Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

  When Joe Banks cleans out his desk in Joe Versus the Volcano, he takes three books with him: Robinson Crusoe, Romeo & Juliet, and The Odyssey. Surely, The Tempest would be a better fit.

 Orson Bean's father was one of the founders of the ACLU.

Humphrey Bogart with Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt, natch. But Jackie Gleason? William Demarest? PHIL SILVERS?

 Nominated for his first film role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, decades and many roles later, this is how most will remember Brad Dourif.

 "He's very fussy about his drums, you know. They loom large in his legend." - George

 Why did Clift never play Hamlet?

 

 

When George Spiggott, the Devil Incarnate (Peter Cook), files away the contract for the soul of Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore), he mentions the names of a couple of other souls he has collected in the same drawer of the infernal filing cabinet: "Machiavelli, Moses, McCartney..."       

 Maurice Gibb was buried with a boxed set of Father Ted.

 

 Named her car "Hello."

"I still remember the day my father took me to The Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."                         -The Shadow of the Wind "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."                       - One Hundred Years of Solitude

 When he was asked on whom he based his performance as Frank Burns, Linville responded: "Every idiot I've ever known."