http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsL/10756-8898.jpg
I never realised until today that 1. the guy above, who I recognised as an actor from The Liver Birds, Bar Mitzvah Boy + The Knowledge, is Jonathan Lynn, the co-writer of Yes Minister and 2. that Jonathan Lynn had also directed Nuns on the Run, the Steve Martin Sgt. Bilko film and The Whole Nine Yards
― soref, Saturday, 26 December 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
Wow, I can't believe your mom was the same person who did me!
― COOMBES (mattresslessness), Saturday, 26 December 2015 04:25 (eight years ago) link
Wow
― coombes des gazcons (sarahell), Saturday, 26 December 2015 06:07 (eight years ago) link
this is pretty niche but i was tickled to learn that Marlon James was the graphic designer for a bunch of Sean Paul albums: http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/12/sean-paul-album-covers-marlon-james
― rob, Sunday, 17 July 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
I remember reading that David Yow had helped on some character design on The Incredibles, it was Frozone's surfboard iirc
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Yow also did the artwork for Garfield The Movie.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Watched What Lies Beneath last night and was boggled to see that it was written by Clark Gregg, aka Marvel's Agent Coulson.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Sunday, 17 July 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Albert Lamorisse, director of The Red Balloon and White Mane, also created the board game Risk
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
This is well-known now, but back in the '90s I remember being surprised to find out that Conan O'Brien, the talk show host on the telly, also wrote that Simpsons episode with Leonard Nimoy in it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
A poster for Lord of the Rings, one of the best-selling for UK retailer Athena, was drawn by Jimmy Cauty of the KLF / The Orb
http://klf.de/home/jimmy-cauty-solo-projects/athena-posters/
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:46 (three years ago) link
I remember reading that Face interview at the time. It's such a ghastly drawing in the tradition of horribly lifeless and overworked A level art projects with no colour sense or flair - god knows who'd want that on their wall!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 08:10 (three years ago) link
I bet £500 could go a long way back in them days...I'm rich!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 08:24 (three years ago) link
he was a teenager and it probably sold mostly to teenagers
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 08:27 (three years ago) link
Johnny Cash entered the air force when he was 18, and was eventually shipped out to Landsberg, West Germany, where he worked as a Morse code operator intercepting Soviet Army transmissions. He was the first American to hear of the death of Joseph Stalin.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 March 2023 12:01 (one year ago) link
Justin Dupieux, the film maker who created Rubber (2010), Keep an Eye Out! (2018), Deerskin (2019), Mandibles (2020), and Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) is also Mr. Oizo, of Flat Beat fame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:30 (six months ago) link
Except he's actually Quentin Dupieux, no idea where I got 'Justin' from.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:42 (six months ago) link
It's such a ghastly drawing in the tradition of horribly lifeless and overworked A level art projects with no colour sense or flair - god knows who'd want that on their wall!
oh wow I recognise that poster, it was in the front room of a local dealer in our area about 30 years ago.
― Ste, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 12:54 (six months ago) link