One of the greatest geniuses ever was Leonardo, an illegitimate son of Piero da Vinci. Among many other inventions and discoveries that were centuries ahead of his time, he advanced a version of plate tectonics, noting the presence of marine fossils high in mountains, and observing, from the earliest maps of South America, how well its coastline matched that of Africa.
In one episode of Corner Gas, Brent asks his parents why he’s never seen their wedding photos. They look embarrassed and tell him that they never actually got married, making him a bastard, as Oscar kindly explains.
Actually, they did get married. In the last scene of the episode, Oscar and Emma are alone, burning their wedding album, which shows that they got married in an Elvis ceremony, with both wearing rhinestone jumpsuits and fake Elvis wigs. They preferred that Brent thought he was illegitimate, rather than reveal the hideous truth.
Emma Stone convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood when she was 15 by making a PowerPoint presentation aptly titled “Project Hollywood.”
In Superman: The Movie (1978), during a deleted scene of the California earthquake caused by Lex Luthor, a group of Girl Scouts are shown hiking up to the Hollywood sign when the quake begins, resulting in the sign beginning to fall while the girls run away in fear.
The Hollywood sign was first put up in 1923 by real estate developers to promote their new development, Hollywoodland.
Hollwoodland was a movie starring Ben Afleck as George Reeves, the actor best known for playing Superman on TV. The title was chosen after Warner Brothers refused permission to use the original title, Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Ben Afleck’s full name is Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt.
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In the Bible, Benjamin is the youngest son of Jacob.
In the film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Robin Williams plays a character named John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. Noxeema Jackson (played by Wesley Snipes) remarks, “Oh, his name is my name, too!”
Jacob had 12 sons, and at least one daughter, by his two wives Leah and Rachel. They are named in Genesis: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, daughter Dinah, Joseph, and Benjamin.
ETA: ninja’d by Prof. Pepperwinkle but my entry still fits (Jacob).
The 1982 Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, though nominated for 7 Tony Awards ( Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography), received nothing.
Following positive reviews in its tryouts in Hamburg, Germany, Sylvester Stallone’s musical “Rocky”, based on his first film, will premiere at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theater next February.
Hamburg is the second-largest city by population in Germany behind Berlin. In the early 1960s, the Beatles played in various clubs there to help launch their career.
On June 12 1988, Starlight Express opened at a specially built venue, the Starlighthalle in Bochum, Germany. The Starlighthalle was built in an extraordinary time of less than one year. Both the special building and record breaking build time were documented in the Guinness Book of Records.
In an Alka-Seltzer commercial from 1969, an actor (played by Jack Somack) in a commercial for the fictional product “Magdalini’s Meatballs” has to eat a meatball and then say “Mamma mia, that’s-a spicy meat ball-a!” in an ersatz Italian accent. Take after take is ruined by some comedic trial or another. By the commercial’s end, “Jack” has eaten so many meatballs that it’s “Alka Seltzer to the rescue”. With his stomach settled, Jack does a perfect take, except that the oven door falls off. The director (off-camera) sighs and says, “OK, let’s break for lunch.”
Buster Keaton and Sammy Davis, jr have appeared in commercials for Alka Seltzer.
Leo Seltzer invented the sport of roller derby, and owned and managed the original Transcontinental Roller Derby League. He was inspired by previous work running dance marathons in Portland, Oregon.
Roller Derby debuted on television in 1948, in New York.