Here’s the guy: Jefferson C. Davis - Wikipedia
Assisted by JEB Stuart. Completely concidentally.
Aw, someone got it. My bad.
Nothing gets past you!
The famous footage of Evel Knievel’s crash after trying to jump the fountains at Caesar’s Palace was shot by Linda Evans.
And together were the model for the male protagonist of “Love Story”.
Tommy Lee Jones was Oliver Barrett’s roommate in Love Story.
Actually, several of the Office cast have the same first name as their characters:
Close. I heard something similar and checked it out on IMDB. Their bio of Maya states:
“Here Minnie recorded “Lovin’ You”, her most famous single, in which one can hear her sing “Maya, Maya, Maya” at the end of the song; Riperton claimed that this song was used as a lullaby for Maya.”
A British member of Parliament doesn’t actually resign if she wishes to leave office early. Instead, she’s appointed to a minor royal post, which renders her ineligible to serve in the House of Commons. The post has no salary and no duties. If there are several resignations on the same day, the former MP may hold the post for just hours or even minutes: Chiltern Hundreds - Wikipedia
John Roberts isn’t Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His title is Chief Justice of the United States. 28 U.S. Code 1.
George Washington had a favorite dog named Sweetlips.
The 16th President once, at his sons’ request, issued a document which read, in its entirety, “The doll Jack is pardoned by order of the President. A. Lincoln.”
What do these people have in common?
Alanis Morissette
Robert Goulet
Madonna
Hillary Clinton
Celine Dion
Angelina Jolie
Jack Kerouac
Beyonce Knowles
They all share a common ancestor: Zacharie Cloutier
Actor Tom Cruise gets shot onscreen in the western Young Guns.
nitpick: Right, frog.
Ed Harris wears a headset throughout much of these movies:
The Abyss
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
The Rock
The Truman Show
and
Former Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis and NFL Hall of Fame QB Joe Montana were roomates when they were students at Notre Dame.
The other four liberal arts, if I have this correct, were mathematics, geometry, astronomy, and harmonics, known collectively as the quadrivium.
Peter O’Toole played King Henry II twice, in 1964’s Becket and 1968’s The Lion in Winter.
Helen Mirren played both Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II.
I’d love it if, with a few sfx, they could show DCI Jane Tennison being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in front of a portrait of Queen ELizabeth I. Mirren could do all three parts. Heh.
Cate Blanchett has played Queen Elizabeth twice, in Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. I once read an interview with the director, who hopes to make a series of movies about the Virgin Queen with Blanchett starring well into old age.
Blanchett also plays a masked CSI technician in Hot Fuzz; Peter Jackson plays a violent guy dressed as Santa Claus in the same movie.
David Prowse,the actor who was in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars,was also the actor who played the bodyguard for the old man in A Clockwork Orange.
He was also the bodyguard to Hotblack Desiato in the BBC TV version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
He holds the record for the most nominations for an Oscar (8 for Best Actor) without actually winning one. His co-star in Becket, Richard Burton, has the second most nominations (6 for Best Actor, 1 for Best Supporting Actor) without winning.
They were both nominated for Best Actor for their performances in Becket.