John Hurt lost a bet to Mel Brooks and had to show up on the set of Young Frankenstein wearing a grotesque elephant mask. Hurt got even by scaring the horses whenever anyone said “Frau Blücher”.
John Hurt had a very nasty scare for a brief period in the early '80s when Michael Jackson bought the wrong Elephant Man’s bones.
No special effects were used for Hurt’s famous chest-bursting scene in Ridley Scott’s Alien. To this day, John Hurt occasionally freaks out his co-actors by showing them the massive scar on his torso.
Actor John Heard has been heard (sorry) to say if he gets any more phone calls about the chest-burster scene from “Alien,” he’s considering taking legal action against 20th Century-Fox.
Most people don’t know Alien was a remake of a silent movie era thriller starring Mary Pickford as Ripley and Lon Chaney Sr. as the alien.
(“In silent movies in space, no one can hear you scream.”)
Lon Chaney, Sr., was actually LC IV, but adopted “Sr” when his father (LC III) died. Lon Chaney, Jr., was born LC V, but was persuaded by Hollywood higher-ups to use “Jr” to avoid confusion.
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this is very funny. Yours? (A classic silent is Man in the Moon of Lumiere. Scorcese makes much of it in Hugo.)
Catch-22 went through any number of numerical variations in the title[sup]*[/sup], and, like Slaughter-House Five, deals with themes of the horrors of war. The novel V has similar thematic elements and its title was originally 5.
Wiki:
*The title is a reference to a fictional bureaucratic stipulation which embodies forms of illogical and immoral reasoning. The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World Writing as Catch-18 in 1955, but Heller’s agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris’s Mila 18. The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism (it means Alive in Gematria; see Chai) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.[21]
The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean’s Eleven, this was also rejected. Catch-17 was rejected so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as was Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a “funny number.” Eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel.[21]
:: Next Game Room thread: funny numbers?
A thread I’m thinking of: words that are woody or tinny. Dare I? ::
Woody Woodpecker was the first cartoon character to publicly come out as gay.
Woody Harrelson has a pet woodpecker named Ratty Tat Tat who can play a miniature snare drum.
:: Did I miss the track from catch-22? ::
::I just learned what :: means, and it appears buddha david plucked woody from within the ::s ::
CORRECTION for Leo:
Woody Harrelson has a pet woodpecker named Ratty Tat Tat who can play a miniature snare drum at 22 rat-a-tats a second.
Toy Story was originally intended to be Pixar’s first pornographic movie. The lead character was named Woody for obvious reasons, but when the studio decided to make a family-friendly movie after all, the name was retained.
Tom Hanks wanted to call the volleyball in Cast Away Woody, but the producers insisted on Wilson.
Wilson Pickett wrote *Land of 1000 Dances *while vacationing in the Catskills.
Wilson Phillips was originally a Wilson Pickett tribute group, but for obvious reasons it didn’t work.
Even most of their die hard fans ignore that U2 started out as a Chuck Berry tribute band.
Early Maori women painted coded Takoha (tribute) bands on their upper arms to signify the sexual prowess of their husbands.
Truth be told, the Maori women are the easiest women in the world to satisfy sexually: sometimes all one has to do is smile.