Both Highways 46 and 90 run west-east, due to the route # being even.
Author Norman Mailer produced, directed, and starred in a movie titled Wild 90, about a group of mobsters holed up in a warehouse for 90 minutes. All dialog was improvised on the spot and there was no planning other than setting out the situation. Technical difficulties made at least a quarter of the dialog muffled and unintelligible. Despite that, Mailer released the film, to unanimously terrible reviews. Mailer boasted that the film “has the most repetitive, pervasive obscenity of any film ever made.” Only one critic raved about it – Mailer himself, reviewing the film for Esquire.
The Marlon Brando/Lee Marvin movie “The Wild One” was banned in the United Kingdom, by the British Board of Film Censors for fourteen years. It finally got an ‘X’ certificate in November, 1967,and was first seen by the carefully tended UK public (a Rocker subset at least) at the 59 Club in Paddington, London in 1968.
The movie “Wild in the Streets” centered around a plot by a 24-year old entertainer to lower the voting age to 14, then have himself elected President. Actor/comedian Richard Pryor had a small, supporting role. In later video releases, Pryor’s name and photo were prominently featured on the box.
Pryor played Brewster in the best known adaptation of “Brewester’s Millions”.
Mel Brooks wrote the role of Sheriff Bart in “Blazing Saddles” with Richard Pryor in mind, but Warner Brothers vetoed casting him due to his drug-induced unreliability. The role instead became Cleavon Little’s turn at stardom. Similarly, Gene Wilder replaced Gig Young as Bart’s sidekick after only one day of filming, because Young’s delirium tremens was real.
The (annoying) trademark of sportscaster Warner Wolf was to say, “Let’s go to the videotape,” and then say “boom” whenever it showed a home run. For some reason :rolleyes:, he showed every home run hit in each game.
Randy Wolf is a pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. One umpire you’ll never see behind the plate during Randy’s appearances is Jim Wolf – his brother.
Actor Bob Uecker is the play-by-play man for the Brewers.
Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley formed the imaginatively-named one-hit-wonder duo of Brewer and Shipley, whose sole real claim to fame was “One Toke Over the Line” from their 1970 album Tarkio. A duo named Gail and Dale covered the song on an episode of “The Lawrence Welk Show” (cough, cough, said the MC).
The last home run by a New York Giant (as a New York Giant) was hit by Gail Harris.
Actor Neal Patrick Harris successfully managed the transition from child to adult actor and has appeared on Broadway, television and movies.
Ed Harris was on the cover of Newsweek in 1984 for playing astronaut John Glenn in the movie The Right Stuff. U.S. Sen. John Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, ran unsuccessfully for President that year.
Ed Harris played Gene Krantz in the movie Apollo 13.
Washington State University physical anthropology professor Grover Krantz was best known for researching Bigfoot and concluding that the creature existed.
Mark Rypien, who quarterbacked the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl title, played at Washington State.
There is much debate about when the Gospel of Mark was written (mainly whether it was before or after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D.) but most biblical scholars concur it is the oldest of the Gospels, definitely influenced Luke and probably influenced Matthew.
From the 1934 until 1960, the Motion Picture Academy occasionally gave special awards to the best juvenile actor or actress. The award was given 11 times to twelve different performers, the first going to Shirley Temple and the final one going to Hayley Mills.
The book Whistle Down the Wind was written by Mary Hayley Bell, the mother of Hayley Mills, who starred in the movie version. It was later turned into a musical, with book and lyrics by Jim Steinman of Meat Loaf fame and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The show flopped bigtime.
Dr. Joseph Bell, a Scottish surgeon with remarkable powers of observation, was a teacher of the young Dr. A. Conan Doyle, who largely based Sherlock Holmes on him.