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.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 18 Jan 2011 21:47
by Nekhrun
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.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 18 Jan 2011 22:11
by Sandwurm88
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.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 02:26
by SandChigger
The Eragon kid, what's his name? Puppaleski? Poppinjayo? Plagiaristo?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:22
by SadisticCynic
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.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:32
by Freakzilla
Papa Georgio?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:51
by lotek
Papadopoulos ?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:02
by SandChigger
Popinfresh?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:07
by Apjak
Detective Dollypoposkallius?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:18
by Apjak
Meanwhile... back on topic
So... all we have so far is:
Milla Jovovich
Iron Maiden
&
Shia LaBeouf??
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:33
by Freakzilla
Sean Young
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:39
by TheDukester
Wasn't Susan Sarandon (Wensicia Corrino in CoD series) a fan? Or at least claimed she'd read it?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:45
by Apjak
I think we can count the most of the cast members from the adaptations.
probably can add
John Hodgman
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 14:56
by Freakzilla
Barak Obama
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 15:27
by Omphalos
SandChigger wrote:
The Eragon kid, what's his name? Puppaleski? Poppinjayo? Plagiaristo?
Paolini. As an aside I was book browsing the other day and ran across a new Pegnuin copy of Steinbeck's reinterpretation/retelling of the Authurian legends, and it had an introduction by that guy. Now, Steinbeck dropped the ball with that book, but I was shocked to see that kid introducing a work by Steinbeck. I sensed a bit of grave-rolling on that one.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 16:28
by inhuien
Freakzilla wrote:Barak Obama
Did that one hurt?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 17:06
by SandChigger
inhuien wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:Barak Obama
Did that one hurt?
I was thinking the same thing.
He rose above the pain. For Dune.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 17:13
by A Thing of Eternity
SandChigger wrote:
inhuien wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:Barak Obama
Did that one hurt?
I was thinking the same thing.
He rose above the pain. For Dune.
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.
Sorry, I just had to go there...
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 17:36
by merkin muffley
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.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 19:53
by Freakzilla
Didn't Bush mention the Fremen? Like around the beginning of GWII?
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 20:00
by Freakzilla
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!
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 20:52
by SandChigger
I remember that (at least, reading it).
(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... )
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 21:37
by Tleszer
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.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 20 Jan 2011 11:18
by D Pope
Recently, I was forced to watch 'Cop Out' and the best part of the movie was a brief dialog where 'ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US' was discussed.
Re: Celebrity Dune Fans
Posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:02
by Apjak
I remember that episode.
Venture Bros. references the Lynch film and Dune in general fairly often.
