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 Tweety
used to be a baby bird without feathers until censors made him have
feathers because he looked naked.
The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway
musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293
performances and then went on a tour that lasted nine years.
Because
of television censorship, actress Mariette Hartley was not allowed to
show her belly button on Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. Later
Roddenberry got even when he gave Hartley "two" belly buttons in the
sci-fi movie Genesis II in 1973.
The Black Hole, 1979, was Disney's
first PG-rated movie.
The first issue of People Magazine,
in 1974, cost 35 cents and featured actress Mia Farrow on the cover.
In 1987
Playtex premiered the first U.S. television commercials with real
lingerie models displaying their bras and underwear.
 Titanic
was only the second film in history to win a total of 11 Academy
Awards, the other film was Ben-Hur.
That
first Academy Awards ceremony took place during a banquet held in the
Blossom Room of the
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.
The
first annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959.
In
1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated
production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its rating has
since been changed to R.
On MTV, 75% of videos that
tell a story involve sexual imagery, over half involve violence, and
80% combine the two, mostly suggesting violence against women.
 The
Wizard Of Oz, Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, Judy
Garland's was $500 a week.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the
famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho,
which actually took 7 days to shoot.
The Monty Python movie The Life of Brian
was banned in Scotland.
The name
for Oz in The Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
"Oz."
Eighty percent of
Hollywood
executives believe there is a link between television violence and
real-life violence.
In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the
comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.
 King
Kong was the first movie to have a sequel. Son of King
Kong was released the same year.
20th
Century Fox was so sure Star Wars was going to be a disaster
that they came within a matter of days of selling off their stake in
the film. Due to positive feedback from an advanced screening they
changed their minds and the profits from the film ended up saving the
studio from bankruptcy.
60 Minutes
is the only CBS television program that doesn’t have a theme song.
November, 2005
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The
sketch that Jack drew of Rose wearing the famous necklace in the
blockbuster movie Titanic was really drawn by director James
Cameron, who was also responsible for all the other sketches that were
in Jack's sketchbook. The hands that are seen drawing the sketch are
also Cameron's. 
The
science-fiction series Lost in Space, set in the year 1997,
premiered on CBS in 1965.
