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Wow, nope.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 19 January 2013 03:02 (eleven years ago) link

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

every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 1 February 2013 04:51 (eleven years ago) link

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

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 5 July 2013 06:45 (ten years ago) link

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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.

Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link

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

slam dunk, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 07:48 (ten years ago) link

The movie is set in Philadelphia.

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 17 August 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link

(not Philadelphia)

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 17 August 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link

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)

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 19 August 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link

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

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link

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.

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link

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.

pplains, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link

Mare Winningham played a virgin while she was pregnant.

ailsa, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:03 (ten years ago) link

She wouldn't be the first

Mark G, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link

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]"

Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link

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

pplains, Sunday, 15 June 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Sunday, 15 June 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link

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Will Smith visited the set for some reason.

Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link

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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).

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link

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.

Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link

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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.

pplains, Sunday, 5 October 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link

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.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 5 October 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link

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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.

Matt Armstrong, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link

Up the Creek (1984)

oh nm

andrew m., Monday, 23 February 2015 05:47 (nine years ago) link

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Gabriella (played by Christina Vidal) is from Peru.
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johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 June 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link

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.

soref, Sunday, 14 June 2015 09:46 (eight years ago) link

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.

Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link

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

johnny crunch, Friday, 3 July 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link

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

johnny crunch, Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link

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.

soref, Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:14 (eight years ago) link

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

johnny crunch, Saturday, 4 July 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link

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.

― soref, Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:14 (1 week ago) Permalink

real good, this one

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 11 July 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link

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".

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 17 July 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link

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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.

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link

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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.

pplains, Monday, 14 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link

hahaha poor monkeys

balls, Monday, 14 September 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link

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

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link

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.

soref, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Saturday, 7 November 2015 06:10 (eight years ago) link

bad jeopardy clue

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Saturday, 7 November 2015 06:36 (eight years ago) link

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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.

slam dunk, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link

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

The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch), Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link

Henry Cavill seems conflicted about his body hair

Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 6 December 2015 07:51 (eight years ago) link

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

Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 6 December 2015 07:51 (eight years ago) link

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.

soref, Sunday, 6 December 2015 11:06 (eight years ago) link

Starring William H. Macy as The Husband's Hair

soref, Sunday, 6 December 2015 11:06 (eight years ago) link

lol

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 6 December 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link

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

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 6 December 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link

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).

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link

Schindler's Liszt?

emil.y, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link

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.

nomar, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link

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

blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link

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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.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link

i saw one like that while looking through the ernest oeuvre

adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link

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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terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link

were you one of them

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 06:04 (two years ago) link

how dare u

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 06:13 (two years ago) link

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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

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2021 06:36 (two years ago) link

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

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2021 06:38 (two years ago) link

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

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 18 November 2021 07:20 (two years ago) link

#4 - Mary Tyler Moore Show finale?

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 November 2021 07:23 (two years ago) link

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

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link

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).

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link

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

Josefa, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link

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

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link

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

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link

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

Josefa, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link

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.

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link

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https://i.imgur.com/ZNJqZz7.png

pplains, Monday, 10 October 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link

Hey man, nice head shot

Hideous Lump, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link

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it's me, the polish audrey hepburn

Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:33 (nine months ago) link

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

he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:36 (nine months ago) link

four months pass...

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.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 November 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link


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