Gotcha, thanks. Best to have at least a word or two in common, as in the OP’s example, I think.
Playing off Railer13’s post:
The trunk of the 2017 Chevy Malibu, unlike previous cars in the series, does not include an interior handhold for ease in closing the trunk.
The Chevy Malibu is one of several currently available models that are named after cities. Other examples include the Dodge Durango, the Chrysler Pacifica, the Hyundai Santa Fe and Hyundai Tucson, the Kia Sedona, and the Toyota Tacoma.
The Aquanauts was a short-lived ABC TV series showing the adventures of two divers in southern California. Actor Jeremy Slate developed health problems after all the time in the water and had to leave the show, replaced by future Tarzan Ron Ely. It also changed its setting from diving to running a diving shop and was renamed Malibu Run
Malibu is a liqueur brand, marketed by Pernod Ricard, which is made with coconut-flavored rum. It was originally introduced in the 1980s, as a way to make it simpler for bartenders to make pina coladas.
One critic joked that Michael Landon’s Christian-themed Eighties fantasy drama TV series Highway to Heaven ought to be called Jesus of Malibu.
Michael Landon (1936-1991) was best known for his roles in Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and the aforementioned Highway to Heaven. According to Wikipedia, Landon appeared on the cover of TV Guide 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball.
Lucille Ball’s natural hair color was brown, not the iconic red hair for which she is most known.
My play is off of red / Reds.
Actor Michael Douglas earned his first Oscar in 1976, not as an actor, but as one of the producers of the best picture winner, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Earlier for college, Douglas had attended UCSB, the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the ten officially recognized campuses and the fourth oldest in the UC system. By year of establishment the ten UCs are:
1864 UCSF, San Francisco
1868 UC Berkeley
1905 UC Davis
1909 UCSB
1919 UCLA
1954 UC Riverside
1960 UCSD, San Diego
1965 UC Irvine, dedicated on 20 Jun
1965 UCSC, Santa Cruz
2005 UC Merced
Other notable UCSB alumni include actress Gwyneth Paltrow, underwater explorer and RMS Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard, former NBA player and coach Brian Shaw, ESPN broadcaster Lon McEachern, sports talk show host Jim Rome, NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, MLB pitcher and 2012 World Series Champion Barry Zito, attorney Ed Masry of the Erin Brockovich case, former Cincinnati Reds second baseman Skip Schumaker, and molecular biologist and Nobel laureate Carol Greider, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the enzyme telomerase in 1984. Telemorase helps to protect the end of the human chromosome from DNA damage or from fusion with neighbouring chromosomes.
Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed’s comic strip, Bloom County, premiered on December 8th, 1980. Some of the strip’s original characters, such as Steve Dallas and Cutter John, had originated in The Academia Waltz, the comic strip which Breathed had created for The Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the University of Texas, when Breathed was a student there.
The North American T-6 Texan races in its own class at the Reno National Air Races each year. For the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!, T-6 Texans were modified into Mitsubishi Zero replicas.
Jean Reno is an international film star, barely recognized by Americans, since he made only a few American films – including the title role in “Leon, the Professional”. He was born Spanish as Juan Moreno, in Morocco, and adopted French nationality.
Jean Reno’s American profile has improved quite a bit since costarring in Leon: The Professional, The Pink Panther, Godzilla, Mission: Impossible, The Da Vinci Code and Ronin.
Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General, was also the longest serving Attorney General of the 20th century from 1993 to 2001. She was President Clinton’s third choice after the two nominees before her were passed over because of hiring undocumented nannies. She was confirmed unanimously by the Senate (98-0)
Reno, Nevada, bills itself as “The Biggest Little City in the World”. The city was established in 1868 along the banks of the Truckee River. It was named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the Civil War.
With a population of about 255,000, it is the second-largest city in Nevada and the 85th largest city in the United States.
Anything Goes was a Broadway musical the premiered with Ethel Merman in the lead female role of Reno Sweeney, who was based at least partially on evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
The “MacPherson strut” is an automotive suspension system, originally developed by an automotive engineer at General Motors, Earle S. MacPherson, in the 1940s. MacPherson struts, or designs derived from it, are now widely used as the front suspension system on automobiles, as it can provide the steering pivot as well as a suspension mounting for the wheel.
Harvey “Pop” Hollinger opened the world’s first used comic book shop in 1939 in Concordia Kansas. Hollinger worked his way through McPherson College as an itinerant photographer, then gained an exposure to comics in 20 years of teaching school.
McPherson, Kansas was named after Union General James Birdseye McPherson. General McPherson was killed at the Battle of Atlanta, facing the army of his old West Point classmate John Bell Hood.
McPherson was the second-highest-ranking Union officer killed in action during the war.
Sedgwick County, located about 40 miles south of McPherson, was named after Major General John Sedgwick, who was the highest-raning Union officer killed in action during the Civil War.
Edie Sedgwick was an actress and model in the 1960s, primarily known for working with Andy Warhol on a number of his avant-garde films. She also had a relationship (possibly romantic) with Bob Dylan, and is believed to have been the inspiration for several of his songs, including Just Like a Woman and Like a Rolling Stone. Sedgwick had a troubled life, and was a substance abuser; she died from an overdose of barbiturates in 1971, at age 28.
The phrase “caviar to the general”, from Hamlet Act 2 is used to denote a good thing unappreciated by the ignorant. The “general” refers to the masses or multitude; the 1603 Folio edition reads “caviar to the million”.
Caviar was a novel delicacy at the end of the 16th century and Hamlet implies that it is unpalatable to those who have not acquired a taste for it.
Ninja’d! ETA Andy Warhol’s comment that Campbell’s soup was his favorite has been called “mostly a fib” by NYT writer Blake Gopnik. “He cooked gourmet meals. In the 1950s, he served pheasant under glass to a friend for Thanksgiving; in the ’70s, a favorite recipe was linguine with caviar.”