At 6’ 6-1/2", James Cromwell is the tallest actor ever nominated for an Oscar, for Babe (1995). (He lost to Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects.)
St Kevin of Glendalough is reputed to have stood in a trance with his hand out-stretched, while a blackbird built a nest on his hand, laid her eggs, hatched and raised the chicks.
Kevin Bacon’s father, Edmund Bacon, the famous Philadelphia city planner and who was featured on the November 6, 1964 cover of Time magazine, was a seventh cousin of President Richard Nixon.
Because he had succumbed to the temptations of the White Witch, Edmund Pevensie was the only one of the Pevensie children not to receive a special gift from Father Christmas.
When launched on June 8, 1958, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
King Edmund Ironside and King Edward the Confessor were both sons of Æthelred the Unready, but by different wives. Their reigns were not successive, being separated by the reigns of King Cnut and King Harthacnut.
Edward Norton’s babysitter, Betsy True, went on to perform as Cossette in a Broadway version of Les Miserables. She was the one who originally piqued Edward’s interest in acting, taking him to see his first play, If I Were a Princess, at age six.
Edward Norton was cast as Bruce Banner in the Hulk movies on the recommendation of Lou Ferrigno, who had starred in The Incredible Hulk as the Hulk. Ferrigno stated that Edward Norton reminded him of the late Bill Bixby, who acted beside him as David Banner (same character, different name). Norton, who a big fan of the series, had also portrayed a similar character in Fight Club
Lou Reed underwent liver transplant surgery this past May at age 71.
Two years later after losing the Oscar to Kevin Spacey, James Cromwell had his revenge on him: his character killed Spacey’s in L.A. Confidential.
That’ll teach him!
Just to avoid confusion, a reminder this one’s still in play:
Lou Reed underwent liver transplant surgery this past May at age 71.
An abridged version of the Velvet Underground song Sister Ray, with lyrics by Lou Reed, was the closing song of the 2005 movie Brick, directed by Rian Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, was offered a promotional deal with Dunkin’ Donuts that would have seen the company name a doughnut after him. Thinking it would make him appear big-headed, he graciously turned the offer down.
Dwayne Johnson briefly played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.
Arte Johnson played Tyrone F. Horneigh on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, along with numerous other roles.
[from earlier: and besides, who wants a doughnut called “The Rock”?]
In a 1998 episode The Nanny, Dick Martin guest-starred as a homeless man Nanny Fran Fine meets in a park who turns out to be Preston Collier, one of the wealthiest men in New York.
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Bill de Blasio came in first in the Democratic primary last week to be elected Mayor of New York City, but the vote has not yet been certified due to absentee and military ballots yet to be counted. As it now stands, de Blasio is slightly over the 40% needed to avoid a runoff.
After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, Estes Kefauver twice sought his party’s nomination for President of the United States. In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. Still holding his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket in 1956, Kefauver was named chair of the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death.
The game Monopoly is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages.