# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/121 "2008-04-05T12:39:23Z")
Michael O’Keefe played Robert Duvall’s oldest son in [The Great Santini.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001574/) Kim Cattrall, of _Sex in the City_, played Honeyewell, the Girl Everyone Wanted, in _Porky’s_. I don’t know if it’s part of the canon for 20-somethings these days, but if you haven’t seen _Stripes_ it’s a great one for well-known actors in small roles. John Larroquette has a really funny bit. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/122 "2008-04-05T18:14:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I knew that Jerry Lee Lewis married his third wife (the one played by Winona Ryder) when she was disgustingly young (as did his cousin Jimmy Swaggart, who married Frances when she was 13 or 14 as well), but I was surprised to learn that Roy Orbison also liked them young; depending on the source his first wife, Claudette, was either 15 or 16 when they married; when she died the 30-something Orbison married 16 year old German born Barbara Jakobs. Almost as scandalous is the fact that Lewis was already into a third marriage by the age of 22 (to save time he apparently married his second wife before he had officially divorced his first wife). ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/123 "2008-04-05T18:38:07Z")
**Witness** with Harrison Ford and Kelly McGinnis was on AMC the other night…love that movie and have seen it many times. But I just noticed that none other than **Viggo Mortensen** is one of the Amish dudes at the barn raising! He also is in the scene where they go to town and Ford karate chops the obnoxious Amish-harasser. Only had one line that I could hear and he is talking in the Amish-dialect. ---
**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 5, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/124 "2008-04-05T19:02:06Z")
[QUOTE=HelloKitty] **Witness** with Harrison Ford and Kelly McGinnis was on AMC the other night…love that movie and have seen it many times. But I just noticed that none other than **Viggo Mortensen** is one of the Amish dudes at the barn raising! He also is in the scene where they go to town and Ford karate chops the obnoxious Amish-harasser. Only had one line that I could hear and he is talking in the Amish-dialect. [/QUOTE] **Supervenusfreak** ’s aunt and uncle are also in that movie, as extras in the barn raising scene. **Supervenusfreak** also says he served Kelly McGillis when he was working at a convenience store in town while they were filming the movie. ---
**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 5, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/125 "2008-04-05T19:12:22Z")
Jon Voight’s (the actor, OK? 😉 ) brother, James Wesley Voight, is better known as [Chip Taylor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Taylor), a musician and songwriter whose best-known songs are “Wild Thing” by the Troggs, and “Angel of the Morning,” recorded by Merilee Rush. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/126 "2008-04-05T19:58:51Z")
The Monkees’ big hit “Daydream Believer” was written by the late John Stewart, veteran alt-folkie and former member of the Kingston Trio. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/127 "2008-04-05T23:30:21Z")
Lani O’Grady (October 2, 1954 – September 25, 2001), born Lanita Rose Agrati, was an American actor, and the sister of actor/musician Don Grady. Lani: Mary Bradford on “Eight Is Enough.” Don: Robbie Douglas on “My Three Sons.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/128 "2008-04-06T02:14:19Z")
Christopher Cerf, a songwriter for _Sesame Street_ and the son of Bennett Cerf, is also a political satirist and co-founder of the _National Lampoon_. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/129 "2008-04-06T02:18:29Z")
Michael Bay (the man behind such Hollywood big-action films as Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor) directed the first Got Milk? commercial. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/130 "2008-04-06T04:30:02Z")
British comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French are married. Fred Savage supplies the voice for the cartoon octopus in the children’s show _Oswald_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/131 "2008-04-06T22:40:26Z")
never mind- wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/132 "2008-04-07T06:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] The Monkees’ big hit “Daydream Believer” was written by the late John Stewart, veteran alt-folkie and former member of the Kingston Trio. [/QUOTE] More on John Stewart (I heard this on the radio a while back). In the 1970s, Stewart decided to learn how to play the electric guitar - he’d only ever played acoustic guitar up to that point, and wanted to learn the intricacies of the electric version. While performing some “electric” songs he’d written in front of an audience of music industry types in LA, he mentioned that Lindsey Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac) had been the primary influence on his decision to take up the electric guitar. Buckingham happened to be in the audience, and talked to Stewart afterwards. He was apparently extremely flattered by Stewart’s remarks because as it turned out, it was Stewart’s work with the Kingston Trio that had inspired Buckingham to learn to play guitar in the first place! That conversation is what led to Fleetwood Mac backing Stewart in the studio on his 1979 single “Gold”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/133 "2008-04-07T13:11:24Z")
**Cat** crap is not a toy either! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/134 "2008-04-10T01:24:15Z")
Comedy Central’s ads for _Futurama_ parody the song _The Revolution Will Not Be Televised_. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/135 "2008-04-10T02:52:37Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] And Conway’s co-star from “McHale’s Navy,” Ernest Borgnine, plays Mermaid Man. [/QUOTE] And the Dirty Bubble they once fought was voiced by the late great Charles Nelson Reilly. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/136 "2008-04-10T04:13:26Z")
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue] British comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French are married. [/QUOTE] As are her frequent partner in comedy Jennifer Saunders, and Ade Edmonson of **The Young Ones** et al. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/137 "2008-04-10T09:47:30Z")
Trvia about a fairly obscure 1988 film – “Made in Heaven” – follows: I learned maybe ten years after the movie was out that the part of the grumpy, raspy-voiced, chain-smoking male angel, Emmet, in **Made in Heaven** was played the Timothy Hutton’s then girlfriend Debra Winger. [QUOTE=Sampiro] Phyllis Diller is soooooooooooooooo old (and her parents were so old when she was born) that her uncles (not great-uncles, but her father’s older full-brothers) fought in the Civil War. (Source: her autobio _Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse_.) [/QUOTE] Nothing to do with celebrities, but my grandmother (my father’s mother) was eight years old when Fort Sumter was fired upon in 1861. My grandfather (pop’s old man) was eleven years younger than her, being born the year (1864) before the civil war ended. I’m just 44, myself. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/138 "2008-04-10T10:27:22Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] [Cree Summer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838588/) , who got her start as the voice of Penny in the Inspector Gadget cartoon [/QUOTE] I just learnt that Cree Summer played Penny! ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/139 "2008-04-10T13:26:05Z")
That the phrase “God willing and the Creek don’t rise” probably refers to Creek Indians, not streams. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587/140 "2008-04-10T15:05:47Z")
Good one - I learned that not too long ago. Only I thought it was “Cree” Indians (which is where the actress Cree Summer got her name). Turns out there are both Creek and Cree tribes in North America. Also, that phrase about “not knowing shit from shineola” refers to a black shoe polish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-things-i-learned-recently/443587.md?page=8)