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With Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken in the news, what movie were Wood and Walken filming when Natalie died?
I remember "Brainstorm" came out after she died, I'll guess that was it.
He didnt do that either....
What is, he played the skin flute. Alex.
The other charge was that Nero sang a song about the burning of Troy while Rome burned in AD 64, implying that he had set fire to the city himself in order to do so.
In fact, when the fire broke out, he was more than 56 km (35 miles) away at his seaside holiday home. When told the news, he raced back to Rome and took personal charge of the fire-fighting efforts.
The suspicion that he wanted to burn down Rome may have arisen from his stated ambition to redevelop the city. He eventually managed to shift the blame on to the Christians.
As to what Nero actually did: he was a transvestite who loved acting in women’s clothes, singing, playing music and having orgies, and he had his mother killed. He was very proud of his musical abilities; his dying words are reported to have been ‘What an artist the world is losing in me!’
According to some, he generally accompanied himself on the kithara (related to the lyre) but he also played the bagpipes.
Dio Chrysostom, a Greek writing around AD 100, noted: ‘They say that he can write, carve statues, play the aulos both with his mouth, and also with the armpit, a bag being thrown under it.’
Early in the sixth century, Procopius, a Greek historian, mentions that the bagpipes were the instrument of choice of the Roman infantry while the trumpet was used in the cavalry.
Nero also invented ice cream (runners brought mountain snow flavoured with fruit juice) and his personal poisoner Locusta was history’s first documented serial killer.
Locusta means ‘lobster’ or ‘locust’: Latin uses the same word for both.
Wasn't he the voice of the coming attractions at the movies- "New from TouchStone pictures....."If we are playing that game, who is this?
Correct, he is the late Don LaFontaine, also known as The Voice of God. Probably the most famous person you have never seen, he did voiceovers for over 5000 movie trailers and countless thousands of commercials
