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Friday, August 12, 2011

Celeb / Film Three Things I Did Not Know About Samuel L. Jackson

Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:44 AM

1. Samuel L. Jackson has had the same wife for 31 years. ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!

2. Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral.

3. Samuel L. Jackson "is bald, but enjoys wearing unusual wigs in his films."

ALL GOOD THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT SAMUEL L. JACKSON.

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For some reason I can't read the drop down. But let me add Samuel L Jackson is the very embodiment of cool.

Posted by Vince on August 12, 2011 at 11:52 AM

Speaking of his hair loss, I always thought it was funny that, when Pulp Fiction was released on VHS, the promo posters and cutouts in the video stores showed him without his jheri curl wig.

Posted by Matt from Denver on August 12, 2011 at 11:54 AM

he played the french horn!

Posted by d rock

on August 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Check out the big brain on Lindy!

Posted by Gern Blanston on August 12, 2011 at 12:08 PM

A couple weeks ago the Guardian last week did a "This Much I Know" bit by Jackson. Highlights included his happiness over having gone to rehab, his pleasure at finding himself lucky enough to grow older, and this dig at Fishburne: "I'm most proud of the fact that my daughter is a well-rounded individual who has never been arrested and never been in a tabloid." Snap!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2…

Posted by gloomy gus on August 12, 2011 at 12:23 PM

Forgotten from your list:

4. Looks amazingly hot in a kilt. (the movie was crap, but man was he gorgeous)

Posted by Akbar Fazil on August 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM

I just worked with him recently and concur: he's a really cool guy. His assistant is HOT too. I have a fabulous story involving Sam, his personal trainer, and cashews where eventually he yelled, "I'm gonna eat these motherfuckin' cashews if I fuckin' want to!"

Pure gold. Love him.

Posted by jenniferjane

on August 12, 2011 at 12:44 PM

And let us not forget: no one can say "motherfucker" quite the way he can...

Posted by orino

on August 12, 2011 at 1:27 PM

and he performed here many years ago at ACT in "A Soldier's Story"

Posted by Grover on August 12, 2011 at 1:46 PM

and he narrates the audio book "Go the fuck to sleep". Perfect voice for that book.

Posted by I miss Ballard on August 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM

@7: Cashews are great for you and are motherfucking delicious.

If his trainer was living in some nutritionist dark age in which monounsaturated fats are indistiguishable from deleterious fats, then he needs to hire a new trainer.

Posted by d.p. on August 12, 2011 at 3:03 PM

Thanks for the fun facts, Lindy!

Posted by Confluence on August 12, 2011 at 3:22 PM

Exactamundo!

Posted by legacy builder on August 12, 2011 at 4:33 PM

the man was BORN to play John Shaft. AND Nick Fury.

Posted by scary tyler moore

on August 12, 2011 at 6:41 PM

@11 the conversation was about how they werent as good for him as the raw almonds. He just really wanted the cashews. They were on an insanely strict diet working out several times a day. Either way, it was fucking hilarious and I can die happy now having witnessed it.

Posted by jenniferjane

on August 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM

@15: Profoundly amazing!

Posted by d.p. on August 13, 2011 at 9:45 PM