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Turnaround Reply
Many novelists, seduced by the lure of Hollywood, have come to regret the decisi...

Hackman's Moustache
When Gene Hackman was cast to play Lex Luthor in Superman (in 1978), he a...

Little Difference?
In the German language version of Michael Curtiz's classic 1942 film ...

Gift From Heaven
"When I was a struggling musical student," the famed heroic tenor Lauritz Melchi...

Slippery Actor (long)
Late one night on the set of Francis Martin's Tillie and Gus, W. C. Field...

For God's Sake?
One day producer Sam Zimbalist approached Graham Greene to ask for assistance wi...

Ewan McGregor: McGregor & Son
Ewan McGregor's parents attended all of his films, often bringing a large group ...

Withnailed?
With filming completed, Bruce Robinson's Withnail And I was shown to a sm...

Curt Response
While filming an action-packed scene one day, famed director Michael Curtiz, a s...

Farrelly Brothers: Honey Wagon
Although the Farrelly Brothers eventually became enviably successful Hollywood d...

Honor System
In a bid to promote Raoul Walsh's 1917 prison drama ...

Reds
One day during the production of Reds, the story of Marxist journalist Jo...

Spectacular Goldwyn
Before his incarnation as a successful screenwriter, Edmund North worked as a pr...

Makeup Artist
"When I was twelve," Oscar-winning makeup artist John Caglione, Jr. once recalle...

Best Side
One day on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), Mary Anderson, ...

Sophie's Choice
One day during the production of Sophie's Choice, Meryl Streep was requir...

Jeremy Sumpter's Growth Spurt
When Jeremy Sumpter grew eight inches during the production of P. J. Hogan's ...

Pancho Villa, Inc.
"In 1914, a Hollywood motion picture company signed a contract with Mexican revo...

Martin Scorsese: Perfect
"I was doing a scene [on Gangs of New York] with Cameron Diaz and she rep...

Roger Ebert Rating System
Roger Ebert once appeared as a guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." O'Brien...

Wagging the Dog
While shooting Wag the Dog (a film about a phony war contrived by spin do...

George Clooney: Constant So...
Having won the role of an addled but articulate escaped convict in the Coen brot...

Vertical Limit
When filming wrapped on the set of Vertical Limit, Robin Tunney, the film...

Second Chances?
Ed Wood's 1958 film Plan 9 From Outer Space owes its cult following to it...

20th Century-Fox?
Despite his pioneering role as founder of Twentieth Century-Fox, Darryl F. Zanuc...

Quiet on the Set
One freezing night during the filming of Velvet Goldmine (1998), co-star...

Cut Sub?
In 1999, Matt Stone and Trey Parker released a feature film based on their hit c...

Cruel Intentions?
Among Reese Witherspoon's most challenging performances was the pivotal breakup ...

Tromatic Experience
In 1974 Yale students Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz founded an independent New ...

Prince Chegodieff
During the production of Rasputin and the Empress MGM, seeking to avoid a...

Puppet Master?
Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency after Republican spies were ca...

Ordinary People? (long)
Michael T. Weiss once appeared as a guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." I...

Firm Apologies?
George C. Scott was once required to shoot a love scene with a certain voluptuou...

Cannonball Crawl?
Despite having entered his seventh decade, Burt Reynolds was determined to do hi...

Olivier Martinez: French Br...
Olivier Martinez - touted as "The French Brad Pitt" - was once asked whether his...

An Alan Smithee Film
Until the ruse became on open secret, the Director's Guild of America (DGA) ofte...

Writer's Revenge
Like many screenwriters, Norman Krasna resented Jack Warner's insistance that hi...

Unscripted Solution
John Ford once directed a film for Samuel Goldwyn and MGM. When the shooting beg...

Tony Kaye: Alan Smithee Pro...
Tony Kaye, peeved by New Line Cinema's refusal to grant him more time to work on...

American Humane: Animal Actors
"According to the American Humane guidelines, no animal actor should have to wor...

Classic Curtiz
When Warner Brothers filmed Dive Bomber in June 1941, the U.S. Navy wasn'...

Truly Awful?
In George Stevens' biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told, John Wayn...

Ninotchka
Some six decades after its release (in 1939), Billy Wilder recalled fellow direc...

Alfred Hitchcock: Bumpy Trip?
Alfred Hitchcock was once detained at a French airport by a customs official who...

Story of a Milkman
One day during the production of The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Paul ...

Michael Curtiz: You Watch
One day the legendary director Michael Curtiz found himself explaining a scene t...

Impromptu Jump
One day during the production of I Wanted Wings, Ray Milland went up with...

Prioritities
Among the most difficult decisions during the production of Michael Gordon's ...

Perfect (long)
"Cecil B. De Mille was making one of his great epic movies. He had six cameras a...

Casablanca Lawsuit (long)
When they learned that a new Marx Brothers film was to be entitled "A Night in C...

Never Say Uncle Again?
During the filming of Never Say Never Again, Sean Connery, a former Mr. U...

Kevin Costner: Full Frontal
Incredibly, Kevin Costner's full frontal nude scene was cut from the film ...

oOOoOOoOOoOOoOOps?
On the set of Pearl Harbor, Kate Beckinsale, James King, Catherine Kellne...

Brass Balls (long)
In 2000, Ewen Bremner and his Pearl Harbor co-stars spent a week in a U.S...

Rosebud
Arguably the most famous single word in the history of cinema (The Graduate's "P...

Pope-a
Though the novel received mixed reviews, legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis p...

Peter Sellers: Talking to God
Late one night, following a disappointing day wrestling with a troublesome scene...

Hélas Pour Godard?
Despite a career spanning four decades in which he made more than 100 films and ...

Phone Booth
Phone Booth is a taut Hitchcockian thriller which takes place in one loca...

Bed Man Walking
Sean Penn's bad boy image stemmed in part from his romantic involvement with a s...

Split Decision
For his role as the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert De Ni...

Cold Comfort?
While working on the Stephen Frears film Dangerous Liaisons (1988), John ...

Razor Wit
While editing Titanic, James Cameron kept a razor blade taped to the side...

Bananas
While working on a screenplay one day shortly after his arrival in Hollywood, th...

Fundamentalist Films
Irked that Muslims were being blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Cana...

Marilyn Bimboe
Notwithstanding conventional wisdom, Marilyn Monroe was a terrible actress. One ...

Staggering Problem
One day during the production of The Captain Hates the Sea (1934), direct...

1-2-3 Snake
While shooting a film in a jungle in the Philippines, Michael Caine was warned a...

The Glove
For many years, Dame Judi Dench and friend and fellow actor Tim Pigott-Smith pla...

Film Critic
In February, 2000, famed film critic Rex Reed was arrested for shoplifting three...

Marlon Brando & Superman's ...
Like the actor himself, Marlon Brando's eating binges grew to assume legendary p...

Jedi Knickers
Ewan McGregor once played an Iggy Pop-style star (from the '70s glitter-rock sce...

Screwball Improv
One day on the set of Howard Hawks' 1938 screwball comedy ...

Phony Solution
An unwritten rule at Warner Brothers studios stipulated that its founder never b...

Miss Deeds?
With Winona Ryder facing charges of shoplifting and vandalism, many observers fo...

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen's eclectic taste (with passions ranging from motorcycles and NASC...

Little Buddha?
In 2001, former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura had occasion to meet with the D...

Film Skool?
In the early 1970's, Tom Schulman, then an aspiring screenwriter, enrolled in fi...

Production Code
One day Will Hays, the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributor...

Shanghai Surprise
One Saturday during the production of The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welle...

Steven Spielberg: Final Cut
Only top-tier directors are given "final cut" by their studios. "Steven Spielber...

Oscar Glory
As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan awarded the best picture ...

King of Kings
During the production of King of Kings, director Cecil B. De Mille was di...

Sandra Bullock: Miss Haps
In March 2001, Sandra Bullock attended the London premiere of Donald Petrie's ...

Godfather of Bellies
So much did Marlon Brando's weight balloon during the production of ...

Ping!
Shortly after being cast in Lewis Milestone's screen adaptation of the hard-boil...

Nice Compliment
In 1965, Christopher Plummer starred opposite Julie Andrews in Robert Wise's scr...

Sympathy
As Alfred Lunt was ill, his wife, Lynn Fontanne, attended the premier of ...

Classic Goldwyn
Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour opened to raves on Broadway an...

Chaplin & Fairbanks
While passing a cinema in Hollywood one day, Charlie Chaplin stopped to examine ...

Rembrandt Lighting
While directing a picture for the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company one day, C...

Young Steven Spielberg: 23C
While visiting his cousins in Canoga Park in the summer of 1965, 17-year-old Ste...

Marilyn Manson: Corrupting ...
During the production of Party Monster, Marilyn Manson asked former child...

Sean Astin: Hidden Treasure
After starring in the classic children's adventure movie The Goonies (198...

Vincent Gallo & the Complex...
In a memorable scene in Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny (2003), Daisy Lem...

Snoop Dogg: Merry Muppet?
In 2002, Snoop Dogg's cameo appearance in NBC's "A Very Merry Muppet Christmas M...

Pierce Brosnan: Whoosh!
During the production of Die Another Day, director Lee Tamahori was repor...

The Rock: Kissing Scene
While preparing to shoot an intense semi-nude kissing scene on the set of ...

Quentin Tarantino: Niao-Pei
While shooting Kill Bill, Volume 2, director Quentin Tarantino noticed th...

Kate Beckinsale: Best Serve...
Kate Beckinsale was once ordered by a director to strip off her clothes and shoo...

Christopher Meloni: Freakshow
In 2004, Christopher Meloni was cast to play Freakshow in Danny Leiner's "Fast F...

Von Stoheim's Extravagance
Erich von Stroheim's films are noted for the richness of their characterization ...

