# Huh...Things I learned recently **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587 "2008-04-01T21:34:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/21 "2008-04-02T02:02:41Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] 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… [/QUOTE] She also has a twin sister, who IIRC teaches Italian literature at the university level. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/22 "2008-04-02T02:04:36Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] She also has a twin sister, who IIRC teaches Italian literature at the university level. [/QUOTE] Which knowledge I’m sure has fueled an awful lot of teenage (and not so teenage) male fantasies in the last 25 years or so… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/23 "2008-04-02T02:12:11Z")
**Trevor Peacock** , who played Jim on [The Vicar of Dibley](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JCUc1Pi3M), wrote the song “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/24 "2008-04-02T02:15:45Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] 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. [/QUOTE] Also, the guy who gets his guitar smashed by Bluto is [Stephen Bishop,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RapIK8chpVE) who also wrote and recorded the “Animal House” falsetto theme song at the end of the movie. He still has that guitar which was smashed, as a keepsake. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/25 "2008-04-02T03:52:08Z")
According to IMDB, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice to play Willy Wonka if Johnny Depp would have turned down the role. Imagine that. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/26 "2008-04-02T04:26:45Z")
I just recently found out that [Maya Rudolph](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0748973/), who many know from Saturday Night Live but who I know from **Idiocracy** (and being Paul Thomas Anderson’s SO) is the daughter of Minnie Ripperton! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/27 "2008-04-02T05:37:33Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] I just recently found out that [Maya Rudolph](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0748973/), who many know from Saturday Night Live but who I know from **Idiocracy** (and being Paul Thomas Anderson’s SO) is the daughter of Minnie Ripperton! [/QUOTE] Yeah, in Minnie’s big hit “Loving You,” she is singing “Maya, Maya, Maya, Maya” near the end as a tribute to her then-baby daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/28 "2008-04-02T06:02:15Z")
[QUOTE=Chimera] According to IMDB, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice to play Willy Wonka if Johnny Depp would have turned down the role. Imagine that. :dubious: [/QUOTE] That might have been an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/29 "2008-04-02T06:02:33Z")
In fact, during a Mother’s Day special, Maya introduced a clip of her mother singing that song on an SNL appearance. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/30 "2008-04-02T10:18:08Z")
I’m not sure how many people know this, but the actor who played Rusty Griswold in the first “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movie was Anthony Michael Hall, who later starred in such John Hughes films as “Sixteen Candles” and “Weird Science” and is now the star of U.S.A.'s “The Dead Zone.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/31 "2008-04-02T11:42:30Z")
The [Native American actor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081697/) who played the old man who says the “young men make war, let’s go hunt buffalo” speech to John Wayne in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” also posed for the [statue of the sleepy Indian on the sleepy horse,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Big_Tree) and was one of three models for the [Indian Head Nickel.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_Nickel) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/32 "2008-04-02T11:46:43Z")
[Ed Chigliak](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123261/), from _Northern Exposure_, is the son of the [bad guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236711/) in _Brisco County Jr._ [Compare](http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/6742/darreneburrowsla1.gif) the [pair](http://ziotibia.fatinasexy.it/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/billy-drago.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/33 "2008-04-02T13:14:12Z")
The little bohemian girl from Kevin Costner’s _Waterworld_ grew up and played Deb in _Napoleon Dynamite_. The little girl from Terry Gilliam’s _Adventures of Baron Munchausen_ played Ana in 2004’s zombie fick _Dawn of the Dead_. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/34 "2008-04-02T13:52:25Z")
Joaquin Phoenix, credited as Leaf Phoenix, is the troubled kid Garry in the Steve Martin movie _Parenthood_. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/35 "2008-04-02T14:45:55Z")
Kam Fong’s (Chin Ho from “Hawaii Five-O) mother lived to be 105. Agnes Moorehead’s mother lived to be 107. A dancer in the “Our Gang” short “Calling All Kids” (Jackie Horner) was: a) Lindsay-Lohanish tabloid fodder in the b) A dance instructor in the Catskills, c) Who was an advisor on the film “Dirty Dancing,” and d) The person the “Penny” character was modeled after. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/36 "2008-04-02T15:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] [Ed Chigliak](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123261/), from _Northern Exposure_, is the son of the [bad guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236711/) in _Brisco County Jr._ [Compare](http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/6742/darreneburrowsla1.gif) the [pair](http://ziotibia.fatinasexy.it/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/billy-drago.jpg). [/QUOTE] You know, when I read Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, I had a specific picture in my head of Jonas, the head Big Coffin Hunter from _Wizard and Glass_. I didn’t know where it came from, but that picture was fully formed in my mind the instant King described the character. I just realized the picture came from the bad guy from Briscoe County Jr. He fits the Jonas description to a “t”. This doesn’t really fit in with the thread topic, does it? Sorry. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/37 "2008-04-02T16:22:42Z")
[**Peter Sagal**](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101115), the host of NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” wrote _Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights_. From his NPR bio, linked above: > [@](#): > > He has also written a number of screenplays, including Savage, a cheesy vehicle for obscure French kickboxer Olivier Gruner, and Cuba Mine, an original screenplay that became, without his knowledge, the basis for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/38 "2008-04-02T16:24:20Z")
Walter Houston did the voice of Gandalf in “The Hobbit” cartoon. This is one of my picks for perfect casting in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/39 "2008-04-02T16:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] The mayor’s daughter in **Animal House** was also Danny’s Irish girlfriend in **Caddyshack**. [/QUOTE] Hmm. I think it will require a careful review of both of these fine films to confirm your assertion. My wife will be thrilled. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/40 "2008-04-02T17:10:33Z")
Recently watching the last 2 seasons of The West Wing I remembered that I 'd always gotten a “where’ve I seen her” twinge when Leo McGarry’s daughter Mallory showed up. So I finally looked her up. Mallory was played by Allison Smith, who played Allie’s (Jane Curtin’s) daughter in Kate & Allie. Furthermore I learned during this that on the West Wing, Mallory’s last name was not McGarry, it was O’Brien. Was that ever explained? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587.md?page=3)