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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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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In 1997, Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and he had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.
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The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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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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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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