Lateral Thinking?
Upon first moving to Hollywood, Nunnally Johnson was asked how he expected to fi...

Sean Connery & Wesley Snipe...
Sean Connery once shared some actorly advice with Wesley Snipes. "When you're do...

Boob Director
George Lucas, having envisioned Princess Leia (in Star Wars) as a teenage...

Hidden Goblin?
The set of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon seemed at times to be...

Daniel Day-Lewis: Dedication
As an actor, Daniel Day-Lewis often went above and beyond the call of duty. Befo...

Shamroy (long)
While director Andrew Stone agreed that Leon Shamroy was a fine cinematographer,...

Street Wisdom?
When Sinclair Lewis's Main Street became a worldwide bestseller, Jack War...

Ultimatum
Shortly after Disney bought Laurence Dworet's original screenplay for ...

Some Like It Hot
Legedary director Billy Wilder was once asked by a reporter which of his films w...

No Regrets?
One day, Bull Durham director Ron Shelton lit up a cigar on the set, and ...

Kevin Costner: Directing Joke
One summer evening in 2002, "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien told a joke about Ke...

Young Cher: Dumbo
"When I was four," Cher once recalled, "my parents took me to see ...

Luck Of The Draw
In August 1999, Mickey Rourke walked off the set of "Luck Of The Draw." Why? The...

Robert Flaherty: Celluloid ...
As an explorer for Sir William Mackenzie's Canadian railroad, [legendary documen...

Psycho Solution
Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, is famed for its gris...

Katharine Hepburn: Playing ...
One day on the set of The Lion in Winter, a reporter noticed that Kathari...

Michael Mann: Demanding Dir...
Having accepted the role of Dr. Ferdie Pacheco in Michael Mann's boxing biopic ...

DP Trouble?
Although the Farrelly Brothers eventually became successful Hollywood directors,...

Jawbone of an Ass
Though Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epics were welcomed by audiences, many criti...

Jack Palance: Hired Gun
In 1953, Jack Palance won an Oscar nomination for his role as hired gun-slinger ...

French Beauty?
Early in her career, Bernadette Lafont (soon to become one of France's most orig...

Ferber
Edna Ferber once wrote a letter to the New Yorker's legendary founder and...

Happy Ending?
During the production of his classic Oscar-winning 1930 film ...

M-Rated?
In 2002, a 12-screen cinema complex in Wimbledon, England launched a new film cl...

King of Kings
"[The famed financier] Otto Kahn went with Cecil de Mille to see his picture ...

George Bernard $haw
MGM studio chief Samuel Goldwyn once attempted to purchase the film rights to se...

Empty Horses
The Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz was famed for his creative use of the...

Walter Who?
In 1974, Walter Matthau, slated to make a cameo appearance as a drunk in the fil...

Grouchy Review
Little love was lost between Groucho Marx and Columbia Pictures producer Harry C...

Paul Newman: Newman's Own
In 1998, Paul Newman was overjoyed to see his eponymous line of food products re...

Bump & Grind
One day during the production of MGM's The Cross of Lorraine, Sir Cedric ...

Runaway Role?
Jodie Foster was thrilled to land her first film role - as a runaway in the 1972...

Circle of Trust?
Robert Evans was always a loyal friend. A certain movie executive (who asked not...

Mickey Rourke Type?
Among the roles advertised by casting agents for Bruce McDonald's action-packed ...

Pearls of Wisdom?
Shortly after the release of Pearl Harbor, Josh Hartnett appeared as a gu...

Nap Time?
In preparation for their roles in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, cast m...

Me Too!
Lili Taylor, who once played the role of Valeris Solanis (the nutty founder of t...

When Harry Met Sally
In a classic scene in Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally, Sally Albright (...

Tantric Sex Blooper
As preparation for his role in American Pie, the film's producers sent Ed...

Intellectual Property
Winston Churchill often dined with friends, dignitaries and celebrities at Chart...

Baaad Influence?
It wasn't until meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger that Danny DeVito began to smoke c...

Gina Gershon: Showgirls
Shortly after landing her role in Showgirls, Gina Gershon called her moth...

Harrison Ford: In the Can
One day during the filming of Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark,...

Soviet Disunion?
In 1962, with two Oscar nominations and an Emmy in two years, the previously lit...

Martin Scorsese & Harvey We...
With Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York well over budget, Miramax co-Cha...

Brilliant Critique
Shortly after his appearance in Henry V, Kenneth Branagh was approached o...

PSH
While playing a gay "pre-op" transsexual named Rusty in Joel Schumacher's ...

Heather Graham: Nixed
So strict were Heather Graham's Catholic mother (a schoolteacher) and father (an...

Bully?
Why was Larry Clark's 2001 film Bully released unrated? "We couldn't get ...

Oxymoronic
One day during the production of Dead End (1937), William Wyler's screen ...

Hurlyburly (long)
One day in 1998 an unexpected visitor appeared on the set of Anthony Drazan's ...

What the Dickens?
Though his turn as Micawber in George Cukor's adaptation of the Charles Dickens ...

Russell Crowe: Gladiator
During the production of Gladiator, Russell Crowe was required to appear ...

Gutsy Actor
Russell Crowe, famed for doing his own stunts, sustained many injuries on the se...

Smithee
Director Alan Smithee's first film, Death of a Gunfighter was met with ra...

Woody Allen Oscar Speech
During the Academy Awards in 2002, Woody Allen explained why he had At the 2002 ...

Woody Allen Casting Call
"The Woody Allen casting call is something of a legend in the business. It is he...

Jaws: The Revenge
Michael Caine was once asked about his role as 'Hoagie Newcombe' in Joseph Sarge...

Lost Weekend
Shortly after the release of The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder's screen adap...

God-Damned Lions (long)
During the production of his epic film The Sign of the Cross, director Ce...

Peter Cook: Milk Flake
"In 1967 Kenneth Tynan had Peter Cook, the Pinters [Harold Pinter and his wife] ...

Kevin Costner: Perfectionist
Even in his early days as a struggling actor, Kevin Costner always marched to th...

Beeline
While Goldwyn Pictures chief Samuel Goldwyn would spare little expense acquiring...

Sean Connery: Dr. No
Sean Connery was delighted to land the role of secret service agent James Bond i...

Rich Reply
One day on the set, John Rich had enormous difficulty with a certain outdoor sho...

Tarzan
One day Johnny Weissmuller was invited to do a screen test for the title role in...

Marilyn Monroe: 83 IQ?
Conventional wisdom aside, Marilyn Monroe was not exactly a brilliant actress. O...

Eyes Wide Shut
Though Sidney Pollack was delighted to land the role of Victor Ziegler in Stanle...

Nia Vardalos: Nia Has to Pee
For her role in Connie and Carla (2004), Nia Vardalos was literally sown ...

Bruce Campbell Drinking Game
Shortly after his appearance in Army of Darkness (as Ashley J. 'Ash' Will...

Durango Kid
"Ann Doran played in a number of B Westems at Columbia. She enjoyed the congenia...

Big Chill
After struggling for several years, Kevin Costner finally caught a break in 1982...

Pearly Gates
Harrison Ford was once asked: If heaven exists, what would you want God to say t...

Mel Gibson: Clowning Around
On the Braveheart set, Mel Gibson, an inveterate prankster, began calling...

Grazer's Ruse
Early in his career, legendary Hollywood producer Brian Grazer came up with a st...

Dream within a Dream
"Allegedly, the story goes like this: Billy Wilder runs into Louis Malle - this ...

Santa Fe Trail
Little love was lost between director Michael Curtiz and Raymond Massey, who pla...

Scream Test
"Hitch [Alfred Hitchcock] relished scaring me," Janet Leigh once recalled. "When...

Producers
Shortly after Jeffrey Katzenberg's Dick Tracy opened (on the same day as ...

Prop Master
In 2001, Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn co-starred in Bob Dolman's ...

CinemaScope
"This was one of the first films in CinemaScope," Peter Ustinov once recalled of...

Rat
While making his New York documentary Rat, Mark Lewis used what are known...

So Vain
During the production of Splendor in the Grass, Warren Beatty (the allege...

Half a Fool
The production of the psychological drama Lilith was allegedly held up fo...

One-Eyed Jack
One day on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando, famed for his perfec...

Richard Blurton?
On the set of Cleopatra, rumors swirled that Elizabeth Taylor was having ...

Quentin Tarantino: Perfekt ...
While working with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Forster found the director to be so...

Little Snot?
Famed director D. W. Griffith, often called the father of the motion picture, wa...

Frankly Ridiculous (long)
During the production of Gone With the Wind (1939), producer David O. Sel...

Young Haley Joel Osment: Si...
In 1999, eight-year-old Haley Joel Osment appeared as Cole Sear in M. Night Shya...

Bridget Jones Diet
In June 2003, Renee Zellweger found herself with six weeks to gain thirty pounds...

The Terminator
O. J. Simpson was among the actors considered for the title role in James Camero...

Frank Capra: Lady for a Day
Frank Capra's successful, sentimental comedy Lady for a Day catapulted hi...

Early Morning?
One day on the set of Michael Curtiz's This is the Army (a 1943 musical c...

Funny Business
To promote the release of Howard Franklin's Larger Than Life (starring Bi...

L. Frank Baum: Marvelous Co...
One day during the production of Victor Fleming's brilliant screen adaptation of...

Bad Influence
While exiting a theater one day, Edward G. Robinson was approached by an elderly...

Francis Ford Coppola: Apoca...
The completion of Francis Ford Coppola's classic 1979 Vietnam War epic ...

Howard Hughes: Ice Station ...
Howard Hughes's extreme germophobia led him to a life of complete reclusion. Aft...

Kelly Huhu
Shortly after her appearance in Chuck Russell's The Scorpion King, Kelly ...

Scott & Kutcher
Seann William Scott was once asked how he had mustered the courage to make out w...

