Tim Curry played a demon in the Ridley Scott-directed fairy tale Legend with Tom Cruise and Mia Sara.
Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, who was partially blind for most of his life and totally blind for his final few decades, was given the job of Poultry and Rabbit Inspector in the Buenos Aires meat market as a deliberate insult by Evita Peron because she had heard (probably accurately) he had referred to her as a classless disgrace to the nation.
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Robert Duvall, who is an enthusiast of Argentine music and the tango and played Adolf Eichmann in a made for TV movie filmed in Buenos Aires, appeared with Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder.
PLO terrorists killed passenger Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
As a child before donning drag and going into hiding Achilles was tutored by Chiron, the “good centaur” who in the heavens became the constellation Sagittarius.
The sail sloop USS Constellation is moored in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
The USS Constitution, also know as Old Ironsides, is moored in Boston Harbor.
NCC-1017 USS Constellation captained by Matthew Decker was destroyed by the Doomsday Machine in an episode of Star Trek - The Original Series.
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The song Dirty Water, which is played regularly at Fenway Park, refers to the pollution in the Charles River before the Boston Harbor Project was completed.
The poor water quality of Boston Harbor was used as a campaign tool by George HW Bush against MA Gov. Mike Dukakis.
The ships from which tea was thrown into Boston Harbor during the tea party were named Eleanor, Dartmouth, and Beaver.
Beaver Cleaver’s real first name is Theodore.
The Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, a humor magazine, was once edited by Theodor Geisel, who later became known as Dr. Seuss.
ETA: Played off Sampiro’s “Dartmouth” fact, but the “Theodor(e)” ties in with astorian’s post as well!
Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss, contains only fifty different words, 49 of which are monosyllabic.
The one polysyllabic word in “Green Eggs and Ham” is “anywhere,” which appears eight times.
Ham and all pork products such as bacon and pork rinds are not kosher.
Kevin Bacon makes a brief appearance in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” as a guy who races Steve Martin for a taxi.
[del]While the forbidden birds in kosher law are all birds of prey, it never says they are forbidden because they are birds of prey, thus some extremely orthodox Jews will not eat turkey because it was unknown when the Torah was written and thus it cannot be known with absolute certainty if it is allowed.[/del]
Steve Martin was born in Waco, Texas, and has said one of his proudest professional accomplishments was playing banjo with Earl Scruggs.
Waco, Texas is home to the Ranger Wing of the Commemorative (formerly Confederate) Air Force.
In 1942 the US Rangers were formed in Carrickfergus from volunteers drawn from American Army Units based in Northern Ireland.