tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post5322429505858524514..comments2024-03-28T15:01:21.285-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: A Trivial PursuitLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-66269634847402781622017-09-28T00:17:42.852-04:002017-09-28T00:17:42.852-04:00Jeff, I still haven't found it!! Might have t...Jeff, I still haven't found it!! Might have to contact you privately about this . . .John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-64013814193311822892017-09-24T23:03:40.527-04:002017-09-24T23:03:40.527-04:00John: LOL! (Just saw Newhart, that may be Fonda in...John: LOL! (Just saw Newhart, that may be Fonda in the hat!)Jeff Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316081079528920123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-26740540822529197502017-09-22T17:58:33.842-04:002017-09-22T17:58:33.842-04:00Jeff, I swear, I think you like this stuff as much...Jeff, I swear, I think you like this stuff as much as I do. I feel sorry for you!!<br /><br />The Harlow/Heinlein fact is something I'd not heard about before, and I must check YouTube and see if I can find that opening-credit piece for <i>Newhart</i>. I never knew about that, either. Thanks!John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-20638800427795162222017-09-22T17:43:43.079-04:002017-09-22T17:43:43.079-04:00A little late here: Unused footage of Henry Fonda ...A little late here: Unused footage of Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn driving around the countryside was used as the opening credits sequence of the TV show "Newhart." (When the car turns, you can see Hepburn in a hat in the passenger seat!) Oh, and Jean Harlow's paperboy (when her family lived in Kansas City) was the young Robert A. Heinlein!Jeff Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316081079528920123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-77795418095500301152017-09-20T10:57:38.105-04:002017-09-20T10:57:38.105-04:00Thanks, Larry. Yep, that relationships-between-fa...Thanks, Larry. Yep, that relationships-between-famous-people stuff is truly trivial, and most folks don't care a whit about it, but it's sometimes a lot of fun. (I remember how surprised I was to learn, years ago, that Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine were siblings. Then again, I'm easily entertained . . .)John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-75163238424180253522017-09-17T15:44:46.729-04:002017-09-17T15:44:46.729-04:00Interesting and fun, John. Some I knew, most I did...Interesting and fun, John. Some I knew, most I didn't. The one that was most surprising to me was the Olivia-Newton John/Max Born connection. I was a big OJ-N fan back in the Seventies, even went to see her concert in Mobile, in spite of the disapproval of some of my fellow seminary students, and I've studied physics all my life and have long known about Max Born's work, but I never knew the grandfather-granddaughter relationship. Cool.Larry W. Chavishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804143598641414386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-38594838494752401982017-09-17T09:03:30.977-04:002017-09-17T09:03:30.977-04:00Funny thing, Jan: my wife and I are going this aft...Funny thing, Jan: my wife and I are going this afternoon to a birthday party for one of our grandsons, and his name's Charlie Floyd. I doubt, though, that there are any bank robberies in his future.John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-15300500833812046942017-09-17T08:57:17.745-04:002017-09-17T08:57:17.745-04:00Jan, Good remarks deserve to be published twice (!...Jan, Good remarks deserve to be published twice (!). <br /><br />I do remember that blog about you and Clyde Barrow. I probably need to see if I'm distantly related to Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd.<br /><br />As for a knowledge of trivia, I can't think of many things that are more fun and less useful. And I doubt I'm ready for <i>Jeopardy</i> either. Thanks for the comment!John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-51825990092279245802017-09-17T03:45:32.727-04:002017-09-17T03:45:32.727-04:00sorry I somehow got my remarks published twice and...sorry I somehow got my remarks published twice and I have no idea how to delete one. Jan Grapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13323910083703514953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-6529347226669748732017-09-17T03:40:56.863-04:002017-09-17T03:40:56.863-04:00Great list of trivia. I actually knew some of it, ...Great list of trivia. I actually knew some of it, very little< so it was fun to learn new stuff. Don't thin I'm ready for Jeopardy yet but maybe if I study really hard for the next 5 or 10 years I'll feel I can try-out.