AND was the lead in the American dub of Spirited Away. Thus, she was in two movies nominated for an Oscar in the same year! Not a bad accomplishment for one so young.
I knew it before, but was pretty surprised to find out that someone else actually caught Jon Claude Van Dam in the group watching the dancing roller skater at the beginning of “Breakin’!”
We were watching it several years ago, and I caught him.
He’s shaking his Gallic groove thing like there’s no tomorrow. Exceedingly funny.
A few months ago, I posted this and someone confirmed it from IMDB… I was stunned.
Actually, I read the making of 2001 book (forget the exact title) and the change was attributed to simplifying the film for the sake of the audience (as the trip to Saturn, although cool, really just complicated the story).
Oh, I just want to add that you may very well could be correct as well. It could be a combination of the 2.
Chuck Zito(Chucky Pancamo on Oz) is/was Joan River’s Bodyguard.
That the lawyer in 15 Minutes, Bruce Cutler, is an actual attorney who was employeed by one John Gotti.
Daniel Stern, who played Marv in Home Alone, was the narrator on The Wonder Years as the voice of “Old Kevin.”
Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) plays Sylvester Stallone’s kid in FIST.
Oh ya some more…
Paula Abdul was in Junior High School
Alanis Morrissette was in You Can’t do That on Television.
Caroline Rhea was in Meatballs 3.
Jack Wagner on Melrose place had the top 40 hit All I Need
There are more but I can’t think of them at the moment.
Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) played cousin Ethel in Twilight Zone:The Movie. She was wished into the cornfield by little Anthony.
…that the IMDB folks are really erm, detail oriented.
There would be if the wrong Paul Hogan had never been listed on the “Joe Millionare” page.
My favorite of the many tidbits I’ve picked up isthe most obscure:
On “Sesame Street” in the 1970’s, in the filmed skits where the painter character tried to paint numbers in various places, not only was the painter Paul Benedict (later Mr. Bentley on “The Jeffersons”), which I already knew, but the woman with whom he frequently interacted was Stockard Channing from “Grease” and “The West Wing”.
That a guy I occasionally sleep with is listed. His credits are incomplete and the one credit imdb does list for him is misspelled.
John V Lindsay (NYC mayor) was in a movie.
Exactly how much work Mike Medved and Roger Ebert had in the film industry.
That members of the Algonquin Round Table other than Robert Benchley made films.
“The Colonel” from the movie “Boogie Nights” supplied the voice of “Thundarr the Barbarian.”
Ferris’s mom and dad in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off got married in real life.
Scott Schwartz, who played Flick in A Christmas Story is now an adult film star.
Megan Mullally (Karen, from Will & Grace) played one of the prostitutes in Risky Business.
Tom Braden, the grouchy liberal who sparred with Robert Novak in the early days of CNN’s “Crossfire,” was the author of the book–based on his own family–that would become the TV series “Eight is Enough.”
The Duke of Bedford not only allowed a 1958 nudist movie to be filmed on his family estates, he also appeared in the movie.
My buddy Blake Pickett is listed in the IMDB along with honeydewgrrl’s grandfather. Blake lives in L.A. now and does professional photography.