19 Pop Culture Facts

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Taylor Swift’s favourite song lyric of all time is “I had some goals they had been clouds in my espresso” from Carly Simon’s 1972 hit “You are So Useless.” Swift is a big admirer of Simon, a lot in order that she introduced her out on her Pink tour in 2013 to perform “You are So Useless.” It was an iconic second in music herstory, and a efficiency I’ll by no means, ever get out of my noggin.

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Carrie Fisher and Penny Marshall, who grew to become greatest pals after they dated Paul Simon and Artwork Garfunkel within the ’70s, had been recognized for throwing a legendary joint birthday bash each October. They celebrated their birthdays collectively (each in October, each Libras!) and had a number of the most wild experiences with A-Listing celebrities, like David Bowie and Barbra Streisand. On The Rosie O’Donnell Present, Fisher and Marshall revealed that David Bowie crashed one among their events and that the visitor checklist began out at 60 folks however progressively went as much as 400 because the years went on.

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Whitney Houston was a producer on The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, and she or he handled everybody on set (particularly these youthful than her) with real love and respect. BuzzFeed Neighborhood consumer dianaquinn recalled her healthful encounter with Houston on the set of The Princess Diaries 2. “My mother labored on set for the sequel and occurred to say that it was my birthday,” she said. “Whitney took a number of the balloons that may be seen on display throughout Mia’s bachelorette social gathering and informed her to present them to me as a gift. It was one of the best birthday ever!”

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Harry Types wrote the very creepy “With You All the Time” for Do not Fear Darling in simply 5 minutes. The tune, which Florence Pugh’s character Alice hums again and again within the film, has an eery melody that personally made me really feel uncomfortable within the movie show! In an interview with Selection, director Olivia Wilde said she had a cellphone name with Types concerning the “set off tune” Pugh’s character would sing. “5 minutes [after our first call], he despatched me a demo from his piano and it was what ended up within the movie. He referred to as me and mentioned: ‘What about this?’ And I used to be like: ‘Yeah, that is it — and that is actually insane that you just did that in 5 minutes.'”

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Jennifer Lopez has a customized (normally bedazzled) Swarovski cup made for no matter venture she’s engaged on for the time being. On Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ podcast Las Culturistas, Yang recalled this when he labored with Lopez on Saturday Evening Stay. “She was in Ego [Nwodim]’s workplace, and her and I had been simply speaking. We had been like: ‘Oh my god, J.Lo, we love your cup!’ and she or he was like: ‘I do one for each venture.’ It is full Swarovski crystal.” D’Arcy Carden, who was a visitor on the episode, said Lopez had a “small grenade” on her cup after they filmed the upcoming film Shotgun Marriage ceremony collectively.

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Lily Tomlin, the last word queen of comedy, the legendary Frankie Bergstein from Grace and Frankie, is the voice of Ms. Frizzle from The Magic College Bus! In an interview with Vainness Truthful, she said, “I used to be very comfortable I did it as a result of it was fantastic to [play] a lady science trainer. Folks in our household had young children on the time, and they’d sit in the lounge with me they usually’d see Ms. Frizzle come on. They’d take heed to it, take a look at me, look again, and say: ‘Now you say it!'” Within the 1996 episode “Vacation Particular,” Tomlin’s 9 to five costar Dolly Parton even guest-starred as Ms. Frizzle’s cousin, Murph.

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Tyler James Williams, who performs Gregory on Abbott Elementary, is definitely the star of the 2000s TV present All people Hates Chris. His iconic, pissed off stares on Abbott really feel so just like those he made when he was a kiddo. One other Abbott Elementary actor out of your favourite childhood film/TV present, you ask? Lisa Ann Walter, who performs Melissa, is Chessy from The Guardian Lure (this sensible past sensible casting makes me love the present all of the extra).

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When Zoë Kravitz was a child and ran errands along with her mother (the enduring Lisa Bonet), Lisa would embarrass her by scream-singing “The Sound of Music.” “My mother used to do that actually embarrassing factor after I was a child the place we would be leaving a grocery retailer and we would be within the car parking zone, and she or he would begin singing ‘The Sound of Music’ in [an] opera voice,” Kravitz informed Rolling Stone. “She simply liked how embarrassed I received. She would do one thing she’d suppose was embarrassing, and if I informed her I assumed it was embarrassing, she would begin to belt: ‘The hills are aliveeeeeee’ and I would be like: ‘Noooooo!'”

