Talk:Kurt Russell

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.--intelati 23:46, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

done--intelati 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. --NeilN ^{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)

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 Wikiisawesome (talk · contribs) for your support in this.

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

Picture

We need to find some pictures from him in his younger days. He looked dramatically different back while filming Miracle on Ice