<br /><br />I 'll remind you that I am a distant cousin of Clyde Barrow (not exactly sure but fourth or.fifth cousin). My maiden name is Barrow and I wrote a blog about it a couple of years ago.Did you know that the Great Heavy-weight Boxing Champ, Joe Louis had the last name of Barrow. He was also known as "The Brown Bomber," <br /><br />I think history facts are quite interesting and family histories even more so. And my own feeling is that if you go far enough back you will find that we are all closely related to each other in one fashion or another.<br /> <br /><br /> Jan Grapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13323910083703514953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-69482741986953106212017-09-17T03:39:38.854-04:002017-09-17T03:39:38.854-04:00Great list of trivia. I actually knew some of it, ...Great list of trivia. I actually knew some of it, very little< so it was fun to learn new stuff. Don't thin I'm ready for Jeopardy yet but maybe if I study really hard for the next 5 or 10 years I'll feel I can try-out.<br /><br />I 'll remind you that I am a distant cousin of Clyde Barrow (not exactly sure but fourth or.fifth cousin). My maiden name is Barrow and I wrote a blog about it a couple of years ago.Did you know that the Great Heavy-weight Boxing Champ, Joe Louis had the last name of Barrow. He was also known as "The Brown Bomber," <br /><br />I think history facts are quite interesting and family histories even more so. And my own feeling is that if you go far enough back you will find that we are all closely related to each other in one fashion or another.Jan Grapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13323910083703514953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-83445288284166045312017-09-16T18:28:40.939-04:002017-09-16T18:28:40.939-04:00Hey folks -- Just returned from out of town. Than...Hey folks -- Just returned from out of town. Thanks for all the comments.<br /><br />Paul, I've also heard John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart were the actors author Larry McMurtry wanted for <i>Lonesome Dove</i>. How odd would that have seemed, knowing what we know now?<br /><br />O'Neil, I didn't know that about the mustaches, but it makes sense. And yep, <i>Fistful of Dollars</i> was also based on (as Eve pointed out) <i>Yojimbo</i>, and on an 18th-century play called (I think) <i>Servant of Two Masters</i>. (If you recall, Eastwood was the middleman playing two ends of the town against each other.)<br /><br />Eve, I knew about Costner's almost-role in <i>The Big Chill</i>, but not about Streep and Cazale. Interesting!<br /><br />Dale, thanks for the lesson. Of the four or five pieces of trivia you mentioned, the only one I knew about was Duvall/Boo Radley. You always manage to surprise and educate me.<br /><br />Rob, thanks for the info on Sinatra and <i>Die Hard</i>. The novel was <i>Nothing Lasts Forever</i>, right?<br /><br />Liz, Steve Martin is a huge talent. (If you haven't read his memoir <i>Born Standing Up</i>, you must. It's outstanding.)<br /><br />Thanks, Herschel!! More interesting facts.<br /><br />Melodie, this kind of stuff IS fun, isn't it??<br /><br />Good point, Steve! I should've typed TW's full name. By the way, the movie <i>Genius</i>, about Wolfe and Perkins, should be a must-see for all writers. What a great look at those two literary figures. Wasn't it you who told me about that?John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-72671806514907826442017-09-16T16:54:42.241-04:002017-09-16T16:54:42.241-04:00Oh, who cares? (Just kidding)
A fascinating list,...Oh, who cares? (Just kidding)<br /><br />A fascinating list, John. Just because I'm one of those OCD English teachers, let's clarify that the six-foot-six THOMAS Wolfe wrote Look Homeward Angel and Of Time and the River, among others, and died in 1938 and shouldn't be confused with Tom Wolfe, who is still alive and writing (Bonfire of the Vanities, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, etc., etc.,). <br /><br />Thomas Wolfe was famous (notorious?) for over-writing outrageously long MSS, which his editor (was that Maxwell Perkins?) would cut to size. I heard that one MS went to the publishers in a truck and was returned in a taxi. I don't know if it's true, but it's another cool piece of trivia, not that it outshines anything you've given us here. Steve Liskowhttp://www.steveliskow.