March 31st, 2006



NOTE FROM KRISTIAN:
The following facts have been
researched, verified and proven
to be 100% accurate, guaranteed.*


The Top 9 Amazing Movie Facts


9> Tom Cruise will only read vanilla-scented scripts.

8> “Shane” is the most watched movie inside federal prisons.

7> In “Birth of a Nation,” the actors were nude undeneath their sheets.

6> Jaye Davidson has the second largest pair of breasts among Best Supporting Actor nominees.

5> After a bloody coup, throngs of geeks stormed James Cameron’s castle and installed Peter Jackson as the new King of the World.

4> “Citizen Kane” was shot in color, but Orson Welles ordered each frame to be hand-colored in black and white.

3> The only reason Ron Howard didn’t direct “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” was a scheduling conflict.

2> Nearly 40% of the Hollywood sign is made of human teeth.

and the Number 1 Amazing Movie Fact…

1> Studio mogul Irving Thalberg, actually a frustrated architect, renamed the first three contract players signed by MGM in 1930 “Clark Gable,” “Bette Cupola” and “Joseph Buttress.”




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Credits:

Selected from 28 submissions from 7 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Bruce Alter, Fairfax Station, VA — 1, 4, 7 (Three-picture deal!)
Jill Gallagher, Seattle, WA — 2, 9
Jim G. Phynn, Horsham, PA — 3, 5
Brandon Hunt, Braintree, MA — 6, 8
Kristian Idol, Burbank, CA — Real name is Gern Blanston



RUNNERS UP list — Giving 110% Truth

Jeremy Piven has a part in every single John Cusack movie.
(John English, Orem, UT)



* Not a guarantee.