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2 unusual facts about At First Sight


At First Sight

-- >14,000 words = short work, so the title should be in quotes, not italicized. --> in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings.

The film and its plot are mentioned in the Friends episode, "The One with Rachel's Big Kiss", the character of Chandler Bing describes it as "a tutti-frutti love story where he (Val Kilmer) played a blind guy".


Shirl Jennings

Shirley "Shirl" Jennings (1940 – October 26, 2003) was one of only a few people in the world to regain his sight after lifelong blindness and was the inspiration for the character of Virgil Adamson in the movie At First Sight (1999) starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino.

Shirl and Barbara Jennings became the inspiration for the characters of Virgil Adamson and Amy Benic in the movie At First Sight (1999) starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino.


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Angie Best

She met George Best at a dinner party in Los Angeles in 1975 when he was signing to play for the Los Angeles Aztecs, and it was "love at first sight".

Eduardo Úrculo

In 1967, in Stockholm, he first encountered the American pop art of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg which he described as "un flechazo" ("love at first sight").

Hubert Kah

Together with Michael Cretu, Kemmler wrote and produced songs for other artists, including "Dancing Into Danger" by Inker & Hamilton, "Love at First Sight" by the band Münchener Freiheit and a number of tracks by Sandra such as "Maria Magdalena", "Heaven Can Wait", when wife Susanna Kemmler was partly responsible for the background vocals.

Lovers' Kiss

Atsushi Ogata (Shinnosuke Abe):He fell in love with Takao at first sight by the exercise of the land meeting.

Loving Prince

The second single is "一見鍾情 Love at First Sight", a cover of the Tiffany song "I Saw Him Standing There", which in itself was a cover of the 1963 Beatles tune, "I Saw Her Standing There".

The Ward Brothers

In 1988, the band's album's title track "Madness of It All" appeared in the episode "Love at First Sight" of the series Miami Vice.

Undiscovered

An aspiring New York model, Brier (Pell James) falls in love at first sight with a struggling musician, Luke (Steven Strait) when they cross paths on a subway train.