While working on Aladdin, Robin Williams would call Steven Spielberg to lift his spirits while he was filming Schindler’s List.
“He’d do 15 minutes of stand-up on the phone. Never said goodbye. Just hung up on the biggest laugh. Mic drop.”
🎶Although the song "Rock Lobster" was released in 1978, it only truly exploded onto the US Billboard charts after the band's wild, energetic live performance was broadcast live on SNL in 1980.
Epic moment 🔥
🇺🇸Trump at 5:00 PM — “No President has done this. We got Iran to talk nukes. Maybe even give them up. This is First time ever.”
🇺🇸Obama at 6:00 PM — “Did it already. No missiles fired. Moved 97% of their enriched uranium out. We didn't have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz like you.”🔥👏
During a 1996 episode of Jerry Springer, Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) appeared to surprise a loyal fan named Tyler.
Due to a tainted blood transfusion, Tyler was HIV positive, while another girl named Hydeia was also HIV-positive.
Razor went on to say, "These guys have to fight every single day of the year. I know I'm on the road over 300 times a year, and sometimes I feel bad, but these guys are fighting the real fight!"
"The Bad Guy" handed Tyler his championship: "This is the Intercontinental Belt. I've had it four times; I'll get another one. Just make sure that you share this with Hydeia."
"I want both Hydeia and Tyler to know, and I think that they already do, that where I come from; it ain't how many times you go down; it's how many times you get up! You ain't beat until you quit! If you don't quit, you never lose! Keep fighting!"
Razor invited the two children to WrestleMania XII as his special guests.
While Jerry Springer was frequently labelled as "trash TV," this was a heartwarming moment made possible by Scott Hall.
CREEPSHOW was released 44 years ago today.
One of the film’s most memorable segments features Leslie Nielsen burying his victims up to their necks on a beach before the tide rolls in, creating one of the movie’s most disturbing & iconic horror set pieces.
For this scene in Sh! The Octopus (1937) the filmmakers pulled off a real-time monster transformation without a single camera cut.
To turn actress Elspeth Dudgeon into a hideous hag, her face was painted with a single shade of red makeup. Shot on black-and-white film through a matching red lens filter, the makeup became completely invisible.
The filter was whipped away at the same time as Dudgeon removes her wig, instantly revealing the ‘monster make-up’.
Not going to lie, if I'd been in the audience for this in 1937, I would have sh*t myself.
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In Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder was made to look like it was hovering by mounting angled mirrors along its sides. The mirrors reflected the desert ground, hiding the wheels and creating the floating illusion, no CGI needed.
Jon Stewart predicts the 2026 media landscape in 2002:
"We're all gonna get fired by the same guy one day. And it's gonna be like a freaky, cross-breed genetic between like, Dolly the Sheep and one of Murdoch's kids, and it'll just rule AOLTimeViacomWarner... synergy."