Haley Joel Osment is Forrest Gump Jr.
“The Hood” Comes from the word ‘neighbourhood’
My wife is allergic to lettuce.
In the original “City Slickers,” Jake Gyllenhall (sp?) played Billy Crystal’s son.
I always thought the definition of “befriend” meant exactly the opposite of what it really means.
Like “defriend”?
I love doing this type thing on IMDB. Clicking on the links and see who was in what.
Some things that were new to me…
Danny Noonan from “Caddyshack” is the father of Jackie’s baby on “Rosanne”
Billie from “Night Court” is the female singer on Paradise by the Dashboard Light by MeatLoaf
Kevin Arnold’s older sister (Karen) was the blonde princess in the crappy 2nd Conan movie
In another Rosanne one, Rusty Griswold in “Christmas Vacation” is Darlene’s boyfriend David .
(Audrey is played by Juliette Lewis, but that’s pretty well known, I think)
There’s lots more like that. It’s actually pretty amazing how small the regular working movie/TV crowd is.
Porn star Asia Carrera is a member of Mensa.
Since this is in Cafe Society, let’s keep it focused on the arts, entertaintment, etc… If it derails to where we have much more non-Cafe-related posts, we’ll probably just move it to MPSIMS.
One I discovered a while back: Kenneth Colley. He played Admiral Piett in two Star Wars movies, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. But the year before TESB, he played Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Which was my intent.
Monk’s first assistant, Sharonna, was the one who kept “crying in baseball” in a League of Their Own.
The mom in *My Life Without Me * is Debbie Harry, from Blondie.
Jennifer Aniston played the older sister in a Ferris Bueller TV Show.
Also, there was a Ferris Bueller TV Show.
That Isabella Rossellini is Ingrid Bergman’s daughter. Honestly, I only found this out about three days ago! I mean, NOW I can wonder if I’m blind because Isabella looks like a freakin’ CLONE of Bergman, but seriously, I never realized it before…
I recently learned that the Obie Awards are for performances in Off Broadway theaters. I was switching between looking at the word “Obie” and looking at the letters spelling “Off Broadway” when I realized that Obie meant O B. Duh!
Only took me several years to pick up on this.
The mayor’s daughter in Animal House was also Danny’s Irish girlfriend in Caddyshack. Two movies I’d seen dozens of times before realizing it.
Super Dave Osborne (you may also know him from Arrested Development and Curb Your Enthusiasm) is the brother of Albert Brooks.
Pierce Brosnan’s first wife, who died of cancer, was the woman run over by a dune buggy in For Your Eyes Only.
Gia Carrides, who cracked me up as Toula’s loud, brunette, Greek-American cousin in My Big Fat Greek Wedding is Scott’s platnium blonde dance partner Liz, in Strictly Ballroom.
and…she’s married to Anthony LaPaglia, who before looking at Gia’s IMDB bio, I hadn’t known is Australian.
Not only that, but Albert Brooks’s real name was Albert Einstein.
Actor Pat Hingle is missing the little finger on his left hand. It happened as a result of injuries sustained when he fell 54 feet down the elevator shaft of his apartment building.
I learned this a while ago, but it still amazes me: Rick James and Neil Young were once in the same band
The Mynah Birds - Wikipedia.