As said in another entry, an angel skeleton that turned out to real would be more unsettling to a believer than one that turned out to be fake. Granted, it would be proof of the supernatural but it go against thousands of years of religious teachings.

When I first saw this episode, I thought it would be more problematic and upsetting to a believer if the angel skeleton turned out to be real because angels are immortal and thus cannot die and leave skeletons. I was hoping a character would point that out but, unfortunately, it didn't happen.

The Academy loves it when an actor or actress plays against type and (at least) somewhat succeeds. That's why Jones got the nod that year. Additionally, Wild River was, at best, only a modest critical and financial success. Van Fleet had also already won five years before and the Academy can be notoriously stingy…

Incidentally, the character's name was supposed to be Rosetta Stone but it was changed because they thought the reference would go over the heads of the mostly-kid audience.

Just a nitpick but I don't think Paul's pregnant fiance` is necessarily Mexican. Her mother mentioned coming to the US in the bottom of a boat and I don't think the Rio Grande (or the Tijuana River) is wide enough to require use of an aquatic vessel of some sort. I think it's more likely she's of Cuban descent.

She was also second choice for the role. It was originally going to be played by Debra Winger.

What about the scene where Shelley's character gets attacked by the raccoon in the dumbwaiter?

She was considered for Sigourney Weaver's role, right? I actually could see her it that role.

In my opinion, the final blow to Shelley Long's attempt to be a movie star was the arrival of Meg Ryan. Like Long, Ryan was cute, blonde, and could do comedy. However, unlike Long, she was also younger, cheaper, and (at the time) less of a pain in the ass to deal with.

That wasn't necessarily planned on her part. Long was cast opposite Dan Aykroyd in "My Stepmother is an Alien" but was suddenly dismissed from the project and replaced by Kim Basinger. Supposedly the reason for her leaving was because a rewrite of the script turned the titular alien stepmother from a stereotypical…

Actually, Goldie Hawn was supposed to star in "Troop Beverly Hills" (then called "Be Prepared) but something intervened and the project was put in turnaround. The script was revised and shopped around for a few years (supposedly, at one point, they even considered doing a gender-flipped version of the script starring…

With me, I once watched a most of a music video thinking Darryl Hannah was trying to launch a singing career. It was Aimee Mann.

Was Depp supposed to play Ralph Fiennes' role in Grand Budapest or was it just going to be a quick cameo like Bill Murray's or George Clooney's?

Today's pop trivia factoid: They actually considered making ''Catch 22'' into a TV series. There was a pilot produced for ABC but they passed and aired it during the summer burn-off period in 1973. I actually remember seeing it when I was a kid.
Also, the film adaptation of ''Catch-22'' is basically a Cliff Notes…

Also, Bloch's book was based on the real life crimes of Ed Gein.

War Bastard nailed it when he mentioned the miscasting of Rourke (who I think was still in high school when the US pulled out of Vietnam in 1973) as a middle-aged Vietnam vet. Casting someone who was more age-appropriate at the time like Al Pacino might've slightly improved things but, as I recall, there were a lot…

Actually, I think "Footloose" was based on a real town in (I believe) Utah where dancing was banned until the late 1970s so the premise for the original movie wasn't entirely far-fetched.

Actually, that year, Jeff Goldblum should've at least been nominated for The Fly but he wasn't because of the Academy's bias against films from "the Sci-Fi/Horror ghetto."

The Departed was not the most stereotypical Scorsese film.
If it was, it would've been set in New York rather than Boston.

About ten years ago, when O' Reilly still had his radio show, Bill brought up his supposed combat experience and a listener called him out on it. His response was to threaten to bring down the full force of the network's legal department on the poor listener. Whether that was only a bluff, I don't know but his…