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The boots eaten by Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925) were made of licorice.
Horror actor Vincent Price was also an author and gourmet cook. In 1965, he published his own cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes.
Director John Ford's last words: "May I please have a cigar?"
Before she became famous, Michelle Pfeiffer worked as a supermarket cashier.
Bing Crosby, the Best Actor Oscar winner for 1944, didn't want to attend the Oscar ceremony. He was golfing when studio flaks found him and made him attend.
Ella Fitzgerald tested for the role of the piano player (Sam) in Casablanca.
Director Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on TV's The Golden Girls.
Actress Charlize Theron and her mother have matching fish tattoos.
Before he became an actor, Christopher Walken worked as a catalog model.
Before he was a movie star, Sean Connery worked as a coffin polisher.
Sigourney Weaver was named Susan. She took her stage name from The Great Gatsby.
Tom Hanks collects typewriters from the 1940s.
The working title of Pretty Woman was "$3,000."
Christopher Walken spent the summer of 1960 as an assistant lion tamer.
Character most often portrayed on-screen: Sherlock Holmes, in at least 204 movies.
Winston Churchill, Mussolini, and Pope John Paul II all wrote movie scripts.
Samuel L. Jackson was called "Machine Gun" as a boy because of his stutter.
The average number of letters in a movie title is 17.
Stars who once worked as extras: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Sophia Loren.
Top Ten Greatest American Movies of All Time (American Film Institute):
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Shirley Temple failed a screen test for the Our Gang movie comedies.
The rain in Singin' in the Rain had milk added so that it would register better on film.
Jack Nicholson's first job in Hollywood: office boy in MGM's cartoon department.
Jude Law told Jay Leno that his name came from the Beatles song "Hey Jude."
The working title for Some Like it Hot (1959) was "Not Tonight, Josephine."
Largest number of extras used in a film: more than 300,000 for Gandhi (1982).
Kissing is still banned in films made in Iran.
Sean Connery started losing his hair at 21. He wears a toupee in his James Bond films.
The character James Bond was modeled after Cary Grant.
In A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise's impersonation of Jack Nicholson was not scripted.
Al Pacino's grandparents were natives of Corleone, Sicily.
Woody Allen won't use a shower if the drain is in the middle.
Jennifer Aniston made her film debut in Leprechaun (1993).
True Grit (1969) was the only film that John Wayne won an Oscar for.
Mia Farrow was on the first cover of People magazine, March 4, 1974.
At the end of Lost in Translation (2003), Bill Murray whispers something into Scarlett Johansson's ear. Neither actor has ever revealed what he said.
Robert Redford didn't see The Sting (1973) until June 2004.
Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman were roomies early in their careers. Hoffman also roomed with Robert De Niro.
Gene Kelly had a 103 degree fever as he danced in Singin' in the Rain.
Burt Reynolds and James Caan both turned down the role of Han Solo in Star Wars.
Bill Murray was considered for the role of Forrest Gump.
Harrison Ford turned down the lead male role in Jurassic Park (1993).
Burt Reynold's house in Jupiter, Florida, was once a hideaway for gangster Al Capone.
Spencer Tracy is the only actor to win the Best Actor Oscar two years in a row.
Ben-Hur (1925) was the most expensive silent movie ever made.
Luke Skywalker in Star Wars was originally written as a girl.
Clint Eastwood is also a jazz musician and self-taught piano player.
Will Ferrell's father was a longtime keyboard player for the Righteous Brothers.
Richard Gere's first three big roles were all turned down by John Travolta.
Robert De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci's rib in a sparring scene in Raging Bull.
High Noon has been screened more often at the White House than any other film.
Harrison Ford played the school principal in E.T., but his back was turned to the camera.
The word "Beatles" is never mentioned in the Beatles flick A Hard Day's Night.
Will Smith was approached for the lead in The Matrix, but turned it down for Wild Wild West.
Chris O'Donnell was offered Will Smith's role in Men in Black, but turned it down.
Dumbo is the only Disney animated film with a title character who doesn't speak.
The title for I Am Sam was inspired by the character in Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.
The lead in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) was originally written for Sylvester Stallone.
Marie Osmond turned down the female lead (Sandy) in Grease (1978).
Johnny Depp made his film debut in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
Dave Chappelle turned down the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump (1994).
Robin Williams has sometimes been credited as Sudy Nim.
Molly Ringwald was offered the role of Vivian in Pretty Woman, but she turned it down.
Marlon Brando kept the ashes of his friend comedian Wally Cox in his Tahiti home.
Mel Gibson and Tim Curry both auditioned for the role of Mozart in Amadeus (1984).
Robert Redford turned down The Graduate lead because he felt that he was too old for the part. Dustin Hoffman, who took the part, was 30 - the same age as Redford.
John Wayne's silver-and-leather hatband in True Grit originally was Gary Cooper's.
The battered hat worn by Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond was Spencer Tracy's.
