Trivia: Dan Aykroyd and the Temple of Doom
When I was re-watching the Indiana Jones trilogy in preparation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I discovered something I never noticed before - Dan Aykroyd.
That’s right, the SNL star turned Ghostbuster has a very small cameo in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Unlike Raiders and Last Crusade, I had only seen the film once or twice since I was a kid, which might explain how I passed him by. The 18-second cameo is easy to miss and comes just after the conclusion of the car chase with Lao Che’s men in the film’s opening sequence. Aykroyd plays a character named “Weber”, who sports a mustache and an even worse fake British accent. He explains to Indy that he’s arranged for last minute transportation just before Jones, Short Round and Willie board the plane. Turns out that Aykroyd was friends with Spielberg, going back to working on 1941.
Even harder to spot is the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos of George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, and Steven Spielberg as a group of missionaries in the background of the same airport scene.
The newspaper clipping below shows the group in costume wearing long black cassocks and tropical helmets.
Photo: John Rambo in Action
Above you can see the first photo of Sylvester Stallone in action as Rambo (via: JoBlo) in the upcoming sequel John Rambo. One thing is for sure, Rambo is looking his age. The film supposedly finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers. John Rambo will hit theaters in 2008.
Rambo IV renamed John Rambo
Sylverter Stallone has announced that Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra has been renamed to John Rambo.
When Stallone announced that Rocky VI would be called Rocky Balboa, I snickered. I just didn’t like the change from tradition. I understood that was the whole point, to publicly acknowledge and separate the film from the last couple bombs. But the title grew on me as time went on, and the movie did not disappoint (which is probably key).
I’m not a big fan of the Rambo IV title change. I’m one of those DVD buying fanatics with a wall full of DVD’s in alphabetical order. And something really bothers me about having to separate the rest of the Rambo series from John Rambo due to a first name title change. And before I get the eventual comment: Yes, I know Rambo was titled First Blood. And Yes, that bothered me too. I’m also one of the few people that didn’t mind that George Lucas renamed Raiders to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on the DVD release. May-be I just have OCD.
Anyway, the story line involves a retired John Rambo, living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok. When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs John to help find them. He heads off with a team of young guns.
John Rambo starts shooting on February 23rd in Thailand. The movie is scheduled for a Summer 2008 release.
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Viva La Vida by Coldplay, Music Video and Lyrics
“Viva la Vida” is the second single released off Coldplay’s forthcoming album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
You can listen the song here, this is a fan made video.
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Lyrics
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sweep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing:
“Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
Once you go there was never, never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
(Ohhh)
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in.
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn’t believe what I’d become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Oooooh Oooooh Oooooh
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Song Information
“Viva La Vida” peaked at #2 on iTunes USA Top 100, was held from #1 by Rihanna’s “Take a Bow“.
The song was disqualified from the UK charts, as the Official Charts Company ruled that the song served as a downpayment for the album, and not in fact available in its own right.
Released May 7, 2008 (Digital download)
Recorded 2007-2008
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:04
Label Parlophone, EMI (UK), Capitol Records (U.S.)
Writers Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin
Producer Coldplay, Brian Eno, Markus Dravs
source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_la_Vida_(Coldplay_song)