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In*** The Shawshank Redemption***, Andy Dufresne hid the tunnel he was digging behind a poster of Rita Hayworth, in a scene from the movie Gilda.
Polish-American actress Gilda Gray is credited with popularizing the “shimmy”, a dance move she used often in 1920’s films. When she was asked about her dancing style, she replied in a heavy Polish accent; “I’m shaking my chemise,” which sounded to the English-speaking audience like “shimmy”.
Mary Weinrib, a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor settled in Toronto after World War 2. She had a son, Gary Lee Weinrib, who was a talented musician.
Mary had a thick Yiddish accent, and when she called out the window, “Gary, time for dinner,” it sounded like she was calling him “Geddy.” Neighborhood kids picked up on that, and soon everybody called him Geddy.
Geddy Lee will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, as a member of Rush.
Following his tour in Vietnam, Gary Lewis (son of Jerry Lewis) retired from music, operating a music shop in San Fernando Valley in 1971. It was not until the 1980s when Lewis began touring again, with various incarnations of The Playboys, generally featuring no original members. Lewis and his family reside in Rush, New York.
Gary & the Playboys, along with the Carpenters and Steve Martin, all began their entertainment careers performing at Disneyland.
After completing 22 of 25 passes and beating the Denver Broncos, NY Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first Super Bowl MVP to do a post-game commercial in which he proclaimed, “I’m going to Disneyland.”
After completing 22 of 29 attempts in Super Bowl XXIV, Joe Montana became the first and only 3-time Super Bowl MVP, and the San Francisco 49ers won the most lopsided Super Bowl ever in beating the Denver Broncos and John Elway, 55-10.
The duck-billed dinosaur is the state fossil of Montana.
In Canada, we don’t have bowls - we have cups.
The 101st Grey Cup will be held on November 24, 2013, at Taylor Field, Regina, Saskatchewan, which is just north of Montana.
Come, all you sporting Dopers!
Joe Kapp is the only man who has been starting quarterback in a Rose Bowl (he played at Cal), a Super Bowl (he played for the Vikings in Super Bowl 4), and a Grey Cup title game (he led the B.C. Lions to the 1964 CFL title).
Kapp also played the quarterback in the lame Seventies sniper-at-the-Super-Bowl flick Two Minute Warning.
The Minnesota Vikings began life as one of the original franchises in the American Football League. Their owner, Max Winter, later joined by Ole Haugsrud, was the only owner to accept the established NFL’s offer of a franchise, in its attempt to prevent the new league from taking hold. Since their replacement as AFL members, the Oakland Raiders (initially the “Señores”), joined the league after its first draft, in 1960, the Raiders were simply given the AFL rights to all of the Vikings’ draft picks.
In 1970, the pop/rock band Paul Revere and the Raiders changed their name to simply The Raiders. Under that name, they recorded their only #1 single, John D. Loudermilk’s “Indian Reservation.”
The Kingston OHL franchise was originally called the Canadians. It was then briefly knows as the Raiders, under short-lived ownership, before changing to its current styling of Frontenacs.
Kingston has two universities: the Queen’s University at Kingston and the Royal Military College.
Although Kingston, New Jersey has only approximately 1,500 residents, it’s located in two different counties: Middlesex and Somerset.
John Stewart, a former member of the Kingston Trio, wrote the Monkees’ hit “Daydream Believer.”
Port Royal, Jamaica, now a small and insignificant part of Kingston, was the leading port of the British West Indies and the center of its slaving and privateer pirating industries before its destruction in a 1692 earthquake.
Crown Royal whiskey was introduced in 1939 to commemorate King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Canada.
According to some fundamentalist Christians and many, many websites, the Roman number values for the Pope’s name VICARIVS FILII DEI is 5+1+100+1+5+1+50+1+1+500+1 or 666.