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On the DVD commentary Director John McTiernan mentions that Dick Cheney appears in a scene. He actually says "here he is", but Dick Cheney is not in the film - the person shown in the scene has a slight physical resemblance but is not Dick Cheney. The director made an error.

Is this a guess the film game?

Where Are They Now
(2007) Release of his book, "Totally Terrific TV Trivia".

(2008) Co-host, with Tiran Zaken, of an infomercial for "The Zaken Corp".

The scene at the Turtle Club happened to be filming on September 11, 2001. When word of the terrorist attacks reached the set, the cast and crew observed a moment of silence.

"Am I not turtley enough for the turtle club?"

^things I still say once a month. Never saw the movie, no idea what it's called.

Rules of Attraction? I saw the director speak over the summer, and he related a 9/11 anecdote that was either that or very close.

Despite the special effects at the time, the silhouette of Bill and Marsha having sex as werewolves is quite obviously a cartoon animation.

After the anti-Christ shoots the 2 men at the UN, he gives a speech. In the background, one of the dead men can be seen blinking his eyes.

Turrrrtle. (God help us all.)

If there was a 'random page' feature for IMDB trivia, I would always be clicking it.

/Rules of Attraction/? I saw the director speak over the summer, and he related a 9/11 anecdote that was either that or very close.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0295427/

Okay--I guess there wasn't a Turtle Club in Rules of Attraction. I found this online: "The Rules of Attraction was the only film in Los Angeles to continue shooting on 9/11. They were shooting the End of the World Party."

A false press statement was released, saying that Kurt Russell broke his ankle during a stunt, when in fact he tripped over an ornamental cabbage during a break.

In an interview Gina Gershon revealed that she wore a merkin. After ordering a wide variety, she settled on one she named Bertha.

I always wondered the cultural significance that caused the use of merkins. Is it supposed to hide diseased goods? Would prostitutes parade naked before they were chosen? Presumably they would have to be removed during the act so wouldn't be for that part of the transaction?

Or am I making the wrong association in thinking that they'd have to be associated with the oldest trade since it would be the one place they would be seen.

Acting has presumably only been that up close since the invention of the moving picture. Without that would you need to have one?

Diseased goods; STD/I that would make your pubic hair fall out, that is.

They're from the era when pubic lice were rife: prostitutes would shave off their pubes to get rid of the lice but being shaved was like an admission of having had lice, so you got a wig to disguise the fact you were shaved.

Plus if you get a fresh bunch-a-lice, bin that.

I thought they wouldn't be that coonvincing up close as anything other than what they were, subsequently their use would need to have some other significance. Cultural morés etc.

I mean, wouldn't they, um, dislodge, um, 'close-up' activitywise?

I guess by then you're lost in the romance of the moment

cannot stop hearing "Bertha Merkin" in my head.

http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Pennsylvania/Bertha-Merkin_slpg5

Apparently she used to live like a mile from my house!

John C. McGinley made his character's voice as deep as possible in an effort to imitate Orson Welles. He has since admitted that it was a bad idea.

Is credited with providing the "ugh" on Lenny Kravitz' recording of "American Woman" (1999).

Burton Cummings?

Wow, nope.

Mini Biography

Zendaya, which means "to give thanks" in the language of Shona, was born in Oakland, California. She now lives in Los Angeles, California with her family and her dog, named Midnight. She was a part of the California Shakespearan Theatre where her mom worked as a House Manager. She would help out in the theatre and even got to do many plays after. Zendaya started her career as a fashion model for stores such as Macy's, Old Navy, Sears, and Mervyn's. She is now the show "Shake It Up" which also includes Bella Thorne, Kenton Duty, and Roshon Fegan.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Rebecca Phoenix

Trade Mark

Her wide smile

Several of the characters in this movie also appear in Walker Texas Ranger.

A real bank heist took place near the filming location and the felons drove right past the PA who immediately alerted everyone on set. The felons were surprised to see that they were driving through a film set, shortly before driving headlong into (and becoming hopelessly stuck in) a fake snow drift. The police immediately apprehended the two bumbling crooks to the amusement of all on set.

