SHODAN LIVES
Notes and links from @colemanm.

Found on Wikipedia, no. 7

Interesting note about Casablanca:

“…there has been anecdotal evidence that Casablanca may have made a deeper impression among film-lovers than within the professional movie-making establishment. In the November/December 1982 issue of American Film, Chuck Ross claimed that he retyped the screenplay to Casablanca, only changing the title back to Everybody Comes to Rick’s and the name of the piano player to Dooley Wilson, and submitted it to 217 agencies. Eighty-five of them read it; of those, thirty-eight rejected it outright, thirty-three generally recognized it (but only eight specifically as Casablanca), three declared it commercially viable, and one suggested turning it into a novel.”

Found on Wikipedia, no. 6

Regarding a copyright dispute between Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and an unproduced script called Cast of Characters, the creators of Cast of Characters claimed that Moore stole their idea to write the League series. Moore is widely known to distance himself from film projects of his work:

Moore testified in a deposition, a process so painful that he surmised he would have been better treated had he “molested and murdered a busload of retarded children after giving them heroin.”

No wonder he’s a recluse.

Found on Wikipedia, no. 5

Regarding The Who drummer Keith Moon’s alleged driving of a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool:

[Roger] Daltrey said on an episode of the BBC TV motoring show Top Gear that Moon did not drive a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool, but he did drive a Chrysler Wimbledon into an ornamental pond. According to the book The Who In Their Own Words, Moon said the incident was at the Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan (at Moon’s birthday party - publicized as his 21st, but in fact his 20th), and the car was a Lincoln Continental. He said this was how he broke his front tooth. According to John Entwistle, Moon lost his tooth by slipping on birthday cake while running away from a cop, and in fact, didn’t even see a swimming pool that day. Whatever events occurred that day, the story goes that The Who was banished from every Holiday Inn.

Found on Wikipedia, no. 4

George Lowe (born November 10, 1958 in Dunedin, Florida) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his role as the voice of Space Ghost on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and subsequently Cartoon Planet

Space Ghost himself is from Dunedin? Legends really do walk among us.

Found on Wikipedia, no. 3

Funny anecdote about what happened following the near-disastrous Apollo 13 mission:

Grumman Aerospace Corporation, the builder of the Lunar Module, issued an invoice for $312,421.24 to North American Rockwell, the builder of the Command Module, for “towing” the crippled ship most of the way to the Moon and back. The invoice was drawn up as a gag following Apollo 13’s successful splashdown by one of the pilots for Grumman, Sam Greenberg. He had earlier helped with the strategy for rerouting power from the LM to the crippled CM. The invoice included a 20% commercial discount, as well as a further 2% discount if North American paid in cash. North American politely declined payment, citing that they had ferried Grumman LM’s to the Moon on two previous occasions with no such reciprocal charges.

Found on Wikipedia, no. 2

On Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick, and George C. Scott:

“Director Kubrick tricked Scott into playing the role of Gen. Turgidson far more ridiculously than Scott was comfortable with doing. Kubrick talked Scott into doing “over the top” practice takes, which Kubrick told Scott would never be used, as a way to warm up for the “real” takes. Subsequently, Kubrick used these takes in the final film, causing Scott to swear never to work with Kubrick again.”

Kubrick, you were a real bastard.

Found on Wikipedia, no. 1

“David Simon has said that, when working on the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Jay Landsman and he discussed the possibility that homicide detectives would be able to communicate solely through the word “fuck”. Years later, in this episode, he fulfilled this fantasy by having Bunk and McNulty successfully work a crime scene, communicating only through that word.” (link)

One of the classic scenes of American television (watch it here).