Table of Contents
- 1 Who is Estelle in back to school?
- 2 Who were the divers in back to school?
- 3 Is the Triple Lindy dive possible?
- 4 Is Rodney Dangerfield alive?
- 5 Is there really a dive called the Triple Lindy?
- 6 Who really did the Triple Lindy?
- 7 Why was Rodney Dangerfield laughing in back to school?
- 8 Who was Rodney Dangerfield’s character in Flashdance?
Who is Estelle in back to school?
Estelle Endler
Crazy Credits (2) The end credits begin with the message: “For Estelle. Thanks so much.” This is a dedication to Estelle Endler, Rodney Dangerfield’s manager and one of the executive producers of the film, who died during production.
Who were the divers in back to school?
11. THE DIVERS WERE EXPERT COLLEGE DIVERS. Director Alan Metter asked the divers to “do their worst” to play the Grand Lakes diving team.
Who actually did the Triple Lindy in back to school?
The Cast Showoff: Danny Elfman’s band Oingo Boingo shows up at Thornton’s kickass dorm party. Rodney Dangerfield was, surprisingly, an acrobatic diver in his youth and performed part of the “Triple Lindy” himself, though the sequence is obviously helped by special effects.
Is the Triple Lindy dive possible?
It is not only an impossible dive, but THE best impossible dive ever conceived. Truly. The olympics ain’t got nothing on the Triple Lindy. The absurdity of the dive was the result of a conversation between Dangerfield and Back to School writer, Michael Elias, according to movie director Alan Metter.
Is Rodney Dangerfield alive?
Deceased (1921–2004)
Rodney Dangerfield/Living or Deceased
Has anyone done the Triple Lindy?
The answer is no, the Triple Lindy has never been (successfully) performed in real life. I have heard of a few people attempting it, but none have been successful, because the only people skilled enough to perform it are also smart enough to realise that it’s a stupid idea.
Is there really a dive called the Triple Lindy?
Who really did the Triple Lindy?
Rodney Dangerfield went “Back To School” in 1986. While there, he performed the Triple Lindy and won the meet for his college’s dive team. College is a time when many of us figure out what we want to do with our lives, but it’s also a time to have a lot of fun, too.
Who was Rodney Dangerfield’s widow in back to school?
Joan Dangerfield, Rodney’s widow: The initial Back to School story had a financially strapped father going to college with his son and struggling to pay their tuition by working at a car wash.
Why was Rodney Dangerfield laughing in back to school?
During the scene where Thornton is in Professor Turgeson’s history class, and where Turgeson picks up the desk and throws it across the room while yelling at Thornton, if you look really closely you can see that Rodney Dangerfield is laughing while Sam Kinison is yelling at him, trying to get him to answer the question about the Korean War.
Who was Rodney Dangerfield’s character in Flashdance?
The room in which Thornton Melon takes his three-hour oral exam is the same room in which Alex Owens makes her successful dance audition in Flashdance (1983). Interesting? Rodney Dangerfield ‘s character, Thornton Melon, was a truck driver in his younger days, as was Dangerfield himself. Interesting?
Who are the actors in back to school?
Cast overview, first billed only: Rodney Dangerfield Thornton Melon Sally Kellerman Dr. Diane Turner Burt Young Lou Keith Gordon Jason Melon Robert Downey Jr. Derek Lutz