The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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