29-10-2021, 08:30 AM
ROUND 1 - MATCHES 1-4
Meg Ryan - She was voted "cutest" girl in school, class secretary, and homecoming queen in her senior year of high school. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000212/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Emilia Clarke - Emilia tattooed three flying dragons on her right wrist after completing the principal photography for Season 8 of Game of Thrones (2011). She did this to celebrate her eight year long journey of playing the character of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones (2011). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3592338/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Winona Ryder - Suffers from aquaphobia due to trauma she suffered at age 12 when she nearly drowned. This caused problems when she had to act in some of the underwater scenes in Alien: Resurrection (1997). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000213/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Robert Wagner - Tells in his biography that when he was in Paris for the shooting of The Longest Day (1962), he made a mistake when, one night, he was about to get back to his hotel. He was drunk and grabbed the man at the desk because the employee did not recognize him. Turned out that he walked into the wrong hotel. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001822/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Michelle Pfeiffer - Met husband-to-be David E. Kelley on a blind date at the Santa Monica, CA, "Chez Jay" restaurant & bar, a location he would use years later for his TV series Goliath (2016). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000201/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Billy Bob Thornton - His paternal grandfather, Otis Thornton, with whom he spent time in his childhood on a small shack in the woods, was a forest ranger. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000671/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Sacha Baron Cohen - Quote - "I'm not going to claim that everything I've done has been for a higher purpose. Yes, some of my comedy - OK, probably half my comedy - has been absolutely juvenile... and the other half completely puerile." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Basil Rathbone - Fought in the British Army during World War I and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Voting open for at least 3 hours from post time above. Closes once set 2 is posted.
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Meg Ryan v Emilia Clarke
Winona Ryder v Robert Wagner
Michelle Pfeiffer v Billy Bob Thornton
Sacha Baron Cohen v Basil Rathbone
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."