Talk show host David Letterman once had the band Charliedeth on as well as singer Tom Waits on his show on the same night. He attempted to introduce the two musicians to each other by saying “Waits, Watts. Watts, Waits.” The bit went over about as well as the time he introduced news anchor Linda Yu to actor Brandon Soo Hoo.
David Letterman actually founded the singing group The Lettermen, but was given the boot because he couldn’t sing.
The story of David Letterman being a founding member of The Lettermen is merely an urban legend.
The Lettermen were actually a trio of postal carriers from Nevada who started singing together on weekends for fun, and eventually made a career out of it… but they still worked for the Post Office until they had completed enough time of service to have vested their federal pensions.
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The Vested Pensions were an oldies group. Their performances were notoriously lacking in energy and never really found an audience. Their name did inspire the name of a bird whose coloration reminded some of a three-piece suit: the vested penguin.
Burgess Meredith often said that playing The Penguin on Batman was the greatest dramatic experience of his career, and far superior to his role in, say, Of Mice and Men. Frank Gorshin always maintained he liked Burgess best in the Rocky movies. Tim Curry did say he considered Burgess briefly for playing the role of Rocky in RHPS, but it might have been too camp.
She was never the same before.
Fact.
She was always the same! Sharon and Sharon alike!
During the filming of Sharon Stone’s “leg crossing” scene in Basic Instinct, three other actors, an assistant cameraman, and a production caterer all died from spontaneous human combustion.
Sharon Stone’s “leg crossing” scene in Basic Instinct has become so well known that movie makers have been alluding to and spoofing it since that movie’s initial release. Movies that feature their own version of that scene include Fatal Instinct, Basic Instinct 2, National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon, The Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas, Uncle Joe’s Country Chitlins Ranch, Deadpool 2, Uncle Joe’s Country Chitlins Ranch II, Revenge of the Crawdad Daddy, Deadly Encounter: The Piranhas, Star Trek: A JJ Abrams Joint, Hot Shots Part Deux, Happytime Murders, BoogerBurgers III, the Return of Snotcho Cheese, Wrestlemania: The Movie, Amadeus, Woody Allen’s My Love Interest is Conspicuously Younger, Hail to the Chimp, Winter Garden, Winter Garden II, The Wintering, Pride and Prejudice (2005), and Antz.
Donald J. Trump’s scenes in Uncle Joe’s Country Chitlins Ranch II and Wrestlemania: The Movie have been removed in post-post-production. In the first movie he was replaced with Chuck Norris, and in the second with Sharon Stone. Coincidence, or QAnon conspiracy connection?
Pixar engineers have been working on using AI techniques for post-post-production. Experimentally, the role of Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects has been replaced in post-post-production by Orson Bean. The ethical and legal implications, however, are daunting – except of course for replacing Donald Trump by anyone or anything, which is fine with everybody.
Chris Columbus – ever the “talent” – will be excising Donald Trump from all prints of, “Home Alone 2,” leaving just his topcoat floating down the hall and addressing Kevin. They’ll try to work in a, “Christmas Carol,” style ghost story in post-post-post-production.
Using post-post production, the estate of John Derek is removing the footage of Donald Trump from the movie Ghosts Can’t Do It and replacing it with Kristy Swanson. When asked about being added into the movie, Swanson, who recently declared on Twitter that if Trump is removed from Home Alone 2 then she should also be removed from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, kind of just shrugged and said “Eh, it’s work.”
Kristy Swanson’s first name was actually Kirsty, but Kirsty Alley threatened to thump her if she didn’t change it. And you know she would.
Kirstie Alley changed the spelling of her first name to Kirsty, right after starring in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, just to mess with that Swanson woman.
Khan’s on Prozac these days, and he’s much more mellow.
Khan would have been kicked off the planet Prozac, but no one seemed to care.
The antidepressant Prozac is far more effective and successful than an earlier version of the drug, the unfortunately-named Amateurzac.
Despite being less effective, Amatuerzac is able to compete in the Drug Olympics, whereas Prozac is no longer able to due to its professional status.
None of the zacs work on yaks.