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-59321110121661157322017-09-16T14:54:04.545-04:002017-09-16T14:54:04.545-04:00Help! I'm overwhelmed. What a fun list!Help! I'm overwhelmed. What a fun list!Melodie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870938103759179132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-34222820195880142112017-09-16T13:47:45.939-04:002017-09-16T13:47:45.939-04:00Gene Kelly performed his famous rain dance in one ...Gene Kelly performed his famous rain dance in one take while suffering a fever of 105 degrees in Singin' In The Rain. In the same film, Donald O'Connor had to rest in bed for several days after his acrobatic dance "Make 'em Laugh".<br /><br />Thanks, John, for an entertaining article.Herschel Cozinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097703750150309319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-58862038812983762822017-09-16T12:18:22.005-04:002017-09-16T12:18:22.005-04:00Carrie Fisher & Paul Simon were married. He...Carrie Fisher & Paul Simon were married. He's now married to Edie Brickell, who sings with Steve Martin (yeah that Steve Martin) & the Steep Canyon Rangers, in this wonderful video, "Pretty Little One":<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jwr758hUAs<br /><br />Steve Martin wrote the song, which is a great murder ballad. He taught himself to play banjo & funds an award every year to a promising banjo player.<br /><br />When Carrie Fisher died, Steve posted on Twitter that when he first met her, she was playing Princess Leia & he thought she was the most beautiful woman ever. Some misguided female took offense to this, said it was sexist (ha!) & he deleted the comment. Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00239163766419735693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-13938309350541954452017-09-16T11:31:25.528-04:002017-09-16T11:31:25.528-04:00John -- Love this stuff!
Some additions: The o...John -- Love this stuff! <br /><br />Some additions: The only actor to win three oscars for best supporting actor was Walter Brennan. Marilyn Monroe was "introduced" in the last Marx Brothers movie, Love Happy. And Groucho was originally not going to be in Love Happy at all -- his scenes were added at the end of filming. Robert Duvall played Boo Randall in To Kill a Mockingbird. One scene only, at the end, yet he receives separate billing in the credits. Every episode of I Dream of Jeannie somewhere mentions Cocoa Beach, Florida. Dale Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553503281187956955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-20763326922486497622017-09-16T10:50:52.339-04:002017-09-16T10:50:52.339-04:00Fascinating stuff, John. The reason Sinatra was o...Fascinating stuff, John. The reason Sinatra was offered the starring role in Die Hard (he was in his seventies at the time) was that it was based on a novel by ROderick Thorp that featured the same character Sinatra played in The Detective. So by contract they had to offer him the role. Not surprisingly, he turned it down.Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-26170830789299772722017-09-16T10:28:53.972-04:002017-09-16T10:28:53.972-04:00Kevin Costner was the dead man in "The Big Ch...Kevin Costner was the dead man in "The Big Chill", all his scenes (flashbacks) were cut out of the movie; Meryl Streep was living with John Cazale when he got lung cancer and took care of him until he died; Akiro Kurosawa's samurai films sparked a lot of Westerns: Clint Eastwood's "A Fistful of Dollars" is based on Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and, of course, "The Magnificent Seven" is an almost take for take retelling of "The Seven Samurai". <br />Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-22809137837467326292017-09-16T09:06:27.795-04:002017-09-16T09:06:27.795-04:00Love trivia. Did you know all the moustaches were ...Love trivia. Did you know all the moustaches were real in one of my all-time favorite westerns TOMBSTONE? A FISTFULL OF DOLLARS (Clint Eastwood) was partially based on Dashiell Hammett's novel RED HARVEST.O'Neil De Nouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142721824657611738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-39482086036522975612017-09-16T07:07:31.451-04:002017-09-16T07:07:31.451-04:00John, you definitely gave us the inside scoop. Fun...John, you definitely gave us the inside scoop. Fun stuff. And Thomas Wolfe could have used a Varidesk. And I'd always heard that John Wayne was offered the part of Dirty Harry first, but turned it down because it didn't fit his image or something along those lines.Paul D. Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15466234708772287399noreply@blogger.com