Corrected entry: The film depicts the coin toss between Valens and one of Holly's band members, Tommy Allsup, as having taken place at the airport shortly before takeoff, with Holly having tossed the coin. In real life, the coin toss took place at the Surf Ballroom when Tommy Allsup, after being asked numerous times by Valens to "let me fly", finally pulled a fifty cent coin out of his pocket and said "Call it." Valens called heads and won.
MJR09
20th Aug 2009
La Bamba (1987)
20th Aug 2009
La Bamba (1987)
Corrected entry: The bulletin of the plane crash announces J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) as being 29 at the time of his death. He was actually 28, and he would have turned 29 in October of that year, had he lived.
Correction: That's a common occurrence in real life. When a person has a birthday late in the year, like me, people usually take the year it is, minus the year of birth, and say that's the person's age, not taking into account being born in the autumn or winter. For example, 2009 - 1969 = 40, so most people would just assume the person born in 1969 is 40, not 39 about to turn 40.
It's not that common to do (and even less common at the start of the year in Jan or Feb). When people are discussing someone's age, especially famous people and their deaths, they say what their age actually is and not what age they would have been. For example, Chadwick Boseman is said to have died when he was 43, despite being 3 months from turning 44.
16th Aug 2009
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Corrected entry: When Mick is firing on his pursuers, Mick has a Lee Endfield Bolt Action .303 which he fires three continuous shots without reloading.
Correction: Dundee is using a Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III SMLE Rifle, which came with either a standard five shot or an extended 10 shot magazine. Firing three shots from such a rifle without reloading would not pose a problem.
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Correction: There are at least 3 different versions to this story, all from people who were there. We will never know what really happened with the coin toss because none of the survivors agree on it.