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David M Mallon wrote:
lucky7 wrote:
We already did Pearl Harbor, David. Try something new. :)
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Remember when I posted that the movie was longer than the attack itself?


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lucky7 wrote:
We already did Pearl Harbor, David. Try something new. :)

UP! ?


Drahliana Moonrunner wrote:
lucky7 wrote:
We already did Pearl Harbor, David. Try something new. :)
UP! ?

Ah, Jaysus...


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lucky7 wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
lucky7 wrote:
We already did Pearl Harbor, David. Try something new. :)
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Remember when I posted that the movie was longer than the attack itself?

There's no reason why any of us can't revisit a particular theme. Michael Bay has been revisiting the same one for decades.

Scarab Sages

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Alona Tal served in the Israel Defense Forces before becoming an actress, and starred in two television shows in Israel before moving to New York.


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The first two Macintosh computers sold in the United Kingdom were purchased by author Douglas Adams. The third was purchased by actor Stephen Fry.

Scarab Sages

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Originally, J. Michael Straczynski intended to cast Everett McGill in the role of Major Ryan in the Babylon 5 (1994) episode "Severed Dreams". However, Straczynski didn't know his full name, so when he asked to have McGill contacted to set up a meeting about casting him, his assistant asked if he meant Bruce, and Straczynski said yes. Bruce McGill was invited to meet with Straczynski, and it was only after the two met that Straczynski realized his mistake. Straczynski decided to use Bruce for the role of Major Ryan, despite this.


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At their New Year's Eve 2012 concert in Wailea, Hawaii, rock band Aerosmith were joined on stage for their cover of the Beatles' "Come Together" by two surprise guests: heavy metal singer Alice Cooper and musical comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic.


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Fully 58% of the vocabulary of the English language derives from either Latin or its descendant language French (in roughly equal portions). 26% of English vocabulary is of Germanic origin, 6% is of Greek origin, another 6% is derived from languages other than the ones previously mentioned, and 4% comes from proper names. However, due to its linguistic origins, English is categorized as a member of the West Germanic language family, alongside German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Frisian, Low Saxon, Scots, and Yiddish. Modern literary English contains Germanic and non-Germanic words in roughly the proportions listed above, but conversational English typically uses many more Germanic-derived words.

There is a hypothesis among some linguists (the Middle English Creole Hypothesis) that English is actually a creole language derived from both Old English and French. As Old English developed into Middle English, along with the entrance of numerous French loanwords, the grammar of English was greatly simplified, including a loss of grammatical gender and nearly all case endings (leaving only a genitive case and a "common" case). In addition, aside from the possessive "'s" and the plural forms, very few English nouns (and no adjectives) retained their inflection after the Old English period. However, due to the large number of remaining irregular verbs, it is more likely that English was only partially creolized during the period.

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David M Mallon wrote:

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During the filming of director Michael Bay's 1998 sci-fi disaster film Armageddon, actor Ben Affleck, who had serious reservations about the script from the get-go, asked Bay why NASA would be training deep-core drillers to be astronauts instead of the other way around. Bay's response? "Shut the f$$% up."

From interviews I've seen, Ben Affleck is actually a pretty smart guy. Or, as the citizens of his home city would say, "wicked smaht."


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Aberzombie wrote:
Originally, J. Michael Straczynski intended to cast Everett McGill in the role of Major Ryan in the Babylon 5 (1994) episode "Severed Dreams". However, Straczynski didn't know his full name, so when he asked to have McGill contacted to set up a meeting about casting him, his assistant asked if he meant Bruce, and Straczynski said yes. Bruce McGill was invited to meet with Straczynski, and it was only after the two met that Straczynski realized his mistake. Straczynski decided to use Bruce for the role of Major Ryan, despite this.

The Babylon 5 episode Severed Dreams features the single most bad-ass line in Sci-Fi television history. I won't quote it, because David might not be there yet, and those who've seen it probably know which one I'm talking about.

Scarab Sages

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In 1963, when Derek Jacobi auditioned for Britain's just-forming National Theatre, Laurence Olivier hired him as an understudy and spear-carrier. Luckily for Jacobi, the actor he was understudying (Jeremy Brett) got the call to Hollywood, and Jacobi inherited all his parts.


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-Arnold Schwarzenegger has a speech coach to help him maintain his distinctive Austrian accent even after years of living in the US.

