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16 unusual facts about Jodie Foster


Ansco

Briefly in the 1970s, it was the official film of Disneyland and at this time, actor Henry Fonda served as the company's spokesman in television commercials including one that featured Jodie Foster in her first acting role.

Brome Lake, Quebec

In 1975, Knowlton was also used as one of the sites for filming the Jodie Foster suspense film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

DataHand

This unconventional keyboard was seen in the Jodie Foster 1997 movie Contact as the pilot's controls for the futuristic space ship; and the spy movie Stormbreaker.

Foreign celebrity advertising

More recent celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jodie Foster, who generally avoid publicity in the United States, have been known to do large-scale advertising campaigns in Japan and China.

GAF Materials Corporation

Briefly in the 1970s, it was the official film of Disneyland and at this time, actor Henry Fonda served as the company's spokesman in several television commercials including one that featured Jodie Foster in her first acting role.

Ipoh railway station

The Ipoh station was used as a shooting location for the film Anna and the King, starring Jodie Foster.

J. I. M. Stewart

Christmas at Candleshoe was the basis for the 1977 film Candleshoe starring Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes and David Niven.

Kevin O'Hare

As a child, O'Hare and his brother appeared in the film Bugsy Malone with Jodie Foster.

Keysville, Virginia

Jodie Foster and James Earl Jones were here for three days in 1992 during the production of Sommersby.

Ludwig von 88

Some of their songs are satires on stars like Louison Bobet, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Maria Callas, Jacques Chirac, Jodie Foster or deal with more serious topics like war: "Libannais raides", "Hiroshima"; drugs: "Le Manège enchanté", "Kaliman"; and misery: "LSD for Ethiopie", "In the Ghettos" — always with irony.

Music for a Slaughtering Tribe

Koslow sample is taken from the movie The Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

In Contact (1997), Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) did her thesis work on the Owens Valley 40 meter telescope.

Peter A. Dowling

Dowling's first produced movie was Flightplan starring Jodie Foster which was the number one box office hit in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide.

Pressin' On

The song "I'm Never Gonna Say Goodbye" was used for the Ed Asner/Jodie Foster film O'Hara's Wife.

Sean Ghazi

Ghazi is best known for appearing in the 1999 movie Anna and the King (in the role of Balat), alongside Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat.

Zozobra

In the 1990 film Catchfire, Jodie Fosters character watches a small version of Zozobra being burned in a small plaza in Taos, NM.


Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

Herod decides to protect his title and win the love of Jodie Foster (a reference to John Hinckley, Jr.) by killing the child.

Majesty Crush

Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster ("No. 1 Fan"), torture ("Boyfriend"), heroin ("Horse"), a female cashier at an adult book store ("Sunni Pie"), actresses ("Uma"), tennis stars ("Seles") and Italian porn stars ("Cicciolina").

ManyOne Networks

One Cosmos was a partnership between Joe Firmage, an Internet entrepreneur, Web visionary, and former CEO of USWeb, a $3B company at its peak, and Ann Druyan, a science writer and widow of astronomer Carl Sagan, who co-wrote the PBS series Cosmos with Sagan and later co-produced the 1997 film Contact, starring Jodie Foster.

More Than a Feeling

The song was also featured in the 1979 film Foxes starring Jodie Foster and Cherie Currie, in a scene where Foster's character plays the song on a vinyl record player.

Nathan Lewin

Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III, whom he represented while he was serving as Attorney General, President Richard Nixon, Jodie Foster, John Lennon, nursing home owner Bernard Bergman, Congressman George Hansen, Teamsters president Roy Williams, and Israeli war hero Aviem Sella.

RF7

Felix also began the record label Smoke Seven Records and signed his band and many others who were ignored by the big labels then, such as Redd Kross, Bad Religion, JFA, Crank Shaft, Circle One, SIN 34, Youth Gone Mad, etc.

The Gift of Fear

The book has been endorsed by a wide variety of celebrities including Marcia Clark, Carolyn Hax, Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, David Mamet, and others who have referred to the book in interviews.