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The singer from the band The Pretty Reckless who does the song Heaven Knows is the little girl from the 2000 Grinch movie.
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Boy, this one sure came around to be relevant again.
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Michael Stipe, the singer for REM was originally going to play John Doe in Seven before having to drop out and get replaced with Kevin Spacey.
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The leading cause of death for preteens in Ohio is suicide.
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It would have worked. He also used Dwight Yoakam in Panic Room. Yoakam was absolutely phenomenal in Sling Blade. He managed to be absolutely repulsive and, weirdly, somehow likable at the same time.
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They're a pretty ok band I saw with my wife at a bar in Phoenix one night when we were dating. Taylor Momsen (the lead singer,) flashed us as we were getting drinks at the bar nearest the stage and now every year when the Grinch comes on my wife and I say to one another"Remember when Cindy Loo showed us her tits?"
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It's Christmas, so...
It's a Wonderful Life was Jimmy Stewart's (George Bailey) first film after returning from WWII (yes, he served). He was worried about whether he would be able to do it, or act again period (he was suffering from PTSD). Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter, who was actually a chill dude) convinced him to do it. He said something like "Is it more decent to act and make people smile or drop a bomb on them?" (paraphrasing obviously).
The movie was a box office bomb.
There's a scene where Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) drunkenly walks away from the Bailey home, off screen. You hear a loud crash and he calls to George, "I'm alright hahah." That wasn't scripted: a crew member knocked over something and Mitchell played along with it.
Lionel Barrymore is from the Barrymore family of actors. He's Drew Barrymore's great-uncle.
One of the biggest reasons why It's a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic is because it was released to the public domain in 1974 when its copyright ran out; it was not renewed due to error at the Copyright Office. TV stations scrambled to get copies and they played it constantly around the holidays, because free. The copyright was finally renewed in the 90s after court battles (over who owned it exactly).
The movie was a box office bomb.
There's a scene where Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) drunkenly walks away from the Bailey home, off screen. You hear a loud crash and he calls to George, "I'm alright hahah." That wasn't scripted: a crew member knocked over something and Mitchell played along with it.
Lionel Barrymore is from the Barrymore family of actors. He's Drew Barrymore's great-uncle.
One of the biggest reasons why It's a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic is because it was released to the public domain in 1974 when its copyright ran out; it was not renewed due to error at the Copyright Office. TV stations scrambled to get copies and they played it constantly around the holidays, because free. The copyright was finally renewed in the 90s after court battles (over who owned it exactly).
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Another It's a Wonderful Life fact: The FBI investigated the writer and cast of the film because some dipshit in Washington thought it was a Communist plot to discredit bankers.
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After the discovery of the iguanodon dinosaur, the creature has gone through several alterations to how it looked. In 1827 it was depicted as a quadrupidal dinosaur with a horn on its nose but by 1857 the horn had been corrected and moved to it's thumb. From 1856 to as late as 1969 many palentologists believed it was strictly a quadruped before finally giving it a bipedial gait. In more modern times it was finally made conclusive that the dinosaur could walk with both gaits staying on four legs most of it's life, rearing up on two to reach high tree branches or flee from predators.
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The oldest surviving recording of a President's voice is a wax cylinder of Rutherford Hayes introducing himself. Thought the previous president Ulysses s grant was still alive when Wax cylinder recording was invented there's no record of him speaking or any evidence to suggest the possibility that he ever made a record of his voice.
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Michael Bay was offered to direct Saving Private Ryan, but he declined. He later directed Armageddon, which topped Saving Private Ryan as the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide.
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In Saudi Arabia, gynecologists (and sometimes obstetricians) regularly have to provide certificates certifying the virginity of their patient to families, so they can present it to the groom and his family when they're marrying their female relative off.
As a number of doctors in Saudi Arabia (and more than likely other ME countries) are foreigners from more civilized areas, I imagine a large portion of these certificates are faked to keep the patient from being killed.
