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November 25, 2024

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The Wizard of Oz

They didn't use any special effects in the Wizard of Oz color transition scene. When the movie turns from sepia to color, they shot Judy Garland's stunt double in a sepia dress, with sepia makeup on, on a sepia set. When she steps out of the shot, she's replaced by Judy Garland in a blue dress. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Red Skull

Hugo Weaving really didn't want to play Red Skull in the MCU again. He was glad to do it once, and says it was good to do it and try it out, but to be honest, it's not the sort of film I seek out and really am excited by. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

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Hero

Sandwiches Named After Celebrities THE BRUNO SAMMARTINO HERO Hero to Italian Americans and wrestling fans in general, Da Brune is honored by Lioni Italian Heroes with a sandwich made of fried eggplant, fresh ricotta, salt, pepper, basil, and sun-dried tomatoes. A hearty meal like that can make anyone a WWF champion for 2,803 days in a row. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Candy Crush

17,000 divorce cases in Egypt cited Candy Crush as the cause of divorce in 2018. It seems like between mobile and console gaming, it's PlayStation that is breaking up the most families with 250,000 divorce cases. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Now-You-Know Facts That Sat On Our Chests Like A Sleep Paralysis Demon

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King George V

King George V's time of death was chosen for its PR value. When George lay dying in 1936, the royal family wanted the morning journals, not the lower-class evening ones, to announce his death. So he got a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine at 11:55 p.m. on January 19. Не apparently wasn't asked, and probably wouldn't have approved. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Facts That Don't Get Mentioned

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Crash

J. G Ballard rebuked a journalist for dissing David Cronenberg's CRASH. The movie is actually better than book, Ballard said to a Finnish journalist who said the adaptation watered down the novel. It goes further than the book, and is much more powerful and dynamic. It's terrific. (Ot that's how Cronenberg remembers it, at any rate.) — Source: 4th Estate

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Frank Sinatra

CRACKED.COM Frank Sinatra Не was a bookworm. Sinatra loved history books, and during his time in Las Vegas he even took a casino gambling table supervisor under his wing and gave them a bunch of books to educate him. — Source: Vanity Fair

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Doctor Strange 2

Behind-the-scenes Drama Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness The movie had to be changed because of the pandemic. The entire plot was rewritten after Marvel's films were shuffled around and this became a sequel to Spider-Man: No Way Home. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Cases of Behind-the-Scenes Drama that Showed Up On-Screen

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Kim Kardashian

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The Love Guru

CRACKED MIKE MYERS - THE LOVE GURU Commonly referred to as one of the worst comedies of all time, Mike Myers was on a tear with the Austin Powers and Shrek franchises until The Love Guru basically tanked his movie career. — Looper

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Return of the Jedi

In Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks show an appetite for human meat. Then, in the ending, they play with empty Stormtrooper helmets. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Scrubs

The janitor on Scrubs is named Glen Matthews. The character reveals his name in the episode My Finale. His sincerity is questioned when an orderly c

28

Renaissance

Halloween Then vs. Now From a tired franchise to today's renaissance The Friday the 13th movies fizzled out very soon. When A New Nightmare lent new life to Freddy, Curse represented one of the franchise's low points. Following Scream, H20 gave it new post-modern tricks. But today, 2018's Halloween almost turned the concept into what kids these days call elevated horror. Today is, perhaps, the franchise's very best period after the original. CRACKED.COM — MovieClips/YouTube

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NFL

Longest Coach Suspension NFL VL, BOWL CRACKED.COM Saints coach Sean Payton was given a one-year suspension in 2012. And all he did was give his team cash payments for every opposing player they intentionally injured! — 15 Embarrassing Sports Records No One Wants To Break

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Star Trek

KB46 Ch Lonk sa FUNNY VIDEOS E CRAGKEDCOM In 2010, the IRS commissioned videos parodying Star Trek and Gilligan's Island to air at a training contest. The Trek one, at least, offered zero training information, So the IRS's initial defense of it failed, and they apologized. — Source: AP

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Anne Parrish

In the 1920s, American writer Anne Parrish found one of her childhood favorites, Jack Frost and Other Stories, while browsing book stalls in Paris. It

24

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe's agent wanted Maximus' death in Gladiator to be fake. Не pitched Gladiator 2 as a movie that would start with Maximus' body being taken behind the arena on a stretcher, then Maximus would get up and high-five the people carrying him, saying Hey, it worked. That way, Crowe could do the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects Now-You-Know Facts

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FDR

15 Of The Most Shameful Cases Of False Reporting From The Media - The prestigious Literary Digest confidently predicted Alf Landon would beat FDR to t — Source: Social Science History

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Harry Potter

FANS HAVE CALCULATED HARRY POTTER'S FORTUNE: A couple of Reddit users, being Reddit users, analyzed images of Harry's vault in Sorcerer's Stone, estim — More: 6 Insanely Complex Pop Culture Mysteries Solved By Fans

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Jackie Chan

JACKIE CHAN WAS THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST NEIGHBOR THE SPY NEXT DOOR one CRACKED.COM As Chan fans know, Jackie is actually a great comic actor. But even his gifts aren't enough to save The Spy Next Door. If the lazy filmmakers don't care enough about their movie to offer at least one single original idea, whined one critic, then you shouldn't care enough to go see it. — Moviefone

