FX’s acclaimed anthology drama was set in 2006 for its Emmy-winning debut season last year, and then the action shifted to 1979 for its current second season. News just in.....
Season 3 of Fargo will take place a “couple of years after Season 1,” which took place in 2006. And here’s how Fawley answered when asked by EW if we’d be seeing familiar characters coming back for the new story, and whether there are clues to the plot embedded in Season 2.
"Potentially…There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to the movie and the second year was connected to the first, but I think part of the fun is figuring that stuff out and I wouldn’t want to take that away from anybody. There will be definitely things that connect to something in our story." Noah Hawley READ FULL STORY IN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Evergleam aluminum Christmas trees were all the rage in the early 1960s. The Manitowoc-made trees were anything but natural - artsy, space-aged, jaw-dropping.
The aluminum Christmas tree is a type of artificial Christmas tree that was popular in the United States from 1958 until about the mid-1960s. As its name suggests, the tree is made of aluminum, featuring foil needles and illumination from below via a rotating color wheel.
The poor aluminum Christmas tree was rendered "uncool" as it was the symbol of the commercialization of Christmas in the highly acclaimed and successful 1965 television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. The cartoon discredited its suitability as a holiday decoration.
By the mid-2000s with a fabulous boost in all that is "retro" aluminum trees found a a new market online, often selling for high premiums. The trees have also appeared in museum collections. They are much more lush and beautiful than the old trees of the 1960s. Costly but gorgeous...
By 1989, it was not uncommon to find aluminum Christmas trees for sale in yard sales or at estate sales being sold for as little as 25 cents.
In recent years the aluminum Christmas tree has seen a re-emergence in popularity. Collectors began buying and selling the trees, especially on online auction web sites.
A rare 7-foot-tall pink aluminum Christmas tree sold on the Internet for $3,600 in 2005
“This is the tree that Lucy referenced in the Charlie Brown special; she wanted to get an aluminum tree, perhaps painted pink,”
The VW Pea (sorry, you can't buy one - it was commissioned by Bird's Eye for a commercial) It started out as a VW Microbus, but was modified into a pea.
The Pea car first appeared in a Birds Eye television advertisement in December 2005.
London-based special effects company, Asylum, took six weeks to build the car using a heavily modified chassis from an off-road go-kart fitted with a Honda engine.
Weighing just 750kg, it was capable of 50mph/80.47kph even though it had no gears. Whilst bearing a Volkswagen resemblance, only the headlights were sourced from a beetle. The indicators are of lancia origin, wing mirrors from a specialist shop and all other parts were made to order.
The advert showed the car driving straight from the farmer's field but slowly losing its body parts along the road. The car reaches its destination as just a bare chassis. Then from the back of a refrigerated lorry emerges a brand new pea car. A voice over narrates how vegetables lose vitamins from the moment they are picked whereas Birds Eye peas are immediately frozen thus retaining essential vitamins.”
Pea Car took 6 weeks to build
Pea Car was the brainchild of Matt Waller and Dave Monk, a creative team at advertising agency BBH
The Pea Car concept was then brought to life by the brand team of Muriel MacCallum and Sofia Costa at Birds Eye
Pea Car weighs about 750kg
Pea Car has no gears
Pea Car was based on the chassis of an off-road go-kart that was heavily modified for the purposes for the tv spot
The head-lamps came from a VW Beetle
The wing-mirrors came from a specialist shop
The indicators came from a Lancia
The green paint of the pea car is pantone 369c
The maximum speed of Pea Car is approximately 50 mph
Pea Car is not legal to drive on the roads - all roads used on the shoot were closed off to other traffic.
A stunt driver was used to drive Pea Car
Pea Car had no working doors so the driver has to be secured into the car
Pea Car had 12 panels that were specifically built to come off, including doors and the boot.
All the hub-caps could come off, the sun roof and rear bumper as well as the wing mirror and the exhaust
Pea Car is now on display at the Unilever Ice cream and Frozen Foods Co. in Walton on Thames
The new GOT trailer features the Three-Eyed Raven speaking to Bran Stark. We see photos of Jon Snow and many of the former cast from the first five seasons.
Bran leaves us with the teaser, “They have no idea what’s going to happen.”We cannot wait!
