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Showing posts with label career. Show all posts
Showing posts with label career. Show all posts
Friday, 16 February 2018
Saturday, 18 October 2014
FILM 1221: KRAMER VS. KRAMER
TRIVIA: The famous ice-cream scene,
where Billy challenges his father by skipping dinner and going straight for
dessert, was completely improvised by both Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry. Director Robert Benton liked the
scene so much that he decided to keep it in the film.
When Justin Henry was Oscar
nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, Henry at age 8 became
the youngest ever person to be nominated for this award as well as the youngest
ever Oscar nominee in any category, a record which still stands today [August
2012].
The woman that Hoffman suddenly
kisses at the party is Ingeborg
Sørensen, a former Miss Norway and Playboy Playmate.
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Film 830: Cemetery Junction
Trivia: The premise/plot of
the film is said, by both Ricky
Gervais and Stephen
Merchant, to be based upon the song "Thunder Road"
by Bruce Springsteen.
The original title was
"The Men at the Pru", an advertising slogan for the Prudential
insurance company. During the writing of the film, the Prudential allowed Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to use their
archives for research. However, after reading the finished script, the company
decided it didn't like how it was being portrayed and refused to allow the
usage of their name. The new title comes from an actual area in the town of
Reading, where the film takes place.
Labels:
70s,
boys,
career,
coming of age,
ricky gervais,
stephen merchant,
work
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