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I always confuse Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle with the Observer Effect.
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Peter Greenaway's 1988 film Drowning by Numbers features three characters, played by Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson, each named Cissie Colpitts. The 1988 movie Space Mutiny, best known from MST 3000, stars actress Cisse Cameron. Cameron began her career (in Billy Jack) using the name Cissie Colpitts.
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In 1958, the French industrial conglomerate Pechiney produced a short documentary about plastic. It was wonderfully titled Le Chant du Styrène. It was directed by Alain Resnais. It was written by Raymond Queneau.  All in Alexandrines. When it was shown in Italy, it was translated by Italo Calvino.

"I wear not motley in my brain."

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Can someone please produce a Twelfth Night with Michael Stipe as Feste?
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Troy Donahue's character in The Godfather, part 2, was named Merle Johnson. Troy Donahue's real name is Merle Johnson  Jr.
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The blind librarian in the labyrinthine library in the monastery in Umberto Eco's The Name of the  Rose is named Jorge of Burgos!