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Liam Neeson at the 1 min mark looks like he's about to steal a kid from Arnold's kindergarten class at any moment.
Introduced my kids to 2 great movies this week: The Way Way Back and Little Miss Sunshine.
LIttle Miss Sunshine came out in 2006, two years before Breaking Bad
In about a 15-minute span of screen time you get both
Walter White
and Hank Schrader
LIttle Miss Sunshine came out in 2006, two years before Breaking Bad
In about a 15-minute span of screen time you get both
Walter White
and Hank Schrader
That's clearly Dr. Tim Whatley.
People with too much time on their hands.
But how long before HBO fixes it?
But how long before HBO fixes it?
Graphic designer caught something that has slipped through the cracks for forty years pic.twitter.com/H9du7qGKJt
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) August 9, 2025
Good little watch.
Alan Tudyk revealing his name was removed from all I, ROBOT press and marketing after his performance tested higher than Will Smith 👀 pic.twitter.com/W4XFQtEtD7
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) August 11, 2025
For no reason at all Jon Hamm and Adam Scott recreated the SIMON & SIMON intro and it's glorious pic.twitter.com/HwOVw8XJON
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) August 25, 2025
Please let that show happen!
So this is from an Adult Swim show from a decade or so ago called The Greatest Event in Television History. There are four episodes, each chronicling the recreation of a different 70s/80s TV show opening. They're done in a mockumentary style with Jeff Probst as host, and they're actually quite hilarious. At the end of each episode, they reveal the recreation they've been building up to. Great stuff.oragator said:For no reason at all Jon Hamm and Adam Scott recreated the SIMON & SIMON intro and it's glorious pic.twitter.com/HwOVw8XJON
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) August 25, 2025
Simon & Simon is the first, and probably best, one.
Chris Farley on almost accepting the role of THE CABLE GUY. I always knew he turned it down but never saw actual footage of him discussing it. Really cool. pic.twitter.com/5xoCV2WwGC
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) September 8, 2025
I can never forget we were watching Beverly Hills ninja and one of my friends said, Man I hope he gets his life together and doesn't end up like Belushi.
He died a month later.
He died a month later.
Some language, but funny.
Hugh Grant’s classic British deadpan stole the show during Richard Curtis’ Honorary Oscar speech. Absolute legend.
— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) September 9, 2025
pic.twitter.com/LbhKOcJ7lf
Some slight "technical errors" with Brucey in Jaws 2 that apparently the crew just said "who cares, leave it in there".
Avatar: 2154
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) September 9, 2025
The Matrix: unknown pic.twitter.com/lOC9p8yHWv
48 years ago today, Fonzie, clad in leather jacket and cut off jeans, "jumped the shark" on Happy Days.
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) September 20, 2025
pic.twitter.com/8MMMa7kEgk
Bill Hader on acting opposite Tom Cruise in “TROPIC THUNDER”.
— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) September 24, 2025
(Source: @GQMagazine) pic.twitter.com/vkhEMa0EiH
Not sure the veracity of this, but I beleive it has some truth.
What is the strangest thing to ever happen in Hollywood?
I don't know if it was the strangest thing, but probably the funniest and ballsiest thing in Hollywood history was when a young Steve Guttenberg started his acting career by conning his way onto the Paramount Pictures lot where he proceeded to set up his own office, which he kept for a staggering 3 years.
To be clear, Guttenberg was absolutely not employed by Paramount Pictures… he was stone cold trespassing the entire time and had absolutely no business being there at all, let alone having his own office.
(As a young man, Guttenberg ran on an outrageous combination of brass balls, insane good luck, good looks, quick charm and an almost superhuman lack of fear for the consequences of his actions.)
But this feat of unmitigated chutzpa allowed him to run a successful pressure campaign to get himself a break into the film industry.
To give you an idea how the scam played out let's just say Guttenberg was an early adopter of the concept of social engineering.
On his initial trip to Hollywood his parents had given him a whopping two weeks to make it big in Hollywood or go home and get a real job - obviously, they were just paying for a two week vacation to LA and had zero interest in him pursuing acting.
But Guttenberg was determined.
He spent his first few days hanging around the entrance to the Paramount lot, dreaming of working there someday. But while doing so, he noticed something that changed his world forever…
None of the security guards at Paramount checked the employees' IDs.
Instead, the employees simply walked up to their entrance, punched in at the time clock and waved at the guards.
So the next day, dressed in his one blazer, he decided to see if he could pull the same trick without actually being an employee.
He got himself a note card, walked up to the time clock on the employee line, punched his blank card in, put it in the rack with the real time cards, waved at the guards and walked in.
And it worked.
Paramount had so many employees no guard could possibly know everyone. And since he acted the part of an employee, the guards bought it.
From there Guttenberg got creative.
He found a vacant office building on the lot and picked one of the empty offices, then tracked down internal Paramount requisition forms to secure himself office furniture. He then personally wired his new found office for telephone service.
Now, with an internal Paramount phone line, he could get past any gatekeeper. People actually answered his calls. He used this to get a commercial appearance in the short two weeks he had.
