He played the antagonist, didn’t he?
In play:
Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) in the 1998 Coen Brothers movie The Big Lebowski repeatedly expresses his dislike for the music of The Eagles.
One of the brilliant touches of the 1980 comedy spoof film Airplane! was in casting a quartet of very well-known “serious” actors – Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, and Peter Graves – in comic roles. The four had rarely, if ever, previously appeared in comedies, but in the words of one of the movie’s creators, David Zucker: “We thought they were much funnier than the comedians of that time were.”
The Eagles’ 1980 hit version of the song “Seven Bridges Road” was borrowed / lifted from Ian Matthews 1973 recording, produced by Mike Nesmith. On hearing the Eagles version, Nesmith said: “Son of a gun if…Don [Henley] or somebody in the Eagles didn’t lift [our] arrangement absolutely note for note for vocal harmony…If they can’t think it up themselves [and] they’ve got to steal it from somebody else, better they should steal it…from me I guess.” Ian Matthews has said, when performing the song at concerts, that his name for the Eagles is “The Vultures”.
D’oh! I should’ve went with “villain.”
Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Examples in film are: the sudden allegiance of fauna with the humanoid natives to defeat the alien war machine in Avatar; and the appearance of the Eagles in The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, which provides rescue for the the protagonists in several encounters.
In the Harvard Lampoon’s 1969 Tolkien parody Bored of the Rings, the Eagles bear the livery of Deus Ex Machina Airlines when they come to rescue Frito and Spam.
“Frito pie” is a dish made using corn chips (typically Fritos), chili, and cheese; it often contains additional ingredients, such as onions, rice, salsa, refried beans, sour cream, and/or jalapenos.
One way in which Frito pie is served is inside of a single-serving bag of Fritos, as shown in the photo below. In some areas, this is also referred to as a “Frito boat” or a “walking taco.”
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Lyndon B. Johnson’s favorite chili was Pedernales River Chili.
Cincinnati chili is a Mediterranean-spiced meat sauce topping for spaghetti or hot dogs. It differs from southwestern chili recipes by it’s ingredients and how it is served: never in a bowl.
In the CFL, the trophy for the year is the Grey Cup, which has led to the comment: “Our champions drink their champagne from a cup, not a bowl.”
The Grey Cup has been stolen on two occasions. It disappeared for three days in 1967 before it was returned, and in 1969 it was stolen from the offices of the Ottawa Rough Riders. The thieves attempted to ransom the trophy, but the Canadian Football League refused to pay and instead made plans to create a duplicate. Two months later, an anonymous phone call led to the discovery of the trophy in a locker in a Toronto hotel. The thieves were never caught.
Susan Cooper’s Arthurian fantasy, The Grey King, published in 1975, won the Newbery Medal.
Arthur Dent is the protagonist of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Dent, one of only two humans to survive the destruction of Earth (to make room for a hyperspace bypass), travels the universe during the series, usually clad in the same dressing gown he was wearing on the morning that Earth was destroyed.
Dent was portrayed by Simon Jones in the original BBC radio series, and in the 1981 BBC television adaptation; Martin Freeman played the character in the 2005 film adaptation.
Arthur Curry is the son of a human lighthouse keeper and the Queen of Atlantis, and is also known as Orin, the Aquaman. His first appearance was in More Fun Comics #73 (1941), and most recently portrayed by Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa in 2023.
General Sir Arthur William Currie, GCMG, KCB was a Canadian soldier who rose through the ranks to become the first Canadian to command the Canada Corps. He was generally regarded as one of the most innovative Allied generals on the Western Front, implementing effective forms of trench warfare.
Curry, a family of dishes generally associated with India and its interaction with European colonial powers, is heavily dependent on foods that came from neither India nor Europe, but the New World - hot peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes.
Linky no worky.
In play:
I saw British actor Tim Curry, perhaps best known for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and It, in a stage production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals in London in the mid-Eighties. He was terrific.
When the play Amadeus premiered on Broadway, in December 1980, the play’s leads were Ian McKellen as Salieri, Tim Curry as Mozart, and Jane Seymour as Constanze. Both McKellen and Curry were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor, which McKellen won.
Curry has remarked that that production was his favorite of the stage production in which he appeared. Unfortunately, it appears that no film recording of this production, with the three of them appearing in it, exists.
Ian McKellen wore a prosthetic nose and a wig in portraying the wizard Gandalf the Grey (later the White) in the three Peter Jackson-directed The Lord of the Rings movies (2001-2003).
(OOP)
I saw it: a recipe card.
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Hmm. Didn’t work for me, either at home or at court.