His mother Klara had three children before Adolf, all of whom died in infancy. Klara was always fearful that Adolf would die, too.

The movie is set in Philadelphia.

(not Philadelphia)

Both Lizzy Caplan and Kirsten Dunst were born 1982, and their birthdays fall on months which have 30 days (Kirsten: 30th April 1982, Lizzy: 30th June 1982)

The slime that Santee is rubbing on Rita during their love scene is actually aloe oil, which eases sunburn.

The script only called for Santee to kill five henchmen at the warehouse, but for the sake of more action it was changed to dozens and dozens of them.

During an early scene when Philip Seymour Hoffman is sitting on a lawn chair, he lifts his leg in the air while laughing. His genitals were fully visible for a split second; this was edited out for DVD and VHS releases, but was leaked from VHS screeners sent to industry professionals.

Mare Winningham played a virgin while she was pregnant.

She wouldn't be the first

Something Awful does sometimes-funny fake versions of this stuff, e.g. http://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/batman-vs-superman/

Trivia: When asked about his reasons for directing a dark, gritty take on the shared Batman/Superman universe, director Zack Snyder replied by saying "[sound of slot machine paying out]"

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The trivia item below may give away important plot points.
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Body count: 59.

Maybe the movie is about a killing contest, where you have to off 60 people in order to win?

Will Smith visited the set for some reason.

Matt Craven says the line at one point, "Well, there's something you don't see every day." That line was also spoken by Bill Murray in Ghostbusters (1984). Matt appeared in Bill's screen debut Meatballs (1979).

At 1:10 into the DVD, a Sony ST-80F tuner and matching TA-88 amplifier, 1969 vintage, can be seen on the top shelf of the bookcase.

Jon Davis, lead singer of the metal band Korn did a cover song in his own metal stylings of "Kidnap the Sandy Claws". He did it live via webcam at his own home studio so that the fans could watch it as he produced it. The version is wonderfully heavy and really fits the the theme overall.

The last thing heard before the screen fades to black at the end is Billy the Kid's (Emilio Estevez) unique laugh. In Amadeus (1984), the last thing heard before the screen fades to black is Mozart's (Tom Hulce) unique laugh.

Hobbes (Jim Caviezel) looks at the butterfly on his desk through a magnifying glass, much like he does the inmates via the cameras. The other one is "caged" much like the inmates are as well.

Up the Creek (1984)

oh nm

Gabriella (played by Christina Vidal) is from Peru.
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it was Rodney Dangerfield's idea for his character Thornton Melon to go back to school as a rich man. Once that was suggested no one involved in this movie could imagine him going back to school any other way.

Aspiring filmmaker Cody Glive went on a road trip to Florida in the summer of 2012. Amongst a handful of films he brought with him for the ride was Summer Rental. During his stay in Treasure Island, Florida; he walked from his hotel, across a bridge, to the local restaurant "Gator's". Later that evening in his hotel room, when watching Summer Rental he realized the bridge he walked across earlier was the same bridge the family crosses when entering the fictional Citrus Cove, Florida.

The location for the surface of Mt. St. Helens was a local garbage dump in Bend, Oregon. See more »

Did You Know?
Trivia
Despite the tagline, not a single camper is mentioned with the name Marvin.

Both Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams's stunt doubles were named Keith. When Steven Spielberg called for Keith to come to the set, both Keiths showed up. Eventually, Hoffman's stunt double changed his name from Keith to Keifo.

Charlie Sheen called this film, "a piece of shit that I wished didn't exist and that I was terrible in". See more »

Both Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams's stunt doubles were named Keith. When Steven Spielberg called for Keith to come to the set, both Keiths showed up. Eventually, Hoffman's stunt double changed his name from Keith to Keifo.