Patrick Swayze was a professional ballet dancer before he became an actor.
Edgar Allan Poe has the most works turned into movies (114) of any American writer.
Elvis Presley was wanted by Robert Wise to play Tony in West Side Story.
Horror actor Vincent Price was also an author and gourmet cook. In 1965, he published his own cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes.
Director John Ford's last words: "May I please have a cigar?"
Before she became famous, Michelle Pfeiffer worked as a supermarket cashier.
Bing Crosby, the Best Actor Oscar winner for 1944, didn't want to attend the Oscar ceremony. He was golfing when studio flaks found him and made him attend.
Ella Fitzgerald tested for the role of the piano player (Sam) in Casablanca.
Director Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on TV's The Golden Girls.
Actress Charlize Theron and her mother have matching fish tattoos.
Before he became an actor, Christopher Walken worked as a catalog model.
Before he was a movie star, Sean Connery worked as a coffin polisher.
Sigourney Weaver was named Susan. She took her stage name from The Great Gatsby.
Tom Hanks collects typewriters from the 1940s.
The working title of Pretty Woman was "$3,000."
Christopher Walken spent the summer of 1960 as an assistant lion tamer.
Character most often portrayed on-screen: Sherlock Holmes, in at least 204 movies.
Winston Churchill, Mussolini, and Pope John Paul II all wrote movie scripts.
Samuel L. Jackson was called "Machine Gun" as a boy because of his stutter.
The average number of letters in a movie title is 17.
Stars who once worked as extras: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Sophia Loren.
Top Ten Greatest American Movies of All Time (American Film Institute):
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Shirley Temple failed a screen test for the Our Gang movie comedies.
The rain in Singin' in the Rain had milk added so that it would register better on film.
Jack Nicholson's first job in Hollywood: office boy in MGM's cartoon department.
Jude Law told Jay Leno that his name came from the Beatles song "Hey Jude."
The working title for Some Like it Hot (1959) was "Not Tonight, Josephine."
Largest number of extras used in a film: more than 300,000 for Gandhi (1982).
Kissing is still banned in films made in Iran.
Sean Connery started losing his hair at 21. He wears a toupee in his James Bond films.
The character James Bond was modeled after Cary Grant.
In A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise's impersonation of Jack Nicholson was not scripted.
Al Pacino's grandparents were natives of Corleone, Sicily.
Woody Allen won't use a shower if the drain is in the middle.
Jennifer Aniston made her film debut in Leprechaun (1993).
True Grit (1969) was the only film that John Wayne won an Oscar for.
Mia Farrow was on the first cover of People magazine, March 4, 1974.
At the end of Lost in Translation (2003), Bill Murray whispers something into Scarlett Johansson's ear. Neither actor has ever revealed what he said.
Robert Redford didn't see The Sting (1973) until June 2004.
Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman were roomies early in their careers. Hoffman also roomed with Robert De Niro.
Gene Kelly had a 103 degree fever as he danced in Singin' in the Rain.
Burt Reynolds and James Caan both turned down the role of Han Solo in Star Wars.
Bill Murray was considered for the role of Forrest Gump.
Harrison Ford turned down the lead male role in Jurassic Park (1993).
Burt Reynold's house in Jupiter, Florida, was once a hideaway for gangster Al Capone.
Spencer Tracy is the only actor to win the Best Actor Oscar two years in a row.
Ben-Hur (1925) was the most expensive silent movie ever made.
Luke Skywalker in Star Wars was originally written as a girl.
Clint Eastwood is also a jazz musician and self-taught piano player.
Will Ferrell's father was a longtime keyboard player for the Righteous Brothers.
Richard Gere's first three big roles were all turned down by John Travolta.
Robert De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci's rib in a sparring scene in Raging Bull.
High Noon has been screened more often at the White House than any other film.
Harrison Ford played the school principal in E.T., but his back was turned to the camera.
The word "Beatles" is never mentioned in the Beatles flick A Hard Day's Night.
Will Smith was approached for the lead in The Matrix, but turned it down for Wild Wild West.
Chris O'Donnell was offered Will Smith's role in Men in Black, but turned it down.
Dumbo is the only Disney animated film with a title character who doesn't speak.
The title for I Am Sam was inspired by the character in Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.
The lead in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) was originally written for Sylvester Stallone.
Marie Osmond turned down the female lead (Sandy) in Grease (1978).
Johnny Depp made his film debut in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
Dave Chappelle turned down the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump (1994).
Robin Williams has sometimes been credited as Sudy Nim.
Molly Ringwald was offered the role of Vivian in Pretty Woman, but she turned it down.
Marlon Brando kept the ashes of his friend comedian Wally Cox in his Tahiti home.
Mel Gibson and Tim Curry both auditioned for the role of Mozart in Amadeus (1984).
Robert Redford turned down The Graduate lead because he felt that he was too old for the part. Dustin Hoffman, who took the part, was 30 - the same age as Redford.
