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01 May

Notting Hill’s Real-Life Inspiration Remains a Mystery

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Notting Hill, the Richard Curtis-penned film about a “normal” British bloke (played by Paddington 2‘s Hugh Grant) who falls in love with the most famous actress in the world (Julia Roberts), became the highest-grossing British film of all time when it premiered in 1999. And it has been inspiring casual conspiracy theories about who it might be based on ever since. Because, yes, according to Grant, Notting Hill does have a foundation in reality. “This is a story he won’t admit to,” Grant told E! (via E!Online), “but [Richard has] told me in a drunken moment. A friend of his—an…
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24 Feb

Silence of the Lambs: Anthony Hopkins Reveals His Real World Inspiration for Hannibal Lecter

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It’s fair to say audiences were not quite ready for a character like Anthony Hopkins’ Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1991. Obviously there had been killers and madmen in movies before; there was even another credible version of Hannibal Lecter a few years prior to that in Michael Mann’s Manhunter. But when Hopkins appears on screen in The Silence of the Lambs, he’s as still as a python lying in wait, yet also as cordial as a beloved college professor. Audiences instantly recoiled… and then leaned in. Hopkins was aware of the effect he and Jonathan Demme cultivated for the character,…
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05 Dec

Warrior: The Historical Inspiration for Dylan Leary

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This article contains Warrior spoilers. Although the Bruce Lee-inspired Cinemax series Warrior is fiction, it is loosely based on historical events of San Francisco in the 1870s. Just as Nellie Davenport (Miranda Raison) is based upon on a remarkable San Franciscan heroine, Donaldina Cameron, the Season 2 Finale drops a bomb for one of the show’s central characters. At the end of the episode when Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger) declares “I’m Dylan Leary and I’m here on behalf of the Workingmen’s Party of California,” it’s a major tell. The Workingmen’s Party of California was an actual organization during the period when…
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10 Oct

Warrior: The Historical Inspiration for Nellie Davenport

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This article contains Warrior spoilers. In “The Chinese Connection,” the second episode of Season 2 of Warrior, a new character named Nellie Davenport (Miranda Raison) enters the show. She’s a wealthy widow committed to ending the exploitation of Chinese women by leading police raids on brothels and offering alternatives to Warrior’s favorite brothel madam, Ah Toy. “We introduced the character of Nellie Davenport,” reveals Warrior showrunner Jonathan Tropper, “She was based on an actual person.” Tropper is quick to point out that Warrior is not a docudrama. He sees it as more like a martial arts fable or graphic novel…
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23 Aug

How Gotham Knights Takes Inspiration from Batman: Arkham Knight

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The long-awaited reveal of the Gotham Knights trailer not only confirmed years of suspicion regarding the game’s title, villains, and release window, but it verified that Gotham Knights will at the very least take some inspiration from 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight. While the trailer may make it seem at first like Gotham Knights is a follow-up to the Arkham trilogy of games, WB Games Montreal has made it clear that its new Batman-less Batman game is actually set in its own universe unrelated to the Rocksteady universe. But even if that’s the case, it’s clear that Gotham Knights takes at…
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22 Aug

Batwoman: Javicia Leslie Reveals Her Superhero Inspiration

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Fans got to meet Javicia Leslie at DC Fandome’s BAWSE: Females of Color Within the DC Universe panel, where she and other Actresses of Color in the DC universe talk about their roles. Leslie will star as Ryan Wilder, an original character who takes on the titular role of Batwoman in the show’s upcoming second season. Ryan Wilder is described as: Likable, messy, a little goofy and untamed. She’s also nothing like Kate Kane, the woman who wore the Batsuit before her. With no one in her life to keep her on track, Ryan spent years as a drug-runner, dodging…
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22 Aug

Real Life Gangster Inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s Casino Dies

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Frank Cullotta, a member of Chicago’s mob the Outfit, died of a variety of ailments including COVID-19 at a Las Vegas hospital, on Thursday, Aug. 20, according to Deadline. He was 81. Chicago gangster Anthony “Ant” Spilotro brought Cullotta to Las Vegas in 1978 to oversee the legendary robbery crew called the “Hole in the Wall Gang.” Known for bypassing alarm systems by drilling or precision explosives, the crew burglarized between 250 and 300 homes in Las Vegas by 1981. The crew was caught on July 4, 1981, after a botched robbery at Bertha’s home furnishings store on East Sahara…
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