Well, let’s not go crazy. You’ve set your river on fire like 13 times.
I just finished reading the popular novel “Beautiful Ruins”. Arrrgh. The author has people working at 20th Century Fox in the early sixties. Fox didn’t come into the picture until 1985. 20th Century Pictures was the name.
In fairness, so is very nearly every single other post in this thread.
Wikipedia disagrees. All that happened in 1985 was dropping a hyphen
Ah, not quite… 20th Century and Fox merged in 1935.
What changed in 1985 was changing the phrasing of the name from 20th Century-Fox to 20th Century Fox.
You know what annoys me? When a website has a featured thread feature, and they accidentally feature the same thread twice under different taglines.
I have a suspicion that the English pronounce Harrison Ford as “Herferd”.
I sit corrected. But I’ll still argue that they were not called that by the public until they incorporated Fox into the 20th Century sign.
Pretty sure it was earlier- the Doors Twentieth Century Fox was on an album released in 1967. The play on words wouldn’t have worked if the public knew the studio as 20th Century Pictures. And I know I don’t remember ever hearing the studio being referred to as 20th Century Pictures- and I’m old enough to remember pre-1985. In fact, for some reason I have a distinct memory of the credits for *The Rocky Horror Picture Show * (which I first saw in 1980) referring to 20th Century-Fox.
Yeah, I don’t remember it ever being called 20th Century Pictures, but I guess I’m only 40. The logo showing 20th Century Fox apparently comes from as early as 1935 as seen in this Youtube video.
This varies depending on the prison system, so not necessarily a clear error. Here in Kansas, e.g., most of the state minimum-security facilities don’t even have Segregation facilities, so yes, somebody accused of a serious infraction will be rolled to maximum security immediately. They’ll be placed in “administrative segregation” first, until the hearing (not a trial, and lacking many of the procedural safeguards of a trial–for example, inmates are not entitled to an attorney at a prison disciplinary hearing). Upon conviction, then placement in “disciplinary segregation” may result.
Even though they are spelled the same, the major east/west boulevard in Manhattan is pronounced HOW-ston. The city in Texas is pronounced HEW-ston.
I don’t think I ever pronounced the ‘H’ in the city name – always called it YUE-stin. That’s how most people pronounce it around here (New York). As far as the street name is concerned, yeah, you can always tell if someone was originally from NYC, by whether they pronounce it the same as the city name or by its proper pronunciation.
Why isn’t SoHo NYC pronounced SOW-HOW. It got that name for being South of Houston Street.
The MAD magazine parody of Trapper John MD asked Pernell Roberts if he played Trapper in the MAS*H movie. He replied: No, Donald Southerland did.
Guess again. It was Elliot Gould. Southerland played Hawkeye.
No, I’m fairly certain it was Donald Sutherland who played Hawkeye.
Donald Sutherland was Hawkeye. Elliott Gould played Trapper. Tom Skerritt played Duke.
Yes, but it really got its name from Soho in London. And you can’t really expect people to pronounce “Soho” as “Sowhow” unless you spell it “Sowhow”. Or “Souhou.”
Yes. I was just ribbing Annie about her misspelling of “Sutherland”.
And the small Scottish village of Houston, Renfrewshire, is pronounced “HOO-ston”.
They were definitely joking about 20th Century Fox in 1976.