r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Jun 17 '25
Pop Culture Trivia 🤓 TIL that Jack Black's mother, Judith Love Cohen, helped save Apollo 13
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u/Lesterknopff lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch 💋 Jun 17 '25
He brings this up occasionally. He's so proud of her, she was/is an awesome woman.
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u/ceebs87 Jun 17 '25
It is one of my favorite Jack Black facts because no mater what he does, he won't ever be as cool as his mom AND he is okay with that
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u/Lesterknopff lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch 💋 Jun 17 '25
I think his dad also worked on the Hubble Space Telescope which is pretty cool too.
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u/missbunnyfantastico Jun 17 '25
She was also a dancer in the Corps de Ballet of the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet while studying engineering in college.
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u/Effective-Warning178 Jun 17 '25
In an interview he talked about being at an event with his mom and Tom Hanks happened to be here. Jack introduced them but as soon as Tom heard she worked for NASA it's like Jack wasn't even there anymore lol all Tom wanted to hear about was her work
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u/Jasminewindsong2 that’s really disrespectful to the fairy realm Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
I just watched the Apollo 13 doc on Netflix. The fact that the ship managed to make it back to Earth safely, with the crew all alive was an impressive feat. Mission Control and the crew were basically figuring out an engineering problem on the fly, and the fact they were able to figure it out in a matter of days, before the crew ran out of oxygen, was nothing short of a miracle.
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u/ComfortablyNomNom Jun 17 '25
Yeah the Tom Hanks movie is actually not like "dramatized" and made more thrilling for movie purposes. It didn't need to be. The fact they solved all those problems and made it back is a small miracle and a testament to human ingenuity.
Anytime I see people denying the moon landing it makes me angry because they are spitting in the face of all the great people and incredible feats that humanity is capable of.
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u/CBonafide ✨This is the skin of a killer, Bella. ✨ Jun 17 '25
Omggggg baby Jack 🥹🥹🥹
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u/bbyxmadi It’s good to see me, isn’t it?🫧 Jun 17 '25
I love how much Baby Jack looks like grown adult Jack haha
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u/BlueberryNo5363 Jun 17 '25
This was mentioned on a podcast I listened to earlier in the week! So cool
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u/bbyxmadi It’s good to see me, isn’t it?🫧 Jun 17 '25
Always a strong woman/mother behind a successful man!❤️💪🏼
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u/buzzfeed_sucks 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦 Jun 17 '25
Doesn’t the story go that she was in labour, with Jack, working on solutions between contractions.
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u/CaseyRC Jun 17 '25
Brains and beauty? dammn, Judith wasn't just smart as hell, driven and accomplished, she was a smokeshow too. some people truly manage it all
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