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Alien3

Alien3 (1992) Sigourney Weaver insisted they kill off Ripley. Weaver said that when she heard about the studio's plan to do Alien VS. Predator it depressed her, and she wanted out. She claims that it's the same reason Ridley Scott didn't return for Alien 3. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen was caught cheating on his wife by a hidden-camera sting operation. CRACKED.COM After he was caught, Han- sen was fired from NBC's Dateline: To Catch a Preda- tor, a show that featured him conducting a sting ор- eration on online sex pred- ators by catching them on hidden cameras. — Source

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Monkey Island

MONKEY ISLAND Monkey Island was inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, and vice versa. In 2000, ILM began conceptualizing a movie based on The Curse of Monkey Island, which was inspired by the Disneyland ride. The movie never got made, but writer Ted Elliott went on to write Curse of the Black Pearl. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Brad Pitt

CRACKED.COM Celebrity Stoners Brad Pitt smoked weed to escape fame. Pitt admitted that he spent most of the '90s hiding out and smoking pot, I was too uncomfortable with all the attention. — Source: Page Six

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Family Guy

CRACKED.COM CRIME AND Aristophanes foresaw Brian from Family Guy 2,400 years ago. In The Wasps, a dog is taken to trial for stealing a Sicilian cheese. A defense attorney says it should be acquitted, as it's just some dumb dog-but then someone else points out that the dog wrote its own defense plea.

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Jaws

The first $100 million movie. 1975 CRACKED.COM Jaws was one of the first films to be released nationwide, all at once, instead of slowly rolled out across the country. That helped it crush the barrier and score $260 million on its first run. — Source

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Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Selena

The late singer Selena was a huge fan of famously fancy jeweled eggs known as Faberge Eggs. She collected over 500 of the stunning spheroid shapes, which are on display at the Selena museum. CRACKED.COM — Source

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X-Men

For tax purposes, X-Men figures are legally classified as toys and not dolls. The US taxes toys at a lower rate than dolls, so Marvel led a 10-year legal battle to get the courts to recognize its action figures as toys. It won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ben-Hur

ELEVEN BEST PICTURE ACADEMY IN 1960. AWARDS Hugh Griffith won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1960. for playing rich Arab stereotype and doing blackface. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill Cosby

In November 2014, amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Bill Cosby tweeted the invitation Go ahead. Meme me! with a link to a graphic generator on his website. The unforgiving public obliged. REMEMBER WHEN I ATE CAKE? MORE THAN @ DOZEN WOMEN M LET'S REMEMBER THE CAKETIMES MY TWO FAVORITE INSTEAD OF THE RAPE - STUFF Bill Cosby @BillCosby JELLO PUDDING & RAPE BY 13 DIFFERENT WOMEN #COSAYMERI Go ahead. Meme me! http://t.co/uM3KSji8or #CosbyMeme GRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Evans

Chris Evans played the Human Torch in Fantastic Four as a pick-me-up. I had just been dumped and I needed it!, he said - and he particularly remembers the call he got about the role, because he'd needed a win at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An Army of Harvey Weinsteins

CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD WAS RUN BY HARVEY WEINSTEIN TYPES. Classic Hollymood SUCKED Studio execs, agents, and filmmakers were very powerful men, and would often abuse that power. Sexual harassment was rampant - and unlike today, there wasn't the slightest chance the perpetrators would ever face consequences. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood

STUDIOS PRETTY MUCH OWNED THE ACTORS. Classic Hollywood SUCKED Actors could only work for the studio they were under contract with - and the contracts were long term. Often, however, studios would lend each other stars - sometimes as a way to punish the actor for defying their masters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thrash Metal

Metallica and Dave Mustaine. motorhead Mustaine was an original member, but was kicked out in 1983. Не formed Megadeth out of revenge and animosity towards Metallica, and they trashed each other in interviews. They reunited once in 2011 for a 30th anniversary show, but kept publicly discussing their issues, and have never fully reconciled. CRACKED — Source

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3D Movies

MOVIES IN 3D 1922 CRACKED.COM 3D films have been around since 1922, when The Power of Love premiered at the Ambassador Hotel Theater in Los Angeles. Despite receiving good reviews, the audience was not enthusiastic about the movie. — The Vintage News

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Serena Williams

Serena Williams threatened a line judge (and seemed intoxicated) on the court. A few years after telling a line judge I swear to God I'll fucking take the ball and shove it down your fucking throat, Williams challenged tennis etiquette in a different way. During a Wimbledon doubles match with her sister Venus, she had trouble holding the ball and lost the ability to serve. The incident was blamed on a viral illness, while Martina Navratilova remarked, I think it's clear that's not the case. CRACKED.COM — Source: 11 Supernova-Grade Celeb Meltdowns