Cimino Roulette
In a harrowing scene in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, Christopher Wal...

Jim Caviezel: Playing Jesus
After an early misunderstanding (he thought the film was a surfing movie), Jim C...

Apple Pie
Jason Biggs, famed for his role in American Pie (in which he plays "hide-...

Hugh Jackman, Butt Naked
Hugh Jackman got a surprise while filming a scene one day on the X-Men se...

Old School Improv
"I was improvising this one scene in Old School," Jeremy Piven recalled, ...

Michael J. Fox & the Blackb...
While researching his role as Jamie Conway in Bright Lights, Big City (19...

Mel Gibson & Psalm 91
During the production of The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson remarked t...

Christian Bale & American P...
Christian Bale was once asked whether he had had trouble meeting women after his...

Young Quentin Tarantino
"Quentin Tarantino as a child was preoccupied with movies, and he was always wri...

Gore Vidal & the WGA
"In 1987, Gore Vidal sued the W.G.A. [the Writers Guild of America, the union of...

Billy Bob Thornton: Special...
For his role as a sex-crazed, foul-mouthed department store Santa in Terry Zwigo...

Diane Keaton & Jack Nichols...
Shortly after the release of Nancy Meyers's Something's Gotta Give (in 20...

Mark Wahlberg: Pride and Glory
While preparing for his role in Pride and Glory (in 2002), Mark Wahlberg ...

Sean Bean & Joely Richardso...
"[Sean Bean] hit the headlines as the sexy groundsman Mellors, servicing Joely R...

Jamie Foxx: Long Flight
After a brutal 20-hour flight from Australia, Jamie Foxx was asked how he had pa...

Mary Harron: Best Babysitte...
"Mary Harron, director of American Psycho and I Shot Andy Warhol, ...

Ron Howard: Bowl Scene
One day during the production of Far and Away (1992), Nicole Kidman and T...

Hugh Jackman: Kissing Scene
One day on the X-Men set, Hugh Jackman helped to cast a kissing scene. "I...

The Powers That Be (long)
Director Andy Tennant anticipated having difficulty obtaining permission to film...

Slight Problem
Director Barry Sonnenfeld had grave reservations about casting the wafer-thin 5'...

Ballsy Comment
Sean Penn once appeared on James Lipton's "Inside the Actors Studio." Conversati...

What's In a Name?
For Michelle Williams, filming Dick was an educational experience. "I lea...

Roger Corman: Horrific Pace
Between his directorial debut in 1955 and his official retirement in 1971, Roger...

Charles Brrrrronson: Pure T...
Charles Bronson won his first screen role in Henry Hathaway's 1951 film ...

Upstaged
Despite Dirk Benedict's successful roles on such hit programs as "Battlestar Gal...

James Woods: It's Called......
James Woods fought hard to convince director Oliver Stone that he was suitable t...

Winona Ryder: Like-Minded
During the filming of Mermaids in 1990, Winona Ryder was asked by a journ...

Clean Conscience?
As an undergrad film student at Harvard and MIT, Mira Nair made a 16mm documenta...

Rififi
Jules Dassin was delighted by the domestic success of his classic 1955 heist fil...

Scooter
For his role (as a character who has been brought up in the jungle) in Michel Go...

Richard Linklater's Bud
Richard Linklater's preferred subtitle for Dazed and Confused - "Finally!...

About Schmidt
At the 2003 Golden Globe Awards, Jack Nicholson was named Best Actor in a Drama ...

Woods & Griffith
In 1998, Melanie Griffith co-starred with James Woods in a Larry Clark film enti...

Last Goodbye?
"The call demanding John Huston's service during World War II came by phone when...

Tawny Pipit
One day in 1944, the screenwriter Nunnally Johnson and a group of his fellow wri...

Hopping Mad
Dennis Hopper had a reputation for causing turbulence on the set. Was it deserve...

NYTA
Director Joseph Sargent was not entirely pleased with the assistance offered by ...

Herman J. Mankiewicz: Romeo...
Herman J. Mankiewicz, convinced that Three Comrades would make more money...

Sharon Stone: Joe BS
In his notorious Hollywood expose, American Rhapsody, star screenwriter J...

Dale Earnhardt's Lucky Charm
Dale Earnhardt, Jr was once asked about a rumor that he kept a volleyball in the...

Sibling Rivalry?
Notwithstanding the credits on the Coen brothers' pictures (directed by Joel, pr...

Julie Andrews: Last Laugh
Though she had played the original Eliza Dolittle in the successful Broadway mus...

Early Career
Burt Reynolds was far from proud of his early career. "My films were the kind th...

Master of Suspense?
Shortly after Alfred Hitchcock's death, Burt Reynolds was apprised of a surprisi...

Burt Reynolds & Bill McKinn...
Burt Reynolds worked with Bill McKinney on Deliverance (1972) - and found...

Motivation
One day on the set, director Roman Polanski was asked by an actress about her ch...

Corbucci
"Sergio Corbucci, the Italian director, had some eye trouble and there is a stor...

Daniel Day-Lewis & Harvey W...
With Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York well over budget, Miramax co-Cha...

Classic Cohn
Columbia Studios founder Harry Cohn, famed for his trouble with the English lang...

Big Sleep?
Many stories pertain to Faulkner's ill-fated tryst with Hollywood. Lauren Bacall...

Hollywood Scenario
"After the sale of the motion picture rights to On Trial the movie direct...

Bang! (long)
Following his star turn as a gangster in Underworld (1927), George Bancro...

Movie-Loving Tyrant
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, son of the tyrant Kim Il Sung and the author...

Michael Rosenbaum: Sorority...
In Sorority Boys, Michael Rosenbaum played one of three misogynistic coll...

Alec Guinness: Mudlark
The high point of Jean Negulesco's The Mudlark (1950), was a rousing parl...

Chris Kattan: Retarded Comm...
Shortly after applauding Sean Penn's role as Sam Dawson in Jessie Nelson's ...

In Praise of Love
Jean-Luc Godard's films were frequently criticized for being self-conscious, slo...

Kubrick's Cataclysm
The stellar cataclysm in Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic ...

Magic Carpet Ride (long)
One day Lucille Ball learned from her agent that Columbia chief Harry Cohn was p...

Bastard Censors
At the culmination of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace, Mortimer ...

Dietrich Method
The famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and his wife (the actress Dolly Haas) once ...

Ten Commandments
One day during the production of The Ten Commandments (1923), Paramount c...

Willem Dafoe: Eccentric Actor
Willem Dafoe once attributed his failure to land conventional leading-man roles ...

Silent Sam?
Oliver Reed, famed for such drinking feats as downing 106 pints of beer in 24 ho...

Hairy Scene
Marlon Brando was not, in Sophia Loren's estimation, the most romantic of leadin...

Minor Problem
MGM composer Victor Young was no wastedr to the vagaries of idiot producers. He ...

Electric Horseman
One day on the set of The Electric Horseman (1979), Robert Redford and Ja...

Sympathy Vote
In 1960, in a blatant case of sympathy voting, the Academy overlooked performanc...

Young Elijah Wood: Flipper
Harry Knowles (of Ain't-it-cool-news fame) once asked Elijah Wood why he had cho...

Guy Ritchie: Zzzznatch
One day during the production of Snatch, director Guy Ritchie grew gravel...

Clint
For his role as a wandering gunfighter in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Weste...

The Women
In 1939, Joan Crawford appeared opposite Norma Shearer in George Cukor's ...

Frances McDormand: Casting ...
Frances McDormand was once asked how she had landed her role as Marge Gunderson ...

Arrival of Cinema
In 1895, Auguste Lumiere and his brother Louis made cinematic history by giving ...

Mafioso Monkey
One day during the production of Marked Woman (1937), producer Hal B. Wal...

Elizabeth Taylor: V.I.P.
During the production of Anthony Asquith's The V.I.P.s (a film which take...

Made in Orion?
During the production of Men In Black, the crew was warned that the sight...

Mists of Avalon
During the production of Uli Edel's film adaptation of Marion Zimmer Bradley's b...

Lip Readers
In 1924, silent star Aileen Pringle appeared as the queen (who runs off to spend...

Something About Mary
Shortly after her appearance in There's Something About Mary, Cameron Dia...

Jerico Stone & the WGA
Disputed writing credits on feature films are arbitrated by the Writers Guild of...

Musical Chairs
Director Jane Campion, famed for her use of improvisational directing techniques...

Razzamatazzzzzz
Like many of his fellow moguls, Columbia chief Harry Cohn was of Eastern Europea...

Classic Jewison
After living much of his life in hotel rooms, legendary director Norman Jewison,...

Ham Actor
During a scene in Jane Eyre in which Orson Welles was to be burned to dea...

Lost Horizon
In 1937, Frank Capra previewed Lost Horizon, his elegant film about the H...

Shirley You're Joking
During a performance one evening, Shirley MacLaine made the following announceme...

Vertical Limit
Izabella Scorupco found the filming of Vertical Limit at nosebleed altitu...

Pefectionist Director
Vincente Minnelli, a Broadway director before coming to MGM, quickly established...

Movie Music
Irving Thalberg once sent an emissary to persuade Arnold Schoenberg to produce a...

Home Alone
During his 1991 Christmas TV special, Bob Hope spoke with 11-year old Macaulay C...

Classic Cohn
One day Columbia Studios chief Harry Cohn heard about a popular story called ...

Classic Cohn
While writing a pivotal scene one day (in which a business tycoon gives a speech...

Frances McDormand: Blood Si...
In 1984 Frances McDormand made her screen debut portraying Abby, a cheating wife...

Lambert Hillyer
One day during a rehearsal on the set of The Shock (1923), director Lambe...

Hot Winters
Shelley Winters, invited to audition for a supporting role in the 1990 film ...

Chalice Tarnished
After his debut broadway appearance in "Picnic" (1953), Paul Newman was offered ...

