[del]The third eye, called chakra in Hindi, symbolizes enlightenment and is symbolized by the red dot commonly painted on the foreheads of Hindus, most notably women.[/del]
Peter Jackson has a project inexplicably underway to direct a remake of The Dam Busters, inevitably using CGI instead of real Lancasters this time. No decision has been announced as to the name of Wing Commander Guy Gibson’s dog, named “N-word” in the original, also used as a significant code word.
William T. Riker held the rank of Starfleet commander during the decade he served as first officer of the USS Enterprise under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, and was promoted to captain when he assumed command of the USS Titan.
The remake of Clash of the Titans was not originally going to be 3-D. It was only after the success of *Avatar *that they added 3-D effects.
Release the Kraken!
Director James Cameron has directed both the biggest and the second-biggest movies of all time, Avatar and Titanic, respectively.
Cameron Diaz, though born in CA, is of Puerto Rican decent, not Mexican.
Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, though born in Puerto Rico, is of Cuban descent, not English.
:smack: She’s of Cuban descent, not Puerto Rican. Your’s still stands, Elvis. Sorry about that!
Damn… I was thinking “Cuban” and wrote “Puerto Rican”. I blame it on multitasking while watching The Masters.
Well, the flags are almost the same. Easy mistake. 
Last year’s Masters winner, Angel Cabrera, is of Argentinian descent, remarkably enough for someone who lives in Argentina. His nickname is El Pato (The Duck) for his awkward gait.
Howard the Duck – a first-class comic book series – has had its reputation destroyed by the failure of the film, a project of George Lucas.
The film Howard the Duck, probably the second-best-known film set in Cleveland other than Major League, scorned as it was otherwise, did provide major early career boosts to both Tim Robbins and Lea Thompson.
When Drew Carey, whose sitcom most often began with the cast lipsynching “Cleveland Rocks”, and when Carey was a celebrity contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? he donated his $500,000 winnings to the Cleveland public library.
The other songs used in the credits for “The Drew Carey Show” were “Moon Over Parma” and “Five O’Clock World”.
Ernie Anderson, later known for such enunciations as “The LOVE Boat” during his career as an ABC staff announcer, appeared on Cleveland television in the mid-1960’s as late-night movie host Ghoulardi. One feature of his schtick was mocking Parma for its residents’ propensity to wear white socks, eat kielbasa, and install plastic flamingos on their lawns.
In the wild, flamingos tend to have white feathers, and become pink only if they eat large quantities of shrimp or other red shellfish. Zookeepers usually add red dye to the food given to captive flamingos.
The crimson-colored dye carmine is made with cochineal, an insect. It goes back as far as the Aztecs/Mayans but is becoming popular again due to concerns about artificial food additives.
The Flamingo Hotel (as the Pink Flamingo) in Las Vegas was financed by gangster Bugsy Siegel as the first of the major gambling hotels that now define the city.
“Hotel California” was one of the Eagles’s biggest hits ever, and still gets a lot of airplay. Don Henley and others in the band have given conflicting explanations over the years for the meaning of the lyrics.
Lanford Wilson’s play “Hot l Baltimore” (the “E” in “hotel” having burnt out in the hotel’s marquee) became a Norman Lear sitcom that ran for all of 13 episides in 1975.
One of the great mysteries in literary biography is the reconstruction of Edgar Allan Poe’s final week. He boarded a ship from Richmond to Baltimore on September 27 1849 then was not seen for a few days until he showed up October 3 outside of a Baltimore tavern completely disoriented, wearing shabby dirty clothes that did not fit (even in his poorest days Poe was known for being a sharp dresser), and speaking in incoherent gibberish save for repeatedly shouting the name “Reynolds” (a name which meant nothing to anybody). He died 4 days later, never really regaining his senses.
In 1919, the U.S. Foil Company, parent of Reynolds Metals Company was founded in Louisville, Kentucky to produce lead and tin foil.