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Taylor Hawkins

Taylor Hawkins's favorite Foo Fighters song was Aurora. the eutenam CRACKED.COM The late Foo Fighters drummer said that apart from being a great slow jam, the song off of 1999's There is Nothing Left to Lose helped him overcome anxiety getting acquainted with the studio. — NME / NY Times

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Shelly Miscavige

CRACKED.COM SCIENTOLOGY Things that mysteriously disappeared The wife of the Scientology boss David Miscavige's sketchiness extends to the whereabouts of his wife Shelly, who was last seen in public in August of friggin' 2007. The LAPD followed a 2013 missing person report by saying she's actually super alive, you guys. — Michael Gordon/Shutterstock
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Glass

Awful Plot Twists Glass (2019) Dr. Staple being part of the metahuman-killing secret society made us feel nothing - and then came the death of Bruce Willis' Unbreakable character in a puddle of mudd. Next: M. Night Shyamalan dos a sequel to The Sixth Sense in which they're all robots! CRACKED.COM — Binge Society/YouTube

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Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth used to clean breast pumps. Before making it as an actor, Hemsworth used to clean rented breast pumps for a pharmacy. Не has described the job as the worst one CRACKED.COM he has ever had, and no wonder: to keep the machines clean, he had to wash them by hand! — Source: 36 Bananas Facts About Fav Celebs

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John C. McGinley

CRACKED.COM NORTH HOLA B Gog Sanot. GACRETS KTP SCRUBS MARY, HEATHER, JOJO, JUDY DORIAN, FIONA, GINGER... Actor John C. McGinley jokingly calls his friend John Cusack girl names, and thought it'd be funny if Dr. Cox did that to J.D. — Source: HuffPost TV (via archive.today)

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Queen Amidala

Queen Amidala's look in Star Wars was closely based on a Mongolian queen. That was Queen Genepil, the last queen of Mongolia, who was executed in 1938. CRACKED COM — Source

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Amanda Waller

CCH POUNDER IS THE DEFINITIVE AMANDA WALLER. While there have been many who have voiced Amanda Waller, none do so with as much gravitas and command as CCH Pounder brings. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Faces Behind Your Favorite Animated Characters

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Cheers

CHEERS CRACKED.COM The bar where everybody knows your name aired its finale on May 20, 1993, after 11 seasons. Diane (Shelley Long) returns after 6 years, but Sam realizes the bar will always be his biggest love. The 98-minute finale was seen by about 40% of the U.S. population at the time - 84.4 million viewers. — Source: businessinsider

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Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran's childhood friend was financially struggling so he wrote Thinking Out Loud with her The song has since been streamed almost 2 billion times on Spotify and has gone triple platinum in the UK. She never has to worry about money again. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NME

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A Walk to Remember

GRACKED.COM HOLY BIBLE In the original 'A Walk to Remember' novel, Jamie gives Landon her deceased mother's Bible. In the film, it was inexplicably changed to a book of quotes. Don't worry, it's not a Bible. Jamie even specifically pointed that out in the film. — Source: 24 Adaptations That Ignored The Source Material

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Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak has a cameo in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Не plays a SWAT officer chasing after Hannibal Lecter. CRACKED.COM — YouTube clip

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V for Vendetta

CRACKED VS. V for Vendetta CRACKED.co DC COMICS ALAN MOORE Argued it wasn't British The film enough and didn't care for adaptation was a the movie omitting the commercial and words anarchy and critical for fascism. It's been turned success into a Bush-era parable by everyone involved, people too timid to set a sans Moore. political satire in their own country. — Sources: CBR, Comic Book Resources

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Ran

A big budget translated King Lear into RAN RAN CRACKED.COM Ran was Akira Kurosawa's second go at adapting Shakespeare, coming nearly 30 years after he turned Macbeth into Throne of Blood. When it was filmed in 1985, Ran was the most expensive Japanese movie ever made. It paid off in numerous awards, including 4 Oscar noms. — eightieskids

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The Muppets

ONE MAN, MANY MUPPETS Working on the show means you're going to multitask. Jim Henson, for example, was responsible for Kermit the Frog, Waldorf, Swedish Chef, Rowlf, Dr. Teeth, the Newsman, and Link Hogthrob. Among others. — Behind the Voice Actors

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Benedict Cumberbatch

DOCTOR STRANGE Benedict Cumberbatch On top of playing the titular role, Cumberbatch insisted on playing the villain Dormammu.

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Movie Tropes

In movies, vast spaces separate every lane and vehicle. In real life, if you try leaving three cars' worth of room between yourself and the car in fro

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Ray Bradbury

CRACKEDcO Ray Bradbury thought the Internet floats in the air somewhere. In 2009, the visionary author told The New York Times that one of the great

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Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins COATIRTED FRESH 91% 15% Tmatoes High: Low: The Shawshank Howard The Duck Redemption (1986) (1994) Nominated for Nominated for seven Golden

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