The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

India's movie industry, Bollywood, is the largest in the world producing over eight hundred movies a year. Hollywood only produces half of this number in a year.

The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling.  Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back!  Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me , in that order.

The Godfather, Part II is often cited as the only sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. However, this is untrue - Silence of the Lambs, sequel to Manhunter, shares that distinction.

The Blair Witch Project used the "f-word" 133 times.

The first CD pressed in the United States for commercial release was Bruce Springsteen's, Born in the USA.

The Russian Imperial Necklace has been loaned out by Joseff jewelers of Hollywood for 1,215 different feature films.

The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anesthesia, and was then painted blue and red.

The Simpsons is the longest running TV cartoon in the world. It has also had over 300 celebrities featured.

The Academy Awards were held twice in 1930.

The first presidential news conference filmed for TV was in 1955 when Eisenhower was president.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's, Its A Wonderful Life.

When an orange is shown in any of the Godfather movies, it means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur.

Released in 2002, the science fiction comedy The Adventures of Pluto Nash was the biggest Hollywood bomb in history in terms of profit/loss. The movie had a gross budget of $100 million but only earned $4.41 million at the U.S. box-office.
 
Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of television, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.

The stage where the television sitcom Friends is shot on is said to be haunted.

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.

The world's first drive-in theatre opened in Camden, N.J. in June, 1933; the fourth drive-in was located on Pico in Los Angeles, California and opened in September, 1934.

Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.

Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run syndicated show in the history of television. It spanned over four decades, from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, airing every Saturday night at 7:00.

The ruby red slippers in the movie The Wizard of Oz were sold at an auction for $660,000.

The first kiss in a movie was between May Irwin and John Rice in The Widow Jones, in 1896.

The first time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, I'll Never Forget Whatshisname.  In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, Scarface, the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.

For the movie Tootsie actor Dustin Hoffman thought of the title. His mother used to call him that as a child.

Reserves from the Irish army were used as extras in the movie Braveheart.

In 1933, Mickey Mouse is believed to have received 800,000 fan letters.

Movies approximately make five times more from video sales than ticket sales.

The MGM lion, whose name was Leo, lived in Memphis until his death.

Adjusting for inflation, the 1963 film Cleopatra, is the most expensive movie ever made.  Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to about 300 million dollars today.

In the movie The Exorcist the vomit that Regan, played by Linda Blair, hurls at Father Damien Karras is thick pea soup.

A "special" Academy Award was granted to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that consisted of one regular sized award and seven smaller sized awards. 

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