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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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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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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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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The police were called 91 times during the filming of the movie "Borat".
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Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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While filming a guest appearance on Star Trek TNG, Stephen Hawking was taken on a tour of the USS Enterprise set. When he saw the Warp Core, he paused, and said “I’m working on that.”
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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