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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Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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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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There is a cup of coffee in every scene of the movie Fight Club.
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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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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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