Bio on slim pickens

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Bio on slim pickens

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So the boy said, 'That's as good a name as any, I reckon-put me down as Slim Pickin's'. Peter Sellers was originally going to ride the atom bomb in Dr. Slim got a phone call late one evening from Stanley Kubrick : "Peter has fallen and broken his hip, I need you for a day's shoot--I need you bad and I need you now. How soon can you get on a plane and make it to London?

Slim obliged and in his haste forgot that he didn't have a passport because he had never traveled outside the US before. His entrance was delayed while he had to go through the process of getting one before he was allowed to leave the airport. Pickens declined, saying that after enduring Kubrick's notorious style of multiple retakes in Dr. Subsequently, the role of Halloran went to Scatman Crothers.

Although he was known for his heavy Southern drawl, leading many to believe he was from Texas or Oklahoma, he was actually born in Kingsburg, CA--not far from Fresno--and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley. After [ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ], the roles, the dressing rooms and the checks all started gettin' bigger.

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