As of 2000, comedienne and writer Phyllis Diller has appeared as a piano soloist with 100 symphony orchestras across the United States, including performances in Dallas, Denver, Annapolis, Houston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cincinnati.
As of March 2000, Julia Roberts was earning $20 million per movie, making her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood history.
As reported by one source, ingenue actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was paid $75,000 per episode for her work as the title character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer during the 1999-2000 season.
A poet writes poems; the writer of inferior poems is called a "poetaster."
A puppet replica of director Steven Spielberg sold for $16,500 during a 1998 auction of works by world-famous puppeteers Sid and Marty Krofft in Beverly Hills. The puppet, dressed in a red shirt and gray sweater and wearing metal eyeglasses, was valued at $3,000 to $5,000 before the auction
A survey revealed that perpetrators of violent acts on TV dramas go unpunished 73 percent of the time.
A two-hour motion picture uses 10,800 feet of film — not including the previews and commercials.
A virtual underwater playground with its breathtaking coral, the Philippines draws thousands of divers from Japan, China, and Taiwan each year.
A workaholic and perfectionist, silent film actor-director-writer Charlie Chaplin became famous for shooting as much as fifty times the amount of film footage necessary in order to satisfy his artistic vision.
A zarzuela is an operetta of a traditional type, with spoken dialogue and lyrical music. The word is derived from the Spanish after La Zarzuela, the royal palace near Madrid where the operetta was first performed in 1629. A zarzuela is also the name of a seafood stew.
ABC's Head of the Class, which ran from 1986 through 1991 and starred Howard Hesseman, was, surprisingly, the first American entertainment TV series ever to film an episode in Moscow, Soviet Union. A few TV news programs and specials, such as Candid Camera in 1961, had preceded it.
According to a 1997 poll, the average person in the U.S. has felt compelled to see the movie Star Wars an astonishing 6.7 times since its 1977 release, either in theaters or on TV.
According to Beatles producer George Martin, Neal Hefti's catchy composition of the 1960s "Batman" Emmy-winning theme song inspired George Harrison to write the hit song "Taxman."
At age 11, long before her leap to international fame in the blockbuster film Titanic, Kate Winslet co-starred with a creature called Honey Monster in a British TV commercial for a breakfast cereal. She was following in her family's professional footsteps: her parents are stage actors, her maternal grandparents managed a repertory theatre, and her late uncle Robert Bridges acted in several West End productions in England.
At age 16, Jeff Bridges wrote a song which was included on the soundtrack of the 1969 film John and Mary, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow, and sold two compositions to Quincy Jones. To date, Bridges has written 200 songs.
At the age of 8, Caryn Johnson, later to call herself Whoopi Goldberg, made her first onstage appearance at the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre in New York City.
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At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life," an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
At the Pasadena Playhouse, Gene Hackman and classmate Dustin Hoffman were voted the two least likely to succeed.
Award-winning film director Bob Fosse said of himself in an interview, "My friends know that to me happiness is when I am merely miserable and not suicidal."
Because he insists on performing his own movie stunts, martial artist/actor Jackie Chan has broken his nose three times, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, his ankle, and his skull.
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