Answers: October 25th, 2003
Here are the answers I've emailed out to some of the questions you have asked. As you'll see, I don't always know the correct answer but hope to at least provide a hint to steer the person asking in the right direction. If you can clarify, or want to dispute, any of the answers- be sure to contact me and I'll follow up. Every so often I'll add a new page of answers so check back often!
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What was the name of the serial killer in the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"?
-Vandalyn Stroud
CMT Answer:
The classic 'movie monster' name for the main killer in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is 'Leatherface'. The name of the killin' / cuttin' / cannibalizin' family was the Sawyer family in the 1974 original. The surname of the family in the 2003 remake is listed as 'Hewitt'.
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What school was used in the filming of "American Pie"?
-Joe

CMT Answer:
They used three schools in the filming of the 1999 fruit-tacular comedy. The classroom and hallway scenes were filmed at Long Beach Polytechnic High School. The outdoor scenes and gym prom scenes were filmed at Robert A. Millikan High School of Long Beach. Finally, the lacrosse game and outside scenes for the music competition were filmed at California State University, Long Beach.
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In the movie the "Breakfast Club", which actor's mother in real-life dropped them off at school in the opening scene?
-Michael Robinson
CMT Answer:
That actor was Anthony Michael Hall. His real life mother and sister appeared at the start of the movie, and the guy who played his Dad who picked him up at the end of the movie was the flick's director, John Hughes.
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How many times does the word 'mother' appear in "Pulp Fiction" - not including deleted scenes? I think it's 35.
-Ali Bulloch
CMT Answer:
I did a count through an online script of the Tarantino classic, and it had 'motherf**ker', or a variant thereof, listed 32 times. The script seemed to be very close to an actual shooting draft, although you can never account for last minute edits or adlibs, so the only way to know for sure may be to sit with a pen and re-watch the movie. Your guess of 35 seems like a pretty good shot though.

It may be a potty-mouthed movie, but it still doesn't touch South Park....
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In the early 1970's my sisters and I saw a science fiction-horror movie on TV (not made for TV) and we'd love to know the name of it. It had a mad scientist who was trying to hook dismembered limbs of people (the limbs were mounted on a wall) to the brain of a woman. The woman's name was, I think, Elsa, but the most memorable part was the last line of the movie. The woman (head mounted on a box) looked at the hero who had burst into the mad scientist's lab, and said, "Bury me with my body". Thanks for any help you can provide. We have joked about this movie and used that line for years - it probably permanently warped all 3 of us.
-Mark Haslett
CMT Answer:
After some searchin' and browsin' and message board postin', I believe I have the movie you are after. It looks like it's a 1966 movie called "The Frozen Dead", which starred Dana Andrews (definitely slumming it later in his career after earlier classics like "Laura" and "Night of the Demon") and Kathleen Breck as "Elsa Tenney". The IMDB plot summary: "A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich". Frozen Nazi heads.... sweet.

The movie features Anderws as the scientist, and because all of his Nazi-head-revival attempts end in failure they try with a newer specimen, the poor Elsa. According to the IMDB comment, her head simply says "Bury me" at the end of the movie, but I buy your full line (it has a better ring to it), and bet the IMDB user simply forgot the rest. Sounds like a good fun midnight popcorn (and beer... lots of beer) flick, but unfortunately this one does not seem to be available on video or DVD yet.

The IMDB link for more info is here:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060434/
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In what Philadelphia restaurant was a famous scene from the "Sixth Sense" shot?
-Roquetta Peterson

CMT Answer:
The name of the restaurant was "The Striped Bass". It's regarded as 'the best seafood restaurant in Philadelphia', and has a four star rating from the "Mobile Travel Guide".
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What movie did this line come from:
"Either get busy living or get busy dying"

I think I heard it in a movie, and it is bugging me which one or who was in it. Thought maybe you could help. Thank you
-Lola Plough
CMT Answer:
That line is from the classic drama / prison flick "The Shawshank Redemption". The line was first spoken by the main character Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, and repeated by Morgan Freeman's character while he violating his parole to go visit Andy in Mexico.

The mega-well-regarded flick has an average rating by over 100,000 users on IMDB of 9.0, and is their #2 average scored flick of all-time, behind only "The Godfather". It's definitely a goodie...
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What 1978 movie did Aerosmith appear in?
-Donna Hough

CMT Answer:
There seems to be a lot of trivia questions related to this movie. It's the 1978 stink-bomb "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It featured not only Aerosmith but: The Bee Gees, Steve Martin, Peter Frampton, Earth Wind and Fire, Alice Cooper, George Burns and more in the movie and singing Beatles' songs. The story was derived from the Beatles concept album, and was about a band battling the evil music industry. I haven't seen it, but it sounds like one word: Ass. One of those 70's stupid acid trip movies that make no sense. But then again, maybe it's a classic- there are enough questions asked about the thing.
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I would like to know the answer to where "It's a wrap" comes from. I heard it years ago, and it has nothing to do with cleaning up the set.
-Steve Hart
CMT Answer:
I did some searching but could find no definitive answer. The closest I got was the fact that since 'to wrap up' means to finish something (as in wrapping a product to complete a sale), a shorthand form that became popular was "That's a wrap". One site I came across mentioned the movie version of the phrase may come from the fact that newscasters often said "That wraps it up, folks", but I don't know if the movie phrase was used before television use had become widespread.