-Initially, Stephen Hawking was not fond of his voice synthesizer hardware, partially as he's British, but the device had an American accent, which he found 'unrefined.' Indeed, years later, it's very out of date and could be replaced with a much better model. Stephen recognises at this point, however, that he's a celebrity, and the robotic voice is an iconic part of his public image.

-When asked how he fathered kids despite his muscular degeneration, Stephen Hawking quipped that Lou Gehrig's Disease only affects voluntary muscles.

-The Guinness World Records was formed after the managing director of Guinness breweries went on a shooting party, and noted a disagreement between two men on which was the fastest game bird in Europe. Realising that pubs across Ireland and the world probably held debates nightly on all sorts of world records, he decided to form a unified collection of such world records.


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Just gonna leave this here.


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Just gonna leave this here.

Kirth Gersen. I know that name from somewhere. :-)

Scarab Sages

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Dwight Yoakam created and owns Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit Brand food line, which is sold in Walmart, Walgreens, Giant, Food City, Meijers, and other supermarket chains nationwide.


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The Simplified Spelling Board was an American organization created in 1906 by industrialist Andrew Carnegie to reform the spelling of the English language, making it simpler and easier to learn, and eliminating many of what were considered to be its inconsistencies.

The board's initial list of 300 words was published on April 1, 1906. Much of the list included words ending with -ed changed to end -t ("addressed" becoming "addresst," for example). Other changes included removal of silent letters ("catalogue" to "catalog"), changing -re endings to -er ("calibre" and "sabre" to "caliber" and "saber"), changing "ough" to "o" to represent the long vowel sound in the new words altho, tho and thoro, and changes to represent the "z" sound with that letter, where "s" had been used ("brasen" and "surprise" becoming "brazen" and "surprize"). Digraphs would also be eliminated, with the board promoting "anemia," "anesthesia," "archeology," and "encyclopedia," among others.

In August 1906, President of the United States Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt supported the plan, signing an executive order at his home in Oyster Bay, New York, mandating the use of reformed spelling in his official communications and messages to Congress. Roosevelt tried to force the federal government to adopt the system, sending an order to the Public Printer to use the system in all public federal documents. The order was obeyed; among the many documents printed using the system was the President's special message regarding the Panama Canal.

The press on both sides of the Atlantic had a field day with the "reform spelling crusade," and editorials and cartoons abounded. While the London press viciously mocked the executive order, the board received a significant spike in interest in the word list following Roosevelt's edict. The following summer, Roosevelt was watching a naval review when a press boat marked "Pres Bot" passed by, greatly amusing the president.

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... ow...


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The Status Crow wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:

This one's unverified, but too funny not to post:

During the filming of director Michael Bay's 1998 sci-fi disaster film Armageddon, actor Ben Affleck, who had serious reservations about the script from the get-go, asked Bay why NASA would be training deep-core drillers to be astronauts instead of the other way around. Bay's response? "Shut the f$$% up."

From interviews I've seen, Ben Affleck is actually a pretty smart guy. Or, as the citizens of his home city would say, "wicked smaht."

Maybe but the real test of the question to prove that is... Does he have a nice hat?


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....That the set of TV Show "Hogan's Heroes" was used and met it's fiery end in the Naziploitation movie. "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?


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A conspiracy theory about Paul McCartney is that he died and a look alike was put in his place by the music industry executives. This in turn is the cause of the break up of the Beatles and the later formation of Wings and his solo career.


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Drahliana Moonrunner wrote:
....That the set of TV Show "Hogan's Heroes" was used and met it's fiery end in the Naziploitation movie. "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?

That is goddamned amazing. Thank you.


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Raven Moon wrote:
A conspiracy theory about Paul McCartney is that he died and a look alike was put in his place by the music industry executives. This in turn is the cause of the break up of the Beatles and the later formation of Wings and his solo career.

A similar theory exists involving a pre-Empire Strikes Back Mark Hamill (the actor's changed appearance in the second Star Wars film was due to facial injuries suffered in a serious car accident, and were explained in-universe as being the result of frostbite and mauling by a wampa ice creature). Both theories are almost certainly false, but can be fun to think about.


