Today's Dippit!
Quote
"Doing nothing is hard, you never know when you’re done."
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Joke
What's orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot!
Fun Fact
Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.
Reading Fact
In her youth, Gillian Flynn worked odd jobs, including one where she was required to “dress up as a giant yogurt cone who wore a tuxedo”.
History Fact
South Africans gave gay and lesbian soldiers sex changes in an attempt to root out homosexuality in their army.
Movie/TV Trivia
The set of All The President’s Men cost $450,000 to create
Producers working on All The President’s Men (1976) certainly didn’t skimp when it came to their set design budget. They ended up spending a whopping $450,000 in order to try and create an exact replica of The Washington Post‘s offices, getting the detail down right to the trash in each employee’s waste paper basket!
Talk about obsessive. That attention to detail definitely came at a price, and in today’s money, their budget would have come in at over $2 million.
As well as looking after the set design, producers also had to stroke the egos of their two leading actors. In order to ensure that both Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman would each receive equal billing during publicity for the movie, Redford’s name appeared above Hoffman’s on posters and trailers, whilst Hoffman’s appeared at the top in the film itself.
This strategy had been used in the past, during publicity for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) which starred Hollywood legends John Wayne and James Stewart.
Movie/TV Quote
"My tastes are very singular."
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Conversation Starter
If you could be an animal, what would it be and why?
Writing Prompt
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