Did you know?

Mary Poppins (1964) To Have And Have Not (1944) Deliverance (1972) Warrior Queen (2003) The Men (1950) Wuthering Heights (1992) Another Country (1984) Privileged (1982) Starter For 10 (2006) The Princess Diaries (2001)

The Lion In Winter (1968) Altered States (1980) Sophie’s Choice (1982)

The Parent Trap (1998) The Outsiders (1983)

The Trouble With Harry (1955) Charlie Bubbles (1967)

Pride & Prejudice (2005) 48 Hours (1982) The Silver Chalice (1954) Taps (1981) War Hunt (1962)

The Assassination Bureau (1969) The Last Picture Show (1971) Billy Budd (1962) Funny Girl (1968) The Tall Guy (1989) Body Heat (1981) Citizen Kane (1941)

Popeye (1980) Heavenly Creatures (1994)

THIS WEEK’S PONDERABLES...

The 2011 film Thor (right, starring Chris Hemsworth) was originally pitched to 20th Century Fox in 1990.

Damon Albarn’s father managed the rock band Soft Machine.

Asthma and isthmi are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels in between.

Hailstones weighing 5oz (141 grams) fell on Horsham, West Sussex, on September 5, 1958.

In 1531, the Bishop of Rochester’s chef was sentenced to death for poisoning members of the bishop’s household. He was taken to the town square where he was put into a pot of cold water hanging over a fire. It took two hours for the water to boil and kill him.

THIS WEEK’S IMPONDERABLE... Why do our stomachs rumble when we are hungry?

Our stomachs make noises all the time. The thing is, when we are not hungry, we don’t hear our thick, strong stomach muscles continually squeezing. However, when we are hungry, the noise of that squeezing, alternately contracting and relaxing, is made louder by the fact that our stomachs are empty. To illustrate the point, imagine a drum. If you stuffed it full of rags or tissues, you would not be able to make much noise with it but if you took away the rags or tissues (ie emptied it), it would be a lot louder.

WE’VE HAD ENOUGH OF…

Neighbours’ visitors who sound their car horns when arriving or leaving.

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WE’VE HAD ENOUGH OF... to mitchellsymons@columnist.com

WARREN BEATTY, WHO IS 75 ON FRIDAY, MADE HIS FILM DEBUT IN THE LEAD ROLE IN SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961). HERE ARE OTHER ACTORS WHO HAD IMPORTANT ROLES IN THEIR FIRST FILMS... Dame Julie Andrews – Lauren Bacall – Ned Beatty – Emily Blunt – Marlon Brando – Ralph Fiennes – Colin Firth – Hugh Grant – Rebecca Hall – Anne Hathaway – Sir Anthony Hopkins – William Hurt – Kevin Kline – Lindsay Lohan – Rob Lowe – Shirley Maclaine – Liza Minnelli – Carey Mulligan – Eddie Murphy – Paul Newman – Sean Penn – Robert Redford – Dame Diana Rigg – Cybill Shepherd – Terence Stamp – Barbra Streisand – Emma Thompson – Kathleen Turner – Orson Welles – Robin Williams – Kate Winslet –