The little boy with the cameo appearance as Little Elvis, including wearing the Full White Satin Sequin Suit, in the film “Honeymoon in Vegas”, was 7-year-old Bruno Mars.
In Disney’s Cinderella, the heroine’s dog was named Bruno. The Fairy Godmother transformed him into a footman for her coach.
nm. [del]The Horseshoe Club was the most profitable casino in downtown Las Vegas, with rules like 100x odds at the craps table, and no-limit on first bet. It was owned and operated by Lester “Benny” Binion, former mob boss of Dallas, though the license was in a son’s name – Binion was denied a license for criminal convictions, including for murder.[/del]
In Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the talking gargoyles on the cathedral were named Victor and Hugo.
Karmann Coach Works has designed and/or built several cars since its founding in the early 20th century. Perhaps the most recognizable is the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, but other Karmann projects include the Volkswagen Scirocco (a Giugiaro design), the Triumph TR6, the Porsche 968, the Merkur XR4Ti, and the Land Rover Defender.
ETA: Ninja’d by Elvis - he lives!
ETA #2: Not a hunchback, but a notchback, the 1962 Porsche 356 Karmann Notchback was another Karmann design.
Like a Good Neighbor, April is There!
My neighbor came to my door this morning needing a jump. Her husband had been changing a tire and had the radio running and it killed the battery in their van. She was an hour late to work! Good thing Super April and her Kia Supreme were there to save the day!
hahahah, wrong thread. Ignore me 
So did you jump his bones like a good neighbor? 
In play: At a then-staggering US$1.8 million, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) was RKO’s second most-expensive film, after Gunga Din (also 1939 and $1.915 million).
Siam Sam, you are a dirty boy
Back on Topic:
“Gunga Din” (1892) is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. The poem is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of a British soldier, about a native water-bearer (a “Bhishti”) who saves the soldier’s life but is soon shot and killed. In the final three lines, the soldier regrets the abuse he dealt to Din and admits that Din is the better man of the two for sacrificing his own life to save another. The poem was published as one of the set of martial poems called the Barrack-Room Ballads.
“Din” is frequently pronounced to rhyme with “bin”, /ˌɡʌŋɡə ˈdɪn/, although the rhymes within the poem (as well as the pronunciation in the 1939 film) make it clear that it should be pronounced to rhyme with “green”.
Off-game:
Din
rhymes with bean
and that was mean
how Sam had been
to April R
Didn’t realize Gunga Din was a poem, by Kipling no less. Thanks for that info April, and I will read & enjoy it soon.
And, I just had to put that rhyme together. I liked Sam’s response, wish I’d thought of it. I have a neighbor next door… hmm…
Okay, back to the game. Carry on!
ETA: Here’s the poem. Enjoy!
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One of the most popular postcards in history – selling over six million copies – showed a young man and woman sitting under a tree. The man is reading a book and looks at the woman, with the following caption:
“Do you like Kipling?”
“I don’t know, you naughty boy, I’ve never kippled!”
Rudyard Kipling was the seventh man to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the first Nobel Laureate who wrote in English.
Kipling wrote the novella The Man Who Would Be King in 1888. It was made into a movie in 1975 (one of my favorites, BTW) starring Michael Caine and Sean Connery as the protagonists. Christopher Plummer played Rudyard Kipling.
Michael Crichton directed Sean Connery in the movie The Great Train Robbery. When Crichton wrote the anti-Japanese mystery novel Rising Sun, he named the primary character John Connor in honor of Connery… who eventually played the role in the movie version of Rising Sun.
Playwright James M. Barrie’s “The Admirable Crichton”, about a plucky butler, was well-received, but not nearly so well as his “Peter Pan”.
Kryton, the robot in Red Dwarf, was named after “The Admirable Crichton,” taking the phonetic UK pronunciation of “Crichton.”
Proxima Centauri, the closest star besides the Sun to Earth, is a red dwarf.
The sun is a nearly perfect sphere. The difference between its polar and equatorial diameters is approximately 10 km.
Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers pitched a nearly perfect game on June 2, 2010 at Comerica Park, losing it to a bad call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce on what should have been the final out.
Joyce appeared to take the mistake much harder than Galarraga did. He broke down and cried in front of reporters and repeatedly apologized. Galarraga’s reply was that “Nobody’s perfect.”