obscure movie links

one thing that's always struck me as a dorkily fun thing is finding obscure links between movies. not just like "oh, nicolas cage was in Valley Girl before he starred in anything (not counting Fast Times at Ridgemont High of course), but things like...

Emperor Palpatine from the new Star Wars films played the butler in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

the woman who played the reporter in CB4 was also the wife in Spawn.

or that both Ween and Pantera have had musical guest-bits on Spongebob Squarepants.

there are plenty more. i'll post more as i come across them.