MSU in Hollywood

419Spartan08 · 02-13-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by 11B2P

In the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Stephen Root's character "Gordon" wears sweats, shorts and t-shirts in what appears to me to be college colors.

He wearing State colors in one scene:

Photos from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

I may be wrong but I may be right.

Well what do ya know, I am watching that 70's show and Kelso had a green shirt on, coincednce, I think not, he is a spartan

BrassBallsAlum · 02-13-2009, 09:11 PM

The Replacements

BrassBallsAlum · 02-13-2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MSUisbetterthanu

My buddy met Caan a couple of years ago in California... My friend said Caan was actually wearing a State shirt, so he approached him when he saw that.

Not according to Wikipedia.

Reads that he attended but transferred to Hofstra.

BrassBallsAlum · 02-13-2009, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by WCS

The LA Club meets at some bar near Hermosa Beach or something like that...anyways, my buddy was hanging out and in walks MSU Alum Christina Aguilera and a friend of hers. They sat down and cheered MSU on. She got a call from another celeb and she said, "Yeah, MSU is winning. I told you we'd win this game...[pause]...Oh, I'm counting my eggs and they're hatching...we're GOING to win this game." She only stayed for about 15 minutes of the game though, he said.

What is source that she is an alumus? or ever attended MSU?

BrassBallsAlum · 02-13-2009, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by MSUisbetterthanu

Well don't worry - i've seen him in Michigan gear too... And EMU

Moore is a UM - Flint drop out.

419Spartan08 · 07-02-2009, 09:21 PM

I dunno if anyone has posted it but I am watching friends and they turned to the tv with a football game on for a second and it looked like a white block S at midfield. Wish i woulda watched it on the DVR so I coulda rewinded it.

MSU Shadow · 07-03-2009, 01:57 AM

About 2 weeks ago a great tv show, BURN NOTICE, had Michael (the main character who is a 'burned' ex CIA spy) under cover trying to piss off a civilian engineer working for the government on a top secret contract. Michael was acting like a flunkie/drunk and when he found out the guy went to Michigan State he told him: "I went to UofM and my GPA wuz 1.8"... the wife and I howled.... the role of Sam Axe is played by Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame so that could be a link to the Michigan connection...

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/

jfhouse · 07-03-2009, 07:45 AM

There was a mistake in the movie Indian Summer. The head of the camp had his boxing trophy stolen. He was the boxing champion of Michigan State University in the early 40's. MSU was MSC at that time.

Orlando Sparty · 07-03-2009, 08:35 AM

In 'Trouble Along the Way' (1953) John Wayne plays a football coach. One of his lines is something like "I've just got to find a way to beat Michigan State next year."

Mr. Tanfan · 07-03-2009, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Msudionysus

F- Him. The guy went to scUM-Flint. He only wears that hat to further his desired image of being one of the "common" men.

why do all the fox news loving rightwinger bush promoting Spartans hate Moore?

277Gunson · 07-03-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Tanfan

why do all the fox news loving rightwinger bush promoting Spartans hate Moore?

It isn't just those people who hate the fat POS.

277Gunson · 07-03-2009, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by MSU Shadow

About 2 weeks ago a great tv show, BURN NOTICE, had Michael (the main character who is a 'burned' ex CIA spy) under cover trying to piss off a civilian engineer working for the government on a top secret contract. Michael was acting like a flunkie/drunk and when he found out the guy went to Michigan State he told him: "I went to UofM and my GPA wuz 1.8"... the wife and I howled.... the role of Sam Axe is played by Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame so that could be a link to the Michigan connection...

Burn Notice - TV Series, Spy Show, Characters, Schedule, Videos & Photos - USA NETWORK -Burn Notice

LOVE that show! I can't remember that part though.

MSURed · 07-03-2009, 10:39 AM

I'll echo that I have never seen Tim Allen wear a State shirt on Home Improvement, and I've seen pretty much every school, including Michigan.

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Originally Posted by Coach Hoski

Frank from real world: Vegas wore a state basketball shirt a few times on the show

Well if this counts, then I'll just go ahead and mention Will from the Real World in...damn, I watched the season...well whatever, he wore State shirts in basically every color except green or white

MSUisbetterthanu · 07-03-2009, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BrassBallsAlum

Not according to Wikipedia.

Reads that he attended but transferred to Hofstra.

He played football for the Spartans.

SmedleyButler · 07-03-2009, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by richwig

Did they ever explicitly state that the students were from MSU? I've heard from reliable MSU sources that the opening scene with the students freezing in swirling snow was filmed outside the MSU Union, but I thought the narrator referred just to a "Midwestern university." Geez, MSU would've had what, 7500 students in 1960?

I also heard that crowd sounds for a movie -- maybe Spartacus, that'd make sense -- were taped in Spartan Stadium. As the story goes at halfime they had the crowd roar in certain ways to fit the script.

Yes, it's explicitly stated.

The writer of the novel "Where The Boys Are" was the well known writer Glendon Swarthout, was a faculty member at MSU.

And no, MSU got big in the years immediately following WWII. By 1960, MSU had been in the Big Ten for years and was big.

I believe that Swarthout also wrote "The Shootist," by the way.

And yeah, at halftime of an MSU-ND game they led the crowd in the cheers they wanted for Spartacus.

finalfouru · 07-03-2009, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by BrassBallsAlum

What is source that she is an alumus? or ever attended MSU?

Indiana | TMZ.com

Is this fake? I don't know

Step Right · 07-03-2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MSURed

I'll echo that I have never seen Tim Allen wear a State shirt on Home Improvement, and I've seen pretty much every school, including Michigan.

I also don't remember Tim Allen ever wearing an MSU shirt in Home Improvement. It seemed like it was always WMU, Calvin, Alma College, or something.

BUT, I do remember he had an old red, white & blue MI license plate hanging in his garage above the hotrod that read "MSU-###".

burnsmi4 · 07-03-2009, 08:53 PM

i have seen Tim Allen wear a MSU sweater TWICE on Home Improvement. it is there boys and girls

Step Right · 07-03-2009, 08:57 PM

Good timing of this thread. I just had VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s" on for some background noise and reminiscing. In at number 13 was Dr. Dre's "Nothing But a G Thing". They show some clips from the video, then while talking about him, they show some random clip of Dre and Snoop in some fast food place. Not sure where that video is from, but Snoop had on an MSU hat with the block S, equipped with Gruff on the right side.

Dantonio Banderas · 07-03-2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Tanfan

why do all the fox news loving rightwinger bush promoting Spartans hate Moore?

I'm not a right-winger, but I don't like Michael Moore because he is a chronic liar.

Spartocracy · 07-03-2009, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Dantonio Banderas

I'm not a right-winger, but I don't like Michael Moore because he is a chronic liar.

ditto...And just on face value his "documentary" editing is pathetic.

Orlando Sparty · 07-04-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by finalfouru

Indiana | TMZ.com

Is this fake? I don't know

Correspondence courses? Does MSU offer these to someone who has never enrolled? Sounds to me like a PR move. If the claim that a 'star' went to a large University is called out they can say that the 'star' took correspondence classes.

FIJI239 81 · 07-04-2009, 10:28 AM

James Caan, don't know if he graduated;

Robert Urich (MA) as Jake Spoon in this one:

FIJI239 81 · 07-04-2009, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Dantonio Banderas

I'm not a right-winger, but I don't like Michael Moore because he is a chronic liar.

And an obese slob who leverages himself with unionista grudges. I'm no fan of GM management, but I wish he would lose the "S" cap and.... if he's so concerned about Flint, get his fat ass down from his Northern Michigan retreat and become a "community organizer"