FUN "N" INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT HOLLYWOOD

Now let’s dive into some fun and interesting notes as well as information about our movies, stars and everything Hollywood.  Do you know that …?

• The highest paid actor today is Mr. Hancock himself, Will Smith. He’s actually worth 80 million dollars a movie. (my, that’s a lot!).

• The highest paid actress on the other hand is Cameron Diaz at 50 million dollars per movie.

• During his visit to London, the ever so famous Charlie Chaplin once received 73,000 letters in just two days! (his eyes really must have got tired!)

• Zorro’s Catherine Zeta Jones has a candy family business but did not mainly give-in to her “sweet cravings” in spite their house was full of it.

• In order to see how well he acts, producers and film organizers had to push the “slow motion” button to see Bruce Lee in action (Eat your heart out Daphne!)

• As convincing as she is when acting, Julia Roberts’ left eye really tears up when she is nervous.

• Main movie characters are three times more likely to smoke than others in reality.

• The exposure of the Marlboro brand in the movies in the 90’s was ten times more than other cigarette brands.

• Pixar and Walt Disney’s may have not noticed this as there was a 2/3 increase of the inclusion of tobacco use in animated and children’s films in 1996-97.

• Then film producer Hal Wallis once said that the only sure thing in show business is an Elvis Presley movie.

• That the original title of the Elvis movie “Love me tender” was oddly coined as “The Reno Brothers”.

• A film reviewer once commented on Elvis’ acting and said that the good-looking guy suffers from itchy underwear and hot shoes (which raised him to stardom).

• In the classic movie “Godfather”, an orange is always seen somewhere in the scene before someone is killed

• “The Jazz Singer” (1927) is the first film to introduce dialogues.

• The first movie to show a woman wearing nothing but bra is “The Psycho” (1960).

• The first Technicolor film was “The Gulf Between Us” (1917).

• Hollywood’s most perfect couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are considered one of the most powerful actor and actress in the world by Guinness Book of Records

• James Bond stars are mostly 6 feet above in height (Daniel Craig excluded. He’s 5’10).

• And these major role players should be or must have an Irish blood.

• The most expensive film ever made (before avatar)  really wasn’t Titanic nor Spiderman 3 but the Leo Tolstoy classic “War and Peace”. If adjusted, it would cost a whopping $700 million!

• John Rambo, Rocky Balboa and Sylvester Stallone all share the same birthday – July 6.

• The real life Charlie Chaplin once tried out for a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.  He never won as he finished third.