Movie Trivia
Sheer Genius
In The Blues Brothers, John Belushi never
removes his hat, and Dan Ackroyd never removes his sunglasses.
Michelle Pfieffer went through over 60 catsuits for her role as Catwoman in
Batman Returns.
Isabella Rossellini has an identical twin sister named Ingrid, who is an Italian Renaissance literature professor.
Sharon Stone and Geena Davis are both members of Mensa.
Sarah Michelle Gellar has a brown belt in Taekwondo *, and a diploma in foxiness.
Method acting taken too far?
Nicolas Cage, who physically transforms himself
for each role he plays, once had several of his teeth removed for a part.
Robert De Niro piled on 50 pounds when playing Jake La Motta in Raging
Bull
Paul Newman really ate all those eggs in Cool Hand Luke
Sylvester Stallone also piled on the pounds before filming CopLand. He
achieved this by eating vast quantities of pancakes and maple syrup.
Eccentric Directors
To make the actors feel at ease while filming the shower scene in Starship
Troopers, director Paul Verhoeven stripped naked himself.
A Convincing Performance
Ewan McGregor, who starred as heroin addict Mark Renton in Danny Boyle's 1996
masterpiece Trainspotting, has been strip-searched twice by frankly
stupid customs officials at Chicago airport who assumed he must have some H
stashed away somewhere.
When Matt LeBlanc was suggested for a part in Lost In Space, some idiot
took a look at a few episodes of Friends and said something like "I'm not
having that idiot anywhere near this movie".
But wait, this caps everything: someone wrote a review of
Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite which said
something like "yes, she's a great actress, shame about her voice
though."
Plotted Plagiarism?
Why is it that we keep getting these spates of two very similarly themed movies
being released at the same time? There's been Babe and Gordy,
Saving Private Ryan and The Thin
Red Line, Antz and A Bug's Life and The Truman Show
and Pleasantville. Just what goes on in studio executives' heads? Does
the mouse need a rest?
An Auspicious Origin
People who worked as a waiter/waitress in NYC before
getting a break:
People who were born in NYC:
People who live there:
Somewhere else posing as New York:
Movies (partially) filmed in Coober Pedy:
* this is in fact most likely false