Leif Garrett and Dawn Lyn (Dodi on My Three Sons) are brother and sister.
That was quite a topic of conversation during the early days of this message board, with the now-silent David B insisting vociferously that it never happened… and after the clip[ was revealed, lamely insisting that the clip didn’t follow the exact words of the legend and therefore didn’t count.
The thread about movies being shot out-of-order got me to thinking about something else.
Star Trek episodes were shout out of order. The big stars would do their scenes early in the morning and get to leave the set early. Lesser actors would have to wait around all day, sometimes not shooting their scenes until late at night.
This was the case when they were shooting Gamesters of Triskelion. There is a scene where Chekov is having a conversation with a husky Russion-like woman. Koenig and the actress did the scene very late at night. So late, in fact, that only one cameraman was still around. (Or the extra cameras were taken off of the set.)
The result of this is that the dialog was shot using only one camera. For most of it we see the back of Chekov’s head. When he speaks, we see him cheating out to the camera. It looks really horrible.
This might be true, but it seems a little odd. I would have expected the second unit to be filming the non-star scenes simultaneously.
Did they have a second unit?
I really don’t know, what I posted is what I heard directly from Koenig.
Who, by the way, claims to have been in the boiler room during Space Seed.
Well in that case [no second unit], it wouldn’t be so odd.
Only one head on a ship with a crew of over 400? Doubfull. (But a funny line by Koenig.)
And in the TNG years, the crew just stick their tails into the replicator.
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Sorry, can’t provide a cite. It was recounted to me nearly thirty years ago by a close friend who was on the set that day. It was told back before Keaton was famous, it might have been right after Night Shift came out. My friend has several funny stories about Keaton, he sounds like he was quite the character.
Charles Durning is another famous D-Day veteran who’s been a regular and a guest star on many TV shows (Evening Shade and Rescue Me among many others). In spite of obesity and whatever other unhealthy activities he’s engaged in over the years he’s still works constantly at 88.
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Legend has it that virtually unknown James Garner was chosen for the role of Bret Maverick because at 6’1" Garner could wear the hand me down wardrobe that 6’2" Randolph Scott had worn in the movie Santa Fe.
Uh? The theme to Diamonds Are Forever is sung by Shirley Bassey, who had previously sung the Goldfinger theme, in pretty much the same style. Also, a man singing “Diamonds Are Forever” would be a bit weird, considering the lyrics.
Yes, John Ratzenberger was auditioning for the role of Norm Peterson:
The producers were impressed by his audition, but they didn’t think he was right for the part of Norm. He suggested instead that they add a character to the show who would be the bar know-it-all. They hired him for a two-episode run and then eventually made him a regular.
Originally, Dr. Drakken and Shego were simply two of a number of characters for the Kim Possible rogues’ gallery, a fairly generic “mad scientist” and “enforcer”, but the early results of the animation and voice acting (particularly Nicole Sullivan’s talent for delivering snark) convinced the writers to develop them as the main recurring antagonists.
Yeah, that collar story sounds kinda dumb. They would have had to nail the collar to the floor, and then force the dog’s neck into it, and then the buckle would have been in the wrong place. The move likely scenario would be them drugging the dog if it moving was a scene destroyer.
What I’m wondering about is: how would the dog moving- providing the scene isn’t specifically about the dog- ruin the scene? So what if it moves? 
This isn’t the only color correction thing. You know the gold uniforms? They are about the same color green as the Captain’s Jacket appears–kind of an olive green. They only appear yellow on camera.
Also, Spock was originally supposed to be red, but he both looked too much like the devil and his dark makeup made him hard ot see on black and white screens. They instead started using a green tint–which, again, you really can’t see.
Finally, as you probably know, Nimoy came up with the Vulcan salute from a Jewish tradition, and came up with the nerve pinch because he was supposed to punch someone out, but had decided that Vulcans were non-violent. And yet he still punches someone out in an earlier episode.
The way I heard it (from Nimoy himself) was that he was supposed to pistol-whip (phaser-whip?) Evil Kirk in The Enemy Within. He figured that Spock attended the Vulcan Institute of Technology and would have a technique way cooler than brute force.
Unless they were constipated.
Then they run down to the transporter room…
David Lynch filmed a morgue scene in Twin Peaks despite the flourescent overhead light flickering; he liked the atmosphere it created. He also cast a set dresser as the evil BOB after seeing him look up with an expression that intrigued him. He also used takes of scenes with minor dialogue flubs if the effect supported the surreal mood he was trying to create.