Indecent Proposal?
Paul Newman was once asked by a radio interviewer whether he could be enticed to...

Odorama
In 1982, the John Waters film Polyester was enhanced in a curious manner:...

Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese once suggested a surprising source of inspiration for his classi...

Leo the Lion
Director Marshall Neilan cultivated a first-rate rivalry with MGM chief Louis B....

Death to Gucci?
In the 1990s, film industry costume designers began complaining that such fashio...

Spielberg: Jaws Joker
One day during the production of Jaws, Steven Spielberg invited fellow di...

Good Points!
Following Angelina Jolie's casting as video game vixen Lara Croft in ...

Playing With Fireballs
The cast of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes had great difficulty dealing ...

Something About Mary...
As preparation for his role in American Pie, Eddie Kaye Thomas was sent b...

Last Dance
As a teenager, Andre Previn once had a job playing piano at a cinema specializin...

Leonardo DiCaprio: Remote V...
During a vacation in 2004, Leo visited a remote Brazilian village in the middle ...

Emma Thompson: Thespian Breast
When Emma Thompson, initially cast to play the lead in Basic Instinct, re...

Happy Circumstance?
Ironically, his jittery nerves may have helped Philip Seymour Hoffman land his p...

Easy Rider?
As a sophomore studying English at Yale, Jennifer Connelly was approached by one...

Dada Parenting
As a parent, John Malkovich worried about the effects of his children's exposure...

Boogie Nights
One day on the set of Boogie Nights, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson...

Rough Reminder
Hall of Fame football player Ray Nitschke was among the professional athletes ca...

Harvey Keitel: Solidarity
During the production of Holy Smoke, Harvey Keitel was obliged to wear a ...

Happy Family?
One day on the set of National Velvet (1943), Elizabeth Taylor, then just...

Spy Game?
As part of Spy Game was scheduled to be shot in Israel, David Fincher (th...

Adapting Shakespeare
Despite Mary Pickford's claim that it had damaged her career, Sam Taylor's adapt...

Spoon Gag
One day on the set of Elmer the Great (1933), comedian Joe E. Brown shot ...

Wozzeck
The composer David Raksin was once told by a director that he did not want "any ...

Who's Dolly
Shortly after his arrival in Hollywood (following a stint on Broadway), Henry Fo...

Privates Nurse?
In Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Jenny McCarthy played Christo...

Molto Nudo!
Sophia Loren was once asked why she had stopped doing nude scenes. "When Sophia ...

Timeless Insult
Legedary director Billy Wilder was once asked what he thought a certain new film...

The Whisperers
In 1966, Bryan Forbes directed Dame Edith Evans (then 78 years old) and Eric Por...

Just the Facts
One day Goldwyn Pictures chief Samuel Goldwyn was presented with a campaign for ...

Apocalypse Now
Some time after his arrival in the Philippines to begin production on ...

Mon Dieu!
Perhaps surprisingly, a survey of French women once revealed that the man to who...

Jack Black: Perfectionist
One day on the set, Jack Black requested 32 takes of a certain shot "for the per...

Spider-Man
One day during the filming of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire was r...

Attack of the Clones
While Hayden Christensen loved playing the role of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wa...

John Ford: Maverick Director
Legendary director John Ford, who strongly resented studio interference, was vis...

Kirsten Dunst: Spider-Man R...
In a classic scene in Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson (played by Kirsten Dun...

Sunset Boulevarde
One day on the set of Billy Wilder's classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), cin...

Fellowship of the Ring
Despite the vast amount of work involved, director Peter Jackson greatly enjoyed...

Tasty Reply?
In Hannibal's notorious dinner scene, Clarice Starling (played by Juliann...

Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Pot...
One day during the production of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" Dani...

Just Dreadful
MGM publicity chief Howard Dietz once offered $250 to any studio publicist who c...

Idiot Producer
"Akira Kurosawa was no stick-in-the-mud. When a production company proposed to s...

Nicholas Ray: Brooklyn
Nicholas Ray (whose atmospheric films inform the work of directors from the Coen...

Jackie Cooper: Crying on Cue
"In Skippy (1931), Jackie Cooper [then an up-and-coming nine-year-old chi...

Grapes of Wrath
Russian censors permitted John Ford's classic 1940 film ...

The Cocoanuts
When director Joseph Santley saw Morrie Ryskind's script for the classic Marx Br...

Viggo Mortensen: Viggorous ...
In one scene in The Two Towers Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen) comes ...

Curtiz & Lunch
The Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz was famed for his demanding nature. C...

Big Time BS
John Leguizamo once recalled a telling anecdote about working with a certain fam...

Classic Send-Up?
In 1998, John Glenn became the oldest man to venture into space. Shortly after h...

Minor Hitch
One day on the set of Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock had a minor difficulty w...

Orson Welles: Garbage Direc...
Orson Welles, famed for his obsessive perfectionism, once spent an entire day ma...

Message
MGM co-founder Samuel Goldwyn was often criticized for producing films with litt...

Good Points
One day in 1959, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe were visited in a dressing room ...

Fine Casting?
When director Henry Koster married Peggy Moran in 1941, he promised to put her i...

Shaft?
Samuel L. Jackson was once asked whether his varied roles had a common thread. "...

Deadline
Though Michael Gordon, a former theatrical director, began his Hollywood career ...

James Bond, 004?
One day on the set of a certain James Bond film, a chair exploded too soon... an...

Souvenir
"When a film wraps," Cybill Shepherd once said of The Last Picture Show, ...

Patricia Arquette: Human Na...
In 2001, Patricia Arquette played a scientific researcher with an unsightly body...

Barton Fink
While working on Miller's Crossing, the Coen brothers found themselves st...

Alison Lohman: Dragonfly
For her role in Tom Shadyac's fuckingnatural thriller Dragonfly (2002), A...

Gladiators
One day during a break in the production of a certain historical epic, Victor Ma...

American Pie
Jason Biggs, famed for his notorious role in American Pie (in which he pl...

William H. Wussy?
Despite his role as one of Hollywood's finest character actors, ...

Hungry Hippo?
Undertaken in a hurried bid to rescue 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy, ...

Elizabeth Taylor: Cleopatra...
Cleopatra remains one of the most costly films in Hollywood history. Inde...

Edith Headstrong
When a rough workaday costume was needed for Ingrid Bergman in Sam Wood's ...

Rattlesnake
During the production of The Virginian in 1914, Cecil B. De Mille acquire...

Mark Wahlberg: Dirk Diggler
In Boogie Nights, Mark Wahlberg famously played a busboy (Eddie Adams) tu...

The Beach
One day in 1999, Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere of ...

Ben Affleck: Love Scene
When Amanda Peet felt awkward about doffing her top to shoot a love scene with B...

Jinxed
Ken Wahl once appeared opposite Bette Midler in Don Siegel's widely panned 1982 ...

California Governor
Ronald Reagan's early political career was often overshadowed by his cinematic c...

Pond Scum
In the Indiana Jones rip-off King Solomon's Mines, Sharon Stone played a ...

Disney's Fantasia
Walt Disney was delighted with the music in his classic animated feature ...

Jack Nicholson's Stinger
One day on the set of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Jack Nicholson soug...

Ladd on a Ladder?
During the filming of Boy on a Dolphin, Sophia Loren appeared opposite th...

Lucky Ladd
Alan Ladd was once asked what it had been like appearing opposite the famously w...

Newfoundland
In 2000, The Shipping News crew spent six weeks filming on an island in N...

Scooter Girl
Because of the erratic conditions encountered during the production of ...

Gwyneth Paltrow: Best Bedmate?
In July 2002, Gwyneth Paltrow confessed that she had plenty of company in bed; P...

Ogler
As a young man, John Waters would watch adult films at the local drive-in. Among...

Rebel Without a Cause
One day during the production of Rebel Without a Cause (1955), James Dean...

Hopping Mad
One day in the 1970s, Dennis Hopper - whose daily diet then included half a gall...

Producer's Cut
Upon hearing about the birth of Irving Thalberg's son, Eddie Cantor sent the fam...

Star Wars
George Lucas's script for Star Wars was turned down by every major Hollyw...

Steven Spielberg: Jaws, the...
In 1976, every Best Picture nominee also had its director nominated for a Best D...

Strange Introduction
One day on the set of Rosemary's Baby (1968), Mia Farrow found herself sh...

Kiss
During the production of Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock arranged for ...

Wuthering Heights
When Samuel Goldwyn enlisted the veteran screenwriters Charles MacArthur and Ben...

Marketing Macabre
The B-movie director/producer William Castle was famed for his over-the-top prom...

Perfectly Lucky
"During the making of [Sandy Mackendrick's] The Ladykillers," Sir Alec Gu...

Charles Laughton: Amateur I...
The actor Charles Laughton was once invited to a dinner party by the celebrated ...

How to Lose an Audience in ...
Shortly after starring in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days in 2003, Kate Hud...

Sound Advice?
Mary Pickford, the first international film star and the first to have her name ...

Bruce Almighty
In June 2003, shortly after the release of Tom Shadyac's classic comedy ...

Give Up Sisters
"On Give Out Sisters (1942), again with the Andrews trio, there were so m...

Airplane Music
The great composer Arnold Schoenberg was once consulted by a fellow musician abo...

French Enough?
One day Twentieth Century-Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck listened to some music for ...

Gag Test
Groucho Marx often remarked that the only sure way to test a gag was to try it o...

Brepus?
"Samuel Goldwyn knew everything about films - costumes, settings, characters, di...

Big Party?
For the New York City premiere of Pinocchio in 1940, Walt Disney hired el...

White Elephant?
"Don't be a damn fool," David O. Selznick was advised one day. "This picture is ...

Demanding De Mille (long)
"Cecil B. De Mille often used LeRoy Prinz to choreograph the crowd scenes for wh...

God & Huston
John Huston once called The Bible (1966) - with its tricky Creation and A...

