FastWalkingShortGuy

FastWalkingShortGuy t1_ixzp3n8 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:31 PM

Reply to TIFU by applying MAXIMUM POWER by OyVeyzMeir

I'm a bassist and I've blown my share of cones, but I have never seen them launch.

That's impressive.

FastWalkingShortGuy t1_ixxq0af wrote on November 27, 2022 at 4:50 AM

Reply to comment by LostNTheNoise in TIL for the Untouchables Brian De Palma casted Bob Hoskins in case De Niro could not appear. De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for his contracted fee of $200,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more films he didn't want him to be in. by KongoOtto

They really didn't address how the soundtrack to Scarface was so fucking bad and so fucking good at the same time though.

FastWalkingShortGuy t1_ixxm2x9 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 4:13 AM

Reply to comment by WR810 in TIL for the Untouchables Brian De Palma casted Bob Hoskins in case De Niro could not appear. De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for his contracted fee of $200,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more films he didn't want him to be in. by KongoOtto

I wouldn't say less talented than DeNiro.

Less marketable for sure.

I know that's a high bar, but Hoskins could act.

FastWalkingShortGuy t1_ixxlr0f wrote on November 27, 2022 at 4:11 AM

Reply to comment by selsabacha in TIL for the Untouchables Brian De Palma casted Bob Hoskins in case De Niro could not appear. De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for his contracted fee of $200,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more films he didn't want him to be in. by KongoOtto

He's the best actor no one remembers they know.

FastWalkingShortGuy t1_ixx8x4o wrote on November 27, 2022 at 2:21 AM

Reply to comment by nowhereman136 in TIL for the Untouchables Brian De Palma casted Bob Hoskins in case De Niro could not appear. De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for his contracted fee of $200,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more films he didn't want him to be in. by KongoOtto

Khrushchev in Enemy at the Gates.

"I WANT THEM TO STOP SHITTING THEIR PANTS!"

"Do you know any heroes around here?"

FastWalkingShortGuy t1_iuggpe7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:17 AM

Reply to TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti by kamyizme

Dexter Holland, the frontman of the Offspring and the brilliant poet behind such lyrics as, "I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb," and "Uno, dos, tres, quatro cinco cinco seis," has a PhD in molecular biology with his thesis being, "Discovery of mature microRNA sequences within the protein-coding regions of global HIV-1 genomes: predictions of novel mechanisms for viral infection and pathogenicity."