Plutonium, with a yield of 19 kilotons per kilogram, and the bomb on board having 5.2 kilograms of plutonium, the constructed bomb has a theoretical yield of 98.8 kilotons. The Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki contained 6.2 kilograms of plutonium and yielded only 20 kilotons, but with better technology and design refinements, the terrorists probably got substantially more than 20 kilotons (but nowhere near the "ideal" 98.8 kilotons).
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Third and final [to date, September 2013] of three collaborations of all the three lead cast together in the one movie, they being Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. DeVito and Turner also both appeared in The Virgin Suicides (1999) whilst DeVito appeared in both of the Douglas produced The Rainmaker (1997) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Douglas and DeVito also both starred in Solitary Man (2009).
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One of numerous 1980s motion pictures made about "yuppies".
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According to director Danny DeVito the first assembled cut of the film ran 3 hours and 4 minutes. It was then cut down to its final length of 1 hour and 56 minutes. Some of the deleted scenes (ca. 20 minutes) can be seen in the trailers and in the deleted scenes montage on the LaserDisc and the Special Edition DVD.
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Danny DeVito is recounting the story of the Roses to a silent man in a chair played by Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson. DeVito would later provide the voice of Herbert Powell, Homer's estranged brother.
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The early scenes in "Nantucket" were actually filmed in the town of Coupeville, Washington, on Whidbey Island.
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The make and model of the antique sports car that Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) owns in the movie was a black-top creme colored 1960 British Morgan Roadster Plus 4 convertible known to collectors as a Morgan 4/4. The car was really crushed in the film and was purchased by a man named Bill Caruso of Hartford, CT, who restored it with the intention of racing it at Limerock Park, however he died before he could. It was purchased by auto enthusiast Wayne Carini for his show "Chasing Classic Cars".
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In August 2009, Richard Shenkman held his ex-wife, Nancy Tyler, hostage for over 13 hours in their South Windsor, CT home after becoming obsessed with this movie-basing some of his actions on the movie itself. Fortunately Nancy was able to escape and although he burned her home down, he was tried and given a 70 year sentence.
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Final film with scenes actions of Shirley Mitchell.
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Oliver's lawyer is very different in the novel. In it, he is not a long time friend named Gavin Damato, but a former Jewish rabbi named Murray Goldstein who Oliver has never met before. Goldstein is much more overweight, smokes cigars rather than cigarettes, wears horn rimmed glasses, and uses Hebrew words like shandah (shame) and brucha (blessing).
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It's popularly rumored that the filmmakers inserted a short shot of the couple's dog into the "pâté" scene after screen testing audience thought it was too cruel. According to Danny DeVito, the dog was always intended to appear; however, it originally wasn't shown until the end of the chandelier scene, and that particular insert was a late addition.
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While shooting the scene where Michael Douglas (Oliver Rose) and Kathleen Turner (Barbara Rose) are sitting in the chandelier, director Danny DeVito pretended to break for lunch while the two actors were 30 feet above ground.
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Star Billing: Michael Douglas (1st), Kathleen Turner (2nd) and Danny DeVito (3rd).
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Kathleen Turner plays the mother of Sean Astin's character. In Romancing the Stone (1984), Turner's sister was played by Mary Ellen Trainor, who played Astin's mother in The Goonies (1985).
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Oliver and Barbara Rose were married for 17 years.
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Of the three movies that Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito have made altogether as actors in the same film, this picture is the only one which was not part of the Jack Colton-Joan Wilder series represented by the two film franchise of Romancing the Stone (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Moreover, of the three films, The War of the Roses (1989) is the only one that DeVito directed. All three pictures were however all made and produced by the 20th Century Fox film studio.
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The War of the Roses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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