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3 unusual facts about The Room


Glynne Wickham

He also helped to set up a playwriting fellowship in the department, attracting young playwrights like John Arden, and premiered Harold Pinter's first play, The Room in 1957.

Newgrounds

The Room game: In September 2010, Newgrounds owner Tom Fulp released a flash game tribute to the movie, The Room, and became popular and part of multiple press.

Nick Ahlmark

Nick has organized the very first UK screening's of the cult US sensation The Room by Tommy Wiseau with the Prince Charles Cinema in London.


Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws

One scene in the film features actors George Hardy (Troll 2), Juliette Danielle (The Room), and Alan Bagh (Birdemic: Shock and Terror) in small roles.

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

Tommy Wiseau

He is the founder of the film production company Wiseau Films, and is best known for his film The Room (2003), which has been described as "one of the worst movies ever made" and has gained cult film status.


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A Better Tomorrow 3

Mark interrupts the stalemate by bursting in the room dual wielding two M-16 rifles, intending to take his revenge on Ho.

A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881

The room is Gallery III, the largest and most imposing room at Burlington House.

Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

However, as soon as Sir Percy climbs up the tower and through the window where the priests are being held, he realises that he has fallen into a trap – for waiting for him in the room are a dozen members of the Committee of Public Safety and his arch enemy Chauvelin.

Air21

David Miller secured the conference room at the local Holiday Inn at the airport, they locked themselves into the room for 16/hour days (Miller, VanderLugt, Morro) and with the help of a FAX machine and a Securities lawyer, by mid May 1995 they had a 100-page prospectus for an IPO for AIR 21 AIRLINES.

Alexandre Arrechea

For the 10th Havana Biennial (March 27 – April 30, 2009), Alexandre Arrechea worked on a project named La habitación de todos (The Room of All), which is a sculpture of a house that expands or contracts according to, respectively, the rise or fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Arnaud Tournant

Tournant refused to speak at a post-race press conference at the Olympics, until Stephane Mandard, a journalist for Le Monde newspaper, and an anti-doping campaigner, left the room.

Asher Bilu

Bilu and Ivan Durrant were the initiators of United Artists Gallery, an artist cooperative situated in the room vacated by Georges Mora's Tolarno Gallery in Fitzroy Street St Kilda.

Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance

When Tigh seems unconcerned about the potential for civilian casualties, Jammer leaves the room and joins Duck outside.

Bel-Shalti-Nanna

While excavating in Ur, Sir Leonard Woolley discovered a room built for Bel-Shalti-Nannar around 550 B.C.E. The room is known as the Palace of the High Priestess Bel-Shalti-Nannar.

Beware the Fish

Elmer Drimsdale comes up with a new machine that mimics a broadcasting system, with a lens and microphone pointed at a labeled diagram of a Pacific king salmon, but he informs the hopeful two that it won't broadcast further than the room.

Buddy Buddy

Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy "Disco" Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.

Casual Sex?

And then upon learning that Melissa is, in fact, back at the resort and never even left it, she hurriedly winds up renting a pink Cadillac and drives all the way back to the spa resort, where she winds up accidentally and surprisingly walking in on Melissa in bed with Jamie and, outside the room, Melissa tells Stacy about Jamie and how they have bonded with one another.

Charlotte Curtis

Journalist Emily Yoffe describes her as "both the first woman on the masthead of The New York Times and one of the last women to always be the only woman in the room in the world of big-time journalism", and says she was "one of those rare print journalists who are as famous as the famous people she profiled".

Domeli, Kapurthala

The sanctum, a raised platform in the middle of the room, has the Thamm Sahib draped in cloth in the centre with the Guru Granth Sahib Ji seated on a palaki (palanquin).

Dudley Museum and Art Gallery

The room features a great deal of memorabilia connected to local football legend and Busby Babe Duncan Edwards, who was born in the town in 1936, and won two Football League title medals with Manchester United and was capped 18 times by the England national football team until he died from injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster in February 1958, when still only 21.

Dungeon Keeper 2

This releases a flurry of stardust springing from the room, while the game blasts "Disco Inferno" and the creatures in the casino dance around.

Grand Palace

The room itself has also been used by King Rama IX to welcome foreign dignitaries and heads of state, such as Queen Elizabeth II, President Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II.

Hare Raising Havoc

Once the right objects are in the right states they form a convoluted, Rube Goldberg-like method of exiting the room.

History of the United States National Security Council 1963–69

Secretary of State Dean Rusk later observed that during the Kennedy Presidency neither he nor Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara liked to "get into much discussion" in the NSC with "so many people sitting around the room" and the possibility of leaks so great.

Hotel Chevalier

He then hurriedly attempts to tidy the room – pausing to play the opening bars of the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" by Peter Sarstedt on his stereo system – and runs a bath.

Hotel Hollywood

The lead actress Mehr Hassan was locked inside the hotel room when the room door jammed.

