Nobody mentions the show it has passed over. It is The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-1966).

Hey, they voted for somebody from the New Testament. The fourth horseman of the Apocalypse.

I didn’t mean physically. Lazenby was impressively ripped, as if Connery’s stunt double had been given the lead. But Craig and Connery share some coldness and some misanthropy in the part, which suggest that their Bond wouldn’t give a damn if he had to murder somebody in cold blood. Moore acted more in self-defense,…

Acting-wise, Connery and Craig are the only two actors who, as Bond, look like they could enter a room and kill a guy in cold blood.

If you check the end credits for Thunderball, they scroll down until the “James Bond Will Return”, then they freeze. They originally read “James Bond Will Return in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” As it would have been too much time consuming and expansive to redo the credits when they decided to make YOLT instead,…

Lazenby claims (among many claims) that the “other fella” isn’t Connery. He spent a lot of time with the staff of the film, as he felt a bond with the technicians (check his autobiography told in the style of Drunk History that’s available on Hulu, Becoming Bond, he was a good-looking guy with no education who still…

Hunt was originally hired to direct DAF, but he left after he heard that Lazenby wouldn’t return. Which is in some way quite weird, given their tense relationship during production of OHMSS.

You should read the article Steven Soderbergh wrote about OHMSS.

The breaking point for Connery was You Only Live Twice. The script was formulaic, and during the time he was in Japan, he was plagued by reporters and paparazzi. At some point, he mentally checked out of the film, decided to leave the franchise, and sleepwalked his way out of the rest of production.

Remember that Ava DuVernay, before turning into filmmaking, had a full career as publicist, and she still occasionally returns to this PR mode, when somebody has to promote The Cloverfield Paradox for instance. Once again, she manages to sell the heck out of a minor decision. To me, it’s much less important than TFA…

Michael Gladis actually got fake grey hair and a fat suit to play “Chief”, the head of the marshals, during the first season of Eagleheart. He truly looked like Welles in Touch of Evil.

The premiere episode featured two “audience members” (one man and one woman) in the front row who were seating stark naked, to illustrate the point it would not be some common late-night talk show. So, people who didn’t watch the show beyond the pilot will talk about “wacky nudity”, while the rest of the episodes…

Why do so many people hate the artwork for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot?

As Blake Edwards said, “How is it possible to work with somebody who has a fifteen minute conversation every night with his dead mother?”

The weird thing is that Sellers is barely in the moat scene. He had heart issues, and for anything remotely physical, that’s a double. But, these are definitely his grunts on ADR.

Peter Sellers’ involvement in the first film was mostly accidental. Peter Ustinov left the cast one month production was about to start, which resulted in Edwards picking Sellers. Sellers had such a blast playing that supporting character, compared to the “euro-pudding” of the rest of the cast, that Edwards decided to…

It’s cleared out later, when Tandy speaks about having “outercourse”, rather than intercourse. They dry-humped. Anal sex would be out of the table anyway, because of Carol’s rigorist religious views.

Inglourious Basterds, maybe?

The four Gospels were originally written in Aramaic, the tongue Jesus actually talked, yet all what we have is a Greek text. Greek was the most common language on the East half of the Mediterranean (which is also why it makes zero sense to have Pilate talk in Latin in the Gibson film), and when Paul took over the…

During last season, somebody here in the comments wondered why they hadn’t done a Dont Look Back parody, while footage of it is featured in the opening credits.