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real good, this one

According to the Train Movies website Railserve, "the film was shot in British Columbia, where a 'Lac Des Arcs' train station was built along the tracks specifically for the film. The train consisted of a British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) SD40-2 diesel and 12 privately owned passenger cars, all painted in VIA Rail Canada livery to appear as the Toronto-Vancouver Canadian. The private cars included one dormitory, one baggage car, three coaches (#521, 524, 550), one dome car (#555), one dining car (#548), another coach (#540), three sleepers (#558, 564, 544), and a rear dome car (#597). The primary compartments in the film are A6 in #564, and later C6 in #558. Some of the distant exterior shots of the train (specifically two bridge crossings) were filmed using a model train".

The character played by Bruce Fontaine exclaims "Hey, he hit me!" after an opponent slashes him with a knife. The scene was originally written so that Fontaine would be punched, but when the knives were improvised, no one updated the dialogue or corrected Fontaine.

In a deleted scene, the Gremlins release all the animals in the "Splice o' Life" lab. During the filming of this scene, the monkeys in the lab set were genuinely so terrified of the Gremlin puppets, that they refused to leave their cages when their trainers called for them.

hahaha poor monkeys

Robin Williams sports a bushy mustache throughout all of this movie.

Henry Cavill naturally has a hairy chest and left it untouched for the shoot of this movie. He insisted that Superman has chest hair in this film; he rejected the notion that just because you are muscular, you should not have chest hair and cited the Superman comic book "The Death Of Superman" as being an iconic representation in which Superman had a hairy chest.

Despite his name, Gary Oldman was only 28 during filming.

bad jeopardy clue

Director Tarsem Singh told Henry Cavill after their first meeting that if he got the role of Theseus, he would have to develop an "eight pack", not a "six pack", he could have very little body fat on his body and that his wardrobe would be very revealing. Cavill trained for six months and developed his abdominal muscles into a full "eight pack" which was then displayed throughout the movie in numerous shirtless scenes. He brought down his body fat percentage to 6%, which he subsequently maintained throughout the shoot.

Henry Cavill refused all assistance from the make-up and VFX departments to achieve his eight-pack for the movie. He told them "I do not want you to draw abs on me". He said it was "a pride thing" for him. He "actually wanted to have that body for real and show it in the film."

Mickey Rourke said of star Henry Cavill that he would do 2000 push ups daily before he went before the camera.

Henry Cavill, who is naturally hairy, had to shave his torso for the film. But he said that shaving had its advantages as he was able to see all the muscle definition that he had achieved for this role.

Henry Cavill said he felt very stressed out leading up to filming of his shirtless scenes for the movie. He would wake up every morning and look into the mirror and think "Can I still see the veins in my abs". He said he did look good enough but felt a lot of pressure because he wanted to completely deliver on the shape his director had asked for (a full eight-pack of abs).

Henry Cavill noted that there was a healthy competition on set among all the male actors as all of them had to appear shirtless and all wanted to look their best in front of the camera. He said that they would have friendly "best abs contests" to determine "who had the best abs". Co-star Luke Evans said that Henry Cavill was definitely the one to beat.

I was going to congratulate you on the intricately-fabricated IMDB trivia but then I went to IMDB and now I need a shower.

Henry Cavill seems conflicted about his body hair

At the 1:01 mark, you can see Luke Goss trip over his own feet.

The scene of Sharon Stone's character cutting her husband's hair (played by William H. Macy) was not in the script. Stone was to pantomime cutting the hair, but she actually snipped his hair. Macy's visibly tense reaction to the haircut was real.

Starring William H. Macy as The Husband's Hair

lol

all the trivia about reactions being "real" needs to go

here's another jeopardy clue

One of two Best Picture Oscar winners with a 'Z' in the title. The other one was The Great Ziegfeld (1936).

Schindler's Liszt?

At the beginning of the film, when Lou Ivon (Jay O. Sanders) comes into the office of Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to tell him that President Kennedy has been shot, Costner's horrified reaction to the news is real, Stone having kept the plot of the movie a secret from the cast. Sanders' broken expression is likewise real, Stone having told him just before the cameras rolled that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.