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The Criterion

THE YEAR WAS 1922... T. S. ELIOT ESTABLISHES THE CRITERION No. I. Vol. I. THE CRITERION A Quarterly Review : October, 1922 3/6 NET CONTENTS: AMONGST OTHER CONTRIBUTORS GEORGE SAINTSBURY Dullness WILL BE F. DOSTOEVSKY Plan of a Novel Richard Aldington, Julien Benda, Jean de Bost- (Translated by S. S. Koteliacaky and chèm, E R. Curtius, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry 'irginia Woolf T. STURGE MOORE The Story of Tristrano Ramon Gomez de la Sems, Stephen Hudson, and Irole is Modern Poetry, 1. W. R. Lethaby, Wyndham Lewis, Antonio Mari- T.S. ELIOT The Waste Land chaler, J. M. Murry, Extra Pound, Marcel — Source

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King Shark

King Shark's skin in The Suicide Squad was super hard to do with CGI. It was harder than either Rocket Raccoon's fur or Groot's wooden body to be able to do the sharkskin was really tough, said James Gunn. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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Macklemore

Ben Haggerty took his stage name from a high school art assignment where he named a superhero figurine Professor Macklemore. CRACKEDCON

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True Lies

true lies CRACKED.COM The French farce La Totale! was quickly remade into an Ahnold- stravaganza, one of the best starring vehicles of his career. James Cameron pumps up the action and special effects, with bonus points for not making us read subtitles. — Mental Floss

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Footloose, Japan

UP UNTIL 2015, IT WAS ILLEGAL TO DANCE IN JAPAN AFTER MIDNIGHT. CRACKED The law was instituted after World War 2 when prostitution became a huge issue in the country. — CNN / Asian Media

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Twinsies

1926 CRACKED.COM Marilyn Queen Monroe was Elizabeth II born was born

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Mr. Rogers

MR. ROGERS was not a Navy SEAL CRACKED.COM Rumors that Fred Rogers was a Navy SEAL or a Marine Scout Sniper during Vietnam (with a number of confirmed kills) are completely false. For the record, King Friday never served either. — Source: 14 Outrageous Celebrity Urban Legends That Aren’t Even Remotely True

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Michael Jackson

CRACKED MICHAEL JACKSON said that while in The Jackson 5, if there were any mistakes during rehearsals, Joe Jackson would beat them with tree branches, belts, or electrical cords. Jackson told Oprah that the sight of his dad made him want to throw up. — 360b/Shutterstock
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Palpatine

Cartoonish villains we want to see succeed Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Palpatine The Rise of Skywaker is, well, The Rise of Skywaker. But lan McDiarmid's performance as Palpatine (professionally over the top, as usual) gave the movie a bit of sorely needed self-aware silliness. CRACKED.COM

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Adam Sandler

CRACKED YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN Always on a list of the worst Adam Sandler movies, we're left head-scratching after Zohan raked in over $200 million! — Goliath / AMC

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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg derided the president. FORUSE AS PART OF A LOW CARB DIET SlimFast LOSE BIG SlimFast dropped her as a spokesperson because of it. While

9

Superman

SUPERMAN COMICS PREDICTED THE ATOMIC BOMB. MEANWHILE, IN A SECRET UNDER- GROUND WORKSHOP, AN OLD ENEMY OF A Superman SUPERMAN CHUCKLES TO HIMSELF... comic from 1945 SUCCESS AT LAST! THE MOST POTENT WEAPON EVER INVENTED showed Lex IS MINE-PROVED AND PERFECTED- READY TO BRING ME WHATEVER Luthor creating an I DESIRE! outlandish new device called an atomic bomb, to instigate chaos in the city of Metropolis. It was so NOTHING CAN LET'S SURVIVE THE SEE! on-the-nose, the BLAST OF THIS ATOMIC BOMB! Defense Department ordered DC Comics to pull the story. Just months later, the U.S. nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. — Source

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Richard Pryor

CRACKED RICHARD PRYOR GREW UP IN A BROTHEL RUN BY HIS GRANDMOTHER. Не also had an affair with Marlon Brando. — Marianna Diamos/Wiki Commons
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Back to the Future

The time machine in Back To The Future was going to be a fridge. CRACKED.COM The time machine/refriger- ator was taken to the Ne- vada desert test site for the atomic bomb...and driven into the atomic ex- plosion in order to harness the power from the nuclear explosion. — Source

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The Thing

The Thing continued in a comic. Dark Horse's The Thing from Another World follows MacReady after he leaves the doomed Antarctic outpost (and eventually finds the Thing again). John Carpenter wasn't involved, but has said the comic is the closest there will ever be to a true sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ernie Hudson

Ernie Hudson auditioned for the same part in The REAL Ghostbusters animated series that he played in the movie. Producers felt he didn't sound enough — Source: CBR

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Blake Lively

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Blake Lively Eggs Benedict Lively not only enjoys this rich breakfast dish, but piles on the indulgence with copious amounts of mayonnaise. CRACKED.COM — TheRecipe

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Arianna Grande

ARIANNA GRANDE MARCH 12, 2016 Grande flubbed a line during her monologue and punctuated the goof with an unscripted Oh sh--! Or was that when she re — Variety

2

Logan

The dinner scene in Logan was supposed to be pretty different. The actors involved improvised most of what ended up on-screen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anchorman

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Anchorman we spit in your food. A Mexican restaurant is called Escupimos en su alimento, Spanish for We spit in your food. Classy, San Diego. — More: 5 Movie Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak English

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