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David M Mallon wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
A conspiracy theory about Paul McCartney is that he died and a look alike was put in his place by the music industry executives. This in turn is the cause of the break up of the Beatles and the later formation of Wings and his solo career.
A similar theory exists involving a pre-Empire Strikes Back Mark Hamill (the actor's changed appearance in the second Star Wars film was due to facial injuries suffered in a serious car accident, and were explained in-universe as being the result of frostbite and mauling by a wampa ice creature). Both theories are almost certainly false, but can be fun to think about.

The car accident story of Mark Hamill is true I remember the story way back in the 80s.


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Raven Moon wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
A conspiracy theory about Paul McCartney is that he died and a look alike was put in his place by the music industry executives. This in turn is the cause of the break up of the Beatles and the later formation of Wings and his solo career.
A similar theory exists involving a pre-Empire Strikes Back Mark Hamill (the actor's changed appearance in the second Star Wars film was due to facial injuries suffered in a serious car accident, and were explained in-universe as being the result of frostbite and mauling by a wampa ice creature). Both theories are almost certainly false, but can be fun to think about.
The car accident story of Mark Hamill is true I remember the story way back in the 80s.

I'm pretty sure that David M Mallon was presenting the accident as fact and used the phrase "both theories" to refer to both McCartney and Hamill being replaced by lookalikes.


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Gisher wrote:
The car accident story of Mark Hamill is true I remember the story way back in the 80s.
I'm pretty sure that David M Mallon was presenting the accident as fact and used the phrase "both theories" to refer to both McCartney and Hamill being replaced by lookalikes.

I guess the trick now is to figure out if I agree he was replaced or if I agree there is a conspiracy he was replaced (Hamill that is).

Scarab Sages

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Kevin Kline inspired the Kevin Kline Mustache Principle, according to movie critic Roger Ebert: Kline always has facial hair in comedies, but is clean-shaven in dramatic roles. There are several exceptions to the rule, most notably In & Out (1997), Silverado (1985), and Wild Wild West (1999) (although in the latter, he did wear a beard and mustache to play President Ulysses S. Grant).


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The movie Range 15 is made by almost entirely veterans to help shatter the Hollywood image of veterans. We are just regular guys.


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David M Mallon wrote:
Drahliana Moonrunner wrote:
....That the set of TV Show "Hogan's Heroes" was used and met it's fiery end in the Naziploitation movie. "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?
That is g+~*@!ned amazing. Thank you.

It was arranged for that to happen as part of the storyline as it was cheaper than hiring a demolition crew to demolish the set.


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Raven Moon wrote:
I guess the trick now is to figure out if I agree he was replaced or if I agree there is a conspiracy he was replaced (Hamill that is).

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Drahliana Moonrunner wrote:
....That the set of TV Show "Hogan's Heroes" was used and met it's fiery end in the Naziploitation movie. "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?

I need to see this movie. It sounds like something my Bad Movie Night Group would enjoy.


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Raven Moon wrote:
Gisher wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
The car accident story of Mark Hamill is true I remember the story way back in the 80s.
I'm pretty sure that David M Mallon was presenting the accident as fact and used the phrase "both theories" to refer to both McCartney and Hamill being replaced by lookalikes.
I guess the trick now is to figure out if I agree he was replaced or if I agree there is a conspiracy he was replaced (Hamill that is).

All I know is that when he reprised his role as Blair for the Wing Commander movie, he looked an awful lot like Freddie Prinze Jr.


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A MUD (Multi-User Dungeon, with later variants Multi-User Dimension and Multi-User Domain) is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player-versus-player, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read or view descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world.

Traditional MUDs implement a role-playing video game set in a fantasy world populated by fictional races and monsters, with players choosing classes in order to gain specific skills or powers. The objective of this sort of game is to slay monsters, explore a fantasy world, complete quests, go on adventures, create a story by roleplaying, and advance the created character. Many MUDs were fashioned around the dice-rolling rules of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

A graphical MUD uses computer graphics to represent parts of the virtual world and its visitors. Graphical MUDs require players to download a special client and the game's artwork. They range from simply enhancing the user interface to simulating 3D worlds with visual spatial relationships and customized avatar appearances.

Games such as Meridian 59, EverQuest, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot were routinely called graphical MUDs in their earlier years. However, with the increase in computing power and Internet connectivity during the late nineties, as well as the shift of online gaming to the mass market, the term "graphical MUD" fell out of favor, being replaced by "MMORPG," (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), a term coined by Ultima creator Richard Garriott in 1997.


