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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bright Lights, Big City (1988) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bright Lights, Big City (1988) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988).

About the movie: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		The restaurant scene (with Seabass) was filmed in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. However filmmakers originally wanted to film this scene at a restaurant in Wiggins (about 15 miles west of Ft. Morgan) but after viewing the script the owner refused.
b.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
c.		Tom Cruise turned down the part later played by Michael J. Fox as he didnt like the idea of scenes involving him taking drugs.
d.		At the time this movie was released the star-studded cast had collectively been nominated for 16 acting Oscars during their careers, including four wins. The nominations are shared by actors Kathy Bates (3), Jamie Foxx (2), Anne Hathaway (1), Queen Latifah (1), Shirley MacLaine (6) and Julia Roberts (3).

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		The film is dedicated to Billie Neal, with whom Kasi Lemmons worked on Eves Bayou and Gridlockd (1997)_.
b.		A UPI news item dated July 3, 1960 reports that while preparing to film a scene on a boat, Lucille Ball fell, struck her head and was knocked unconscious. She was taken to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for a possible concussion and severe face and leg bruises. Her ex-husband Desi Arnaz rushed to the hospital from his ranch at Corona to be with her. Fortunately, preliminary x-rays of the head, neck and spine showed that the beloved star was not seriously hurt.
c.		According to David Weddles book on Peckinpah, "If They Move, Kill Em!, four days into shooting, a snowstorm on the original Inyo National Forest location forced the entire cast and crew back to Los Angeles to resume shooting the film in the Santa Monica Mountains, which resulted in the soapsuds substitution for real Sierra Nevada snow in the scenes at the Coarsegold mining camp. The substitution not surprisingly irritated Peckinpah immensely, but he pressed on. Despite these problems, the film finished a mere four days over schedule, and only $52,000 over budget.
d.		The "cocaine" that Michael J. Fox snorted was really powdered milk.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		Even though they had worked together on Family Ties, Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan didnt begin dating until they worked together on this film.
b.		During the first zip line stunt Alexander Wraith got tangled up with stunt cameraman Joe Perez and the two of them spun around out of control. A year after this stunt someone else died on this same zip line when he crashed into the ladder truck intended to bring him down.
c.		When the film was first suggested in the late 60s Abbey Lincoln was the initial casting for the role of Billie Holiday with Diana Sands as second choice. The project was revived a few years later with Diahann Carroll as a suggested lead but after discussions between Jay Weston and director Sidney J. Furie the role was offered to Diana Ross.
d.		Alice Sebold, who wrote the novel, said that she preferred an unknown actress for the role of Susie Salmon. After she was cast for this film, the relatively unknown Saoirse Ronan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Atonement.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		Michel Qissi was a technical advisor/choreographer when he overheard the production crew say they were looking for a tall oriental-looking guy with a background in Muay Thai. He volunteered, and got the part of Tong Po.
b.		The first letter of each of the main characters first names - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur/Ariadne, Mal, Sato - spell the word DREAMS.
c.		The role of the motel night manager was written specifically for Dennis Weaver, because Welles admired his work on Gunsmoke and wanted to work with him.
d.		This film is based on the novel by Jay McInerney of the same name. The book was also an inspiration for a rock musical of the same name, which premiered in 1999 and later went on to be a studio album.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		This movie is considered to have been a commercial failure thereby effectively making The Nude Bomb an actual Box-Office Bomb!
b.		Both the "Hannibal 8" and the "Leslie Special" are on display in the Hollywood Gallery at The Peterson Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California. The other "Leslie Special" is on display at the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, MS. The Hannibal 8 driven by Professor Fate was powered by a Corvair 6-cylinder engine and 3-speed transmission. Six Hannibal 8 cars were built for the movie at a reported cost of $150,000 each, three of which used the lazy tongs lifting mechanism, so fragile that it broke constantly. The "Leslie Special" was designed and built by the studio using parts from several cars.
c.		Before the role was handed to Fox, casting was about to hire a man working in Tiffanys in NYC named Chris Salales and wanted to make him the star role without knowing him or any prior experience.
d.		Jeff Daniels did all the banjo playing in all of the music scenes.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		In a 2011 interview with "The A. V. Club," David Hyde Pierce said that it cost him more to join the film actors union (so that he could appear in this movie) than he was paid for his role, so he had to borrow the dues money from his agent. His characters name was "Bartender at Fashion Show," and his one line was, "Sorry, the bar is closed."
b.		The battlefield sequences were shot on the property on which now stands Universal Studios.
c.		Shot in eleven days with a Canon 7D camera.
d.		Ironically, given the antisemitism that pervades almost all of the students attitudes, "Smokey Joes Cafe," the song that the classmates enjoy (and which Mr. Cleary dismisses as being from the "jungle") was written by a pair of Jewish songwriters, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote many of the biggest radio hits of the 1950s and early 1960s. Many of the other songs heard in the movie and on the soundtrack were also written or co-written by Jewish songwriters, including "Rock Around the Clock," "Three Coins In The Fountain," "That Old Black Magic," "Isnt It Romantic," and "When I Take My Sugar To Tea."

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bright Lights, Big City (1988)?
a.		This was the first film to feature the newly constructed Millennium Dome, built for Londons New Years celebration of 1999/2000. There was a line allegedly said by M at the end of the opening sequence which was cut where she says: "Well, at least the Millennium Dome has some use".
b.		Horton Foote was initially reluctant to adapt the novel into a screenplay as he felt that he would be unable to do it justice.
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d.		The name of Michael J. Foxs character, Jamie Conway, is almost an anagram of author Jay McInerneys name. In the novel, the primary characters full name is never given, he is referred to as "Coach" by Tad, and in the second person ("you") in the narration.

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