Arts and Entertainment Trivia

  • God is the only character on The Simpsons to ever have 5 fingers on each hand.
  • With 248.8 million records sold, The Beatles have sold more CDs than any other music artist in history.
  • The movie "Land Before Time" first came out in 1988, and since then it has had 12 sequels till 2013.
  • Eminem wrote and recorded "The Real Slim Shady" three hours before his album was due.
  • Movie trailers used to be showed at the end of the movie. They 'trailed' movies!
  • Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television.
  • After Drew Barrymore posed for Playboy magazine, director Steven Spielberg sent her a quilt and a note that said "Cover yourself up" because Barrymore was a precocious little 7-year-old back, when Spielberg directed her in the blockbuster movie E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.
  • Steven Spielberg refused to accept any payment for his work on "Schindler's List"! Spielberg stated that any money accepted would be "blood money".
  • The cartoon character Bugs Bunny was given the rank of honorary master sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps at the end of World War II.
  • Daniel Craig (James Bond) has a phobia of handguns.
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