Talk:Kurt Russell/Archive 1

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RED FLAGS : "mongoloid", "dude in his mouth" 2 May 2007

added 'Tequila Sunrise' but the link should link to the movie page [which does not currently exist]. Instead it links to the cocktail [hehe]. Should I remove the link?

Looks like Tombstone isn't listed in his filmography

Tombstone up but can't get the 3000 miles to Graceland link to work--Looper5920 00:45, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Overboard movie poster shown, but not listed with the filmography, fixed 7 Jan 2006

01/24: Some jackass changed the movie titles for 'Strongest Man in the World' to 'Gayest Man' and 'The Computer Wore...' to 'Brian wore...'. Changed it back. CvdB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.210.184 (talk) 08:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Photograph
I like how the photo chosen was from (in my opinion) an awful movie. Is this the best we can do, or is it for comic relief? I can appreciate comedy, but come on. Perhaps a headshot from a press release?--MUSpud2 20:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You didn't like Stargate? Oh well, some people I suppose.  Anyway an official headshot would probably be better anyway.--WhereAmI 03:04, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Filmography incomplete
My earliest memoriy of Kurt Russell is from an episode of Lost in Space. If anyone knows the details, can they please add it to the filmography? Raichu2 12:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Another missing entry is "Storefront Lawyers". In November 1971 he played a young undiagnosed dyslexic. This show was an exceptional even in my life. I was 20 and I had suffered all of my life not knowing that I 'had' (have) dyslexia. I attempted to edit the main article, but someone removed my edit. This show was a revelation to many dyslexics. I know 5 who discovered dyslexia through this single episode. It was a ground breaking TV moment and Mr. Russel should be credited with such a good performance of a dyslexic. Non dyslexics have no idea how confusing it is to be dyslexic, especially when they do no know that dyslexia exists and what it typically means. wn4isx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.143.208.248 (talk) 18:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I was the editor who removed your addition. I've done some more poking around, and I can now see the problem. The series had two names, Storefront Lawyers and Men at Law. Apparently, Men at Law was the later title and the "right" title. So, I'm going to add an entry to Russell's filmography for the episode, but one episode doesn't belong in the body as it's just not sufficiently notable. Now, if you can find sources that indicate that this episode had a signicant impact on dyslexics, that would be great, but your personal reaction and those of others can't be reflected in Wikipedia - sorry about that.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Russell & 65daysofstatic
What's the film Stealth Bomber? Does it really exist or it is a legend made up by 65daysofstatic? I've found no information about this film. BiOBER 17:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Kurt Russel.jpg
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Photograph2
That photograph is awful. He's not facing the camera. --84.71.35.120 22:36, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

The Thing
Does The Thing count as a remake of the film or is it a reinterpretation of the original novel??? TinyMark 21:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Nick Nolte
What is the reason for mentioning Nick Nolte in the small portion about him screentesting for the role of Han Solo?JoeyFNK 23:17, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Patrick Swayze
On a Detroit Talk Show this morning, someone mentioned that Kurt Russell's mother and Patrick Swayze's mother are sisters. Anyone know if it's true? If so, it's notable for both Kurt and Patrick. --Lorraine LeBeau (talk) 21:20, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Added "Dreamer" credit
On June 11, 2010, I added the credit for Russell's role in the film "Dreamer". Xin Jing (talk) 21:32, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Political party
"Russell is a prominent member of the Libertarian Party, a political party in the United States which favors minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration across borders, and non-interventionism in foreign policy that respects freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries.[8] He claims that he was often an viewed as an outcast in Hollywood because of his libertarian views, so he and Hawn moved to an area outside Aspen, Colorado where he has tried his hand at writing (he co-wrote the screenplay for Escape from L.A.)."

