- "The Mummy 3" - Producer Sean Daniel, who was the first person from whom I heard of the college I attended, CalArts, is also responsible for his longtime friend Spielberg referencing/using my material (http://www.archive.org/details/MallManSpielbergSteinhoffInterestingMallManFacts). Because of the fact that in this round Spielberg's Steinhoff reference involved a hat being returned to its owner (in "Indiana Jones"), special significance is attached by me to the moment in "Mummy 3" when the soldier returns a head to its owner. Were one to look further, one might even consider whether "Dark Knight" and the masking/unmasking of Batman doesn't fit in there somewhere. I appreciate that there might have also been a George Lucas/Star Wars shout-out contained in the Mummy moment, however, there are no rules against shout-outs that multi-task.
- Stuart Cornfeld's new movie, "Tropic Thunder" opens in a few days. Stuart Cornfeld movies generally make Steinhoff references. I first met Stuart in 1975. Several hours after the one time I was in Stuart's house (1975), I went with several people to a movie showing at the Century City mall, where Ann Meara with her young son walked by. Years later her young son turned into Ben Stiller, the Red Hours production partner of Stuart. Jack Black, a star of "Tropic Thunder", was on the Craig Ferguson show several days ago, where he referenced something I had said a few weeks ago at a screening of "Calistra Zipper". In the clip shown from "Tropic Thunder", one saw something resembling a scene in the Cornfeld/Black movie, "Tenacious D": Black lying on the ground unconscious, opening his eyes to people/person standing over him. This takes me back to the time I had a hole in my glove on an AFI film set, was electrocuted and knocked unconscious, opening my eyes to Stuart Cornfeld standing over me. Black recounted yet another example of a similar experience a few years ago on a talk show in describing something that happened to him in the set of "Nacho Libre".
- This week's weekly reference to my material on "Monk" can again be found on "YouTube", where I am Zoomsteinhoff.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Recently Heard Shout-Outs From The Makes-Sense-Cumulatively File, No. 1
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