Lima in Film and Television
Pierce Brosnan makes a reference to Lima, Ohio in The Thomas Crown Affair, however, he mispronounces it.
The hit musical comedy-drama television series Glee is set in the fictional William McKinley High School (WMHS) in Lima, Ohio.
The fictional killer of Buckwheat in 1983 episodes of Saturday Night Live, John David Stutts, was reported to be from Lima, Ohio.
Seven Days which aired on the UPN Network from October 7, 1998 – May 29, 2001, & starred Jonathan LaPaglia as Lt. Frank B. Parker; aired an episode entitled "Vows" that aired on Wednesday October 28, 1998. John Allen Nelson's character Mike Clary in the episode (who is dating Parker's ex), is from Lima, Ohio.
In October 2009, Scott Van Pelt makes a reference about Ryen Russillo being given directions to a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Lima, Ohio instead of Kirk Herbstreit's home on the Scott Van Pelt Show on ESPN 2.
The Client in the Charlie's Angels episode "Angels in Springtime" mentions that she is from Lima, Ohio.
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Famous quotes containing the words lima, film and/or television:
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)