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A Shot in the Dark
The screenplay for “A Shot in the Dark,” the 1964 comedy classic that marked Peter Sellers’ second appearance as the iconic bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau, was written by William...
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Skeleton Bones in Disneyland
When the Disneyland ride Pirates of the Caribbean opened back in 1967, the park’s Imagineers weren’t happy with the way the fake bones that were made to scatter along the ride looked real enough....
View ArticleThe Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
The seminal ‘80s new wave band Oingo Boingo made an appearance on the legendarily crass game show “The Gong Show” back in 1976, under the name “The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.” The group, led...
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Van Halen and Brown M&Ms
Van Halen’s concert riders did indeed include a request to have bowls of M&Ms backstage with all of the brown one removed. However, the request was put in as a cleverly devised trick to let the...
View ArticlePhil Hartman a Graphic Designer??
Prior to gaining stardom as one of “Saturday Night Live’s” featured players in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Phil Hartman made a career as a graphics designer. The late comedian was rather skillful in...
View ArticlePicking the Right Movie Script
The actor John Cazale was in just five movies before he passed away due to lung cancer at the young age of 42. However, all five of the films he was in received Best Picture nominations: The...
View ArticleCitizen Kane Nearly Destroyed Before Release
After Orson Welles completed his groundbreaking film “Citizen Kane,” the estate of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst (whom the film is loosely based on) offered the film’s studio $800,000 to...
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