In the 2008 Get Smart movie, Max and 99 fly to Russia on Yarmy Airlines - a hat tip to the original Agent 86.
Max was a 2002 film about Max Rothman, a fictional Viennese Jewish art dealer just after World War I, who befriends a struggling artist named Adolph Hitler. As he says, “You’re an awfully hard man to like, Hitler, but I’m gonna try.”
Heavyweight champion Max Baer, the son of a Jewish father and a Scotch-Irish mother, wore a Star of David on his trunks during fights, including the bout in which he knocked out Germany’s favorite son Max Schmeling.
Max Baer’s son, Max Baer Jr, played Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies.
Boudin Bakery (pronounced like Bodine) has locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and sells San Francisco-style sourdough bread.
Explorer Francisco Pizarro drew a cross with his own blood as he lay dying after being stabbed several times with a sword.
Francisco Pizarro González, the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire, was a distant cousin of Hernán Cortés. Pizarro died in Lima, Peru.
The strip worn by Peru in the 1978 FIFA World Cup was voted best ever World Cup strip by ESPN.
Coco Peru is the drag name of comedian Clinton Leupp, whose movie appearances include Trick and the no-budget classic (and hysterical) Girls Will Be Girls.
Katherine Hepburn appeared on one Broadway musical: Coco, about the life of Coco Chanel.
The last movie in which Audrey Hepburn appeared was Always, Steven Spielberg’s remake of Spencer Tracy’s A Guy Named Joe. Hepburn played an angel who welcomed Richard Dreyfuss’ character to the afterlife.
Audrey Hepburn was fluent in English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian.
For much of 1967, when ***Family Affair ***co-star Sebastian Cabot was experiencing health problems, his character, the butler Giles French, was replaced by his brother, Niles French, played by British character actor John WIlliams.
American composer and conductor John Williams has won five Oscars:
1971: Fiddler on the Roof, Best Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score
1975: Jaws, Best Original Dramatic Score
1977: Star Wars, Best Original Score
1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Best Original Score
1993: Schindler’s List, Best Original Score
It has been 20 years since he last won, during which time he has been nominated 17(!) times, including this year for Lincoln, Best Original Score.
Richard Kiel, who played James Bond’s deadly foe Jaws, had no lines in The Spy Who Loved Me, but had one line toward the end of Moonraker: “Well, here’s to us.”
I’m listening to the Lincoln score right now! Good stuff.
Well, since he died in 2005, I think we can probably say “was” now.
In play:
Archie Bunker on All in the Family routinely gave President Richard M. Nixon (whom he greatly admired) the wrong middle initial, referring to him as “Richard E. Nixon.”
The city of Kiel in northern Germany boasts the world’s busiest canal, the Nord-Ostsee Kanal.
Uniting last two:
In a silly power play and photo op, newly elected President Richard Nixon, in spite of being accompanied by his huge presidential entourage and Secret Service and this being an official state visit, was asked to show his papers to a border guard to cross from West Berlin to East Berlin.
The last song written by Irving Berlin to crack the Billboard Top Ten was “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” a hit for Dutch New Wave singer Taco in 1982.
Incidentally, Taco wasn’t a stage name- his real name was Taco Ockerse.
In an episode of PBS’s Jeeves and Wooster, the foolish young gentleman and his all-knowing valet discuss the syncopation of Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”