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Ricky Coogin
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When they filmed it, Billy Barty said he had never seen so many little people in a film before and he felt that they had come a long way in the industry.

I saw Judd Nelson hanging outside a bar on Melrose with his motorcycle. I said hi and he said hi back.

She probably thought, These people are too weird for me. I can't wait to go back to L.A. and see how my witchcraft supply store is doing.

Val Kilmer had a soft spot for himself too. It hung over his belt! HONK HONK HONK

Mumbo, Jumbo. I am hungry. Go find me something to eat.

And barely the strength of a mouse
But he tilted a poke of dust on the bar
And called for drinks on the house

I think Robin Williams was interested in playing Hagrid when they were casting the first film.

"Jesus, this guy's pathetic.Look at him mincing around, like hethinks he's real cute. You wanna throwup. If only I had the nerve to do myown jokes. I don't know how much longerI can keep this smile frozen on my face.I'm in the wrong business, I know it."

I visited his birthplace when I was in Edinburgh. He grew up across the street from a brewery.

That's the joke…while I'm American, I lived in England for awhile and I'm well aware that animosity still exists.

Yeah, and so is Paul Hogan, but I don't see them offering him the part.

It was the only Morris Day song I knew that I liked…I don't know his work very well.

Steel Reserve is strong enough that my Crazy Friend, who drinks 3-6 Magnum 40s every day, won't touch it. That same friend begins every single morning by vomiting and then cracking open a 40.

Bad idea even if you like Gibson. He was too big a star by that point and also established as an American (Gibson is American - his father moved the family to Australia to avoid the Vietnam war). Brits would have rioted…I remember they picked on Daniel Craig for being blond and under six feet tall.

Scottish/Swiss. Fleming added that detail because he was impressed how well Connery played the part. Fleming initially thought Connery was a bad choice since he looked blue-collar.

"Ehhhhh, I didn't vote for you!"

Except instead of drinking martinis, it'll be Samuel Jackson beer.

This might have stopped a long time ago, but I think back in the 1960s, he started a fund for Scottish poets and writers, though one of the conditions was they had to live in Scotland because he said he didn't want some Scot moving to Paris on his dime.

Dench's M was forceful enough to take what she said seriously. In Goldeneye, didn't he have some young attractive therapist who went along with him in the Aston Martin, criticizing him for being sexist, driving too fast, etc. and then he ends up boning her?

I'll stick with Steel Reserve at $1.50 a tallboy.