Radiation-induced nausea produces glowing vomit that has been used in two art pieces by noted street artist Sproot Agnew, during his Green period.
The upcoming 2016 remake of The Blob incorporates the current craze for zombies, with its victims, instead of being consumed by the ooze, regurgitating glowing vomit that each becomes an additional Blob. Keanu Reeves is slated to star, along with Winona Ryder, and Michael Bay is to direct. Look for Kristen Stewart in a cameo as a has-been actress.
“The Blob” is based on the Grimm fairy tale of the same name. In the fairy tale version of the story, the moral of the story is “if you find a giant blob don’t poke it with a stick.” In this sense, the movie followed very closely.
Not many people have made the connection between the Grimm fairy tale and Woody Allen’s first serious film, which features the creature (portrayed by Frun Tenderberg in a cameo role).
Woody Allen was actually born Woodrow Wilson Allen. He was born of Methodist parents in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has been a practicing Christian all of his life. He developed his Jewish persona by reading Mad magazine and studying other comedians.
MAD Magazine actually started out as a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Medical Advancements in Dementia, based out of the Mason W. Dixon Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Happy Valley, Arizona. When then hospital went bankrupt in 1949 the inmates bought the rights to the journal, and the rest is history.
Happy Valley, Arizona is bordered by Depressed Gulch and Mount Euphoria.
Happy Valley, Arizona is filled with cows and salad dressing. Everyone is depressed and every year over 20 residents fling themselves off Mount Euphoria (Elev. 42’) in a vain attempt to end their Happy existence.
Depressed gulch isn’t even that low in elevation, and it’s hardly even a gulch. Just a medium sized ditch really.
In the movie The Wizard of Oz the role of Elvira Gulch/the Wicked Witch of the West was originally going to be played by Jeanette Macdonald. They switched to Margaret Hamilton when they decided there were too many songs as it is, and nobody really liked the flying monkey tap dance number.
The flying monkeys were originally going to be “darky” caricatures of African-Americans; but producer Mervyn LeRoy scrapped that in exchange for forgiveness for his gambling debts owed to the Los Angeles Negro Mafia.
Forgiveness won the 1937 Louisiana Derby, besting Gluboy by a nanosecond and Godfather’s Victim by a stone’s throw.
A Victim’s Forgiveness, recorded on Mercury Records (A22516) by Johnny Haywood, was the first #1 hit of the Rock Era as stated by Billboard in its June 10, 1954 issue.
As a teen-ager, Johnny Haywood and his band practiced in his parents’ pool cabana on their estate in Beverly Hills. The phrase “cabana bands” became a popular term to describe musical groups started by spoiled rich children living in Los Angeles.
Spiro Agnew performed with the cabana band Hansel’s Tonsils when he was just 14 years old, on the mean streets of Baltimore. The band was fronted by torch singer Annette Tina “Tiny” Phantuccio, a dwarf, who had a torrid affair with Agnew while he was still underage by Maryland law.
Spiro Agnew was reportedly a big fan of Tiny Tim, and was responsible for getting him onto Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Tiny Tim and Dick Martin often went barhopping together, as Tim made a great wingman.
According to sealed birth records kept in a vault in Pocomoke City, Maryland Tiny Tim was the father of Tim Conway and Cher.
Cher very briefly worked under the stage name “Spiro Coquette”.
Coquette is the only word in English where the ‘que’ portion is pronounced “keh” instead of “kweh”
Croissant is the only word the French like to mispronounce. They regularly say “crow swant” just to mess with the tourists.