Another adaptation, Sleepless, a Musical Romance, debuted in 2020, with no connection to Archer’s stage script. Written by Archer, Sleepless in Seattle - The Musical debuted at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2013 and has been staged a few times since. In 1990, I said, ‘I’m going to make them do that.’ That’s such a great power!” I got it in my head in 1978 that they could change the lights on the building. Twenty-five years later, they did it for real. Archer was ecstatic about the occasion, saying , “In the movie, they had to do that digitally. On the movie’s 25th anniversary in 2018, the Empire State Building was lit up with Valentine’s Day colors to celebrate the film. Not for nothing, indiscretion is my middle name.” 19 Lighting Up the Empire State Building “It has been hell, and I have dealt with the situation by telling pretty much anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was. “For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep Throat’s identity,” Ephron wrote. She wrote about harboring Mark Felt’s secret identity in a piece for HuffPost, saying that she figured out her former husband Carl Bernstein’s codes for Deep Throat and deduced that it was Felt. PlayĢ0 Ephron Was Married to One of the Watergate JournalistsĮphron was a journalist herself and knew who Deep Throat was long before the public learned his identity. The director would later cast Posey in her dark Christmas comedy, Mixed Nuts, and opposite Hanks in You’ve Got Mail. It was Posey’s first Hollywood job, and the actress said that Ephron wrote her a letter to apologize for giving her scene the chop. Yeah, we know, how dare they? In this delightful deleted scene that sees Hanks sing a rendition of “Twelve Days of Christmas” laced with veiled threats of destroying every radio in the house, Posey pops up as a “concerned neighbor” checking in on the Baldwins. Play 27 The Deleted Scene Featuring Parker Posey Foster then considered Kim Basinger, but by the time Ephron came on board to rewrite the script and also direct, she insisted that they cast Ryan and Hanks as the leads after seeing their chemistry in Joe Versus the Volcano. Producer Gary Foster thought it might be a good idea to cast Ryan alongside her then-husband, Dennis Quaid, but production took a while to kick off, and Ryan initially decided to move on. Julia Roberts was approached to play Annie but turned it down to do Pretty Woman instead. PlayĪs most castings go, a couple of alternatives were thrown around before the filmmakers settled on Hanks and Ryan. They got the helicopter shot and the lobby scene on film but ended up shooting the scene where Annie and Sam finally meet back in Seattle, where the crew turned an old Navy base into a sound stage, as there were none in the city at the time. ![]() Ephron asked the publicist to put in a request at their behest, and Helmsley gave them six hours to complete the shoot. Co-writer and director Nora Ephron, however, knew the publicist who represented Leona Helmsley, the widow of Harry Helmsley, who at that point owned the building and was serving time in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. 29 Leona Helmsley Gave Her Blessing to Shoot at the Empire State BuildingĪt first, the filmmakers were denied permission to shoot the iconic sequence at the Empire State Building. I feel strongly about this, Becky it’s not just about the soup.” It was a joke that, back then, only New Yorkers would’ve appreciated. During the pitch meeting at Annie’s work, one of the writers mentions him, saying, “This man sells the greatest soup you have ever eaten, and he is the meanest man in America. Two years before Seinfeld would make Ali “Al” Yeganeh, aka the “Soup Nazi,” famous (outside of New York), Sleepless in Seattle mentioned him. 30 It Was the First On-screen Mention of the ‘Soup Nazi’ To celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, let’s plunge into some trivia about Sleepless in Seattle. It’s the 1993 rom-com that is undoubtedly one of the genre’s best and gave us another Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan team-up. Ĭlick right here to get the best of Cracked sent to your inbox. ![]() The movie has everything: Terrible suitors, lovable best friends, sardonic humor and even that classic 1990s plot that sees a boy ending up in New York City all alone. ![]() Heartwarming, harassing 20th-century comedy at its best. ![]() The story sees a young boy named Jonah, who had recently lost his mom, call up a radio station to talk about his grieving dad and essentially cause thousands of singletons to shower the man’s mailbox with desperate love letters. Thought of by many as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, Sleepless in Seattle has the sort of premise that, today, would probably get a person roasted on Twitter.
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