Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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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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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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On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to prepare for his iconic role as the Joker in The Dark Knight
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According to legend, there's a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
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Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
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