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Actor Jason Ritter (often credited as Jason Morgan), best known for his roles as Kevin on the TV series Joan Of Arcadia and as the voice of main character Dipper Pines on the animated series Gravity Falls, is the son of actress Nancy Morgan (Lucky Luke) and actor & comedian John Ritter (Three's Company), as well as the grandson of famed "singing cowboy" and actor Woodward "Tex" Ritter.


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The total area of the country of Canada, including its internal waters and territorial sea, is roughly 11,800,000 square kilometers, making it the second-largest country in the world, behind only Russia's roughly 17,000,000 square kilometers of total area.

However, when counting only total land area, Canada shrinks down to about 9,000,000 square kilometers, dropping it to fourth place behind Russia (~16,000,000 sq. km), China (~9,300,000 sq. km), and the United States (~9,100,000 sq. km).

Counting its internal waters and territorial sea, Canada is roughly 24% water. Canada also has the largest coastline in the world, roughly 250,000 kilometers, much of which is due to the many islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
Drahliana Moonrunner wrote:
....That the set of TV Show "Hogan's Heroes" was used and met it's fiery end in the Naziploitation movie. "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS"?
I need to see this movie. It sounds like something my Bad Movie Night Group would enjoy.

I couldn't even stomach the Youtube clip I found... but the full movie seems to be on there.


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It takes a special constitution to be able to watch some of the cinematic atrocities we've come across.


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
It takes a special constitution to be able to watch some of the cinematic atrocities we've come across.

It's times like this when the Elven -2 to Constitution hurts the most.


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I recommend Throne of Fire. It is... a sorry mess.


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-Arnold Schwarzenegger has a speech coach to help him maintain his distinctive Austrian accent even after years of living in the US.

-Initially, Stephen Hawking was not fond of his voice synthesizer hardware, partially as he's British, but the device had an American accent, which he found 'unrefined.' Indeed, years later, it's very out of date and could be replaced with a much better model. Stephen recognises at this point, however, that he's a celebrity, and the robotic voice is an iconic part of his public image.

-When asked how he fathered kids despite his muscular degeneration, Stephen Hawking quipped that Lou Gehrig's Disease only affects voluntary muscles.

-The Guinness World Records was formed after the managing director of Guinness breweries went on a shooting party, and noted a disagreement between two men on which was the fastest game bird in Europe. Realising that pubs across Ireland and the world probably held debates nightly on all sorts of world records, he decided to form a unified collection of such world records.

The Guiness Book of World Records has a mini museum on the ground floor of the Empire State Building in Manhattan.


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David M Mallon wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
Gisher wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
The car accident story of Mark Hamill is true I remember the story way back in the 80s.
I'm pretty sure that David M Mallon was presenting the accident as fact and used the phrase "both theories" to refer to both McCartney and Hamill being replaced by lookalikes.
I guess the trick now is to figure out if I agree he was replaced or if I agree there is a conspiracy he was replaced (Hamill that is).
All I know is that when he reprised his role as Blair for the Wing Commander movie, he looked an awful lot like Freddie Prinze Jr.

Well, they've both played Jedis.


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Kajehase wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
Gisher wrote:
Raven Moon wrote:
The car accident story of Mark Hamill is true I remember the story way back in the 80s.
I'm pretty sure that David M Mallon was presenting the accident as fact and used the phrase "both theories" to refer to both McCartney and Hamill being replaced by lookalikes.
I guess the trick now is to figure out if I agree he was replaced or if I agree there is a conspiracy he was replaced (Hamill that is).
All I know is that when he reprised his role as Blair for the Wing Commander movie, he looked an awful lot like Freddie Prinze Jr.
Well, they've both played Jedis.

This is very true...

Scarab Sages

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As Sloth in The Goonies (1985), John Matuszak's make-up took five hours to complete. One of the eyes (which was out of place on the face) was mechanically operated off-screen by remote control. He had to time his blinking to match the blinks of the robotic eye. A crew-member would countdown from three, two, one and tell him to blink. The cast was told not to get him wet in scenes outside of the pirate ship, but the kids inadvertently did so, holding up filming for an entire day. In the scene where Chunk and Sloth head down through the grate to follow the gang and the Fratelli's, you can see that Sloth is wearing an Oakland Raiders T-Shirt. Matuszak was a former Oakland Raiders football player.