Love Scene
During the filming of La Boheme in 1926, John Gilbert became infatuated w...

Fargo Blooper
Though she later recalled going to auditions with an attitude of indifference ("...

Gish on Ice (long)
For her role in D. W. Griffith's melodrama Way Down East (1920), Lillian ...

Thing Called Dialogue
In the late 1920s, talkies took Hollywood by storm. So fast was the transformati...

Davis & Lorring
Joan Lorring was just a teenager When she arrived at Warner Bros. to play opposi...

Tall Tale (long)
To promote the release of National Velvet (1943) - the story of a girl (V...

Russell's Breasts
Howard Hughes's film The Outlaw, starring the amply-endowed Jane Russell ...

Lunch Break
Every day on the set before breaking for lunch, director Cecil B. De Mille would...

Heat
During the production of the screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ...

Mutiny on the Set
Such was Marlon Brando's fondness for food that he rightly came to be known as t...

Sneak Preview
One day in 1936, Katharine Hepburn attended a sneak preview of her latest film, ...

Cecil B. De Mille: Roman Ca...
"Ever heard about the actors who showered Cecil B. De Mille with coconuts? It oc...

Age and Wisdom
During Greer Garson's glory days, Joe Ruttenberg was her favorite cameraman at M...

Ben Hur (long)
One Saturday morning during the production of Ben-Hur (1926), producer Ir...

Baptism Scene
In 1965, Charlton Heston appeared as John the Baptist in George Stevens' biblica...

Dumb Producer
Warner Bros. chief Jack Warner once planned to produce a biopic about Beethoven ...

War Gags
For a certain scene in John Badham's War Games (1983), Matthew Broderick ...

Wacko Brando
During the casting of The Score, director Frank Oz visited Marlon Brando'...

Fiesty Field
In 1979, Sally Field starred in Martin Ritt's Norma Rae, a film based on ...

Kevin Bacon: Preposterous
While living in a rooming house and waiting tables in 1977, Kevin Bacon audition...

Schwarzenegger Supporter
In the late stages of the 2003 California gubernatorial election, more than a do...

Yogi Berra & Doctor Zhivago
Yogi Berra was famed for his verbal bloopers. One day his wife told him that she...

Stifler's Mom
Seann William Scott was once asked what his mother thought about his appearance ...

John Travolta & Howie Long
While filming a chase scene on the set of Broken Arrow (1996), Howie Long...

Three-Headed Alien?
When director Barry Sonnenfeld cast 'Jackass' star Johnny Knoxville as a two-hea...

X-Files Revenge
Roland Emmerich's blockbuster film Independence Day (1996) features a sar...

Small Problem
During the production of Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz was on such a ...

Hollywood Manura
In 2001, the Hollywood frenzy over Asian films was such that in October, the hor...

The Real Terminator?
When James Cameron was seeking financing for The Terminator (1984), Lance...

Woody Harrelson: Classic Woody
One day on the set of The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), director Milos F...

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
"Errol Morris, who actually worked as a private eye for two years, was a philoso...

Salami Surprise
Walter Matthau was an inveterate practical joker. On the set of Donald Petrie's ...

Sarah Michelle Gellar & Sel...
Shortly after the release of Cruel Intentions, Sarah Michelle Gellar was ...

Hays List
Shoerly after Will Hays assumed the presidency of the Motion Picture Producers a...

Ang Lee & The Hulk
In 2002, Ang Lee began work on The Hulk. The major challenge for Lee, the...

Lovable Brute
During the production of Sense and Sensibility, director Ang Lee was pain...

Ang Lee's Homework
Before making Sense and Sensibility, director Ang Lee asked cast members ...

Wimpy Wilson
"I did a movie called Anaconda," Owen Wilson once recalled, "and I missed...

Young Michael Douglas
In 1960 Kirk Douglas got 16-year-old son Michael a job working at Universal Stud...

Psychodrama
"One reason [Jennifer Connelly] took unfortunate roles when she was younger, she...

Jamie Foxx: Little Showcase?
One day during the filming of Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, Jamie Foxx...

Silent Romance
One day in July 2002, Patricia Arquette and her boyfriend, actor Thomas Jane, sa...

Wimpy Wahlberg
"Mark Wahlberg is terrified of sharks, even fake ones," the Examiner repo...

Dead in the Water
"The regretful verdict here," Time film critic Richard Corliss announced ...

Chris Collingwood's Celebri...
Fountains of Wayne frontman Chris Collingwood was once asked to name his first c...

Milton Crandall: Thar She B...
"In 1923, Denver newspapers were tipped off that a whale had been sighted on top...

Takashi Miike
"I just don't understand people who would walk out on a movie," Japanese directo...

Barry Sonnenfeld: Get Shorty
One day during the production of Get Shorty (1995), director Barry Sonnen...

Unconventional Barry Sonnen...
One day during the production of Men in Black (1997), director Barry Sonn...

Casting Anthony Daniels
Ironically, Anthony Daniels - famed for his role as C-3PO in George Lucas's ...

Elijah Wood: Joking Hobbits
During the production of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood, Sean...

Jack Olsen: Hollywood Scree...
After working on fifteen film projects and a television pilot, the screenwriter ...

Dennis Palumbo: Screenwrite...
Even after working on dozens of projects, many well-paid Hollywood screenwriters...

Jennifer Westfeldt & Heathe...
After three years and more than 100 rewrites, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Jue...

Brad Pitt: Pow!
One day on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith, Brad Pitt was chastised by direct...

Robert Altman: Saved by Bimbos
"When the studio people saw the movie, they said, 'This picture's going straight...

Jamie Lee Curtis: Tart with...
"[Jamie Lee Curtis] got in some slutty practice with Money On The Side, w...

Neil Young: The Blob
"It's a wonder I wasn't dead after that show," Neil Young once confessed of the ...

Denis Leary: Titanic Jackass?
One evening in 2001, Denis Leary went to see Titanic. "I really just want...

Christina Ricci: In Character
"More than anything Christina's got balls," Opposite of Sex director Don ...

Phillip Noyce: Director's D...
After completing work on Sliver (1993), director Phillip Noyce screened t...

Terry Gilliam & the Nationa...
Monty Python director Terry Gilliam once explained the presence of the cutouts i...

Kevin Bacon: Kevin's Bacon
One day during the production of Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (2000), Kevi...

Kevin Bacon: Full Frontal
Kevin Bacon's full frontal nude scene in Wild Things (1998) came as somet...

Kevin Bacon: Threesome Scene
In 1998, Kevin Bacon landed the role of Sgt. Ray Duquette in John McNaughton's ...

Ron Howard: Moxie
After starring in Eat my Dust! (1976), "Happy Days" star Ron Howard made ...

Sharon Stone: Heart of Stone?
During the production of Deadly Blessing (1981), Wes Craven asked Sharon ...

Ben Stiller: Sad Situation
One day on the set of Along Came Polly, Ben Stiller was bit by a ferret w...

Francis Ford Coppola: Senators
Each of the actors who played a senator in The Godfather, Part II was cas...

Christopher Walken: Light f...
Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren were brilliantly cast as the ghastly couple ...

Jeff Bridges: El Duderino
In 2002, Jeff Bridges appeared as "the Dude AKA Duder AKA His Dudeness AKA El Du...

Christopher Lee: Dracula Bl...
Christopher Lee first played Dracula (to Peter Cushing's Van Helsing) in Terence...

Jack Nicholson: Oscar Speech
"Jack Nicholson's movies have taken over $1.25 billion at the box-office, but th...

Wolfgang Petersen: Behind T...
"He's a great director," Eric Bana once remarked of director Wolfgang Petersen. ...

Geoffrey Rush: Shine
"Geoffrey Rush's big break came with Shine, based on the tale of disturbe...

Hugh Jackman: Van Tapping
While shooting Van Helsing in Prague, Hugh Jackman (cast as Dracula's nem...

Jean Harlow: Death Becomes Her
"The 26-year-old Jean Harlow, 'Hollywood's original platinum blonde,' died of ki...

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Su...
During the production of Hollywood Homicide, Harrison Ford forced Isaiah ...

Brad Pitt: Feet on the Ground
"I telephoned my grandparents the other day," Brad Pitt once recalled, "and my g...

Ben Stiller: Self... Deprec...
During the production of There's Something About Mary (1998), Ben Stiller...

Diva Master
The budget of Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) rose...

Julia Roberts: Prima Donna
During the production of Ocean's Twelve in July 2004, Julia Roberts repor...

Kobe Bryant & Snoop Dogg
Shortly after Kobe Bryant was charged with rape (after an incident with a hotel ...

Twentieth Century Apocalypse
Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic film The Day After Tomorrow (in which a cli...

Joseph E. Levine: Producers...
After agreeing to finance his comedy classic, The Producers, Embassy Pict...

W. C. Fields: Mother of Inv...
Everett Freeman was among the writers who worked with director George Marshall o...

Geena Davis: The Art of Mar...
Geena Davis and director Renny Harlin were married in September 1993. Though spa...

Jessica Yu: New Territory
In 1997, Jessica Yu won a "Best Documentary Short" Oscar for her film ...

Rated X
In 2000, Emilio Estevez cast his brother Charlie Sheen to costar in ...

Zach Braff: Stuffy Suburbanite
While shooting a scene on location one day, someone on the set of ...

Kevin Smith: Death Threat
Kevin Smith's irreverent religious comedy Dogma (a film featuring Chris R...

Kevin Smith: Dogma is Shit
Kevin Smith and Bryan Johnson once joined a large group of religious fanatics pr...

Jim Caviezel: Playing Jesus
"A wastedr came up to me on the streets of Los Angeles and said, 'You will play ...

Ben Affleck: Gigli
In May 2004, Senator Edward Kennedy invited Ben Affleck to join him in promoting...

