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The Matrix Reloaded is banned in Egypt because of its content?
James Bond code number 007 temporarily become 7777 in You Only Live Twice?
James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a spy for the British Navy during World War II?
Lost is the most expensive television show ever filmed?
Lost was filmed in Hawaii?
Bruce Lee had to slow down his movements so the camera could catch the action?
Steve McQueen was considered to play the lead role for Dirty Harry?
The movie "American Werewolf in Paris" was filmed in Luxembourg?
Kirk Douglas and Samuel L. Jackson used to be cheerleaders in their childhood?
The first Oscar for Special Effects was awarded in 1940?
The film Mary Poppins was shot entirely indoors?
Sylvester Stallone earned $23,000 for the film Rocky in 1976?
The badge-number of Dirty Harry is 2211?
The Hollywood sign cost $21,000 to build?
Oprah Winfrey was the first African American woman to win the title Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville, 1971?
Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies?
The actor George Clooney is very scared of earthquakes?
Bruce Lee was born in the U.S. but he was raised in Hong Kong?
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone?
John Wayne's neck was 18 inches long?
Jennifer Aniston lived in Greece for a year during childhood?
Tom Cruise given name at birth was Thomas Cruise Mapother IV?
Cary Grant never said, "Judy, Judy, Judy" in any movie?
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton?
Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are left-handed?
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot?
Just some odd facts I found on this link..

http://www.zilvan.com/funnyfacts/facts_about_films_and_tv.htm

Darren McGavin turned down the lead roles in Hogan's Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie and Run for Your Life

Jack Lord turned down the role Captain James T. Kirk

Martin Landau turned down the role Mr. Spock

Peter Falk and Sandy Duncan each have a glass eye

The original choice to host The Twilight Zone was Orson Welles

Gene Hackman was the first choice to play Mike Brady

John Banner (SGT Schultz) died on his birthday (Jan 28th)

The first choice to play Matt Dillon was Denver Pyle

Jerry Van Dyke turned down the role of Gilligan for My Mother the Car

Amos N' Andy stars Tim Moore (George 'Kingfish' Stevens) & Spencer Williams Jr (Andy Brown) died on Dec 13th. Moore in 1958 and Williams in 1969

Earl Holliman is the only actor (that I'm aware of) to star in the debuts of 2 series on the same network & on the same night. On Friday Oct 2nd 1959, His series Hotel De Paree premiered on CBS and later that evening, He starred in the first Twilight Zone episode "Where Is Everybody?"

hi. Very interesting post.
here's some actors who were lefthanded;
Edward Arnold Eddie Albert Charlie Chaplin Cary Grant Jessie Matthews Mary Tyler Moore Shirley Ross Dick van Dyck and William Powell. Dorothy Lee was ambidextrous.
George Bush is left handed, not the present president, his father,

Those are pretty interesting!

cool facts

interesting, but the one about the first couple to be shown in bed together is wrong; depending who you talk to. Some people say it was "Mary Kaye & Johnny" a couple who starred in a sitcom with the same name, in 1949. But some people don't count that, since they were married in real life as well. And some people don't count Fred and Wilma Flintstone; since they were animated. (guess they think animated characters don't have sex:lol: :lol: ) And, some people say it was Fred & Ethel in a Jan, 1954 episode of "I LOVE LUCY" but, again, some people don't count that since it was just in one episode and one scene.
But, it was actually Samantha and Darrin Stevens on the pilot episode of "BEWITCHED" in 1964.
However the guy who runs tvobscurities.com says that it was Ozzie and Harriet Nelson on an episode of "THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET". He says that he's never read or heard that, but he remembers a scene in an episode where Ricky or David came home from a date and was talking to them while O and H were in bed.

MASH used the same outdoor set for both the movie and TV show.

Robert Kino****a was the designer of both Robby the Robot from the movie Forbidden Planet (1956) and Robot B9 from Lost in Space (TV) ( You might notice many similarities from the waist up )
Robby actually played "guest Robot" on two eps of the LIS TV series

That should say Robert Kino.s.h.ita ^^^^ (Darn autocensorship!) :crazy:

Robert Kino****a was the designer of both Robby the Robot from the movie Forbidden Planet (1956) and Robot B9 from Lost in Space (TV) ( You might notice many similarities from the waist up )
Robby actually played "guest Robot" on two eps of the LIS TV series
That was the coolest fact of all, LOL. Love the show. Robby was also seen on an episode of The Banana Splits Show and Mork & Mindy.

Robot B-9 was my childhood hero......the fact that he was totally redesigned ( though they used the same voice actor ), was one of many reasons that I hated the LIS movie, there are some things you JUST dont fool with, and Robot B-9 is No1 on that list!!!!!

I scanned it with my watch, for scale purposes

Cary Grant was the original choice to play James Bond.

if you're looking for even more really cool facts concerning Movies/tv shows/hollywood... may i suggest "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Hollywood"

really neat! Actually, there's a whole bunch of "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader..." and they are really amazing books that are very interesting to read.

for all you trekies; Gene Roddenberry first wanted DeForest Kelley to play Mr. Spock

the producers of CHEERS first wanted William Devane and Julia Duffy to play Sam & Diane. After William Devane turned the role down; they wanted Fred Dryer and Sam to be an ex-football player. After Fred Dryer was turned down, and Ted Danson got the role, they made Sam an ex-baseball player.
The bar was originally going to be set in a small town in Calif.
John Ratzenberger first auditioned for the role of Norm. After he was turned down, he asked "Hey, do you have a 'bar fly' in this show"?
"A bar fly? What's that"?
"You know, one of those guys that's always hanging around a bar, thinks he knows everything about everything, and is always 'shooting his mouth off' to everyone".


Edie Murphy was going to be in STAR TREK 4.
An early story treatment for that was going to have them go back to Dallas, Texas in Nov. 1963 and witness the Kennedy assination. Spock would have been the mysterious "second gunman" and he's remained mysterious because right after he fired the shot (he had to fire it in order to put history back on course), he beamed out.

007 were the last 3 digits in Ian Flemings phone number.