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Long before either of them were famous, Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford (lead singer of Mumford & Sons) met at camp as children and decided to become best friends.
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Guns N’ Roses lead singer Axl Rose is heard having sex with Adriana Smith — the girlfriend of the band’s drummer Steven Adler — on a landmark 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 time on the show. That was $4,900 for the entire season (or less than $11,000 in 2023).
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Gary Busey once refused to do a scene in heaven because he said the set design did not resemble the real heaven he visited during a near-death experience.
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Jenna Ortega had COVID-19 while filming her now iconic dance at the Nevermore Rave’N Dance in Wednesday.
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In the ’80s there was a widespread urban legend about the comedy hit Three Men and a Child – rumored to have been filmed in a house that was haunted by a boy who had died there years before, and whose ghost can be clearly seen in the background of a scene.
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Another highly viral (pre-internet, word-of-mouth) rumor back in the 80s claimed that the 1985 series had an unsettling addition. Teen Wolfstarring Michael J. Fox, pulled off his punishments during the filming of the film’s final scene, and made his way into the released film, unnoticed.
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In the mid 90’s James Raymond was a professional musician (he supported the Spice Girls, for example, on part of their tour show in the United States) when he decided — approaching his thirtieth birthday — that he would finally find out who are his biological parents. To his surprise, while looking at his adoption records, he learned that his biological father was none other than Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby!
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Mathew Perry doesn’t remember filming for many years Friends as he was dealing with addiction issues at the time.
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Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford partied all night with the Rolling Stones and then showed up for the 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 into a national band competition in their native Australia — beating over 800 other acts to win ! The song became a phenomenon, reaching number one in Australia and then becoming the most played song on modern rock radio in the United States 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 penned the song “Tim McGraw,” which reached No. 6 on the country charts and became the program’s first ever Top 40 hit. Billboard Hot 100 (yes, uh, she’s had a few more since).
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Channing Tatum recently announced that he is developing a remake of the 1990 classic Puka with plans to reprise the role of Sam Wheat made famous by Patrick Swayze. Interestingly, Swayze didn’t get the role – it was originally offered to Bruce Willis to star opposite his then-wife Demi Moore. Even more strangely, the production did not originally want Whoopi Goldberg in her iconic role as Oda Mae Brown.
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Just 18 days before the release of 1995’s Nine Months — a big summer comedy with a lot riding on 20th Century Fox — 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 completely different but still really wild: Eilish herself recorded one of the signature sounds in Billie Eilish’s smash song “Bury a Friend”…while at the dentist getting her Invisalign braces removed.
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And finally, you probably know this one, but if not, you need to: Eric Stoltz played Marty McFly in Back to the Future for a total of seven weeks before being released and replaced by Michael J. Fox.