To me the first sentence is a run on. I think it has no relevance to the article and should be removed. Or at least revised.-- in te la ti 23:46, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * done-- in te la ti 00:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Planet of origin
I'm pretty sure he's not "an Alien from Mars" so I went ahead and removed that. Though I could be wrong. Maybe someone is sensitive to some top secret government information that I'm not. He was in Stargate, after all. Maybe he was trying to tell us something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.28.237.131 (talk) 04:24, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Personal Life
"In 1983, in the middle of his divorce from Hubley, Russell re-connected with Goldie Hawn on the set of the film Swing Shift, and they have been in a relationship ever since." No prior mention was made of Russell and Hawn meeting. I do know that they met on the set of "The One And Only Genuine Original Family Band", but that information is not in the article. 72.208.136.174 (talk) 21:48, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Second name
Is his second name really "Vogel"? Or it's a joke? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.69.54.173 (talk) 08:05, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No joke. I've added a ref. -- Neil N   talk to me  13:19, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Vogel means "bird" (German) 88.134.37.238 (talk) 05:42, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Baseball career
In 1972, Russell was signed by the California Angels and played at their short-season Single-A affiliate in Walla Walla, Washington....he didn't play for the Bend Rainbows. He had a good enough year to get a promotion to the El Paso Sun Kings of the AA Texas League the next season. Then, early in the 1973 season while playing for El Paso, that collision referenced in the article did occur. However, it did not lead to his immediate retirement from baseball. Doctors who examined Russell told the Angels that he'd never be able to play again, and the Angels released him. That didn't end his career. Later that season, he joined the Independent team in Portland, Oregon, the Mavericks, who played in the short-season Single-A Northwest League (the same league that had the Walla Walla franchise). That team was owned by his father, Bing Russell. He didn't play nearly as well as he did with El Paso and decided to go back to acting for a couple years. In 1977, he took one more shot at reviving his baseball career, getting one at-bat for the Mavericks that season. It was after that at-bat when he finally decided to retire from baseball, not in 1973, as the article incorrectly states. A few years back, Russell appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and spoke of his baseball career. He specifically mentioned a situation where he and a couple of teammates "got even" with an umpire they didn't like by introducing him to a "loose woman" who had a sexually-transmitted disease (either syphilis or VD, I forget which). He joked that his teammates slept with the woman first to make sure she had the disease (and drew a huge laugh from Letterman and the audience) before introducing her to the umpire. During the appearance, Russell did not mention for which team he was playing when they plotted revenge against the umpire. However, being a Portland, Oregon, resident nearly all of my life, I would guess that the umpire revenge scenario occurred here in Portland during Russell's time with the Mavericks. I edited the Kurt Russell entry to state those facts above, but, rather than research it yourselves, the editors at Wikipedia deleted the truth. All the editors had to do was to check BaseballReference.com, Minor Leagues and Worldwide Pants, Inc., Letterman's production company, to confirm that what I wrote is true. I even included attribution but the edit was still deleted. This has led to me constantly and correctly saying that Wikipedia has a "War on the Truth". So, since you don't want to believe me in writing the truth about Russell, how about if Wikipedia does their own research and include it in the entry? I'm not holding my breath, however. Wikipedia's editors are too lazy to do their own research and even deleted my edit with attributions. This has been my problem with Wikipedia. Your standards are inconsistent...you say that you want attribution, yet, when you get it, you still delete it anyway. And, more than 90% of Wikipedia's entries are subject to "open editing". But, deleting edits with attribution defeats that purpose. It seems to me that you have a choice: either allow "open editing" or close editing down and use submissions from the talk pages to add information to the entries. 76.105.145.42 (talk) 02:28, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Why isn't Kurt's baseball career mentioned in this article at all? It was the subject of a Netflix documentary? -- Jim

High Chaparral
Kurt played Dan, the son of Johnny Rondo, in the episode titled "Guns of Johnny Rondo" of The High Chaparral television series, Season 3, Episode 18. I believe this was 1970, but I noticed it is not in his list of credits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.127.237.21 (talk) 02:12, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Furious 7
Editor 175.137.37.120 reverted my revert on this subject. I took on this edit as a pending changes reviewer, and I reverted because the movie article Furious 7 states that the character's name is Frank Petty, not Mr. Nobody—and that fact is supported by a reference in the movie article, which I will bring over here.

I don't necessarily claim to know more about the subject than editor 175.137.37.120–on the contrary. But if s/he believes that her/his information is correct, then s/he must (a) provide a different reference, and (b) change both the movie article and this article, including the reference.

Thank you to for your support in this.

StevenJ81 (talk) 14:00, 3 April 2015 (UTC)