We went and saw this movie on opening day. I am a huge Indiana Jones fan and hoped that this movie would live up to the other two (remember, episode two wasn’t so good). Did I like it as much as they others? Well, it was much better than two, but not quite as good as one and three. Harrison Ford is a little older (ok, much older), but Shia Labeouf does a pretty good job.
I hear that they are going to make two additional movies with Shia playing the lead role. I don’t know if he can take Harrison Ford’s place, but if the story line is good the movies might be well worth watching. I am now trying to find some Target coupons so that I can buy the original three without spending too much!
Here are some Indiana Jones facts you might not have heard about:
Here are some Indiana Jones facts that you might not have known:
1. Tom Selleck was offered the leading role first, but couldn’t get out of his Magnum, PI contract.
2. Sean Connery, who plays Indiana’s father in the third film, is only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.
3. Harrison Ford was not feeling well when they shot the famous scene where he shoots the man with the big knife. There was supposed to be a long fight scene, but Harrison decided to ad lib at the last moment and just shoot the guy.
4. The horse Harrison used in The Last Crusade was the same horse used in Rambo III by Sylvester Stallone.
As I was researching bar faucets, I accidentally came across a post for the top ten bar movies of all time. It is amazing to me that a movie could be set almost entirely in a bar, and most of these movies I haven’t even seen! The top movie is Casablana, which I didn’t realize was set mostly in a bar. Guess I wasn’t paying much attention.
Can you name any bar movies? See how many you can name and then check your answers here!
Almost every state has been considered some type of revision of its voting laws to cut down on voter fraud. Some states would like to require a type of identification (such as showing a passport or driver’s license). What I didn’t realize that the term “grandfather clause” received its origins from voting laws.
Grandfather clause means that you have the right to do something even though the law or rule has changed. For instance, when I was going to college, they changed the classes that you needed to take to graduate when I was a Junior. This did not mean that I had to go back and take a bunch of new classes. No, I was grandfathered in. I was able to continue on the previous track of classes until I graduated.
The term originated in the south. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, some southern states did not want blacks voting in the election. They devised laws that either required charging a tax before you could vote, to having to be literate. What they realized was that this would also affect many whites as well. They made this laws with the provision that if your grandfather had the right the vote, you would not be subject to the new laws. It wasn’t until 1965, when President Johnson signed the Voting Right Acts that this laws were repealed.
I caught My Girl on television last night and started wondering whatever happened to that fresh face girl who played Vada Sultenfuss? Ann Chulmsky was born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois. She started her career modeling with her mother and was chosen to play Vada in My Girl and My Girl 2. She stopped acting at age 16 and went on to graduate from the University of Chicago in 2002. She then worked for Zagat, a restaurant review company, for a short while.
Chlumsky is now 24 and trying her hand at acting again. She is a beautiful young women who either has the best skin ever, or has found the best acne treatment in the world. She has expressed interested in starring in a My Girl 3. She has recently appeared on episodes of 30 Rock and Law & Order.
What occupation has given us more everyday phrases used in the English language? Sailors! Here is a list of phrases that we use today:
A shot across the bows
All at sea
Batten down the hatches
Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
Broad in the beam
By and large
Chock-a-block
Close quarters
Copper-bottomed
Cut and run
Get underway
Give a wide berth
Go by the board
Hand over fist
Hard and fast
High and dry
In the offing
Know the ropes
On your beam ends
Plain sailing
Shipshape and Bristol fashion
Shake a leg
Shiver my timbers
Taken aback
Tell it to the marines
The bitter end
The cut of your jib
Three sheets to the wind
Do you know the meaning of any of these? Shiver my timbers actually means break my boat to pieces. It was a term of surprise used by sailors! Are you interested in the meanings to all of these phrases? You can find them here.
Before the Commodore 64 appeared on the market, there was the Think-A-Tron, the first computer toy. It is not like any computer that you see today. There was no mouse or big screen or Cat5e Keystone jack. This computer ran on two “D” batteries and came with punched cards which had questions on it that you wanted answered. After feeding the card into the computer, the answer would appear on the screen. There were even flashing lights. The toy retailed for only $10 in 1967 and you can still find them at auction sites for $30-$50.
Are you old enough to remember the Kukla, Fran and Ollie show? The creator of the show was Burr Tillstrom and he was also the puppeteer. The show premiered in Chicago in 1947. It became an NBC show in 1949 and aired from 6:00 – 6:30pm on weekdays.
Kukla and Ollie (Oliver J. Dragon) were both puppets and Fran was actually Fran Allison a radio comedian and singer. There were a few other puppets that appeared as well. The show was set as a Punch and Judy type show with a small box theater with curtains.
The show, which was canceled in 1957 is not available on VHS or DVD. Burr Tillstrom did not market the show with toy manufacturing and the like and any Kukla, Fran and Ollie memoribilia is hard to find. In 1979, Kukla and Ollie appeared on the television game show Match Game and Tillstrom also bought them out for a number of performances int he 1980s. Tillstrom passed away in 1985.
Here is a new concept – follow actual celebrities as they attend drug rehab and try to get their lives back on track. It is actually a show on VH1 called Celebrity Rehab and it is now in its second season. I haven’t seen an episode yet, but you can watch all of the first season episodes on VH1.
Season one celebrities included: Chyna (the pro wrestler), Jeff Conaway (Taxi, Grease), Brigitte Neilson, Jaimee Foxworth (Family Matters) and Daniel Baldwin.
Why do so many people look to celebrities for diet advice? Of course celebrities always try and look their best and be in shape. It is part of their business. But, they don’t always do it the safest way either. I was browsing a message board and found this interesting message:
“Have any celebs come out and said that they were on Phen?”
I think this person wanted confirmation that she was going to get Phentermine without a prescription and if celebrities were taking it, then it must be ok!
The phrase – Mum’s the Word – means to say nothing or to keep quiet. Many phrases that are used come from one author – Shakespeare. The word mum refers to saying “mmmmmm”, or humming and not saying a word.
