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1. Last year, connected an occurrence of Kristin Davis's Are You a Charlotte? podcast, Sarah Jessica Parker revealed that aft filming the Sex and the City aviator successful 1997, she was unsure whether she wanted to proceed with the show. Though Parker had agreed to bash the pilot, she asked her agents to get retired of her contract aft HBO decided to prime up the series. At the time, she was already a well-known movie histrion and wasn't anxious to perpetrate to a semipermanent TV role, feeling it would bounds her from taking theatre and movie roles.
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However, her agents convinced her to stay, telling her that HBO was an "unknown species," and that it wouldn't beryllium similar doing a regular TV series. They adjacent told her to bash it for a year, and that if she didn't privation to bash it anymore, they would get her retired of it. Once pre-production began, Parker didn't consciousness arsenic stifled and developed existent affection for the quality of Carrie Bradshaw. She adjacent worked with the show's legendary costume designer, Patricia Field, to assistance make Carrie's look. She said that connected the archetypal time of filming, Parker added connected the podcast that, aft walking from her flat to movie her archetypal country astatine a Banana Republic store, "I ne'er looked back. And I was ne'er not blessed to beryllium there."
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2. If you're nether 38, you mightiness ne'er person heard the precise fashionable municipality fable that a shade appears successful the inheritance of Three Men and a Baby due to the fact that the movie was supposedly filmed successful a haunted New York apartment. Yes...this was wide discussed and thing radical truly believed! However, the "ghost" radical often constituent to is really a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's character, which was portion of a deleted storyline. In fact, the movie was filmed connected a soundstage successful Toronto, not successful a existent apartment.
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This municipality fable started aft the movie was released connected home video. The communicative went that a 9-year-old lad had killed himself successful the flat wherever the movie was aboriginal filmed, and that helium could beryllium seen hiding down the curtains arsenic the camera rapidly pans crossed the room. There are a fewer theories astir however this rumor started, similar the workplace trying to thrust up VHS rentals. But this is astir apt owed to the debased solution of VHS tapes and the information that TVs were smaller successful the '80s and '90s (with debased solution arsenic well), making it hard to find what the fig was.
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3. The popularity of Lego Star Wars led Lego to prosecute much licensed sets. Surprisingly, anterior to 1999, Lego did not person immoderate licensed products, arsenic they considered them a hazard to their established brand. That changed with the merchandise of The Phantom Menace, and Lego produced its archetypal licensed Lego sets arsenic a tie-in to the movie's release. The toys were an contiguous hit, and seeing the beardown demand, the institution realized fans loved gathering sets tied to movies and TV shows.
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This convinced Lego that partnerships with large franchises were worthy the risk. After Star Wars, they began looking for different fashionable worlds to bring into ceramic form. That determination opened the doorway to sets based connected Harry Potter, Marvel, Disney, and more. Now it's truly hard to deliberation of a clip erstwhile Lego didn't person a tie-in product.
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4. Today, pizza is 1 of America's astir fashionable foods, but earlier World War II, it was largely unknown extracurricular Italian American communities and cities with ample Italian populations. In fact, Italian nutrient successful wide was considered niche cuisine. Many Americans had ne'er tasted pizza, and successful overmuch of the country, determination wasn't adjacent a edifice that served it. That began to alteration during the war, erstwhile thousands of American soldiers were stationed successful Italy and encountered section foods they had ne'er tried before.
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Pizza rapidly became a favourite among galore GIs. When those soldiers returned location aft the war, they brought their newfound appreciation for Italian nutrient with them. The increasing request helped substance the dispersed of pizzerias crossed the US and introduced pizza to millions of Americans who had ne'er seen it before.
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5. When MGM began casting The Wizard of Oz successful the precocious 1930s, the workplace primitively envisioned the Wicked Witch of the West arsenic a glamorous and beauteous character, who they intended to beryllium akin to the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Gale Sondergaard, a respected histrion who had conscionable won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, was formed successful the role. As you tin spot successful the photograph below, aboriginal costume tests featured her arsenic a sleek, elegant villain, implicit with a sequined gown and a look that bears a striking resemblance to the Evil Queen.
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But, arsenic accumulation went on, the filmmakers decided the Witch should beryllium genuinely frightening, not glamorous. They wanted her to look ugly, old, and menacing, which was person to the mentation from The Wizard of Oz book. Sondergaard, known for her quality and melodramatic roles, didn't privation to beryllium made up arsenic an "ugly witch," fearing it would wounded her career. She near the accumulation alternatively than instrumentality connected the caller mentation of the character. MGM past formed quality histrion Margaret Hamilton, who afloat embraced the frightening, "ugly witch" look. Needless to say, it each worked retired for the champion arsenic Hamilton's show became iconic and remains 1 of the astir memorable successful movie history.
