Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
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C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
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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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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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