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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Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice, in the movie 'Hercules', was dubbed.
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Jerry Seinfeld turned down US$5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the Seinfeld show for a tenth season.
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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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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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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 TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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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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