As a number of doctors in Saudi Arabia (and more than likely other ME countries) are foreigners from more civilized areas, I imagine a large portion of these certificates are faked to keep the patient from being killed.
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A good video on the copyright case(and the production of the movie) for those interested.
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Was going through the thread to catch up and this actually relates to It's a Wonderful Life, which I oc posted about earlier.
It's a Wonderful Life broke the Hayes Code and got away with it, which was pointed out on SNL a while back.
It's a Wonderful Life broke the Hayes Code and got away with it, which was pointed out on SNL a while back.
The Hayes Code dictated that the "villain(s)" couldn't profit from their crime or general evil-doing, like getting away with it, unless the villain repented. The villain basically either had to repent, get caught and therefore punished somehow, or die.
When Uncle Billy goes to deposit the Building and Loan's money (which I think was from shares) he accidentally gives the check to Mr. Potter when he hands him back a newspaper. As the money belongs to other people, its absence and being lost would cause Uncle Billy and George, or at least one of them, to go to prison and the B&L to close. When Mr. Potter finds out Billy accidentally gave the check to him, he realizes this, and keeps the check, as he either wants to own the B&L or see it close. Nobody finds out what happened to the check and Potter never tells, so he got away with it. I think in the radio version of IAWL Potter actually tells someone but pays them to shut up.
An argument can be made that Potter didn't actually steal the money (again, Billy unwittingly gave it to him), which might be why it got past the Hayes Code, BUT he didn't give it back, which is at the very least dishonesty.
When Uncle Billy goes to deposit the Building and Loan's money (which I think was from shares) he accidentally gives the check to Mr. Potter when he hands him back a newspaper. As the money belongs to other people, its absence and being lost would cause Uncle Billy and George, or at least one of them, to go to prison and the B&L to close. When Mr. Potter finds out Billy accidentally gave the check to him, he realizes this, and keeps the check, as he either wants to own the B&L or see it close. Nobody finds out what happened to the check and Potter never tells, so he got away with it. I think in the radio version of IAWL Potter actually tells someone but pays them to shut up.
An argument can be made that Potter didn't actually steal the money (again, Billy unwittingly gave it to him), which might be why it got past the Hayes Code, BUT he didn't give it back, which is at the very least dishonesty.
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John Roebling, the engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, was a huge miser who gave his children itemized bills for their food, clothing, toys, education, etc. every year for their birthday. During the early planning stages of the bridge's construction, Roebling's foot was smashed in an industrial accident and his toes had to be amputated. To save money, Roebling went through the surgery without anesthesia, and also refused to let them suture or bandage the wound because he thought they'd overbill him. Instead, he kept his mangled foot submerged in a bucket of water. New York City water being as filthy as it is, he swiftly contracted tetanus and died a week later.
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Romanian is one of the five main Romance languages. It is the most forgotten of the five, which is ironic because it literally has "Roman" in the name.
None of the jurors in 12 Angry Men (1957) are alive today. The first one to die was Joseph Sweeney (#9) who died in 1963, and the last was Jack Klugman (#5), who died in 2012.
None of the jurors in 12 Angry Men (1957) are alive today. The first one to die was Joseph Sweeney (#9) who died in 1963, and the last was Jack Klugman (#5), who died in 2012.
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Hocus pocus was almost directed by Steven Spielberg, he turned it down because at the time he refused to work with Disney seeing them as competition to his own company amblin entertainment.
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You can fuck anything with the right size drill bit!
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The dude who voices Adon in the English dub of the 97’ anime adaption of Berserk is the same dude who voices doctor egg man in the Sonic games.
Also Kiwi fruits have the same effect as catnip on cats. Some Asian countries put kiwi extract in cat toys because it’s much cheaper and more readily available there.
Also Kiwi fruits have the same effect as catnip on cats. Some Asian countries put kiwi extract in cat toys because it’s much cheaper and more readily available there.