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Thread #34409   Message #464673
Posted By: LR Mole
17-May-01 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: Tune from 'The man who would be king'
Subject: RE: The man who would be king
Oh, god, the first Alfonso Bedoya reference of the day. Three quickies from "The Man Who Would be King: Huston had some sort of major medical thing right afterward and Connery and Caine competed to see who could tell him the funniest dirty joke, as measured on his heart monitor, until the nurse threw them out; J.H. addressed them as Peachy and Danny until he died years later. The grisly ending is not in the book, I think. After the filming was done, Huston had projection equipment flown up into the mountains so the old men, whom he had used as extras, could see themselves on screen. One said afterward, "Now we will never die."