John Wayne's silver-and-leather hatband in True Grit originally was Gary Cooper's.
The battered hat worn by Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond was Spencer Tracy's.
Patrick Swayze was a professional ballet dancer before he became an actor.
Edgar Allan Poe has the most works turned into movies (114) of any American writer.
Elvis Presley was wanted by Robert Wise to play Tony in West Side Story.
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The Past, The Present, The Future
1 min read
The past,
Full of mistakes and dates,
Full of heart breaks and aches,
Full of hates and lates.
The Present,
Full of expectation and experimentation,
Full of imagination and rehabilitation,
Full of limitation and hesitation.
The Future,
Full of actions and advocations,
Full of inventions and imaginations,
Full of emotions and annihilation.
Full of mistakes and dates,
Full of heart breaks and aches,
Full of hates and lates.
The Present,
Full of expectation and experimentation,
Full of imagination and rehabilitation,
Full of limitation and hesitation.
The Future,
Full of actions and advocations,
Full of inventions and imaginations,
Full of emotions and annihilation.
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My Liver Transplant
2 min read
Before my liver transplant, I was a little kid at the age of 12. I mean, sure, I had my troubles in my life, like bullies, rough teachers, and brutal homework, but I was a kid. I had no true concept of the world and how dangerous and deadly it could be, until September 19, 2007, the day everyone thought I wasn't going to wake up from. Before that day, I was a normal kid, diagnosed with ADHD, parents divorced, mom remarried, three brothers, and a working family. My life was normal. The day of September 20, 2007, when I woke up, I knew I was a different person. A mature person that had grown up in the last forty-eight hours. I was a different person. My life had become so much more...complicated. I now had medications to take, appointments to go to, hospitalizations that I had to live through, and a family on the mend. I was an old soul in a young body. And the best thing of it was, I had survived despite the lines and lines of doctors that told me that I wouldn't be able to survive. I believe that the liver transplant was a miracle and I'm truly happy to be alive. Now, I tell myself every day of my life, 'I made it. I survived.'
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8 Months Of My Life
3 min read
The last eight months of my life have been eventfully impossible. I look back on them now and I wonder if that was myself or someone else. I felt no control over my life and my actions, almost as though I was possessed by a demon. It's hard to find traces of excitement in those months, either because I had none or because all of the despair, hatred, and sorrow has covered any better emotions. I did things that I never thought I would do or even could do and I ruined things that I never thought I would miss. It seems impossible that all of my actions led to the hell that I endured in the past eight months.
Now that I think about it, there was probably many emotions that were able to stir their way into my mind, but sooner or later, the euphoric emotions became clogged with darkness. There was extreme sorrow and unexpected heart-break. Infinite pain and on-going fear. Intense hatred and brutal revenge. Self-Destructive escape and never-ending punishment. Pulsing regret and tear-shedding shame. There was also beautiful success and smiling joy. Flooding relief and loving care. Supporting inspirations and helping hands. And sometimes, there was this fleeting sense of hope and a cracked slit of the sense of future happiness.
But I can also remember the people who either helped me or destroyed me or even both. There were people who would literally hold me down to the floor while using painful pressure points. These people were the ones that taught me to be careful what I did and said. There were people who did everything they could to support me no matter how many times I lashed out and fell down to the dirt. These people taught me friendship. There were people who pretended to care right to my face as they snuck behind me and stabbed me in the back. These were the people that taught me to be careful who I trust. There were even people who said that they were rooting for me, but did nothing to help me or point me in the right direction. These were the people that taught me to pick and choose others carefully. There were also people that I knew I could rely on for support and a shoulder to cry on. These were the people that taught me sympathy, empathy, love, and perseverance. It was these people that I believe helped and pushed me the most.
Now that I think about it, there was probably many emotions that were able to stir their way into my mind, but sooner or later, the euphoric emotions became clogged with darkness. There was extreme sorrow and unexpected heart-break. Infinite pain and on-going fear. Intense hatred and brutal revenge. Self-Destructive escape and never-ending punishment. Pulsing regret and tear-shedding shame. There was also beautiful success and smiling joy. Flooding relief and loving care. Supporting inspirations and helping hands. And sometimes, there was this fleeting sense of hope and a cracked slit of the sense of future happiness.
But I can also remember the people who either helped me or destroyed me or even both. There were people who would literally hold me down to the floor while using painful pressure points. These people were the ones that taught me to be careful what I did and said. There were people who did everything they could to support me no matter how many times I lashed out and fell down to the dirt. These people taught me friendship. There were people who pretended to care right to my face as they snuck behind me and stabbed me in the back. These were the people that taught me to be careful who I trust. There were even people who said that they were rooting for me, but did nothing to help me or point me in the right direction. These were the people that taught me to pick and choose others carefully. There were also people that I knew I could rely on for support and a shoulder to cry on. These were the people that taught me sympathy, empathy, love, and perseverance. It was these people that I believe helped and pushed me the most.
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