In Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald was played by English actor Gary Oldman.
Oldman played a role in a Season 7 episode of Friends -- his character, who is acting opposite Joey, has come to work drunk so they have to keep starting scenes over, and Joey's stressing because he's going to be late to Monica and Chandler's wedding.
At one point the Oldman character bemusedly discovers, "I'm -- wearing two belts!"
Also in JFK is Laurie Metcalf, who played Roseanne's sister in that series during the '80s and '90s.
Tommy Lee Jones (Coal Miner's Daughter) and Joe Pesci (Goodfellas) are in JFK, as well.
When streaming JFK, if you hover the cursor on the left side of the screen, it gives you printed info about the film:
At 1:03:39 -- Veteran movie critic for The Washingtonian Pat Dowell had her thirty-four-word capsule review for the January issue rejected by editor John Limpert, a known opponent of the film. Limpert didn't want a positive review for a film that he regarded as treacherous. Dowell resigned in protest.
At 1:04:59 -- Even before this movie had finished filming, the Washington Post national security correspondent George Lardner showed up on-set and wrote a scathing article attacking the movie. Lardner based this on the first draft screenplay he had read. Other leading newspapers followed suit upon the film's release, many taking particular umbrage with the liberties with the facts that Oliver Stone had taken.
(Maybe that "Camelot" reference that came too early...?)
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