Lots of actors use stunt doubles for the dangerous stuff and some use body doubles for nude scenes, but when Sean Connery was filming Finding Forrester they found he couldn’t type, so they brought in a ‘finger double’ for shots of his hands on the keyboard. (IMDb has that in the Trivia section for the movie.)
Bonanza, Star Trek, and The Big Valley writer D.C. Fontana wrote an episode of Beast Wars: Transformers (And it was a GOOD episode, too.)
You are likely aware that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42, according to the super computer Deep Thought in the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. But do you know why Douglas Adams picked on 42, rather than, say, 63?
Well neither do I, but I can make a good guess since Adams was a cricket nut, devoting a large part of a later episode to cricket themes, and there are exactly 42 laws of cricket.
I heard it was because on a pair of dice, all the sides (when added up) equal to 42 and that “life is the ultimate gamble”.
Popular opinion has it that it’s because 42 = 9*6 in base 13.
According to Mr Adams himself, he just pulled the number out of thin air.
when asked at an appearance at my school in 1999, he said “I don’t write jokes in base 13”
Gee, this site is impressive. Lucky he didn’t pick 41 out of the air then, since the ultimate question would have had to be a little less satisfying.
Tony Booth (Tony Blair’s father-in-law and previously mentioned to be a very great nephew of John Wilkes Booth) played the smartarsed left-wing son-in-law of “loveable” racist Alf Garnett, on whom Archie Bunker was based. There’s probably some irony or something there if you work hard enough.
Ross Kemp, actor lacking in versatility, was the first Rector of Glasgow University who has ever been asked to resign by the SRC. Mainly because he failed to show up, ever. Well, maybe he came once, but only to be photographed showing people how to use the new library self-check machines, and he wasn’t even doing it properly in the photo. The moral might well be that students shouldn’t elect annoying (and extremely busy) celebrities as their rectors, but what are the chances of that ever changing?
Nobody knows which one was Cagney and which one was Lacey. It was something the writers always meant to sort out eventually, but the show was cancelled and both stars were accidentally shot into space during a fun-run. Before her untimely launch, a freelance reporter managed to ask Tyne Daly which had been which: “I always thought I looked most like Cagney,” she said, before striking up an impromptu rendition of “Yankee Doodle Dandy” in the middle of a crowded restaurant. She was removed by police pending psychiatric investigation and only released two days before the fun-run that was to make her a “star” once and for all. The women currently claiming to be Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless are exact copies made by the Mysterons, but they stopped being evil because they fell off a building or something.