The Fabulous Baker Boys starred both Jeff and Beau Bridges, the sons of Lloyd Bridges, as duo piano players. Michelle Pfeiffer’s vocal (and physical) rendition of “Making Whoopee” was a noteworthy part of the film.
Retracted.
Lloyd Bridges was the subject of an early Saturday Night Live skit about a Spanish-language TV show entitled, “Quien es Mas Macho?” (“Who is more macho?”).
Jeff Bridges is an accomplished photographer; his camera of choice is a panoramic 35mm Wide Lux.
Roddy McDowall released several photography books entitled “Double Exposures” in which a photograph (he took) of a celebrity would appear on one page while a short essay written by a celebrity fan of the photographed celebrity appeared on the other; none of his subject knew who would write about them, thus Bette Midler was astonished to find the essay about her was written by a fan she didn’t know she had- Lord Laurence Olivier.
Bette Midler appeared on Broadway as Tzeitel, Tevye’s eldest daughter, in Fiddler on the Roof.
Rohypnol is the trade name for the drug Flunitrazepam; known in common parlance as “roofies.”
Heroin was once marketed as a cure for morphine addiction
The Morphine Tango was a song and dance number from the Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman (based on the book by Manuel Puig).
The movie Young Frankenstein featured a song and dance number to the tune of “Putting on the Ritz”.
Kiss of the Spider Woman starred Raul Julia, an actor I loved deeply and mourn greatly–at least as much as one can mourn a movie star.
[not in play] (I’ve already mentioned him once in this thread, for this rendition of Santa Lucia in Tequila Sunrise.)
Spider Woman was a Marvel comics superheroine.
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This seems to be a regular thing now…do you guys have me on ignore or something?
Peter Boyle was a Catholic monk when he was in his 20s and was a close friend of John Lennon in his 30s and 40s.
Hmmm… not sure who I should be following, so I’ll cover all bases…
Keying off “Spider”:
One of Clint Eastwood’s earliest movie roles was an Air Force pilot dropping napalm on a giant spider, in “Tarantula.”
Keying of “Boyle”:
Cereal magnate John Harvey Kellogg was a character in “The Road to Wellvile” by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Okay, reuniting the divisions:
Anthony Hopkins, who played Dr. Kellogg in Road to Wellville, said that his animal inspirations for Hannibal Lecter included a tarantula and a crocodile. (I played Boyle off of blondebear’s Young Frankenstein, so they’re one again; for those not familiar, some actors use animals as inspirations [their gestures, personality, etc.] when ‘building a character’.)
The great session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins played with many famous artists during his illustrious career, including The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, John Lennon, Jeff Beck, Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane, The Kinks, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jerry Garcia, and Steve Miller.
Jerry Garcia’s parents named him after songwriter Jerome Kern.
I’m sorry, blondebear. I must have missed you.
No worries. Just whining. Carry on!