Diane Hall
But she sometimes goes by the nickname Annie.
The word “Ewok” is not mentioned in any Star Wars film.
Fred “Mister” Rogers was a serious influence and help in getting George Romero started in films.
Tom Cruise’s real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
While she was not directly involved, I would say she is significantly indirectly responsible for the development of the LP and the first electoral vote cast for a female candidate in the US, since she left her estate to Roger MacBride and considered him her “political disciple.”
True, but she died three years before the party was organized.
I went to a talk yesterday by John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens NFL team that was given to a local group of mathematicians. He has a master’s degree in math and has one paper published. He may get his Ph.D. in math at some point.
It’s really more meaningful to say that the name ‘Ewok’ is never said in Return of the Jedi, as the Ewoks don’t appear in the other 5 films (except maybe a cameo in Phantom Menace? I can’t remember), so it’s not surprising that the name is never mentioned in them - especially in the two films before their creation.
I’m also pretty sure it’s said in the two TV movies set on Endor.
According to Cracked.com their are crazy coincidences between him and the original actor Michael Fox*!* (scroll down to number #5)
The little girl from Escape from Witch Mountain is Paris Hilton’s aunt.
NBA star Kevin Love is Beach Boy Mike Love’s nephew, and therefore also related to the Wiksons of that group.
ESPN’s Rachel Nichols is film director Mike Nichols’ daughter-in-law.
Actor Richard Gere and author Jonathan Kellerman are highly-respected guitar collectors. When Gere sold off most of his a few years ago, it was a very big deal. Martin bought one - one of the first rosewood Martin-labeled dreadnoughts ever made - and features it in their museum. Kellerman published a gorgeous coffee table book of his collection.
Actor Steven Seagal is a huge collector, too, but not so widely respected. 
He has some interesting stuff - e.g., Albert King’s Lucy Flying V - but is apparently appalling to deal with. Who knew?
As a teenager, Bill Clinton met JFK in the Whitehouse
The 2007 movie Sleuth is a remake of a 1972 original, itself based on a play. It’s odd for two reasons.
Michael Caine plays the role of Andrew; he played Milo in the original.
Jude Law plays Milo in the remake; he was also in another remake playing a role originally played by Caine, 2004’s Alfie.
Her childhood nickname was Annie, from Diane.
It never occurred to me that Annie would be a nickname from Diane but it makes perfect sense. I would have guessed that an Annie would be Anne or Annabelle.
That depends on who is telling the tale. Synni Lyngstad, Frida’s mother, died very young and Frida was raised by her maternal grandmother, who felt that she was a product of the Nazi’s approving of rape to make “Aryan babies.” Even if it was an official policy in Norway, her genetic father was a Nazi, and would know of the project.
According to Daddy (who came out of the woodwork after Frida was rich and famous) it was a true love match, and he left Norway for Germany now knowing that Lyngstad was pregnant. Frida’s mother and aunt tell a different story, and after meeting her father a few times, Frida cut off all contact with him.
Tupac Shakur (though his birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks) was once a dancer for Digital Underground, a 90’s hip hop/rap group that recorded “The Humpty Dance.”
His stepaunt, Assata Shakur, was involved in a shootout with police in 1973, which resulted in one dead police officer and one “grievously injured.” Shakur was associated with the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army at this time, and while she was travelling with members of those organizations when the shootout occurred, maintains that she wasn’t really involved in the altercation. She was indicted for several felonies related to the shootout, resulting in three acquittals and three dismissals. In 1977, she was convicted in the murder of the officer killed during the shootout.
She escaped from prison in 1979, and fled to Cuba in 1985, where she was given political asylum.
Rapper/actor Common wrote a song about Shakur called “A Song for Assata,” which caused quite a bit of controversy when Common was invited to a poetry slam at the White House. Many conservatives felt that someone who wrote a song “celebrating” a cop-killer was the wrong sort of person to have at the White House.
Bill O’Reilly famously lambasted Obama for this (among other conservatives), and had Jon Stewart on O’Reilly’s show to discuss the issue.
Tupac Shakur went to Baltimore School for the Arts where his best friend was Jada Pinkett, who grew up to marry the Fresh Prince.
Many of you are probably familiar with Caitlyn Jenner but did you know she actually started life as a man?
How exceptionally funny. I laughed and laughed :rolleyes:.
And lovers of music are forever in her debt. Those 45s were just so short!