She also has a twin sister, who IIRC teaches Italian literature at the university level.
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…
Trevor Peacock, who played Jim on The Vicar of Dibley, wrote the song “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.”
Also, the guy who gets his guitar smashed by Bluto is Stephen Bishop, 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.
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:
I just recently found out that Maya Rudolph, 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!
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.
That might have been an improvement.
In fact, during a Mother’s Day special, Maya introduced a clip of her mother singing that song on an SNL appearance.
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.”
The Native American actor 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, and was one of three models for the Indian Head Nickel.
Ed Chigliak, from Northern Exposure, is the son of the bad guy in Brisco County Jr.
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.
Joaquin Phoenix, credited as Leaf Phoenix, is the troubled kid Garry in the Steve Martin movie Parenthood.
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.
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.
Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” wrote Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights.
From his NPR bio, linked above:
Walter Houston did the voice of Gandalf in “The Hobbit” cartoon. This is one of my picks for perfect casting in a movie.
Hmm. I think it will require a careful review of both of these fine films to confirm your assertion. My wife will be thrilled.
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?