Why did I think Garrison in JFK heard about it in a restaurant, with some heckler in the background going I'm glad he's dead!

This is one of two films in which a character played by Jerry O'Connell has his penis bitten off. The other is Piranha 3D (2010).

Sounds like a movie night!

Man, I must've suppressed the details of that leech scene.

I just discovered the Cinemorgue wiki which is a treasure trove of death scene trivia. Particularly: http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Death_scenes_by_cause_of_death

http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Death_scenes_by_orgasm

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Some of those categories are fantastic. I think my favorite is 'death scenes by ceasing to exist'.

• Shot (in the throat and head) while riding in his motorcade beside Blair Brown.

• Destroyed when Linda Hamilton crushes him in an industrial press in an empty factory.

• Sacrifices himself by having Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong lower him down into an iron foundry and being melted so that the futuristic technology of his android body won't be misused.

• Destroyed in an explosion after he places a bomb in Kristanna Loken's mouth to destroy them both.

Steve Buscemi: Shot repeatedly by soldiers whilst he's dying of an exotic leprosy-like flesh-eating disease in the jungle, after Roger Daltrey tricks him into going into an off-limits area.

I... I did not see this episode of Tales from the Crypt.

it's an ok episode but has some outstanding gross body horror sfx. roger daltrey's nose falls off at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EP9-ZE3kS0

That's what the Tommy movie was missing... clothespins.

This filmed was originally conceived as a drama with Daniel Day-Lewis originally attached to play as Gilmore, Sean Connery as Chubs, and Richard Gere as Shooter McGavin. During pre-production, both Geare and Day-Lewis left the project, and the script was retooled as a comedy vehicle for Adam Sandler. After Sandler was cast as Happy Gilmore, Sean Connery also left the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

WTF at that Happy Gilmore trivia. Who knew. I've never been able to find it again but I read something ages ago about Pauly Shore's Jury Duty similarly mutating from a psychological thriller into the thing it ultimately became.

See also John Gregory Dunne's 'Monster', about how he and Joan Didion wrote the screenplay for the movie about the real-life death of a journalist, which ended up being hollywoodised into a romantic comedy.

any sources back up the happy gilmore thing? its writers were adam sandler and a guy who only writes adam sandler movies.

"In real life, Adam Sandler is terrible at both hockey and golf."

not trivia but content advisory

Numerous scenes of Chinese girls getting fucked mercilessly.

There are occasional derogatory and colloquial references to peoples parentage.

Goofs: Though the "girls of the road" are supposed to be broke, sleeping outdoors and living on the thin edge of starvation, they all have perfectly permed hair and plucked eyebrows.

really want to see this

http://www.thevideobeat.com/media/description-pix/Girls%20of%20the%20Road.jpg

hands up ilxors who've got an imdb entry

Taglines: A Christian horror film that's in tents.

If I calculated correctly, the body count is 69.

A real website was created for Jimmy's business in the show. The fictional business, Saul Goodman Productions, can be seen by typing in the name of the business with no spaces between the words.

Wait, can you do this with other words too?

other urls too?

It's amazing what you can find on the World Wide Web.

hands up ilxors who've got an imdb entry

― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 1, 2016 8:01 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... raises hand...

OK, I put it there, but it got accepted, so ner.

James Cameron's brother, Mike Cameron, plays a dead crewman inside the sunken submarine. To accomplish this he had to hold his breath under 25 feet of water while also allowing a crab to crawl out of his mouth. The shot took five takes, and Mike had to crush the crab twice because Jim took too long to set the lights.

lol

Trivia for Howard the Duck

When the movie was broadcast on TV3 in New Zealand in 1997, during the sequence which Howard and Phil are chased by the police on a aircraft, a caption appeared on the screen informing viewers that the movie was about to be interrupted by a newsflash and that Princess Diana had died. Princess Diana was tragically killed in a car crash in Paris, France and died at the age of 36. In the Marvel comics, there was a character called Diana Prince was a Olympian goddess who was brought to life from clay by Themyscira in 1967 and fought crime with her foster sister Ororo. Later, Diana Prince went to American and crossed paths with The Punisher, which they had a son together called Ryan and later broke up.

