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TIL The 1994 movie Tammy and the T-Rex was conceived when the director Stewart Raffill was approached by a man who had a large animatronic T-rex that he was getting rid of. He asked Raffill if he could make a movie about, who agreed, and wrote the story for the movie within a week.

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 6:59 pm

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TIL: Sammy Hagar & Van Halen had a falling out while writing music for the film “Twister” Sammy insisted on writing a tornado themed song despite the director telling him “Do not write about tornadoes”

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 2:44 pm

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TIL The success of Rollerball (1975) led to promoters wanting to buy the rights to the in-film sport. The director, Norman Jewison, was outraged as the movie was to show the “sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure.”

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 10:57 am

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TIL that “The Exorcist” director William Friedkin inserted subliminal images of a white-faced demon into his film, which were difficult to notice before the movie was released on home video. The face, onscreen for 1/8 of second in each appearance, represented a demon possessing the young girl.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 3:00 am

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TIL while filming “The Other Side Of The Wind” in 1970, director Orson Welles was unable to afford to pay his cinematographer Gary Graver for his work. Instead, Welles gave Graver his Oscar statuette that he had won for Best Original Screenplay for “Citizen Kane” in 1941.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 6:31 pm

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TIL that Todd Field, director of the Oscar-nominated movies “In the Bedroom” and “Little Children”, also helped develop the recipe for the bubble gum known as Big League Chew as a teenager batboy for the Portland Mavericks in the late ‘70s.

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 12:02 pm

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TIL that Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day relived the same day for “30 or 40 years” according to the film’s director, Harold Ramis

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 1:40 am

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TIL the director Tony Kaye of American History X was regarded as unemployable by Hollywood because the studio wanted Edward Norton’s cut which had an additional 18 minutes of footage. Kaye took out $100k in ads condemning Norton and studio and tried changing his name in the credits to Humpty Dumpty

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 7:47 pm

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TIL I learned the original director of the dutch version of Big Brother went on to direct the Human Centipede movies

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 12:46 pm

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TIL about Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian graphic designer from Lagos. He is known for his his single acting role, as the titular predatory alien in the science fiction horror film “Alien” (1979). Director Ridley Scott’s casting crew found Badejo drinking at a Soho bar, and offered him the role.

by whatilearned August 19, 2022, 8:49 am

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I was auditioning for a play today, and the director yelled at me. He said my acting reminded him of a female reproductive organ! Needless to say I stormed off…

by cringeyjokesman August 13, 2022, 12:33 am

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An animal rescuer, homeless shelter director, volunteer pediatrician, and ice cream machine repairman are waiting at the Pearly Gates

by cringeyjokesman August 12, 2022, 2:36 pm

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