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 Jamie
Lee Curtis says plastic surgery makes her look weird and claims it is the
worst thing she’s ever done.
Keenan Ivory Wayans is
from a family of 11 children. Three brothers, Damon, Marlon, and Shawn,
and sister Kim are also in show business.
Hitler ordered tanks to
be made in Michigan and told the company to not worry about sending them
to Germany, he'd 'pick them up on his way through Detroit.
Actor Richard Gere was
considered to play the role of John McClane in the movie Die Hard.
Instead, Bruce Willis played the part.
John Holmes, star of
2,500 pornographic movies was the main suspect in the Laurel Canyon
murders in the hills above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. In what
is thought to have been a drug-related murder, four people were beaten to
death with a steel pipe on July 1, 1981. Authorities were unable to
prove Holmes was behind the atrocity. He died in 1988 from
AIDS-related complications.
 Sarah
Bernhardt, regarded as France's greatest actress, was disabled by a knee
injury. Though her leg was amputated in 1914, she continued starring
on stage until just before her death in 1923.
Actress Kate Winslet, at
age 11, appeared in a television cereal commercial frolicking with a honey
monster.
Peter
Gabriel's Sledgehammer is the most aired video in MTV history.
Canadian actress Joanna
Gleason the daughter of Monty Hall.
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in
the movie Silence of the Lambs. She turned down the role because
she found it too scary.
Kim Basinger once threw
her modeling portfolio off the Brooklyn Bridge.
George Clooney is
terrified of earthquakes.
Albert Einstein had a
learning disability and did not speak until the age of three. When he got
to school he a very difficult time in math it was very hard for him to
express himself through writing.
 When
Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
Hollywood
box office star, Tommy Lee Jones, appeared in the soap opera One Life
to Live as the character of Mark Toland, who was involved in
blackmail, numerous affairs and was wanted for murder. Jones spent four
years on the soap opera.
The Carpenters signature song, We've Only
Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a
California bank. The music played in
the background of a scene in which a newlywed couple had, of course, just
begun their lives together. Richard Carpenter saw the commercial and
sculpted it into the classic song that we know today.
Actress Liv Tyler first
realized she might be singer Steve Tyler’s daughter at the age of 11 when
she went to a Steve Tyler concert and realized how much she looked like
him.
Actress Brooke Shields’
grandfather, Francis X, was a tennis champion.
Beethoven, the composer,
was deaf.
Mel Blanc holds the
distinction as the most prolific (most projects) actor ever, with 836 film
efforts.
Johnny Mathis’ 1958
album, Johnny’s Greatest Hits, was the first Greatest Hits album
ever marketed, spending three weeks at #1 and 490 consecutive weeks on
Billboard’s Pop Album chart. That’s almost 9 ˝ years!
 Singer
Mick Jagger was once a porter at a mental hospital.
David Letterman
started his TV career as a
weekend weathercaster at an Indianapolis station.
98% of today’s popular
movies have characters that use drugs, alcohol, or tobacco.
Julia Roberts is a
vegetarian.
Chastity Bono’s only
movie role was in the 1994 film Bar Girls. In a bit part, she played “Scorp.”
George Washington could
barely write and had very poor grammar skills.
Before breaking into
films, actor Hugh Grant headed a comedy group called the Jockeys of
Norfolk.
In 1979, actor Mel Gibson
had an edge for the starring role in Mad Max because just before
the audition he had gotten into a fight and his face was badly battered.
Scientology actively
helps arrange celebrities' divorces and marriages when Scientology deems
them beneficial to Scientology. These include
Tom Cruise's divorce from Mimi Rogers and Lisa Marie Presley’s
marriage to Michael Jackson. The organization hoped to make Jackson
a Scientologist so he would recruit large numbers of youth.
Melanie Griffith's mother
is Tippi Hedren, best known for her lead role in the movie The Birds.
 When
Britney Spears checks into a hotel she uses the name Allota Warmheart
so that no-one will recognize her.
Rita Moreno is the first
and only entertainer to have received all four of America's top
entertainment industry awards including the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony, and
the Grammy.
Actor Richard Gere
attended the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship for gymnastics.
Michael di Lorenzo who is on New York Under
Cover was one of the lead dancers on Michael Jackson's Beat It
video.
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Actress
Debra Winger helped to perform the voice of E.T. in the movie E.T.
