choice to play Mrs. TeeVee
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series pilot instead. That series was, of course,
_"All in the Family" (1971)_ (qv).
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- Most of the chocolate bars were actually pieces of cardboard in
wrappers.
- 'Sammy Davis Jr.' (qv) expressed an interest in playing Bill, the
candy store owner, but the film-makers deemed it as too kitschy and
declined.
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- Larry's silver wolf-headed cane, the only known surviving prop from
the movie, currently resides in the personal collection of genre
film archivist Bob Burns. Burns, who was a schoolboy at the time,
was given the cane head by the man who made it for the film,
propmaker Ellis Burman.
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# World Without End (1956)
- This film was produced directly by Allied Artists (formerly
Monogram). It was made in hopes of shedding their "poverty row"
image. It was given a larger budget and shot in color and
Cinemascope and ran a full reel longer than their usual 60-70 minute
fare. Allied Artists was able to book it under percentage contracts
rather than flat rates.
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- During one of the last scenes in the movie, 'Eliza Dushku' (qv)
actually set actor 'Julian Richings' (qv) (Three Finger) on fire.
- Eliza Dushku did a lot of her own stunts for the movie.
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- The movie began under the direction of 'Joseph Losey' (qv) (working
as Joseph Walton), exiled to England because of the Hollywood
blacklist. He shot for a few days, and his footage must be in the
movie, but when 'Dean Jagger' (qv) arrived, he refused to work with
a director he thought of as a Communist sympathizer, and Losey was
replaced by 'Leslie Norman' (qv). Losey's departure was publicly
attributed to "illness".
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- Burt Kwouk is dubbed.
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# You're a Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)
- This film was removed from circulation first by Paramount, and now
by Time-Warner due to the negative (though historically important)
portrayal of the Japanese. As with most of the wartime propaganda
cartoons owned by Time-Warner (with the exception of Herr Meets Hare
(1945), Russian Rhapsody (1944), _Blitz Wolf (1942)_ (qv) and one or
two others), this one is not likely to see a public airing anytime
soon.
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- Meg Ryan's character, Kathleen Kelly, uses a Macintosh PowerBook G3
with a 300 MHz processor that was introduced in September 1998 and
discontinued in May 1999.