Téa Leoni: Rush Hour
Téa Leoni once gave Rush Hour director Brett Ratner an unusual gift. "I sent him...

James Cameron: What Are You...
During the production of Aliens, Sigourney Weaver complained about the us...

Marlon Brando: Scene Stealer?
During the production of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), director John F...

Natalie Portman: The Necklace
During the production of Closer (2004), Natalie Portman gave co-star Juli...

Rob Corddry: Meeting Gwyneth
In a memorable scene in the comedy Old School (2003), several students pl...

Jada Pinkett-Smith: Meeting...
"When I met Will [Smith]'s grandmother it was pretty embarrassing," Jada Pinkett...

Pierce Brosnan: 007 Seconds
Pierce Brosnan was once asked whether or not 007 wears condoms: "No!" he replied...

Stephen King: Titanic Revel...
In 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van. Fortunately, he survived and made a comp...

Vincent Gallo: Two Thumbs Up?
In 2003, actor/director Vincent Gallo sought revenge for Roger Ebert's negative ...

Johnny Depp: Fraught with T...
Johnny Depp was great fun on the set of Finding Neverland. "There was one...

Jamie Foxx: Ray
Jamie Foxx was widely hailed for his portrayal of Ray Charles in Taylor Hackford...

Ben Stiller & Dustin Hoffma...
"There was a scene [in Meet the Fockers] where I walk in and [Dustin Hoff...

Ben Stiller: Casting Barbra
While preparing to shoot Meet the Fockers, director Jay Roach suggested t...

Ian McKellen: London Premiere
Shortly after the completion of Lord of the Rings, Ian McKellen (Gandalf ...

Paul Haggis: Hollywood Carj...
Crash (2004) was inspired by an incident which screenwriter Paul Haggis e...

Kiefer Sutherland: Roaring ...
While preparing for his role in The Wild (2006), Kiefer Sutherland had to...

Dermot Mulroney: Raw Dedica...
During the production of The Wedding Day, Dermot Mulroney shot a nude sce...

Clint Eastwood: Hang 'em High
Director Ted Post: "When I directed Hang 'em High [in 1968], producer Leo...

Uwe Boll: Alone in the Dark
Uwe Boll might have chosen a different name for his first film of 2005. Despite ...

Kate Winslet: You... Titanic
Kate Winslet: "I remember I was in India, and I was walking in the foothills of ...

Ernie Sabella: Pumbaa
While visiting a toy store one day, Ernie Sabella, famed for his role as Pumbaa ...

Gabriel Byrne: Interesting ...
After shooting Excalibur, Gabriel Byrne revealed an interesting nugget ab...

Jim Lovell: Best Picture
In 1996, Apollo 13 was the odds-on favorite to win an Oscar for best pict...

Sean Penn: Propman
New York Post Page Six reporter George Rush: "Sean Penn... had been on th...

David Prowse: Vader Voice
Mark Hamill: "They didn't tell Prowse they wouldn't be using his voice [in St...

Kenneth Branagh: Sharp Stick?
In 1989, Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in his first major film, ...

Brooks: No Compromise
Louise Brooks was famous in Hollywood for her love of sleep - indeed "Twelve hou...

Guy Ritchie Fan
Brad Pitt, who famously played a bare-knuckle fighting Irish Gypsy in Guy Ritchi...

Being John Malkovich
John Malkovich's initial reaction to the oddball screenplay for the 1999 Spike J...

Modern ERA?
Ewan McGregor was once asked about his apparent penchant for onscreen nudity. "I...

Tempo Mental?
Whenever he collaborated with David Lynch on a film, Angelo Badalamenti sought t...

Hallström
During the production of The Shipping News, Kevin Spacey, famed for his i...

Louis Sherwin: Hollywood Sc...
Like many screenwriters with literary leanings, Louis Sherwin was often reluctan...

Golden Bed
One day on the set of The Greatest Show on Earth (in 1951), Cecil B. De M...

Avant Garde Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard once attended a film symposium at which a fellow filmmaker (Geor...

Dustin Hoffman: Marathon Man
Dustin Hoffman often took method acting to incredible extremes. In order to appe...

Erich von Stoheim: Obsessiv...
Director Erich von Stroheim was famed for his obsession with detail. During the ...

Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein
One day in 1993, a group of undergraduates (this writer among them) attended a s...

Liv Tyler & Richard Gere: G...
Liv Tyler (who played one of Richard Gere's gynecology patients in ...

Lion Kings
"When The Lion King came out, we were on tour in New York City," Everclea...

Angelina Jolie: Jolie Fit?
Angelina Jolie once explained how she had slimmed down to play Lara Croft in the...

Begotten (long)
Marilyn Manson was once asked about his favorite films. "One movie that had a gr...

Glue Lagoon
During the production of The Blue Lagoon, Brooke Shields' handlers, conce...

Sonofabitch!
Robert Evans once played the role of a cad named Dexter Key in Jean Negulesco's ...

Primal Flattery?
While visiting the set of Planet of the Apes in 2001, Mark Salisbury was ...

Hand Piqued
In July 2002, after leading the Motion Picture Association of America's film tra...

Julianne Moooore (long)
Perhaps understandably, Julianne Moore found filming certain scenes during the p...

Jazz Singer
One day Marion Davies, fearful of the impact that talking pictures would have on...

Baaad Influence?
During the filming of Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, famed for his love...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hors...
While Arnold Schwarzenegger's parachute scenes in Eraser were being filme...

Tunnel Vision?
At the tender age of three, Peter Falk had his right eye surgically removed (and...

Colin Farrell: Fundamental ...
One day on the set of Minority Report, Colin Farrell was called upon to d...

Hold Zee Butter?
In Dead Again, Kenneth Branagh played two roles: A blue-blooded German co...

Juguling Roles? (long)
The task of directing Dead Again - juggling the myriad details involved i...

'Rip Torn'
Kenneth Branagh once found a director's chair labeled 'Rip Torn'. Though named f...

Anti-Method
Director Bernardo Bertolucci once recalled John Malkovich's 'anti-Method' method...

Problem 'Rectified?
"In the seven seasons of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'," Patrick Stewart once...

Bad-alamenti?
Composer Angelo Badalamenti, a frequent David Lynch collaborator, had a small ca...

Woody Favreau?
Jon Favreau, who once remarked that his perception of romance had been "misshape...

Bullets Over Broadway
Diane Wiest, who once described Woody Allen's look of displeasure as "a mild and...

Lovely Compensation?
Ava Gardner's first screen test did not go well - or did it? "The director clapp...

Free Soul
After Clark Gable was seen slapping his co-star Norma Shearer in Clarence Brown'...

Feature Film
Following the production of Solaris, director Steven Soderbergh was disma...

Gentleman Actor?
Spencer Tracy was once asked by director Garson Kanin why, when co-starring with...

Proof of Life (long)
Much of Proof of Life was shot in Ecuador, a place, Russell Crowe later d...

Gambler
One day during the filming of Ocean's Eleven, Matt Damon invited Steven S...

Assassination of Burton?
While shooting a pivotal scene in The Assassination of Trotsky, Richard B...

Fish Called Wanda
Following his Oscar-winning performance as the goldfish-gobbling Otto "Don't cal...

Tailgater (long)
On a chilly morning in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, the subject of a doumentary film,...

Mel Gibson: Passion?
In 2002, Mel Gibson announced plans to direct a curious film about the last twel...

Pointed Observation?
Some time after landing her role as the clairvoyant Elf Queen Galadriel in ...

Din
Legendary producer Sam Goldwyn spent $20,000 to change a scene in his first all-...

Maybe Not...
What role was James Dean next scheduled to play when he died in 1955? Boxer Rock...

Silent Movie
What was the only word spoken in Mel Brooks' classic 1976 film comedy ...

Mel Gibson: Lucky Break
At a party one night in 1979, Mel Gibson got drunk and became involved in a braw...

Kevin Costner: Bottleneck
One day on the set of Message in a Bottle, Kevin Costner had great diffic...

Sharon Stone: Cellulite War...
During her first day on the set of Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone approache...

Dummy
Though director John Boorman proposed sending a dummy over a waterfall for a sce...

Michael Mann: Perfectionist
During the production of The Insider, perfectionist director Michael Mann...

Coen’s Dog
The Verve Pipe's Brian Vander Ark was once asked how he had landed his role in ...

Dick Tracy
Some time after his affair with Madonna had ended, Warren Beatty sent his former...

Streisand's Look
One day Barbra Streisand was complimented upon her makeup, which, it was said, r...

The Hours
When The Hours was honored at the Golden Globes in 2003, Claire Danes, on...

Fiction Writers
Arnold Schwarzenegger was once asked to name his favorite writers. "My favorite ...

Wood & Groucho
Though he directed some of their films, the Marx Brothers frequently clashed wit...

Perfect
One day during the production of Starting Over, director Alan Pakula told...

Roger Corman: Inside Joke
Like many of Roger Corman's former proteges, director Joe Dante later hired the ...

Jason Biggs: New Crush
Jason Biggs, who brought new meaning to the expression, "Nothing says lovin' lik...

Katharine Hepburn & John Ba...
During the production of A Bill of Divorcement, Katharine Hepburn frequen...

Impulsive Pevere & Planet o...
Shortly after the summer release of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes (in 2...

Saved by the Bell
According to Kenneth Branagh, whenever anyone was annoying Woody Allen on the se...

Brad Pitt: Fine Catch?
For his role in A River Runs Through It, Brad Pitt was required to learn ...

Royal Disbelief
Although Roy Scheider was originally cast to play Michael in Michael Cimino's ...

Shocking Effects
James Cameron got his big break while doing pick-up shots for the 1981 film ...

Doh Re Mi
Though Lauren Bacall was slated to sing in To Have and Have Not (her debu...

Michael Bay: Method Director
One day on the set of Pearl Harbor, Ewen Bremner asked Michael Bay, the f...

