John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice, in the movie 'Hercules', was dubbed.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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In Ice Age, the drawings of characters during the end credit roll - and Sid's drawing of himself on a wall - were all done by the children of the animators.
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The first guy to win Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (USA) used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his dad. During the call, he told his dad he didn't need any help on the final question, but he just wanted to let him know that he was about to win $1,000,000.
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