The Untouchables, which debuted in 1959 and starred Robert Stack, was the most violent television show of its time. It became the target of more protests from viewers than any other regular TV series. To this day, it is the only TV program ever boycotted by mobsters over unfair treatment.
The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted 9 years.
The X-Files, the popular television show, is shown in France under the name Aux Frontieres' Du Reel — which translates to "At The Borders of Reality."
True Lies (1994), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tom Arnold, was attacked by Arab Americans for its depiction of Middle Easterners as homicidal, religious zealots. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was one of four groups to hold a protest at a Washington theater when the action film opened; a boycott of the movie was called, as well as a ban of its distribution in 54 Arab and Muslim countries. Despite the boycott and the intense controversy, the film was one of the top money-makers of 1994, earning more than $150 million.
White Christmas (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process.
You've got to start somewhere: Before landing a small recurring TV role on CBS's Murphy Brown and then a regular supporting role as British physical therapist Daphne Moon on NBC's Frasier, Jane Leeves held jobs as a camp counselor and a fingernail-accessory package stuffer.
A ballet enthusiast is called a balletomane.
A claque is a group of people hired to applaud an act or performer.
A coalition of fire prevention groups demanded that Jim Carrey’s Fire Marshall Bill comedy sketches on In Living Color be taken off the air because of the negative effect they were reportedly having on children.
A film censor in Singapore claimed he used the following rule of thumb when determining whether a movie should be shown or banned: "If a film gives me a funny feeling, I know it is dirty; but if I feel nothing, I know it is culture."
A gaffer is the chief electrician on a film set
A lament from best-selling author John LeCarré on the nature of film-making: "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes."
A male ballet dancer is referred to as a danseur noble.
An observation about film-making from director Peter Bogdanovich: "John Ford said that the best things in pictures happen by accident. And Orson Wells said that a director is a man who presides over accidents."
Andy Kaufman, best known for his work as Latka Gravas on the TV sitcom Taxi, died of lung cancer. Ironically, he was a life-long non-smoker.
Anne Baxter, who co-starred in All About Eve, The Razor's Edge, and The Ten Commandments, was the granddaughter of world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Antonio Banderas's father was a policeman and his mother was a teacher. Before breaking his foot when he was 14 years old, Banderas had dreams of becoming a soccer player.
Aretha Franklin was sued for breach of contract in 1984 when she was unable to open in the Broadway musical "Sing, Mahalia, Sing," mainly because of her phobia of flying.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born former bodybuilding champion and film superstar, is more than brute brawn. He holds a degree in business and finance from the University of Wisconsin, and had earned a small fortune in mail-order and real estate before he launched his career in the film industry.
Artist Rembrandt van Rijn painted about 700 pictures.
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