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Dax Sheppard on the release of his film "Idicocracy" (2006): "What’s funny is, even in the theaters it did come out in, ...
15/01/2025

Dax Sheppard on the release of his film "Idicocracy" (2006): "What’s funny is, even in the theaters it did come out in, they didn’t list it correctly with Moviefone. I remember that was a big issue. They had listed it as 'Untitled Mike Judge Comedy' with Fandango, so even people who wanted to go see 'Idiocracy' couldn’t find it. Very weird. Now, with hindsight—you know, f**k that. Not even now with hindsight. Even when it was happening, in a weird way, I think it was the perf… See more

On this date in 1979, "The Muppet Movie" was released.The main obstacle the filmmakers were faced with during the develo...
15/01/2025

On this date in 1979, "The Muppet Movie" was released.
The main obstacle the filmmakers were faced with during the development of "The Muppet Movie" was whether the Muppets would transition seamlessly from television to film. In 1978, director James Frawley, Jim Henson, and Frank Oz filmed several camera tests outside London to test how the characters would appear in real-world locations. Austin Pendleton recalled that the film was shot on "a very unhappy set, because Jim [Fr… See more

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whit...
15/01/2025

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down...You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14."
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton (call him Glenn) Ford made his official debut in Fox's "Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence" (1939), and continued working in various small roles throughout the 1940s until his movie career was interrupted to join the Marines in World War II. Ford continued his military career in t… See more

Aileen Quinn auditioned, and landed the role of the "swinging orphan" (understudy to all of the orphans except Molly and...
15/01/2025

Aileen Quinn auditioned, and landed the role of the "swinging orphan" (understudy to all of the orphans except Molly and Annie) in the Broadway production of "Annie". After almost a year of a grueling audition process, and up against over 8,000 other competitors, Quinn received the title role in the 1982 movie "Annie" directed by John Huston. "Annie" earned Quinn two Golden Globe nominations, a win for Best Actress from the Youth In Film Awards, and a Razzie for Worst Support… See more

Patricia Quinn, from a 2016 interview: "‘Patricia Quinn is to lips what Elle McPherson is to the body!”In 1973, Quinn’s ...
15/01/2025

Patricia Quinn, from a 2016 interview: "‘Patricia Quinn is to lips what Elle McPherson is to the body!”
In 1973, Quinn’s agent had called her and said, “There’s something upstairs at The Royal Court they’d like you to audition for.” The actress pressed her agent for more information. “You have to sing some sort of rock and roll song and it’s something do with a circus or something,” the agent replied.
It began as a three week theatrical production over 40 years ago and it ha… See more

6'5" Thomas (let's ironically call him Tiny) Lister appeared in the 1989 wrestling movie "No Holds Barred," which was fi...
15/01/2025

6'5" Thomas (let's ironically call him Tiny) Lister appeared in the 1989 wrestling movie "No Holds Barred," which was financed by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and starred Hulk Hogan. Lister's role was Zeus, a brutal monster heel.
"No Holds Barred" inspired a feud in the WWF during the latter half of 1989. Lister was billed as "Zeus: The Human Wrecking Machine," and used the same "monster heel" gimmick in his matches by not selling his opponent's more lethal moves. Zeu… See more

Tennessee Williams' first choice for the title role of "Baby Doll" (1956) was Marilyn Monroe (who was straining to impro...
15/01/2025

Tennessee Williams' first choice for the title role of "Baby Doll" (1956) was Marilyn Monroe (who was straining to improve herself as an actress at the time and wanted the role badly), but Elia Kazan preferred newcomer Carroll Baker, whose work he was familiar with from the Actors Studio in New York. According to Baker's autobiography, Monroe acted as an usherette at the premiere, which was a benefit for The Actors Studio.
According to Baker, she and everyone else who had wor… See more

As Jane Wiedlin describes it, she was present "pretty much from the beginning" of the Los Angeles punk scene. While atte...
15/01/2025

As Jane Wiedlin describes it, she was present "pretty much from the beginning" of the Los Angeles punk scene. While attending college in the Los Angeles area, for fashion design, Wiedlin worked at a fashion design house where she created song lyrics, by scribbling down ideas on clothing patterns. "Jane Drano," as she came to be known, would later design punk-style clothing that she sold at Granny Takes a Trip, a store on Sunset Boulevard. She became part of the scene that spa… See more

Cole Porter: "I am the most enthusiastic person in the world. I like everything as long as it's different."After attendi...
15/01/2025

Cole Porter: "I am the most enthusiastic person in the world. I like everything as long as it's different."
After attending the premiere of his biopic "Night and Day" (1946), Porter supposedly remarked to his wife, Linda, "if I could survive that, I can survive anything."
Because of strict censorship imposed by the era's Studio Production Code, no mention at all is made of Porter's real-life open homosexuality, or the fact that his marriage to Linda Lee Thomas, though caring … See more

On this date in 1988, "Coming to America" was released.The McDowell's restaurant was actually a Wendy's on Queens Boulev...
15/01/2025

On this date in 1988, "Coming to America" was released.
The McDowell's restaurant was actually a Wendy's on Queens Boulevard that was scheduled to be closed for renovation. The production had approval from McDonald's corporate headquarters, which apparently didn't pass the word down to their local outlets. On the day the McDowell's sign went up, the manager of the McDonald's one half mile up the road arrived with his lawyer and took photographs, telling the set dressing crew … See more

Character actress Beulah Bondi was a favorite of directors and audiences and is one of the reasons so many films from th...
15/01/2025

Character actress Beulah Bondi was a favorite of directors and audiences and is one of the reasons so many films from the 1930s and 1940s remain so enjoyable, as she was an integral part of many of the ensemble casts (a hallmark of the studio system) of major and/or great films, including "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (1936), "Our Town" (1940) and "Penny Serenade" (1941). Highly respected as a first-tier character actress, Bondi won two Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomina… See more

With his dark features and having spent much of his early years in Naples, Italy, Vito Scotti was understandably typecas...
15/01/2025

With his dark features and having spent much of his early years in Naples, Italy, Vito Scotti was understandably typecast as Italian waiters, government functionaries, policemen, maitre d's and barbers, and eventually stretching into portrayals of other ethnic types,playing everything from a Mexican bandit and Russian doctor to a Japanese sailor.
When Vito was seven, the Scottis moved back to the US where his mother became a diva in the Italian theatre in New York. It was in … See more

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