Hollywood Trivia

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there were 3 separate twilight zone tv series separated in time by two decades each.

In The Blues Brothers, Jake (John Belushi) takes off his sunglasses but never takes off his hat, and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) takes off his hat but never takes off his sunglasses.

Jean-Claude Van Damme was the inspiration for the Johnny Cage character in the first Mortal Kombat video game. The producers of the game and the first Mortal Kombat film tried to hire him to play the character, but he turned down both offers. He instead appeared in the film Street Fighter, based on the video game series that was Mortal Kombat's biggest competitor.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the only Mad Max film not directed exclusively by George Miller. It was directed by Miller and George Ogilvie, the former handling mostly the action scenes and the latter handling mostly the dialogue scenes. The reason for Miller's limited involvement was the recent death of Byron Kennedy, Miller's close friend and producer of Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, which caused Miller to lose interest in the project.

in the American TV minced version of the movie "smokey and the bandit," flintstones [2nd one] voice actor henry corden was the voice of Buford T. Justice whenever the swears had to be looped over.

Martin Clunes ("Doc Martin", "Arthur & George", "Men Behaving Badly", "William and Mary", etc.) - His recent weight loss was due to his contracting a virus; he's fine, now.

Hollywood composer Vic Mizzy [RIP] played the haunted house organ in the movie "the ghost and mr. chicken." the organ he used was the studio Robert Morton theatrical Wurlitzer located in the lorin whitney studios in L.A. [long defunct]. he claims he was forced to do the job because he could not find any other free organist in L.A. at the time who could play the Wurlitzer using both manuals and pedals.

Joan Crawford was bisexual, and quite aggressive towards anyone she found attractive.

A young Marilyn Monroe was one of her hookups.

George Lucas in "star wars" used a ball peen hammer hitting the high-tension guy wires holding up power line masts as the sound effect of the shooting scenes.

Mizzy also composed the theme for The Addams Family.

He sang vocals on the song -- three times. The show's producers didn't want to pay for singers, so Mizzy recorded his own vocals for the song three times, mixing the tracks together so they would sound like a trio.

The finger snapping was not originally part of the song. Mizzy added it as an improvisation while playing the theme for the producers.

Something similar happened when Godzilla's roars were created in 1954. Akira Ifukube came up with them by rubbing a leather glove up and down the strings of a contrabass.

Sound technicians tried to re-create the roar using this method for later films in the series, but never with any success.

Tommy was the first movie released [1975] with a 5-channel [termed "quintophonic" with 3 channels in front, 2 in rear] soundtrack [precursor to dolby 5.1] in American movie theatres. "A Clockwork Orange" was the first film whose soundtrack was recorded in dolby [4-channel] stereo [in Europe, the technology didn't make it here until 1975].

The 'Hollywood' sign originally read 'Hollywoodland'.

An unsuccessful actress named Peg Entwhistle jumped off of the sign to her death.

^^^poor girl

presidential candidate Richard Nixon made a brief appearance on "laugh in" saying the words, "sock it to ME?"

Lucille Ball, for decades America's most famous redhead, was a brunette who dyed her hair for her career.

Seems to have worked.

and Ms. Ball was an exceedingly intelligent studio CEO, of Desilu which produced the first seasons of Star Trek.