Out on parole, Jessica Fletcher’s first publisher, Preston Giles, tries to woo her back into the fold. After another murder is committed, Giles ends up needing Jessica’s help when he becomes the prime suspect. By season seven of Murder, She Wrote, the show was already far and away one of the best loved and watchedContinue reading “Episode Spotlight: The Return of Preston Giles (Murder She Wrote)”
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The scene in Toy Soldiers where Billy (Sean Astin) eats a banana and throws the peel in the trash is improvised, including Dean Parker’s (Louis Gossett Jr.) response. Before the cameras started rolling, Sean Astin asked a prop guy for a banana and then proceeded to eat it during the take, even adding a rollContinue reading “Trivia Tidbit”
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It is rumored that director Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner (Mariner) got into a huge fight over the film Waterworld, a fight that resulted in Reynolds walking off the project and leaving Costner to finish it. Reynolds was quoted as saying that “Kevin Costner should only star in movies he directs. That way, he canContinue reading “Trivia Tidbit”
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In Joe Versus the Volcano, Meg Ryan played not only all three female leads, but also provided the voice of the flight attendant greeting the flight to Los Angeles.
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Kevin Bacon would later call the filming of Tremors to be “the single most fun time I’ve ever had making a movie in my entire career”.
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During filming of L.A. Story, Steve Martin (Harris K. Telemacher) and Victoria Tennant (Sara McDowel) were married.
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While filming Pump Up the Volume, Christian Slater (Mark Hunter) got sick several times, due to all the cigarette smoking he had to do.
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Don Cheadle won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and National Society of Film Critics Award for his much-praised performance as ‘Mouse’, playing Easy Rawlins’ (Denzel Washington) sidekick.
Episode Spotlight: Murder She Wrote, Season 9, Episode 6: Night of the Coyote
Jessica Fletcher assists the sheriff of an old Western town in New Mexico solve a the murder of a museum owner. In the process, she discovers that the modern mystery may be connected to another mystery of the past: the lost location of a stagecoach robber’s treasure. By season nine of Murder, She Wrote, theContinue reading “Episode Spotlight: Murder She Wrote, Season 9, Episode 6: Night of the Coyote”
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During production for Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Edward Furlong (John Connor) visibly aged, appearing younger in some scenes than in others. His voice began to break during shooting, and was pitched in post-production for consistency. He’d also grown so tall so quickly that for one late scene, he had to stand in a hole toContinue reading “Trivia Tidbit”
Twentieth Century Fun With Film 