Jack
Despite Easy Rider's critical accolades and commercial success, bad blood...

Vivian Leigh & the Radish
Vivian Leigh was delighted to land the starring role of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1...

Expensive Habit
During the filming of Matilda, Danny DeVito, an avid cigar smoker, lit on...

Charles Marquis Warren
In 1957, Charles Marquis Warren made a Western for Twentieth Century-Fox entitle...

Buck Shot (long)
One day on the set of one of his classic Westerns, the director W. S. Van Dyke r...

One Smart Director
Though his 1936 musical Three Smart Girls rescued Universal from bankrupt...

Orgasm Theme (long)
"When David Selznick engaged Dimitri Tiomkin to do the music for ...

Swedish Broad
George Raft was once offered the role of Rick in Casablanca. He turned it...

Deadly Weapons
"They had killed her husband!"
-- sexploitation film queen Doris Wishman ex...

Frankly, Darling...
Director John Frankenheimer, famed for his mercurial temperament, was approached...

Poker on the Set?
One day during the filming of 1492: Conquest of Paradise, the cast was re...

Independent Producer
During the production of Frederick Brisson's first project as an independent (19...

Pulp Fiction
One day on the set of Pulp Fiction, Eric Stoltz filmed a memorable scene ...

Space Odyssey
In 1968, Roger Ebert and a date attended the debut screening of Stanley Kubrick'...

Hanks a Million?
Tom Hanks once thanked an unusual source for its assistance with his performance...

Whippy
During the production of Mickey Blue Eyes, James Caan gave Hugh Grant a n...

Alec Guinness: Little Green...
Alec Guinness, a classically trained Shakespearean actor, so despised working on...

The Shipping News
"Shooting began March 4, 2001, on a frozen plain outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. T...

Rat's Pack?
Harmony Korine's directorial debut, Gummo, is noted for its gritty detail...

Can't Have Everything? (long)
When William De Mille (Cecil B. De Mille's brother) wrote the screenplay for the...

Rufus
"The poodle ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cl...

Two Bit President?
Woodrow Wilson, America's 28th president (1913-21), was not without his critics....

Val Kilmer: Trouble on the Set
Val Kilmer cultivated a reputation for being difficult on the set. While filming...

H2Oh!
During the production of one of her films, Kim Basinger shocked producers with h...

Epic Moment
During the production of The Covered Wagon (1923), an ambitious film abou...

Money Pit?
In 1999, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg began scouting locations for a prospecti...

Lonesome Pine
In 1916, the legendary director Cecil B. De Mille produced a film adaptation of ...

Scene-Stealer
One day on the set of the 1963 Western comedy McLintock!, John Wayne took...

Edmund Grainger: Smoke Signals
During the production of The Fabulous Texan (1947), director Edmund Grain...

William H. Macy: Typical Male?
While researching his role as a porn director in Boogie Nights, William H...

Adopt-a-Film
In May 2003, Seattle-based director Tim Boyd unveiled a novel plan to raise $25,...

Pierce Brosnan: License to ...
During the production of Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan put the wardrobe...

Tin Man
Why did Jack Haley replace Buddy Ebsen as the Tin Man during the production of t...

Generous Jack
Early in their respective careers, Jack Nicholson and Henry Jaglom agreed to app...

Smell-O-Vision
In 1960, Mike Todd, Jr unveiled a $2 million motion picture featuring Smell-O-Vi...

First Impressions
For his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopk...

Censor Solution
The legendary director D. W. Griffith developed a novel way of dealing with Holl...

Project Greenlight
In 2001, Live Planet (a production company run by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and p...

De Mille & Zukor
In 1922 Cecil B. De Mille offered $1,000 for the best idea for his next film. Th...

Teflon Terry
For the cavalry scenes in The Wind and the Lion - John Milius's great Mor...

The Virginian
With the arrival of the talkie, Paramount hired a dialogue coach (a young actor ...

Damn Postcards
In the first sound cinemas, a phonograph was used to deliver the soundtrack. Thi...

Insulted He Is?
Kevin Pollak once found himself discussing the Star Wars films with Conan...

Skeet Ulrich: Ride with the...
In 1999, Skeet Ulrich appeared as Jack Bull Chiles in Ang Lee's Civil War film, ...

Ringing Phone
With the advent of sound, a telephone's ring was replaced by a flashing red ligh...

Selznick & the Czar
As a Jewish boy growing up in Czarist Russia, Lewis J. Selznick (father of legen...

Tootsie II
Shortly after the appearance of Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982), Dustin H...

Nothing in Common?
Jackie Gleason, Tom Hanks and director Garry Marshall had some difficulty captur...

Yes Ma'am
While shooting the softball scene in Runaway Bride, Tommy Hines was requi...

Christopher Reeve & Michael...
Like many pretty-boy actors, Christopher Reeve often battled rumors that he was ...

Made in Manhattan
Paul Muni's performance as Tony Camonte in Howard Hawks' classic gangster movie ...

Dandy Timing
The director Michael Curtiz was famed for his hard-driving no-nonsense nature. H...

Early Subtitles
Even the best silent films used title cards to convey dialogue and move the stor...

Hollywood Moment
At the Academy Awards dinner in 1942, the legendary director Cecil B. De Mille a...

Lazenby
George Lazenby, a car salesman, auditioned for the role of James Bond in ...

Bellamy
"One day in Hollywood," Ralph Bellamy recalled, "I read a script in which the ch...

Trashy Sequel
When a Gone with the Wind sequel (entitled Scarlett) sparked a bid...

One-Take Woody
The director "One-Take Woody" Van Dyke was famed for his ability to get a film -...

Maurice Chevalier (long)
Innocents of Paris (1929) was Paramount's first big musical, so the entir...

Dooley Wilson
The black musician Dooley Wilson became an instant celebrity after appearing in ...

'K'
Kristin Scott Thomas first stumbled upon The English Patient, the Booker ...

Search for Beauty (long)
While preparing for the release of Search for Beauty in 1934, Paramount p...

What the Hayek?
For years, Salma Hayek and Miramax Films had discussed producing a biopic about ...

King of Kings
The set of Cecil B. De Mille's Biblical epic The King of Kings (1927) was...

Lang Behind The Scenes
Early in his career, Otto Lang worked as director William Wellman's third assist...

Casting Decision
While casting the part of Mark Antony in Cecil B. De Mille's 1934 classic, ...

Sound of Music
Most of those involved in the production of The Sound of Music were thril...

Strictly Ballroom
When it was released in France, Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, a sleep...

Reservoir Dogs
"All the guys who made Reservoir Dogs did it for the same reason," Michae...

King of Kings
One day on the set of his Biblical epic The King of Kings (1927), Cecil B...

Alice Brady: In Old Chicago
In 1938, Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Henry K...

Wonderful Timing
The production of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life went swimmingly - w...

Perspective
Though Geoffrey Rush won critical acclaim for his roles in Elizabeth (as ...

Lillian Gish: Women in Holl...
Over the course of her 75 year career, Lillian Gish was dismayed to learn that, ...

Rules of Attraction?
In 2002, "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek appeared in Roger Avary's ...

Bernardo Bertolucci: Killin...
"Killing the father is a theme that turns up fairly often in interviews with Ber...

Oscar Irony
Shortly after the completion of Mrs. Miniver, director William Wyler enli...

Little Problem
During the production of Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar (1931), it quickly ...

Blockbuster Producer
Blockbuster producers Joel Silver and Jerry Bruckheimer almost single-handedly r...

Lemmon Juiced
In 1953 Jack Lemmon arrived in Hollywood to make his first feature film, ...

Herbert Bonaparte
One day on the Italian set of King Vidor's screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ...

Akiva Goldsman
Disputed writing credits on feature films are arbitrated by the Writers Guild of...

Upstaged?
Sales of Kangols (the hats so beloved by rappers from LL Cool J to Run-D.M.C.) r...

USCrewed?
Why did the most commercially successful director in the history of cinema atten...

Stunt Double?
When the film Lethal Weapon 2 was released, certain knowing viewers began...

Cantilever Bra
Jane Russell, who once had twin peaks in Alaska named in her honor, was famed fo...

Circus Manager
Shortly after his appearance as the circus manager in Cecil B. De Mille's ...

Victor Mature: Bust
Groucho Marx was once invited to a private screening of Cecil B. De Mille's 1949...

Steven Spielberg's Graduation
In a bid to encourage his seven children to attend college, director Steven Spie...

Brendan Fraser: Bedazzled
One day in 2004, director Harold Ramis reviewed a sequence which he had cut from...

Daryl Hannah: Drunk Driver?
At the LA premiere of Kill Bill: Vol 2 in 2004, agoraphobic actress Daryl...

Turner & Who?
In September 1998, several Hollywood directors and screenwriters gathered to dis...

House of Rothschild
Shortly after Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Twentieth Century-Fox chief Dar...

Dane Cook & Matthew Modine
"I was at the Laugh Factory in L.A.," Dane Cook once recalled. "It was late, 35 ...

Caffe Trieste
One scene in 40 Days and 40 Nights called for Josh Hartnett to pass a cor...

A Touch of Class?
Producers were not entirely happy with Kim Basinger's performance in Hugh Hudson...

DiViDed Loyalties? (long)
"It all started modestly enough, back in September 1999, when 15-year-old Jon Jo...

Best Actress in a Predicament
Where was Renee Zellweger when she won her award for Best Actress in a Musical o...

Plane Stupid? (long)
On the set of Pearl Harbor, drector Michael Bay stationed a group of acto...

Monkey Business?
Could Mark Wahlberg have been the victim of a practical joke on the set of direc...

Halle Berry: Berry's Boobies
Halle Berry was once told that audiences had named 'seeing Halle Berry's naked b...

The Kwan (long)
Writer-director Cameron Crowe once described the origins of Cuba Gooding Jr's cl...

