According to several sources on the Interwebs I can’t link to right now, Alyson Hannegan couldn’t stand kissing Jason Siegel on How I Met Your Mother because his mouth “tasted like an ashtray.”
Whenever I see a car chase in a movie which involves the cars sideswiping or outright smashing parked cars I wonder about what the insurance claims are like. I’m picturing the owner trying to file a claim, or the insurance agent trying to follow up for possible indemnity.
And I don’t even want to think about insurance claims in superhero movies.
Was any record kept of the names of the scantily-clad beauties in the credit sequences of the James Bond movies?
There’s a vid somewhere of some guys searching for the monster truck from Duel that went over the cliff.
I wondered about that in Burn Notice. Michael and Fiona were always blowing up cars to distract the people chasing them. It happened so often, I picture an episode starting:
Client comes to Michael.“You got to help me! Someone keeps trying to kill me. My car blew up one day. It was parked. I thought it was just random, so I got a new car, and parked it in a different area. I got blown up, too!” Poor Michael finds that other people are on the ends of his C4 fun.
Long ago I took some hang-gliding lessons. During one lesson, one of the other students lost control of his hang-glider and crashed into a parked car, putting a big dent in the door. I always wondered what that insurance claim said, and how the insurance company responded to it.
I’ve always wondered how they get in and out of the bag.
That just blows! The article had a small mistake: it said the Ghost of Xmas Yet to Come wiped the snow off the gravestone. It was, of course, Scrooge, and yes the snow looks like white kiddie sand. Still, a wonderful version; Edward Woodward is just outstanding.
It happens quite a lot, it seems:
Clark Gable’s dentures were the cause of his bad breath. His Gone with the Wind co-star, Vivian Leigh, said, “Kissing Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind was not that exciting. His dentures smelled something awful.”
What I often wonder when watching films or series is whether the house they are in is real or a studio, and if it is real who the people living there are like. I knew some people who used to rent their flat for TV productions: this is quite lucrative. It was a gorgeous flat.
A (very) distant acquaintance rents vintage cars to film studios. I often think of that when I see old cars in the movies.
I’m posting from my phone, so I can’t access it but find the story of the house from A Christmas Story. Fun read.