Hmm, checks out.

Michelle Pfeiffer, Timothy Hutton, Patrick Cassidy, and Ursula Andress were offered roles in this film. (It's easy to see why they turned it down!)

K-PAX

(Mimsy Farmer)

Born on exactly the same date as Bubba Smith of "Police Academy" fame.

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Somebody's recently (?) added the simple trivia "Voluptuous Figure" to a bunch of actresses' pages on the site.

Along with Mr. Bean, Pee-Wee Herman, Ernest P. Worrell and Ed Grimley, The Muppet Babies are considered to be one of the greatest family entertainers of all time.

i saw one like that while looking through the ernest oeuvre

Rockford Files s2e5 “The Deep Blue Sleep”

When Adrienne Clark says she has two words for Margo Adams, she says: "she's fired". Technically, that's 3 words and the viewer can see Jim hesitating to correct her on that.

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were you one of them

how dare u

A lot of '70s people here, so here's the '70s trivia questions I prepared for my semi-regular group last week.

1. Name the Canadian Prime Ministers
2. How many American presidents and vice-presidents in total?
3. Most Academy Award nominations for a film (12)
4. 1977: Most watched TV episode for the decade
5. 1977: Only song to spend 10 weeks at #1
6. Only female on the list of Top 15 Adjusted Domestic Box Office Stars of the ‘70s
7. Of the big four professional leagues (NFL/MBL/NBA/NHL), the league with:
   a) the most teams to win a championship
   b) the fewest teams to win a championship
8. Who was on the cover of the first issue of People – March 4, 1974
9. What new product was put on the market on April 11, 1976 for $666.66
10. Which famous tape recording began with the words “Mom, Dad, I’m O.K”

Answers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YpCeQYyo3Fxs-YAQFmc7m4Uby_qUgpsOFZptywX5QfQ/edit?usp=sharing

Damn -- didn't realize this was for IMDB trivia.

I'm a Canadian born in '77 and these are the answers I feel somewhat confident about:

1. Trudeau & Clark
2. Nixon and Agnew, Nixon and Ford, Ford and someone, Carter and someone. So 6 people in total?
8. Mia Farrow
10. Patty Hearst

#4 - Mary Tyler Moore Show finale?

Sorry, didn't have the share settings right; you should be able to look at the answers now.

HH -- #2 is a bit of a trick question: it's an odd number.
VG -- Haven't had anyone get #4 yet; I wouldn't call it a trick question, but the right answer is somewhat counter-intuitive as to what "series" means (it's a show, though, not a sporting event).

#4 gotta be one of the episodes of the Roots miniseries
#5 - "You Light Up My Life" by Debbie Boone

OK, if you count Ford twice because he held both offices you get 7… is that what you mean?

I had an intuition about #6: "I bet it's a singer... Dolly Parton? Liza Minnelli? No, no... what the hell, Ali McGraw".

Pleased that I got the sports one right just by mental calculation. Could never answer that question for any other decade.

HH -- that's the trick, yes. I'm trying not to answer things here, just in case anyone wants to try it. The link for answers should work.

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Hey man, nice head shot

been reading the 'did you know' section for the cast of the Blake's 7 episode 'The Web'

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it's me, the polish audrey hepburn

I was wondering if that one was left by the actress herself, or a particularly zealous fan?

From the Death Wish remake page:

Kearny visits a gun shop called The Jolly Roger Sporting Goods. That is a real gun shop in New Milford Connecticut. The feds gave them so much grief they decided to stop selling guns. Shame. They were the nicest people too.

In one scene, a character utters "You Go Girl", a phrase not originated nor in common usage in 1977. (Martin Lawrence is credited for introducing the term on "Martin", which began in 1992).