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30 Jan 2015, 4:57 pm

Wow, I really think both of those stories are remarkable!!

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Hugh Grant and Thomas Sangster ("Love, Actually" and "King of Thrones") are cousins. Hugh’s grandmother and Thomas’ GREAT-grandmother were SISTERS!!










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04 Feb 2015, 1:47 pm

Showtime's new show, 'Penny Dreadful' has everything...

Exquisite photography, costumes, locations, and Josh Hartnett, apparently having a great time....

One of the characters is Dorian Grey, played very well by a beautiful (not handsome, beautiful) American actor named Reeve Carney.

Talent must run in his family....

His grandfather was Art Carney.


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05 Feb 2015, 4:27 am

Jackie Earle Haley auditioned for the role of Glen in A Nightmare on Elm Street. He was accompanied by his friend Johnny Depp, who got the part instead. 26 years later, Haley was cast as Freddy Krueger in the remake of the film.



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05 Feb 2015, 7:45 am

Citizen Kane

During the scene where Kane chases Jim Gettys down a staircase, Orson Welles tripped, chipped his anklebone and spent two weeks acting with metal braces or directing from a wheelchair.











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05 Feb 2015, 9:57 am

Apparently, Orson Welles' ashes were sprinkled/tossed down an abandoned well on the ranch in Ronda, Spain.

The ranch belongs to his good friend, Antonio Ordonez, a retired bullfighter, and Mr Welles stayed there, and was

quite fond of the place.


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05 Feb 2015, 10:19 am

The Academy Award statue was designed on a napkin at a special luncheon at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel to found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Biltmore_Hotel . The hotel was home to the award ceremonies for several years during the 1930s and 1940s, and was a location in several movies.


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05 Feb 2015, 10:30 am

Because the 2015 Sundance Film Festival completed on Sunday, I thought it would be fun to include some unique trivia about its 1986 world premiere of Sidney Lumet's film about a political campaign consultant played by Richard Gere:

IMDB.com wrote:
When this film premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, reels 3 and 4 were sequentially reversed by Sundance staffer and IATSE projectionist David Nelson. Most critics and viewers said that they didn't notice the mistake in what they called an otherwise disappointing film. One of the film's makers demanded that the incomplete premiere be stopped and it wasn't rescheduled, the only such film in festival history to do so.

IMDB.com: Power (1986) trivia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091786/tri ... =tr0573330

The film was doomed. Doomed! :lol:


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05 Feb 2015, 3:07 pm

Wow, that's interesting----I like the one about the Oscar design, too!!













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08 Feb 2015, 3:02 pm

Harrison Ford was not the original choice to play Indiana Jones.

Tom Selleck was.

His T.V. network would not let him out of his 'Magnum, P.I.' Contract.


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10 Feb 2015, 11:51 pm

Despite the 1998 and 2014 Godzilla films being known as "American" movies, neither of them were directed by Americans. The 1998 version starring Matthew Broderick was directed by Roland Emmerich, a German, and the 2014 version starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson was directed by Gareth Edwards, an Englishman.



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11 Feb 2015, 6:01 am

Anna Nicole Smith's mother is a former policewoman.

They never, ever got along, according to Anna Nicole.....

Her mother, though expressed 'sincere' sorrow ( :roll: ) as soon as Anna was dead and wanted custody of Dannie Lynn, and a share of Anna's estate.

She got neither.


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11 Feb 2015, 6:30 am

Gremlins

Hoyt Axton, who plays inventor Rand Peltzer, was a renowned folk singer/songwriter in the 1960s. His most famous song, “The Pusher“, was covered by Steppenwolf and used in the soundtrack to Easy Rider.











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11 Feb 2015, 5:12 pm

Alfred Hitchcock discussed North by Northwest with Jimmy Stewart before making the film. Stewart wanted to star in it, but Hitchcock wanted Cary Grant. Hitchcock didn't have the heart to turn Stewart down, so he waited until Stewart was committed to Anatomy of a Murder before offering him North by Northwest, knowing that he wouldn't be able to accept.



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15 Feb 2015, 10:42 am

Tippi Hedren, who starred in Hitchcock's 'The Birds', was terrified of him.


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15 Feb 2015, 11:21 am

"Witness"

Surprisingly, David Cronenberg was amongst the directors approached to helm the thriller, but refused because of the story's "idealized" treatment of the Amish: "To me they were a very repressive, sort of cult-ish group that I didn’t have much affection for."