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Prior to forming the heavy metal band Type O Negative, rock frontman Peter Steele (born Peter Ratajczyk in 1962 in Brooklyn, NY) worked for many years as a maintenance worker for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

Steele's main duties included driving garbage trucks and steamrollers, and he was eventually promoted to park supervisor of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. During his tenure at the park, a group of children took to calling him "Green Man," which later served as partial inspiration for the Type O Negative song of the same name. The track also includes audio samples of the New York City garbage truck once driven by Steele.

In later interviews, Steele described his time working for Parks & Recreation as the happiest time of his life. A year after Steele's death in 2010 at the age of 48, with the support of hundreds of Type O Negative fans, the Parks Department planted an oak tree in Prospect Park dedicated to the singer's memory.

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David M Mallon wrote:

Prior to forming the heavy metal band Type O Negative, rock frontman Peter Steele (born Peter Ratajczyk in 1962 in Brooklyn, NY) worked for many years as a maintenance worker for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

Steele's main duties included driving garbage trucks and steamrollers, and he was eventually promoted to park supervisor of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. During his tenure at the park, a group of children took to calling him "Green Man," which later served as partial inspiration for the Type O Negative song of the same name. The track also includes audio samples of the New York City garbage truck once driven by Steele.

In later interviews, Steele described his time working for Parks & Recreation as the happiest time of his life. A year after Steele's death in 2010 at the age of 48, with the support of hundreds of Type O Negative fans, the Parks Department planted an oak tree in Prospect Park dedicated to the singer's memory.

Dawwwwww.


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Often times, the working title of a film or other project is used as a ruse to protect the identity of the work in progress. Some examples include Ebb Tide (Jurassic World), Blue Harvest (Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi), Corporate Headquarters (J.J. Abrams' Star Trek), and Rory's First Kiss (The Dark Knight). The revived 2005 Doctor Who used the working title Torchwood (an anagram of "Doctor Who"), which eventually became the title of a spin-off series.

Occasionally, a project's working title ends up as the final title of the project. Some examples include Cloverfield, High School Musical, The Cleveland Show, and Epic Mickey. The title of the film Snakes On A Plane was originally to be changed to Pacific Air Flight 121 upon release, but star Samuel L. Jackson insisted that the working title be used for the final film. (Jackson has stated, half-jokingly, that he took the role based on the working title alone. This is still a better decision than agreeing to play Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequel films.)

Hey!

Scarab Sages

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Hoyt Axton served in the US Navy aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5), before pursuing a music career. After his discharge, he began singing folk songs in San Francisco nightclubs.


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Freehold DM wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Jackson has stated, half-jokingly, that he took the role based on the working title alone. This is still a better decision than agreeing to play Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequel films.
Hey!

Seriously, a charismatic, energetic actor like Samuel L. Jackson was wasted playing a dull, poorly-written character like Mace Windu. George Lucas is famous for not letting his actors deviate from the script (sometimes leading to some truly awful line readings-- see Ewan McGregor's infamous "Did I miss something?" from Revenge Of The Sith, or Harrison Ford's "Part-time" line from Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull), but I think if he'd given Jackson a chance to better own the character, he would have been more memorable.

Mace Windu was a way better character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but there he was voiced by Terrence C. Carson (also known for playing Kratos in the God Of War series of video games), not Jackson. Actually, I think all of the film's characters were better-written on the animated series (especially Anakin and Obi-Wan). Just skip the prequels and watch the three recent animated Star Wars series instead.

I have feelings about Star Wars.


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David M Mallon wrote:

This one's unverified, but too funny not to post:

During the filming of director Michael Bay's 1998 sci-fi disaster film Armageddon, actor Ben Affleck, who had serious reservations about the script from the get-go, asked Bay why NASA would be training deep-core drillers to be astronauts instead of the other way around. Bay's response? "Shut the f~!# up."

hehehehehe


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David M Mallon wrote:
lucky7 wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
lucky7 wrote:
We already did Pearl Harbor, David. Try something new. :)
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Remember when I posted that the movie was longer than the attack itself?
There's no reason why any of us can't revisit a particular theme. Michael Bay has been revisiting the same one for decades.

shakes fist

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