“Elegy Written While in a Country Churchyard” contains the line “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”, an important clue in the 1977 Disney treasure hunt caper Candleshoe starring Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes and Leo McKern.
Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 movie Paths of Glory starred Kirk Douglas as a French infantry officer trying to make sense of the collective military insanity that was World War I. Kubrick’s future wife appeared as a singer in the last scene.
The steam-powered Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile (28.2 seconds) in 1906. This record was not broken by any automobile until 1911. The record for steam-powered automobiles was not broken until 2009.
My friend’s dad has a Stanley Steamer chassis lying around on the grounds of his steam powered commercial wood mill!
Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh newspaper reporter and explorer who gained immortality by his search for a missing explorer in Africa. When he found the man, his words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” (Dr. David Livingsone), made it into the history books. There is some uncertainty as to whether he actually said those words, or made up the quote afterwards.
Harry Morgan portrayed crazy Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in a third season episode of MAS*H before joining the cast as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in the fourth season.
The helicopters used to transport the wounded to the camp in MAS*H were Bell Model 47 (called H-3s) and were used by the US military for over 30 years. UH-1 Hueys replaced them in the early 60s.
Although posters for the film featured the asterisks, as did the opening credits of the subsequent TV series, the title sequence in the film refers to the movie simply as MASH.
The theme song of MASH* is Suicide is Painless.
In Singapore, assisting in the suicide of a mentally handicapped person is a capital offense. In India, abetting suicide of a minor or a mentally challenged person can result in a maximum one year prison term with a possible fine. (So says Wikipedia.)
The lyrics to the song Suicide is Painless were written by Robert Altman’s son Mark, written when he was 14. Though the lyrics only appeared in the movie, Mark gets royalties from the TV show. His father once complained that his son made more money from the TV show than he ever did (he got nothing, actually).
14 is the atomic number of silicone
Ingo Preminger, brother of Otto, produced only two movies: MASH and The Salzburg Connection. It has been said that he made so much off MASH that he was able to retire.
SiliconE has an atomic number? Is it 38DD?
(Weaving a couple of posts)
Atomic Austria is a leading manufacturer of skis and other sporting goods headquartered in Salzburg.
Salzburg was the setting for parts of the Sound of Music movie.
hahah, that made my day,im still giggling like a schoolgirl
Polish-Israeli actor and singer Theodore Bikel, who premiered the role of Captain von Trapp in the Broadway production of The Sound of Music, has played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof more times than any other actor and in several languages (including English, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew). He starred in the Canadian leg of the international touring company last year when he was 86. (Tevye, for those unfamiliar, is in his mid-late 40s.)
Yiddish developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, **Slavic **languages. It is written in the Hebrew alphabet.
The famous line “Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad” is usually attributed to W. C. Fields. Actually, it was a quote about Field, coined by Leo Rosten off the cuff at a dinner honoring Fields. Rosten was famous as a humorist with his HYMAN KAPLA*N stories, and his nonfiction best-seller The Joy of Yiddish.
Leo Rosten published the HYMAN KAPLA*N stories under the pseudonym of Leonard Q. Ross.