One related note, often on movie sets now whenever a director feels he finally has the shot he likes, he'll yell, "Check the gate!" (not "That's a wrap!"). It is used because camera operators will check the film gate to make sure that the film hasn't jammed, or that there were no hairs that had become lodged inside, necessitating a reshoot of the entire scene. So after the director calls it a wrap (which releases the cast and crew, and the union clock stops) there's a tense moment or two. No hair in the gate? Then it really is a wrap.
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I have a 6-year-old bet with a friend over this, but no pressure...:) In the movie, Man with Two Brains (starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner), my friend says that Carl Reiner made a cameo appearance. I disagree. Who's right??? There's $20 bucks (and intergalactic bragging rights) riding on this...:) Thanks!
-Sheryl Edelen

CMT Answer:
I did some looking with the usual suspects: IMDB and Google. Carl Reiner was the director of the movie, and a writer. However IMDB lists only his wife, Estelle, with a cameo as an elevator passenger. Seeing as his wife made it in though, and he was the director, I thought that it was a pretty good bet that he also appeared in the movie.

I did some snooping with Google, and surprisingly could not find any evidence of a cameo by him in the flick. Most of the websites harped on a cameo by Merv Griffin, and one page dedicated exclusively to Reiner had an exhaustive list of his cameos. They gave: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Gazebo (1959), Generation (1969), The End (1978), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), and The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), as movies in which he briefly appeared. However, no "Man With Two Brains".

So, looks like you get your $20. Good work, and I hope you meant your bet was from six years ago, and not that your're betting against a six-year-old! C'mon, "The Man With Two Brains" isn't exactly a kids movie. :)
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Who is the most successful director in terms of what the total movies grossed?
-Lisa Quinn
CMT Answer:
For single movie, that would easily be James Cameron. His "Titanic" grossed 600+ million domestic and well over a billion world-wide. The other 'big two' of Spielberg and Lucas took out a full page ad in (the L.A Times? Variety? I forget.) congratulating him on the record accomplishment. The ad was a picture of the Titanic with Spielberg's dinosaurs and Lucas' Star Wars characters jumping off.

If you're looking for total gross of all movies, I came across a great site called "The Numbers" (http://www.the-numbers.com/) which has a complete breakdown per picture for each of the directors and a grand total. Spielberg has 21 movies listed as ones he directed (remember, he'll get the totals for the Indiana Jones movies since he actually directed them, although George came up with the main idea and produced them). His total is around $3.1 billion dollars total, with an average gross of just under $150 million each. Lucas, on the other hand, has only five movies listed as his directorial efforts, (again, he didn't even direct The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi). His total gross for the five is only $1.3 billion, but a much more impressive avergae per movie of $261 million.

Other notable directors are the above-mentioned James Cameron with a total gross of $1.1 billion, Chris Columbus with $1.5 billion ('Home Alone' 1 & 2, 'Mrs. Doubtfire', and 'Harry Potter' 1 & 2), Robert Zemeckis with $1.5 billion ('Back to the Future' trilogy, 'Forrest Gump', 'Roger Rabbit'), and Ron Howard with $1.1 billion ('A Beautiful Mind', 'The Grinch', 'Apollo 13', 'Ransom'). Peter Jackson will probably be joining the over-billion club soon with 'Return of the King' in December.

The list is not adjusted for inflation, which would give a bump to some of Spielberg's and Lucas' numbers, as some of their biggest hits were from the 70's and early 80's, and also directors like Alfred Hitchcock would see a definite jump off the measley $144 million total he is given for his 20+ movies.
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I saw a movie several years ago. I think it contained a couple of short stories. The one I am thinking of revolved around some kind of military plane coming in for a landing in which the landing gear was stuck. Possibly a B-29? The gunner was sitting in the turret and was going to be killed on landing if the wheel didn't come down. He ended up drawing a wheel and the plane landed fine. After landing, the wheel then disappeared. Do you know what movie I'm talking about? I cannot remember the name or anything else about the movie. Thanks!
-Beth Chapa
CMT Answer:
I do know- and it wasn't a movie. You are thinking of the premiere episode of the Steven Spielberg produced 80's tv series - "Amazing Stories". The episode name was "The Mission", and was directed by Spielberg himself. It starred Kevin Costner as the captain of the plane, and featured Keifer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, and Anthony LaPaglia, among others. Not a bad pedigree for a TV show. I always loved the Hallowe'en episode with the Mummy though... it was my fave.
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What is the name of the restaurant in "Casino"?
-Thomas
CMT Answer:
I believe the one you are after is the "Center Stage" restaurant, which was where DeNiro and Stone had one of their many arguments in the Scorsese movie.
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I was challenged today and know I am correct in my answer...

In the movie "Armageddon"...there is the scene where all of Bruce Willis' crew is being psychologically tested in preparation for space...there is a blonde, male doctor administering tests and someone said to me..."That's Victor Maintland" (the bad guy) from Beverly Hills Cop. I denied that and thus the fight began!

I have tried to search for these actors name to prove this point. I need your help because I actually have money riding on this! Thanks for any info you can get back to me!
-BoostT6
CMT Answer:
According to IMDB, no. It's not a bad guess because they were both produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and producers can often have the same actor appear in their various flicks. However, actor Steven Berkoff, who portrayed Maitland, did not appear in Armageddon. Ironically, Berkoff was deported from the U.S in 2002 for overstaying his work visa by one day.
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Who is the banjo playing boy at the beginning of the movie "Deliverance"?
-Graylingling

CMT Answer:
The banjo-genius boy at the gast station was played by an actor named Hoyt Pollard.According to IMDB he made one more film appearance 13 years later in a movie called "Blastfighter". His role.... 'Banjo player'..
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