There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
There were more than 200 visual special effects in the film Batman Forever (1995).
Though George Clooney started work in show business at age 5 on his father's TV talk show, The Nick Clooney Show, he left and didn't return to acting until age 21. This was only after he was unable to land a Cincinnati Reds center-fielder position.
Three Gershwin songs, "I Got Rhythm," "Nice Work if You Can Get It," and "I'm About to Become a Mother," all contain the phrase "Who could ask for anything more?"
Through 1999, basketball-great Michael Jordan's television endorsements included Nike, MCI WorldCom, Sara Lee (Hanes underwear and Ballpark Franks), Gatorade, and Rayovac.
Through the mid-1500s in France, the lute was still the favorite instrument, but in 1555, Balthazar de Beujoyeux, the first famous violinist in history, brought a band of violinists to Catherine's de Médicis court and made violin music popular.
Tickets for Frank Sinatra's first solo performance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City in 1942, sold for 35 cents each.
Tim Allen's transformation into roly-poly St. Nick in the film The Santa Clause (1994) took 5 hours every day to complete. In order to achieve the realistic appearance of gaining 100 pounds, Allen had to wear a flesh-toned rubber "fat suit," which covered everything except his eyes and lips.
To the "Who Would Deliberately Gain Weight?" list, add pop star Janet Jackson. The youngest member of the Jackson family dynasty was asked to gain 10 pounds for her film debut in Poetic Justice (1993); the director wanted to minimize her glamour and felt the weight gain would give her more of a "homegirl" look. Jackson obliged.
Tom Cruise did his own trick billiard shots for the 1986 film, The Color of Money, except for one in which he had to jump two balls to sink another. Director Martin Scorsese said he wanted to let Cruise learn the shot, but it would have taken two extra days of practice, which would have held up production and cost thousands of dollars. The shot was instead performed by professional billiards player Mike Sigel.
Tonto addressed the Lone Ranger using the words kemo sabe — meaning Trusty Scout.
TV show creator Sherwood Schwartz originally intended the title of "The Brady Bunch" series to be "Yours and Mine." Gene Hackman was the first choice to play Mike Brady, but Paramount turned him down as an unknown television actor.
TV star Beatrice Arthur's name at birth was Bernice Frankel.
TV veteran Andy Griffith never won an Emmy for his popular 1960's TV series "The Andy Griffith Show" or for his courtroom drama "Matlock," but comedy sidekick Don Knotts won five times for his supporting role on "The Andy Griffith Show" as Deputy Barney Fife. Even Frances Bavier won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as Aunt Bee on the bucolic sitcom.
TV viewers know fictional Old West hero Don Diego de la Vega best as Zorro.
TV’s popular cartoon duo Rocky and Bullwinkle represented a number of General Mills cereals from 1959 to 1970: Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs, Jets, and Trix.
TV's Peyton Place in the 1960s and the big-screen blockbuster Love Story (1970) made the boyishly handsome Ryan O'Neal a household name. Prior to his fame, O'Neal's show business career began with work as a television stuntman.
Twentieth Century-Fox studio cut all scenes showing physical contact between America's curly-haired darling Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in The Little Colonel in 1934 to avoid social offense and to assure wide U.S. distribution. Pre-release showings of the film, particularly in the southern U.S., shocked audiences when the two actors touched fingers during their famous staircase dance sequence.
Twenty-four frames per second are projected in most animated films.
Two life-threatening brain aneurysms in 1974 terminated Quincy Jones' horn-playing days, but not his musical talents. Jones went on to produce Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall," "Thriller," and "Bad," as well as the ambitious, all-star hit "We Are the World" in 1985. Jones has composed more than 34 film scores and won more than 26 Grammys.
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