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Oh, "for a movie"----that's understandable----otherwise, I would've said: "NO WAY"! ! LOL

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Walt Disney paid the animators on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $5 for any gag that made it into the final version of the movie.

Kenneth Branagh dyed his hair blonde for his version of Hamlet, too. It seems to be the preferred method of trying to look younger when you know you're too old for the part. He's supposed to be about 30, but Olivier was 41 and Branagh was 36. To date, Ethan Hawke is the only actor to have played Hamlet on film at the right age.

Actually, I think that the blonde hair is a traditional appearance for Hamlet, trying to make the leading actor look like a blonde Dane.


Richard Chamberlain was certainly the handsomest Hamlet, and his performance was so sensitive, so touching....as his body was carried off, I got teary-eyed.

The original raw footage of Apocalypse Now consisted of 1,250,000 feet of film which is over 230 hours' worth.

If that's the case, then Olivier and Branagh apparently weren't too concerned with the rest of the cast looking authentically Danish, since there are plenty of very dark-haired people running around in both versions, and a handful of black actors in the Branagh version.

Not that realism ever mattered much to Shakespeare; if he were writing today, he would be massacred by critics for his historical inaccuracies and geographical blunders.



I haven't seen this one, but Branagh being carried off in his version was one of the best scenes in the film. As for the handsomest Hamlet, I'm going to cheat and nominate Charlie Hunnam, even though Sons of Anarchy is only very loosely based on the play.

Anyway, back to the trivia:

Richard Chamberlain appeared in film adaptations of all three of Alexandre Dumas's Musketeer novels. He played Aramis in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), and he played Louis and Phillippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (1977).

Alien

Ridley Scott found a practical solution to lighting the aliens' egg chamber by borrowing blue laser lighting from "The Who", who were rehearsing their stage show in the soundstage next door.

Now I have an image of the Mother Alien chasing The Who around the stage, and making

herself a buffet out of the Mosh Pit.

Thank you so much.

LOL, Sylkat!!

R.I.P. Carol Ann Susi (Mrs. Wolowitz's voice on "The Big Bang Theory".)

Katey Sagal (best known, maybe, for "Married.... with Children", and "Sons of Anarchy") sang backup for Bette Midler, Etta James, Tanya Tucker, and Bob Dylan. Also, she has released a couple of solo albums----the latest is entitled "Covered", where she, of course, sings other people's songs.

And when she was eighteen, Katy was, for about a year, I believe, the 'significant other' of Gene Simmons of KISS.

Seriously.

Guess what American celebrity said:

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."

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Britney Spears? (just a guess).

Marilyn Monroe once said "when they said 'Canada' I thought it would be in the woods somewhere."

And Al Capone once said "I don't even know what street Canada's on!".

Right you are!

That comment was from the brilliant mind of Brittney Spears....

What celebrity said:

"Gay marriage should be between a man and a woman"?

Kim Khardashian?

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Queer ear for the straight guy: Name two legendary musical partnerships consisting of one straight guy, and one gay guy.

One of the duos was from my (classic rock, boomer) generation.

The other from my parents (pre rocknroll) generation.

The 'gay marriage' quote was from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I think one musical duo was Elton John and Bernie Taupin.


Would 'Wham' be the other?

Interesting about "Arnold". Actually I had the impression that he was a libertarian type of conservative who would be for "same sex marriage...uh...between the SAME sex" lol!

Very good. Straight Bernie Taupin is the lyrcist, and gay Elton John is the composer. Not sure that you're wrong about Wham!. The team I had in mind is Duke Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn (the former being the hetero pianist/composer/bandleader, and the latter being the gay arranger).

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