Tutoring in a community college on a Friday tends to be fairly slow. Everyone is ready to get away and lay in their tanning bed. Yes, I’m bitter about the paleness right now. As a way to pass the time I did what any English-loving, college-attending, Office-watching teenager would do–I looked up random movies on imdb.com. As my good friend Becky knows, the Internet Movie Database can provide hours of cinematic fun.
Did you know that Steve Martin has starred as a dentist in two movies? Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Novocaine (2001). You know that red-haired guy that was in A Knight’s Tale and has parts in 3:10 to Yuma, Knocked Up, and played Pastor Veal on “Arrested Development”? His name is Alan Tudyk. He’s the kind of actor who makes you yell at the screen “I know who he is! He’s awesome!” For my fellow former Disney Channel lovers, detective Juliet O’Hara on “Psych” is played by Maggie Lawson, or popularly remembered as Janine Adams/Alex Burroughs in Model Behavior.
So, if your brushing up on your knowledge for the next “World Series of Pop Culture” or waiting for someone who writes how they speak to ask for assistance, the database is a great playground for the movie fiend.
