Over the course of a long career Ethan Hawke has played, among other roles, an unhappy prep-school student (Dead Poets Society), an astronaut (Gattaca), a grieving son (Hamlet), a police sergeant (Assault on Precinct 13), a time-traveler (Predestination) and a vampire (Daybreakers).
Youngblood Hawke is a novel by American author Herman Wouk which was published in 1962. The novel is about the rise and fall of a talented young author. It was loosely based on the life of the novelist Thomas Wolfe.
Wouk had earlier won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Caine Mutiny. He achieved later acclaim for his World War II novels The Winds of War and War And Remembrance.
1962 was the only complete calendar year of John F. Kennedy’s Presidency.
The New York Yankees defeated the San Francisco Giants in the 1962 World Series; that was the third of five consecutive years the Yankees appeared in the Series, and the second year in a row they won it. It was their last World Series win until 1977.
The Cubs finally broke the curse and won the series in 2016, just one year after “Back to the Future 2” predicted it.
On the fifth page of Superman #1, Superman himself says to a woman, “I thought you might be interested in learning I know that you killed Jack Kennedy.” She killed him, according to Superman’s theory, for “two-timing her,” which is a plausible motive, given Kennedy’s reputation as a womanizer; However, Superman #1 appeared in 1939, 24 years before President John (“Jack”) Kennedy was killed.
Action Comics number 1, which was the first appearance of Superman, was published in 1938. The comic had a print run of approximately 200,000, of which less than 100 are known to be in existence. In 2014, a pristine copy of the comic sold for $3,207,852.
The practice of calling the first officer of a warship “Number One” goes back to the British Royal Navy’s practice in the Age of Sail. Although it was not done in Star Trek: The Original Series, between Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock, it was done in Star Trek: The Next Generation, between Capt. Picard and Cmdr. Riker.
Star Trek:TNG’s Wil Wheaton’s first appearance on The Big Bang Theory was supposed to be a one time celebrity thing. However, the next day to Internet was abuzz with tales of “Evil Wil Wheaton” and Chuck Lorre, who knows a good thing when he sees it, signed Wheaton on as a reoccuring character. He would appear 17 times on the long running sitcom.
Family Matters’ annoying nerdy neighbor Steve Urkel, played by Jaleel “Don’t call me Urkel!” White, was supposed to be just a one time character, something Jaleel probably would have been happy with.
Jaleel White will reprise his role as Steve Urkel for the first time since 1998 in the upcoming 2019 series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?. Apparently he has mellowed on the subject of Urkel.
The Guess Who is a rock band which was formed in Winnipeg in 1965. The group was a huge success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. It had a number of hit singles including “American Woman”, “Laughing”, “These Eyes”, and “Share the Land”.
Tal Bachman is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and the son of musican Randy Bachman, who was a member of both The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Tal’s 1999 song “She’s So High” was a top-20 hit in both Canada and the U.S.
The younger Bachman, who was raised as a Mormon, left the church as an adult. He has appeared in several documentaries, in which he discussed his departure from the LDS church.
The Bachmann knot is a friction hitch that requires a carabiner, either locking or non-locking but which must have a round cross-section. It is like a Prusik hitch, another friction hitch. Both the Bachmann knot (or hitch) and the Prusik hitch hold on to another, larger rope, which is usually a vertical ascending rope. When weight or downward force is applied to the Bachmann hitch or Prusik hitch, it tightens around the ascending rope and friction keeps it and the weight from falling. When the load is removed from the hitch, the hitch loosens its grip on the ascending rope and can be slid upwards like a ratcheting device. The Bachmann hitch and the Prusik hitch are used for self-ascents on a rope.
Mountaineering staff at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico refer to a carabiner as a “Carrie Beaner,” sometimes even with respect as “Miss Carrie Beaner,” emphasizing her, er, its importance in being safe while climbing or rapelling (or at least, they did in the summer of 1983, when I was last there).
The 1988 Broadway musical of Carrie based on the Stephen King novel, ran for 16 previews and 5 performances, and was a such flop with the critics and the theatre goers that it inspired the title of Ken Mandelbaum’s 1992 book Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops.
According to this list, there have been almost 90 movies, TV shows, or TV series made from the works of Stephen King.
(My personal favorites are Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.)
Stephen King wrote several books under the name Richard Bachman, feeling that people wouldn’t accept non-horror books from him under his own name.
After working with Michael Clarke Duncan on “Armageddon,” Bruce Willis realized his hulking costar was custom-made for the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Green Mile, which was already gearing up for production. ”He said, ‘I want you to go buy this book, read it, and when we get back to Los Angeles I will call [director] Frank Darabont for you and tell him I have found John Coffey,”’ Duncan says.
The fledgling actor, who had small parts in ”Bulworth” and ”The Player’s Club,” initially resisted tackling a ”heavy piece,” but Willis assured him he had the chops for the role. Darabont wasn’t convinced. ”Maybe he was nervous in the reading, but I wasn’t entirely sure when I first met him,” says the director. ”Still, there was something about his soul I couldn’t let go of, and I kept coming back to him even as we auditioned other actors.”
Though Darabont finally cast Duncan, he hired an acting coach to work with him. ”In the final analysis, it doesn’t seem like he needed it,” he laughs. ”Once the cameras started rolling, he was transformed, and to this day I don’t know where it came from.” And Willis? ”He was our yenta,” says Darabont, ”our matchmaker — bless his heart.”
Michael Clarke Duncan — I loved his work!
Michael Clarke Duncan died in 2012 of a hear attack at the young age of 54. Following his death, many memorials used one of his most famous lines from The Green Mile: “Heaven. I’m in heaven.”
Michael Clarke Duncan was 6’ 5” tall.