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6. Disney erstwhile did a shot-by-shot remake of its precise fashionable 1934 Mickey Mouse abbreviated Orphan's Benefit successful 1941. The crushed was beauteous simple: the archetypal was successful achromatic and white, and truthful nary longer invaluable (they couldn't licence it to theaters) because, successful the 7 years since the original's release, cartoons had transitioned to being chiefly successful color. The workplace decided to nutrient a caller full-color version, utilizing astir the aforesaid animation and gags.
They besides updated the quality designs to lucifer the newer look of Mickey, Donald, and the remainder of the gang. Aside from those ocular tweaks, the timing and enactment intimately matched the earlier film. Disney had plans to remake much of its fashionable earlier black-and-white cartoons successful color, but due to the fact that the US entered World War II, the task was halted arsenic it shifted its absorption to making propaganda and subject acquisition cartoons for the US government.
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7. Years earlier helium became a household sanction connected ER and 1 of Hollywood's biggest stars, George Clooney spent overmuch of the 1980s struggling to find dependable acting work. During that period, keeping capable national jobs to support his wellness security was a changeless concern. According to accounts from The Golden Girls originative team, Clooney's cause reportedly contacted the show's producers to spot if determination was a relation available, starring to his impermanent quality arsenic undercover detective Bobby Hopkins successful a 1987 episode.
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At the time, it was conscionable different tv recognition to assistance enactment afloat, but it would aboriginal go a memorable footnote successful his career. Looking backmost connected the acquisition astir 4 decades later, Clooney said helium loved moving connected the sitcom and remembered the formed arsenic "all funny." He reserved peculiar praise for Bea Arthur, saying she "made maine laughter harder than anybody" and that the full acquisition "was conscionable a truly amusive time."
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8. Marilyn Monroe's iconic, breathy show of "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" astatine JFK's 45th birthday, which was a Democratic fundraiser held astatine Madison Square Garden, mightiness look similar a spontaneous, flirtatious stunt. However, it was acold from a last-minute PR gimmick. In reality, Monore had been asked to execute astatine the star-studded lawsuit months successful advance (as it was enactment unneurotic by her person and the president's brother-in-law, histrion Peter Lawford). Monroe took it earnestly and spent hours rehearsing successful the days starring up to the event.
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In fact, Monroe adjacent attended the after-party (still wearing the iconic dress) astatine the location of Arthur and Mathilde Krim. It was determination that the lone known existing photo of the Monroe with JFK was taken. The photograph was taken by White House lensman Cecil Stoughton, who really took respective photos of them together. But later, the Secret Service asked for each the photos and negatives. Stoughton handed them over; however, 1 photo was inactive drying, and helium kept that concealed for years. The lawsuit would besides beryllium Monroe's past nationalist appearance, arsenic she would dice 2 months later.
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9. When MTV launched successful 1981, it unexpectedly helped spark what became known arsenic the "Second British Invasion" of the US. At the time, galore American artists had not yet embraced euphony videos arsenic a large promotional tool, leaving MTV with a constricted proviso of content. British acts, however, were acold amended prepared. For years, artists successful the UK had regularly produced promotional videos truthful their songs could beryllium featured connected tv programs similar Top of the Pops without requiring a unrecorded appearance.
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As a result, MTV had a ample room of ready-made videos from British artists to aerial astir the clock. The changeless vulnerability helped bands specified arsenic Duran Duran, Culture Club, and Eurythmics interruption into the American mainstream. By the mid-'80s, UK artists dominated MTV and the US charts, creating a taste improvement that echoed the archetypal British Invasion led by the Beatles 2 decades earlier.
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10. And lastly, today, it's hard to ideate Titanic arsenic thing different than a prestige movie released during the vacation season, but that wasn't the archetypal plan. Originally, the movie was scheduled to unfastened successful the summertime of 1997, and arsenic you tin spot from this teaser poster, it was adjacent marketed much similar a accepted blockbuster. However, manager James Cameron's ambitious accumulation ran mode down schedule, and helium needed much clip to enactment connected the peculiar effects, forcing the workplace to delay the merchandise until December.
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The postponement fueled wide speculation that the movie was successful trouble, with galore manufacture observers predicting it would go 1 of Hollywood's astir expensive container bureau disasters. Reportedly, the opening day of December 19 was picked to debar nonstop contention with Scream 2, which opened the play earlier and was expected to beryllium a large hit. However, arsenic we each know, alternatively of becoming the cautionary communicative galore predicted, Titanic went connected to go the highest-grossing movie successful past astatine the clip and 1 of the biggest movie successes ever.
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