Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 

Lewis Carroll's uncle. Barrister and Commissioner in Lunacy. The latter title cost him his life.  Attacked by a patient during an inspection of the Fisherton House Asylum in Salisbury.

 "Sometimes--there's God--so quickly."

 

 He was 43. She as 34. But Hey! Andy Devine as Peter!

  From the 1965 film A High Wind in Jamaica. The young actor on the left is Martin Amis, who grew up to write London Fields, Time's Arrow, and a few other books...   

  "Damn it, Ms. McCrory had within her so many more complex, realer-than-life portraits to give us. Imagine what we would have lost if Judi Dench, Maggie Smith or Helen Mirren had died in her early 50s," --Ben Brantley

 When Humbert Humbert first meets Clare Quilty in Kubrick's Lolita, Quilty, emerging from under a sheet for a little ping pong, introduces himself with "I'm Spartacus!"

 Love that Dennis Leary has a  Chinatown poster hanging on his wall.

In the sequel to Mrs. Miniver, The Miniver Story, her little boy is played by William Fox. He later changed his professional name to James Fox. This little chap became this chap: And later fathered this racist arsehole:

 Watching with Granny When he meets Greer Garson in the Alps, he says we could stay up here and never grow old. It was of course written by James Hilton, who also wrote Lost Horizon. Where the people live in Shangri La, in the sky... Where no one ever grows old.

 Marianne Faithfull is the great-grand niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

 Was Smithers from the Simpsons named after the Smithers from the Hepburn/Tracy movie Desk Set?