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I don't want to make a Milla Jovovich thread, but if you look here you can see in this interview she grew up reading and loving Dune

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I was really into sci-fi and fantasy novels like the Dune series and Dragonlance. I was a real fantasy geek growing up
I wanted to be Jill Valentine.
Anyway, we've run into other celebrity nods to Dune, and I'd like a place to cache them. So, here goes.
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Apjak wrote:I don't want to make a Milla Jovovich thread...
Why not? The fact that she's a Dune fan will drive my wife crazy.
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The guys from Iron Maiden were apparently Dune fans and wanted to call an album Dune, but FH wouldn't allow it. This may not count for y'all serious SF fans, but the guy who wrote the series Inheritance (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) is a big fan. Kanye West might be a fan...he's got those shoes.
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:lol:

The Eragon kid, what's his name? Puppaleski? Poppinjayo? Plagiaristo? ;)
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Sandwurm88 wrote:The guys from Iron Maiden were apparently Dune fans and wanted to call an album Dune, but FH wouldn't allow it. This may not count for y'all serious SF fans, but the guy who wrote the series Inheritance (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) is a big fan. Kanye West might be a fan...he's got those shoes.
I believe it was this song. Being a metal band, they went ahead and sang about Dune without permission. :)

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Papa Georgio?
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Papadopoulos ?
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Popinfresh?
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Detective Dollypoposkallius?
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We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert
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Meanwhile... back on topic

So... all we have so far is:

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Milla Jovovich

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Iron Maiden

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Shia LaBeouf??
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Sean Young
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Wasn't Susan Sarandon (Wensicia Corrino in CoD series) a fan? Or at least claimed she'd read it?
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I think we can count the most of the cast members from the adaptations.

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Barak Obama
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SandChigger wrote::lol:

The Eragon kid, what's his name? Puppaleski? Poppinjayo? Plagiaristo? ;)
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Freakzilla wrote:Barak Obama
Did that one hurt? :P
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inhuien wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:Barak Obama
Did that one hurt? :P
I was thinking the same thing. :lol:

He rose above the pain. For Dune. :P
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SandChigger wrote:
inhuien wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:Barak Obama
Did that one hurt? :P
I was thinking the same thing. :lol:

He rose above the pain. For Dune. :P
I'll bet Bush would like McDune, lots of nuke-u-lur explosions and neato schtuff. He'd take a while to get through them though, apparently he only reads for very short periods of time, in very limited amounts each day. :wink:

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Well, Bush said when he was in Crawford he read a "Camus and three Shakespeare's." And I'm willing to believe that he did. Why not?

I have no idea why you'd read three of Shakespeare's plays to yourself while you were on vacation in Texas, though.
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Didn't Bush mention the Fremen? Like around the beginning of GWII?
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NM, it was an SNL skit:
White House Cabinet Meeting

White House Aide.....Rachel Dratch
President George W. Bush.....Will Ferrell
Vice President Dick Cheney.....Darrell Hammond
Condoleeza Rice.....Maya Rudolph

Dick Cheney: We need to contact the Syrians and beg restraint from Hizbullah.

President George W. Bush: I'm on it like stink on a mule. Next?

Rice: You have a meeting with Ali Abdullah Salay.

President George W. Bush: Another Abdullah.

Condoleeza Rice: Yeah.

President George W. Bush: That's three. You thought I wasn't paying attention, now did you? Where's this one from?

Condoleeza Rice: Yemen.

President George W. Bush: Good one, but I'm not that stupid. You mean Fremen.

Dick Cheney: No, it's Yemen. "Fremen" is from the science fiction book Dune!

President George W. Bush: Ok, fair enough.

Condoleeza Rice: And you're going to need to contact Mubarak.

President George W. Bush: Yemen?

Dick Cheney: Egypt!

President George W. Bush: Damn it!
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:clap:

I remember that (at least, reading it). :lol:

(Hey, should we mention Peter Berg and Pierre "Stop calling me Peter, it's PIERRE!" Morel here, too? Berg was a more muscular, adventuresome fan of Dune... :P )
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I know I could look it up but I'm too lazy. I'd have to say some of the writers for the cartoon "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy." I know of at least two Dune references on that show. One was a parody of GEoD and the other involved the gom jabbar.
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I remember that episode.

Venture Bros. references the Lynch film and Dune in general fairly often.
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