In 1998, a California court denied actor Dennis Hopper's appeal of a $475,000 defamation verdict won earlier by actor Rip Torn. The award stemmed from Hopper's 1994 appearance on The Tonight Show, when he told talk show host Jay Leno that he rejected Torn for a film role in Easy Rider after Torn pulled a knife on him at a New York restaurant. Jack Nicholson later took the part. Torn sued, claiming that it was actually Hopper who pulled the knife, and he only grabbed it away and pointed it back at him. Torn received $300,000 for lost income and $175,000 for emotional distress. Torn was also entitled to seek punitive damages.
In 1998, director/writer Spike Lee moved his family to Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. For $7.5 million, Lee purchased the turn-of-the-century townhouse once owned by artist Jasper Johns and before that, famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee
In 2000, a one-minute commercial on "bad boy" Howard Stern’s radio show could cost as much as $7,000, astronomical by radio standards. Stern was well known for his self-proclaimed title of "King of All Media."
In a 1991 "Esquire" article, former child actor Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family wrote this about kids in film and TV: "Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place. They cry and complain that now that they are no longer little and cute, Hollywood has no use for them. What we often fail to appreciate is that being little and cute may have been our only skill. Now that we are not so little anymore, and certainly not as cute, some of us may have to face reality, stop whining and get real jobs."
In a 1991 biography, Madonna stated, "All entertainers are exhibitionists, admitted or not."
In a 1996 interview, actor Walter Matthau related this self-deprecating story about his film career: "Apparently, I shout a lot in most films. I did a film with Elvis Presley, King Creole. And the Hungarian director says to me, 'Matt-ow, you are high-priced actor. Pretend you are low-priced actor. Don't act so much.'"
In a 1996 interview, comedian Jerry Lewis related that he was among the first to spot young Steven Spielberg's talent. He showed Spielberg's short film Amblin to his University of Southern California class, which included students George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.
In a March 2000 interview, David Duchovny affirmed that he and Gillian Anderson, his co-star on TV’s X-Files, did not talk to each other off the set and that both had assistants who made sure that they'd arrive on the set simultaneously
In all, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson were featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unquestionably, Holmes is one of the most beloved figures in the history of mystery fiction, and was immortalized in many films, particularly those in the 1930s and 1940s starring Sir Basil Rathbone.
In an industry where award ceremonies are second to oxygen, an award was dreamed up in 1951 to honor animals in the entertainment field. Called Patsy, "P.A.T.S.Y." is an acronym for both "Picture Animal Top Star of the Year" and "Performing Animal Television Star of the Year." Emceeing the first award event was Ronald Reagan. Patsy winners through the years include Francis the talking mule, Lassie, Roy Rogers' horse Trigger, Flipper the dolphin, Arnold the pig (from the TV show "Green Acres"), Bruno the bear (from the TV show "Gentle Ben"), Tramp the dog (from TV sitcom "My Three Sons"), and 9-Lives catfood TV ad personality Morris the cat.
In an interview, actress Sean Young commented, "Hollywood forgives people who are talented."
In an interview, Christopher Plummer said about acting, "I grew up thinking that if you did Shakespeare, you must get so much more money. But then I found out that the real dreck, you get paid a fortune for. And you practically have to give away money to do Shakespeare."
In an interview, Sylvester Stallone remarked that he initially turned down the lead in Romancing the Stone (1984), which went to Michael Douglas. The film was a huge success, and led to an equally-successful sequel with Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Instead, Stallone chose to star opposite Dolly Parton in the box-office flop Rhinestone (1984), about a country-western star who tries to turn a tone-deaf cabbie into a singer. Laughing, Stallone said of his decision, "The mark of a moron!"
In an interview, veteran Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis reminisced about her days on the set of the 1970s TV sitcom, The Brady Bunch. On her character, Alice the housekeeper, Davis recalled, "I used to insist on having something in the pot when I pretended to cook. In the beginning it was canned stew, but after a while, I became less pure in my acting, and I'd add salt and pepper to boiling water."
In baccarat, the count sought is nine. In blackjack, players attempt to get cards that add up to 21.
In Britain, the first instance of a demand for film censorship came from an outraged cheese industry in 1898. Charles Urban had released one of his scientific films taken through a microscope which revealed the unappealing bacterial activity in a piece of Stilton.
In Charles Schulz's popular "Peanuts" comic strip, Snoopy was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.
In every episode of TV's Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere.
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