Cliffhanger Stunt
During the production of Cliffhanger (1993), famed stunt coordinator Simo...

Lord of the Rings: Stylish ...
Sequestered on the massive New Zealand set, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Blo...

Benjamin Bratt: Edgy Perfor...
At one point during the production of Piñero (based on the life of the po...

Hannibal
"It's the morning after Halloween. Taped to the door of an editing room is a red...

Texas Chain Saw Massacre
"On any shot where the chain had to do any cutting," Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface)...

Volga Boatman
MGM composer William Axt was once assigned to compose some music for a film call...

Korngold
In 1935 Warner Bros. hired the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold to work on the s...

Samuel Goldwyn & the Mercha...
Edward G. Robinson was once invited to play the venal Jewish moneylender Shylock...

Harvey Weinstein & the Star...
The production delays on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York were a sourc...

Tom Cruise: Magnolia
After several years without speaking to his father, Tom Cruise and his sisters v...

Robert De Niro: Dedication
While preparing for his role in The Deer Hunter, Robert De Niro, famous f...

Yes, Guv'nor! (long)
During the filming of Blade Runner in the United Kingdom, director Ridley...

Jennifer Connelly & Billy C...
The romantic sparks began to fly shortly after Jennifer Connelly and Billy Campb...

Analyse This!
Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart, himself never much of a sci-fi fan, often groa...

Fast Track Career?
Before he began filming Ghost World (his first feature film), Terry Zwigo...

Uma Thurman: 'It' Girl
Of all the characters in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace, a...

Joffe Collared?
One day during the filming of a hunting scene on the set of Vatel, actres...

Se?en
In order to heighten the suspense for the audience, Kevin Spacey accepted his ro...

Mission: Implausible?
One day during the filming of Mission: Impossible, Kristin Scott Thomas h...

No Kidding
Twentieth Century Fox chief Darryl Zanuck cast Robert Evans as bullfighter Pedro...

Bogart's Nod
When filming began on the set of Casablanca (1943), the script was far fr...

Robert Redford and Barbra S...
"In 1973, Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand hit box-office gold with the roman...

40 Minutes and 40 Seconds?
40 Days and 40 Nights (which director Michael Lehmann once called "a come...

Freddy Fingered
In 2002, Tom Green personally accepted the 'Golden Raspberry' award for the year...

James M. Cain
"As the story goes, someone said to James M. Cain that 'Hollywood ruined your bo...

Yoko Bared
Yoko Ono's reputation for oddity was not entirely unearned. She once appeared (w...

Old School
In February 2003, Conan O'Brien and some of his staff were shown a private scree...

Knight's Tale
The jousting scenes in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale (2001) were grue...

Wuthering Performance (long)
One day on the set of William Wyler's Wuthering Heights (1939), David Niv...

Method Actor
One day during the production of Viva Zapata!, Marlon Brando, famed for h...

Crossfire
One day during the post-production of Crossfire (1947), Edward Dmytryk's ...

Pop Quiz?
Ralph Fiennes once played the role of Charles Van Doren, the clean-cut, charisma...

Robin Williams: Fart Monologue
"As Sean Maguire, psychiatrist to Damon's troubled street-kid genius [in ...

Snatch Adams?
Robin Williams was not pleased when, shortly after the appearance of the 2002 fi...

Hollywood Ending
Woody Allen once scribbled the concept for a feature film on the back of a match...

Woody: Keepin' it Real
Despite having received a dozen Oscar nominations, Woody Allen did not make an a...

Hollywood Ending
Shortly after landing the role of Ellie in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending...

In The Bedroom?
One morning in 2002, Marisa Tomei's cat woke her up and led her to the TV. Tomei...

Michael Bay & the U.S. Navy
As a grad student, Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay once cold-called the...

Peter Bogdanovich: Directin...
A film student once asked director Peter Bogdanovich about the famous final scen...

Wild Bill
"'Wild Bill' Wellman had a reputation for being tough. In the last scene of ...

She's a Fighter
The unforgettable fighting scenes in The Matrix were filmed with Carrie-A...

Mad Dog and Glory?
In 1993, Bill Murray (playing a mobster who'd rather be a comic) appeared opposi...

Bad Taste
While Peter Jackson was making Bad Taste (his first film) in 1987, the fa...

Word on Burton
During the production of Cleopatra, Richard Burton had a torrid affair wi...

The Bitch
In 1978, following her big breakthrough in The Stud, Joan Collins starred...

Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close kept all of her costumes, and many props, from each of her films. Am...

Brown Squall
The storm scenes in Ridley Scott's White Squall were shot in a massive, s...

McConagross
One day during the production of EdTV, co-stars Matthew McConaughey and J...

Daryl Hannah: Lobster Lover
One day on the set of Ron Howard's classic comedy Splash, Daryl Hannah, a...

Merchant's Creation
After completing an MBA at NYU, Ismail Merchant worked as a messenger for the In...

Coma
In 1978, Michael Crichton's Coma hit theaters across America. The film te...

Faulkner & Longstreet
While working on the script for the B-movie Stallion Road one day in 1945...

Cotton Club
Francis Ford Coppola was embroiled in so much litigation during the production o...

Populist De Mille
Though Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epics did well at the box office, many deplo...

Film Adaptation
John le Carre was at best ambivalent about film adaptations. "Having your book t...

Singer's Lament
Many of Isaac Bashevis Singer's novels have been adapted for the screen, among t...

Hiya Chopin
In 1960, Dirk Bogarde made Liszt in Hollywood. The experience made him de...

Marshall & Gleason
How did Garry Marshall and his producers convince Jackie Gleason to play the rol...

Pauline Kael: Deep Throat C...
David Denby was once an acolyte of legendary New Yorker film critic Pauli...

Anal Viewers?
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released a classic horror film which raised many eyebr...

Jazz Mimer?
In the eyes of many Hollywood observers, the success of the 'talkies' was hardly...

Melvin Van Peebles: Affirma...
While making Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (in 1971), Melvin Van Peeb...

Eastwood & Russo
In an emotional scene in Wolfgang Petersen's In the Line of Fire (1993), ...

Goon Squad
While Ben Hecht was working on the script for Scarface (1932), word got a...

Titanic Ego?
Though Titanic received many favorable reviews, director James Cameron wa...

Snow White
Disney animator Ward Kimball once recalled working 240 days on a 4 1/2 minute se...

Harrison Ford: Sticky Offer
Harrison Ford once made Las Vegas cinema owners a 'deal': "I'll try to keep maki...

Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
In 1972, in a bid to promote his latest film, Frenzy (in which London is ...

Hilary Swank: Method Actress
Hilary Swank auditioned for the lead role of Teena Brandon in Kimberly Peirce's ...

Nuts to the Code
As chief of the Production Code Administration (an offshoot of Will Hays' Motion...

Sweetest Thing
Christina Applegate got a surprise during the filming of Roger Kumble's ...

In the Can
"You know, Orson Welles once said to me..." Peter Bogdanovich once recalled. "We...

The Cat's Meow?
Even by Hollywood standards, director Peter Bogdanovich had a roller-coaster car...

Tarzan Rights
In 1931, MGM chief Irving Thalberg, bent on acquiring the film rights to Edgar R...

Run-of-De Mille
In 1949, after World War II had killed interest in the spectacle film for a time...

Jungle Fever
For many years, Samuel L. Jackson refused to listen to his wife's warnings that ...

Stunt Man
One day on the set of Swiss Family Robinson (1960), director Ken Annakin ...

Roger Moore & Timothy Dalton
Roger Moore was once asked what he thought about the James Bond films featuring ...

Too Sexy?
While shooting a steamy love scene in Die Another Day, Halle Berry had he...

Screenwriting Tips
The Metro producer Hunt Stromberg once found himself discussing a proposed South...

To Have And Have Not
"Humphrey Bogart was a brilliant actor," director Howard Hawks once recalled, "m...

Memphis Censors
Lloyd T. Binford, chairman of the Memphis board of censors in the 1940s, was not...

Michael Madsen: Surprise!
Michael Madsen, whom Rolling Stone once dubbed "a natural menace," brough...

Nixt Generation?
In 2002, Wil Wheaton (famed for his role as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Ne...

Roger Corman: Little Shop o...
Roger Corman was famed for his frugality. Indeed, during the production of ...

Running Dog
Madame Mao (Mao Zedong's wife) regularly retired to a private screening room to ...

Wonderland
One day in 2003, New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane went to the theatre ...

Godfather
After winning successive Oscar nominations for his role as Michael Corleone in t...

Serpico
Al Pacino was consumed by his role as Frank Serpico in Sidney Lumet's classic ...

Stall and Negotiate
One day during the production of Mark Rydell's bank heist comedy caper ...

Movie Lover
Joel Schumacher took drastic measures to convince Susan Sarandon to commit to ...

Scooby-Doo
Freddie Prinze Jr. was determined to land the role of Fred Jones in ...

Nicolas Cage: Cockroach
Nicolas Cage, a fearless actor who won Jim Carrey's admiration for his "elephant...

The Abyss
Director James Cameron, famed for his obsessive perfectionism, pressured the cas...

Jackie Chan, Madman
Jackie Chan, famed for his incredible stunts, once jumped off the top of a build...

Stunt-Chan
Jackie Chan, famed for his incredible stunt work, broke his ankle one day during...

Benicio Del Toro: Gonzo Per...
A committed actor, Benicio Del Toro gained forty pounds in order to play Oscar Z...

Christian Bale & Samuel L. ...
Christian Bale was delighted to play the villain opposite Samuel L. Jackson in ...

Hollywood Wisdom
"There's an old saying in Hollywood," Ben Stiller once declared. "It's not the l...

Titanic Jerk?
Stories abound about James Cameron's hard-driving work ethic - this one, for exa...

Tom Schulman: Production Hell
Early in his screenwriting career, Tom Schulman, like most Hollywood scribes, di...

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