Mobile, Alabama in popular culture  Mobile, Alabama features prominently in baseball lore, with more players in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame than any city except New York and Los Angeles. The list includes Hank Aaron, Ozzie Smith, and Satchel Paige. Singer Jimmy Buffett is another famous Mobilian, as is Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Inc.  Mobile is occasionally featured in movies and in literature, such as HBO's "The Pacific" miniseries, the film "Driving Miss Daisy" and the novel "Forrest Gump". Mobile is also the setting for one of the most famous lines of the American Civil War. During the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, Admiral David Farragut is said to have uttered: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" Mobile, Alabama was originally settled at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff, and is credited with the beginning of the annual celebration of Mardi Gras started by Nicholas Langlois in 1703. Mobile was then the Capitol of Louisiana. Mardi Gras was later annually celebrated in New Orleans in 1709. Joe Cain started the modern celebration of Mardi Gras in Mobile in 1866. (6)ref-CNN Fact Check. Many scenes in director Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" were filmed in Mobile—in the Bankhead Tunnel, in a large hangar at the Brookley Aeroplex (alien mothership arrival) and some exterior shots near the hangar, and in a West Mobile suburb (exteriors at the Neary residence). Nearby Bay Minette stood in for Moorcroft, Wyoming in the rail-station evacuation scene. The opening scenes of "The Final Destination" were filmed at Mobile International Speedway, in nearby Irvington, Alabama  Most of the Steven Seagal movie "Under Siege" (co-starring Tommy Lee Jones) was filmed on the , which is docked on Mobile Bay at Battleship Memorial Park and open to the public. In the movie "Driving Miss Daisy", Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy) has her driver Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) drive her to her brother's birthday party in Mobile. Much of the feature films "Love Liza" (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman), and "Hometown Legend" (starring Terry O'Quinn), and the TV movie "Sacrifice" (starring Michael Madsen and Diane Farr) were shot in Mobile. Brian Bosworth's movie "Stone Cold" also featured scenes shot in Mobile.