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On The Addams Family, Gomez would often put away his lit cigars in his suit jacket pocket. The pocket was lined with asbestos to prevent the fabric from catching fire.

Alien 3 and Predator 2 are the only sequels in the Alien and Predator series to have a number in the title. The other sequels are titled Aliens, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, and Predators.

before his premature death in 1979 from complications of heart surgery, Ted Cassidy ["lurch" on addam's family et al] was an accomplished keyboard artist/organist as well as a radio dj and radio/tv reporter.

After Ted Cassidy was cremated, his family buried his ashes in the backyard of the family home.

Years later, when they moved, rumor has it that the urn was not disinterred.

^^^mebbe he wasn't the nicest person and they didn't like him that much?

The lovely and talented Carolyn Jones, who played Mortician, only outlived her mother

by four years.

They are both buried in a crypt in Melrose Abbey Memorial Park.

She was only 53 when she died.

Hollywood musical wunderkind buddy cole built a stereophonic hybrid theatrical pipe organ in a large building next to his Hollywood mansion. it was featured in a few recordings and was meant as a competitor to the lorin whitney studio organ which at that time got a lot of use in Hollywood movie soundtracks. unfortunately, mr. cole, who had a history of heart trouble, died in his sleep on November 5, 1964, before the organ got much use. it was pieced out and scattered to the 4 winds after his death, with parts going to augment other organs all around the country.

That is an absolute shame.

^^^yes, I have a demo recording of the instrument, by memory I think the stereo left side of it was a Wurlitzer, the stereo right half was a Robert-Morton, the two were separated in the pipework. not sure how he had the stop tabs arranged. it was a glorious-sounding instrument. it was designed specifically for enhanced stereo recording.

The original concept for Scream 3 involved a muderous cult devoted to the Ghostface Killer. The idea was rejected, but screenwriter Kevin Williamson later used it for the TV series The Following, with the cult instead devoted to a homicidal college professor obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe.

2002 is the only year in which both a Star Trek film (Nemesis) and a Star Wars film (Attack of the Clones) were released.

the movie "2001-a space odyssey" was originally scored by alex north ["unchained melody" et al], but after listening to his work, producer Stanley Kubrick dismissed him and chose a smattering of obscure classical works as the movie soundtrack music.

For those too young to remember, Elvis used ^"Also Sprach Zarathustra"^ as his theme music as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnHTw59dy2E
However I think Deodato did the best version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEquhvtlNb8

my fave one ("DA-DAAAAHHHHHH...") is by Karl Boehm and the Berlin Philharmonic, the one that Kubrick chose. btw, did you know the original "2001- a space odyssey" soundtrack master tapes [musical portion] were lost, and had to be recovered from a surviving audio cassette? the spectral plot of this recording gives the ghost away, it is hard-limited at around 16k [the limit of most audio cassettes of the day] whereas a 15 inch per second 1/4" master tape has frequency response that goes out well past 20k.

I would suspect that should make surviving near-mint vinyl LP's of the soundtrack way more valuable. I would think even with the frequency compression required for lathing at 33 and 1/3 RPM, that the overall quality of the reproduction from a "clean" MGM or Polydor record would be superior to a tape of 1/8" width being played at 1 and 1/8 inched per second.

apparently they could not find a sufficiently clean/undistorted record to serve as the musical stems in a soundtrack for the video reissues [1980s] of that movie, and that was also before the era of transparent digital noise reduction/crackle elimination, so that would at the time have ruled out using a specimen soundtrack LP. a distressing number of American pressings were made of substandard vinyl and indifferent production quality in general, resulting in molded-in surface noise and prominent peak distortion especially on the inner grooves. the cassettes lacked those problems, leaving behind mainly hiss which back then could be suppressed using the analog technologies of the day.