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Long before either of them were famous, Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford (frontman of Mumford & Sons) met at camp as kids and decided to become pen pals.
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Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose can be heard having sex with Adriana Smith – the girlfriend of the band’s drummer Steven Adler – on the historic 1987 album Appetite for destruction.
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saturday night live star Ellen Cleghorne was paid a shockingly low $245 per episode for the 1991/1992 season, her first on the show. That added up to just $4,900 for the entire season (or less than $11,000 in 2023 dollars).
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Gary Busey once refused to play a scene set in heaven because he said the set design was nothing like the actual paradise he visited during a near-death experience.
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Jenna Ortega had COVID-19 while filming her now-iconic dance at Nevermore’s Rave’N Dance in Wednesday.
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In the 1980s, there was a widespread urban legend about comedy success. Three men and a baby – Rumor has it filmed in a house haunted by a boy who died there years before, and his specter can clearly be seen in the background of one scene.
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Another massively viral rumor (pre-internet, spread by word of mouth) in the 1980s claimed that a malicious extra on the set of 1985 teenage wolfstarring Michael J. Fox, pulled out his penis during filming of the film’s final scene and entered the released film, unnoticed.
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In the mid-90s, James Raymond was a professional musician (he supported the Spice Girls, for example, on some of their American tour appearances) when he decided – close to his thirtieth birthday – to finally find out who his biological parents were. Much to his surprise, upon looking through his adoption records, he discovered that his birth father was none other than Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby!
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Mathew Perry doesn’t remember filming several years of Friends because he was dealing with addiction issues at the time.
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Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford partied the night away with the Rolling Stones, then showed up to film The Empire Strikes Back still drunk.
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Silverchair’s Daniel Johns and Ben Gillies were just 14 years old in 1994 when they wrote “Tomorrow”, which they then entered in a national band competition in their native Australia – and beat over 800 other artists to win! The song became a phenomenon, reaching number one in Australia and becoming the most played song on US modern rock radio the following year.
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Another 14-year-old songwriting phenomenon was Taylor Swift, who was just a freshman in high school when she co-wrote the song “Tim McGraw,” which reached No. 6 on the country charts and became her first Top 40 hit on the stops. Billboard Hot 100 (she’s, uh, had a few more since then).
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Channing Tatum recently announced that he is developing a remake of the 1990 classic. Ghost with plans to play the role of Sam Wheat made famous by Patrick Swayze. Interestingly, Swayze almost didn’t play the role – it was first offered to Bruce Willis to star opposite his then-wife Demi Moore. Even weirder, production originally didn’t want Whoopi Goldberg in her iconic role as Oda Mae Brown.
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Just 18 days before the 1995 release Nine months – a big summer comedy where 20th Century Fox had a lot on the line – its star, Hugh Grant, was arrested in Hollywood for receiving oral sex in a public place from a sex worker named Divine Brown.
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Here’s something else entirely, yet still downright wild: One of the signature sounds from Billie Eilish’s smash hit, “Bury a Friend,” was recorded by Eilish herself… while at the dentist to have her Invisalign implants removed.
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And finally, you probably know this one, but if not, you absolutely have to: Eric Stoltz played Marty McFly in Back to the future for seven full weeks before being fired and replaced by Michael J. Fox.
