The Shawshank Redemption has two inmates named Haywood and Floyd. The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey has a character named Heywood Floyd.
Stanley Kubrick said that the only intentional joke in 2001: A Space Odyssey is Dr. Floyd reading the lengthy, fine-print instructions for the zero-gravity toilet aboard the Moon shuttle.
In 1971, A Clockwork Orange received an X rating in the both US and the UK. Stanley Kubrick personally pulled the film from release in the United Kingdom after receiving death threats following a series of copycat crimes based on the film; it was thus completely unavailable legally in the UK until after Kubrick’s death, and not re-released until 2000.
Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the “longest constant movie shoot” – at 400 days.
Stanley Kubrick died six days after showing his final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner Bros. Pictures, making this the final film he directed. In order to ensure a theatrical R rating in the United States, Warner Bros. digitally altered several sexually explicit scenes during post-production.
Full Metal Jacket (1987), a Stanley Kubrick film, was not the first film for R. Lee Ermey (Gunny Ermey). Ermey played a First Air Cavalry chopper pilot in Apocalypse Now (1979).
ETA: Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Nicolas Cage’s birth name is Nicolas Coppola; he is the nephew of director Francis Ford Copploa. Cage adopted his screen name to avoid the appearance of nepotism due to his famous uncle.
Nicolas Cage picked his screen surname in part as a tribute to Marvel Comics character Luke Cage.
The CAGE questionnaire is an acronym for four questions for self-screening if one is potentially an alcoholic. The four questions are:
- Have you ever felt you needed to CUT down on your drinking?
- Have people ANNOYED you by criticizing your drinking?
- Have you ever felt GUILTY about drinking?
- Have you ever felt you needed a drink first thing in the morning (EYE-opener) to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover?
Acronyms were used in Ancient Rome. For example, the official name for the Roman Empire, and the Republic before it, was abbreviated as SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus).
The Pillars of Rome in southeastern Oregon are clay cliff formations about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide (images). These pillars gave the area and nearby town of Rome OR its name, as they suggested the ruined temples of Rome, Italy.
The codephrase for the intentional release of the superflu in Soviet- and Chinese-dominated countries after a laboratory accident led to a pandemic in the U.S., in Stephen King’s novel The Stand, was “Rome falls.”
The Soviet Union began to fall apart in 1990 and 1991, as its member states began to declare independence. In December of 1991, the member states agreed to formally dissolve the Soviet Union. On December 25th, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his office, and declared the office defunct; on December 26th, the Supreme Soviet met, to vote itself, and the country, out of existence.
Sweden, not the USSR, was the first to sound the public alarm that an accident had happened at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in late April 1986.
In addition to recording songs in their native Swedish and English, Sweden’s supergroup ABBA also recorded in German, Oro and Mas Oro in Spanish, and Waterloo in French.
The Beatles recorded four songs in German. The best-known recordings of these four were German versions of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” (titled “Komm gib mir deine Hand” and “Sie liebt dich,” respectively) which they recorded and released in 1964.
In 1961, when the band was just starting out, and playing in Hamburg, they recorded a version of “My Bonnie” (“Mein Herz ist bei dir”) as a collaboration with vocalist Tony Sheridan. And, in 1969, the Beatles recorded a rough cut of “Get Back” (“Geh raus”); that cut was not officially released until 2000.
Good trivia!
The Beatles, Komm Gib Mir Deine hand > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhTJLxRRsAs
The Beatles, Sie Liebt Dich > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vx8qpaKmlk
In play: The Beach Boys also sang their song “In My Room” in German: The Beach Boys - In my room (german version) - YouTube.
Several artists have sung their own songs in German, including David Bowie, “Heroes”.
Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a conference room at the BBC where Eric Blair (Orwell) would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings
NYC’s GWB, the George Washington Bridge, is commonly nicknamed The George.
The city of Green Bay, Wisconsin is bisected by the Fox River; four bridges cross the Fox within the city’s limits, connecting the east and west sides of the city.
The northernmost of those bridges is the Leo Frigo Bridge. Named after a local philanthropist and cheesemaker (which is, after all, a very Wisconsin thing 
), the Frigo Bridge carries Interstate 43 over the Fox.