When Ben Stiller approached Tom Cruise for a small role in Tropic Thunder (2008), Cruise agreed but insisted on fat hairy arms, giant prosthetic hands, and a dance sequence. The cameo became Les Grossman, one of his wildest performances.
At Shay Bradley’s funeral in Dublin, Ireland, mourners were taken by surprise when his voice suddenly echoed from the grave. As his coffin was being lowered, a pre-recorded message played through the speakers: the sound of knocking, followed by Bradley’s playful call, “Hello? Hello? Let me out! It’s dark in here!” This lighthearted prank, recorded by Bradley before his passing.
The iconic song “Hello ma Baby” from Looney Tunes' One Froggy Evening (1955), where it’s sung by the character Michigan J. Frog🐸, was the first popular song about the telephone and was about a man dating a lady over the phone without having ever met her.
This playful novelty song originally came out in 1899 and was nearly 60 years old when it hit the cartoon stage.
The repeated use of "hello" in the chorus ("Hello, ma baby, hello, ma honey, hello, ma ragtime gal") mirrors how people were using the word as a standard telephone greeting, popularized in the late 1870s and 1880s after the telephone’s invention.
A duck chose a school as home & returns every year to lay her eggs. When they hatch she leads the ducklings through the corridors to the courtyard lake. It’s now an annual ritual with children staying silent out of respect. Respect is beautiful.