Hydraulic press

The room featured in Fermat's Room has a design similar to that of a hydraulic press.

J.R. Ewing

In the second season's episode "The Furious and the Fast", J.R. talks to John Ross by phone about a "master plan" to defeat Cliff Barnes and Harris Ryland and to help John Ross take control of Ewing Energies, saying it will be his "masterpiece" when somebody apparently walks into the room and shoots twice, killing him.

Just Married

Peter bursts in the room tells Sarah to run away with him to Seattle.

Liverpool Town Hall

The room is panelled and on the east side is a large wooden fireplace containing 17th-century Flemish carvings.

Lochearnhead

However, they had just come from murdering her brother, John Drummond of Drummonderinoch, and while she was out of the room placed his severed head on a silver platter, and placed in his mouth some of the cold victuals she had served them.

Madeleine Schlumberger

The room at the Musée Paul Delouvrier was inaugurated in 2007: It is located in the modern cathedral of Évry, designed by the architect Mario Botta, near Paris.

Malachite

"The Tazza", a large malachite vase, one of the largest pieces of malachite in North America and a gift from Tsar Nicholas II, stands as the focal point in the center of the room of Linda Hall Library.

Marble House

The stone fireplace in the room was copied by Allard and Sons from one in the Jacques Cœur House in Bourges.

McLean's Mansion

The ornamental chairs were fitted with regency brocade fabrics while a Persian carpet was a striking feature of the room.

Movie Magic Special Effects Show

The several volunteers would be involved in the creation of sound effects using a variety of objects around the room to a scene from one of the Lethal Weapon movies.

Pagpag: Siyam na Buhay

After the funeral, Marcelo is seen sweeping the room when Eva (Matet de Leon) suddenly scolds him as it was a bad superstition.

Pete and Dud

The "Dagenham Dialogues" between the two ranged from paintings (Pete finds the Mona Lisa snooty), how the bottoms of Rubens's nudes seem to follow you around the room, reasons why geckos do not live long and being annoyed by film stars (including "bloody Greta Garbo" and "bloody Anna Magnani") pestering them for romance.

Pope John XXI

After his death, it was rumored that John XXI had actually been a magician (a suspicion frequently directed towards the few scholars among medieval popes even during their papacy; cf. Sylvester II), and that he was writing a heretical treatise in the room that collapsed on him, by an Act of God.

Presidential Reunion

Gerald Ford (Chase) too enters the room (tripping over a table, spoofing himself slipping on a set of stairs exiting Air Force One) and Chase breaking character, assuming it is another episode of SNL, only to be informed he's on Funny or Die.

She's Too Young

Tommy barges into the room, takes a picture of Brad and threatens to send it to 9-1-1.

Sophie Webster

Whilst Sophie is out of the room, Aadi is pushed over by Simon Barlow (Alexander Bain) as they play and he bangs his head.

Sønderborg Castle

The room is still used for special events, such as in connection with the marriage of Queen Margrethe II's niece, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg to Count Jefferson-Friedrich von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth in 1998.

Tchello

In 1997, Tico Santa Cruz appeared in a chatroom asking if anyone could play instrument, and then, Tchello, who was also in the room, answered positively and became known by his nickname.

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room is a non-fiction book written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell.

Toca's Miracle

The next shot features another woman in her bra and underwear, dancing in a supposed bathroom, with another man in the room.

Tsuchinoko

The Tsuchinoko also appears in the game Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow as a unique enemy, only appearing in one cellar, often already disappearing before the player can enter the room.

Utz Rothe

Entering into his workspace, one finds chaos,leaving barely a centimeter uncovered, the room is filled with finished and unfinished works of art, objects and muddle as if approaching an overflowing 'Wunderkammer'.

Vice President's Room

In 1875 Henry Wilson, Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president, died in the room after suffering a stroke.

When She Loved Me

Emily's childhood bedroom is designed with a Wild West-equestrian theme of sorts, with figures of horses, toy guitars, cowhide and plaid patterns, and horseshoes decorating the room.

When You Walk in the Room

"When You Walk in the Room" was the second single from Agnetha Fältskog's 2004 album, My Colouring Book, her first in 17 years.

White Swan Hotel, Alnwick

The analogy was an apt one, as the room was decorated in the Louis XV style based on interiors at the Palace of Versailles.

WIBW-FM

The room with the FM programming doubled as the control room for the Kansas City Royals radio network when WIBW held the baseball team's broadcast rights.

William Sanders Scarborough

However, in 1892, Scarborough gave a lecture on Plato at the University of Virginia with pictures of Jefferson Davis and other confederate leaders on the walls and no other African Americans allowed into the room except as servants.

Zimmers Hole

The dude from Forbidden, at one point, turned to Dave and said, "Dude, when you were shouting at the devil a reference to Mötley Crüe, I was in league with Satan a reference to Venom," and Jed was in the room and picked up on that.