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Bill Murray was in the best movies ever made about both golf and bowling - “Caddyshack” and “Kingpin”.
Chris Cooper has played characters on both sides of (coal) mine owners vs. union organizers.
In “Matewan” he played the union organizer.
In “October Sky” he plays the manager of the mine (very much anti-union).
Probably summer camp too. Anyone who thinks Meatballs is Caddyshack at summer camp needs to rewatch it. Murray is surpisingly touching.
“October Sky” is a movie adaptation of a book called “Rocket Boys”. The titles are perfect anagrams.
So he’s got that going for him. Which is nice.
George Lucas’s Malamute dog, Indiana, served as an inspiration for two different characters of Lucas’s creation: the dog inspired the name of Indiana Jones, and his appeareance, as he sat in the passenger seat of Lucas’s truck, inspired Chewbacca.
According to Charleton Heston, when they were filming Planet of the Apes, during lunch breaks, the actors segregated themselves racially. The actors playing gorillas would sit at one table, the actors playing chimpanzees would sit at another table, and the actors playing orangutans would sit at a different table. The race of the actor under the makeup didn’t matter. The race of the character mattered.
Helen Hunt had sex with physically handicapped men in both “The Waterdance” and “The Sessions”.
Except Chewie resembles a Brussels Griffon, not a Malamute.
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The movie Real Genius ends with a giant “Jiffy Pop”-style device being set off by a high-powered laser inside of the home of professor Jerry Hathaway (Willam Atherton), destroying the house as the huge volume of popcorn pops. According to Atherton, it took the production crew three full months to pop the quantity of popcorn required for the scene.
True enough, but here’s George’s own telling of the story, as quoted on Indiana’s own entry on Wookieepedia (the Star Wars wiki):
Also, I messed up in my earlier post; I’d forgotten that Indiana was a female dog.
Never mind
John Cusack has played TWO losers who weaseled their ways back into their ex’s lives due to a tragedy befalling the ex’s father. “Say Anything” and “High Fidelity”
Granted in Say Anything…he’s not really a loser and John Mahoneys “tragedy” is of his own doing, but had he not been arrested, Ione Skye would have flown off and never looked back.
Jennifer Connelly had a hat trick of standing on a pier: Dark City, House of Sand and Fog, and Requiem for a Dream. I think all three might have been the end of those three movies, but not positive on Requiem for a Dream. (Pretty sure that scene was a hallucination.)
*Madeleine Albright’s father-in-law Ivan Albright, and his brother Marvin, were the artists who painted “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in the 1945 movie.
*Well, sorta. He would one day be her father-in-law.
The 1994 version of “Angels in the Outfield” features three Academy Award winners in its cast: Brenda Fricker, Matthew McConaughey, and Adrien Brody.
Granted only Fricker had won her award at the time the movie was made.
Which reminds me of Rachel McAdams proclivity of being the love interest of a time traveler, but never getting to time travel herself. She did so in “About Time”, “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, “Doctor Strange”, and “Midnight in Paris”.