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Actors Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, and Mimi Rogers had been at one time or one other married to Tom Cruise. Enjoyable truth: They had been all 34 years old after they received divorced from Cruise.

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James Avery, aka Uncle Phil from The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air, had a deep admiration for jazz music. He had posters of Billie Vacation and Charlie “Chook” Parker displayed in his dressing room. He gave DJ Jazzy Jeff a bunch of jazz CDs, they usually spent hours collectively in Avery’s dressing room listening to music.

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Ernest H. Shepard, the famend illustrator of the Winnie the Pooh books, had a daughter who was simply as well-known within the publishing world. His daughter, Mary Shepard, was greatest recognized for illustrating the Mary Poppins ebook collection (expertise did certainly run within the household!!!).

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When Julie Andrews received the Oscar in 1965 for Mary Poppins, she brilliantly thanked Warner Bros. director Jack Warner in her acceptance speech. Andrews was obtainable to movie Mary Poppins as a result of he forged Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Truthful Girl (the position Andrews originated on Broadway in 1956).

Here is Andrews as Eliza Doolittle within the Broadway manufacturing of My Truthful Girl (1956) vs. Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle within the film model of My Truthful Girl (1964):

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Carlos Santana was so excessive on LSD throughout his efficiency on the Woodstock Pageant in 1969, he thought his guitar neck was a snake. In an interview, Santana recalled, “The neck of the guitar began wavering like a snake, and I used to be like: ‘Uh-oh.’ I simply began making faces as a result of I used to be attempting to maintain it tame, you understand?”

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Within the 2022 TV collection A League of Their Personal, there was a recurring gesture that D’Arcy Carden leaned into. Carden’s character, Greta Gill, was seen slapping her teammates’ butts each time one thing thrilling occurred. In line with A League of Their Personal author Desta Tedros Reff, Gill’s butt slaps had been utterly improvised by D’Arcy Carden (her MIND!).

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Queen Latifah believes the premise for Pals was taken immediately from her ’90s sitcom that aired simply the yr earlier than, Dwelling Single. In a 2016 interview, Queen Latifah (who performed Khadijah James) said: “When Dwelling Single got here out, Warren Littlefield — who was the president of NBC — [was asked] if he might have any present on tv, which one wouldn’t it be? And he mentioned Dwelling Single. The subsequent factor you understand, right here comes Pals — which was a tremendous present, they usually did an excellent job with it. So if you happen to’re gonna rock it, that is the best way to do it.”

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In Huge Sean’s house (which was once owned by Weapons N’ Roses guitarist Slash), he has a customized nightclub within the basement. It was already there when he moved in, and he made some slight modifications from Slash’s unique setup. He saved the black inside, the stripper pole, and the skull-shaped lights, however redecorated a lot of the house. He even changed the couches as a result of he “did not know what the fuck [Slash] was doing down right here.”

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In 2018, Lauryn Hill was the most sampled artist of the yr. Cardi B sampled her 1998 hit “Ex-Issue” for her tune “Be Cautious,” and Drake sampled the identical tune for his hit “Good for What.” A few month after Drake’s “Good for What” grew to become a significant hit because of sampling her, Hill gave a hat-tip to Drizzy in one among her concert events. She remixed her personal model of “Good for What” on the Apollo Theater (the place she was as soon as booed as a youngster in 1987), and rapped these lyrics: “See, that is ‘Ex-Issue,’ he took the pattern. My shit is traditional, this is an instance.”

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Oprah completely liked The Mary Tyler Moore Show when she was in her 20s, and she or he wished to be Mary Tyler Moore’s character — Mary Richards — when she grew up. She even had an “O” hanging in her apartment, identical to Mary’s legendary “M.”

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And earlier than each Intercourse and the Metropolis episode, Kim Cattrall at all times got here in prepared with a wide range of completely different angles and solutions to see what would match higher for Samantha and the person she was having intercourse with. She said, “Within the intercourse scene with the fireman, I prompt: ‘Let me do an orgasm with the sound of a hearth engine, let me strive various things.’ You do not know if one’s going to be an excessive amount of or not sufficient, so it is good for [the SATC crew] to have a number of decisions.”

The entire males who ended up filming intercourse scenes on Intercourse and the Metropolis wore a cup so nothing would really present on display. The cups had been labeled “KC,” Kim Cattrall’s initials.