He also hung around the productions of several hit shows and rubbed shoulders with famous people. On top of this were his late night break-ins, and I'm not joking here, into the offices of casting directors, where he read their casting notes and read the treatments for new projects.
And he did all this because security was lax, and most employees at Paramount just took him for some very junior executive.
Crazy, but true.
This isn't to say everyone bought his act, by the way.
He admits to getting caught several times, most humorously by Faye Dunaway who almost immediately upon meeting him realized he did not work for Paramount. But when he admitted to Dunaway he was an aspiring actor just looking for a break, she decided to keep his secret - she did not, however, agree to get him the autographed picture of John Wayne he asked her for.
Think about that… Dunaway caught him, and decided to let him off the hook and he still had the gall to ask her to get him a highly coveted autograph that, most importantly, wasn't even her own.
What can I say, the dude had zero shame.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1VoQgytoEh/?mibextid=wwXIfr
What is the strangest thing to ever happen in Hollywood?
I don't know if it was the strangest thing, but probably the funniest and ballsiest thing in Hollywood history was when a young Steve Guttenberg started his acting career by conning his way onto the Paramount Pictures lot where he proceeded to set up his own office, which he kept for a staggering 3 years.
To be clear, Guttenberg was absolutely not employed by Paramount Pictures… he was stone cold trespassing the entire time and had absolutely no business being there at all, let alone having his own office.
(As a young man, Guttenberg ran on an outrageous combination of brass balls, insane good luck, good looks, quick charm and an almost superhuman lack of fear for the consequences of his actions.)
But this feat of unmitigated chutzpa allowed him to run a successful pressure campaign to get himself a break into the film industry.
To give you an idea how the scam played out let's just say Guttenberg was an early adopter of the concept of social engineering.
On his initial trip to Hollywood his parents had given him a whopping two weeks to make it big in Hollywood or go home and get a real job - obviously, they were just paying for a two week vacation to LA and had zero interest in him pursuing acting.
But Guttenberg was determined.
He spent his first few days hanging around the entrance to the Paramount lot, dreaming of working there someday. But while doing so, he noticed something that changed his world forever…
None of the security guards at Paramount checked the employees' IDs.
Instead, the employees simply walked up to their entrance, punched in at the time clock and waved at the guards.
So the next day, dressed in his one blazer, he decided to see if he could pull the same trick without actually being an employee.
He got himself a note card, walked up to the time clock on the employee line, punched his blank card in, put it in the rack with the real time cards, waved at the guards and walked in.
And it worked.
Paramount had so many employees no guard could possibly know everyone. And since he acted the part of an employee, the guards bought it.
From there Guttenberg got creative.
He found a vacant office building on the lot and picked one of the empty offices, then tracked down internal Paramount requisition forms to secure himself office furniture. He then personally wired his new found office for telephone service.
Now, with an internal Paramount phone line, he could get past any gatekeeper. People actually answered his calls. He used this to get a commercial appearance in the short two weeks he had.
He also hung around the productions of several hit shows and rubbed shoulders with famous people. On top of this were his late night break-ins, and I'm not joking here, into the offices of casting directors, where he read their casting notes and read the treatments for new projects.
And he did all this because security was lax, and most employees at Paramount just took him for some very junior executive.
Crazy, but true.
This isn't to say everyone bought his act, by the way.
He admits to getting caught several times, most humorously by Faye Dunaway who almost immediately upon meeting him realized he did not work for Paramount. But when he admitted to Dunaway he was an aspiring actor just looking for a break, she decided to keep his secret - she did not, however, agree to get him the autographed picture of John Wayne he asked her for.
Think about that… Dunaway caught him, and decided to let him off the hook and he still had the gall to ask her to get him a highly coveted autograph that, most importantly, wasn't even her own.
What can I say, the dude had zero shame.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1VoQgytoEh/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Spielberg did this too.
Brian Earl Spilner said:
Spielberg did this too.
That was half the comments in that post.
Apparently it was Universal.
I saw this play on television and I couldn’t tell anybody about it because of the channel I was watching it on, ha. I thought why is Tom Cruise making a commercial like this ???? Josh wouldn’t believe me, but I memorized the number and called it from the payphone of a movie… https://t.co/Kp6uNyNcRI
— Benny safdie (@benny_safdie) September 27, 2025
The season five episode of "According to Jim" titled "The Grumpy Guy" had a special guest star -- Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman on the '60s show "Batman."
In the episode, Newmar plays a neighbor who has a long-running feud with Jim. It features a lot of "Batman"-related gags.
The plot mirrored real life in some ways.
Off the show, Newmar and Belushi were actually neighbors who had a lengthy dispute -- and lawsuit -- over Belushi's plans to build a guest home on his property. As a gesture of friendship after settling the suit out of court, Newmar agreed to appear on the show.
In the episode, Newmar plays a neighbor who has a long-running feud with Jim. It features a lot of "Batman"-related gags.
The plot mirrored real life in some ways.
Off the show, Newmar and Belushi were actually neighbors who had a lengthy dispute -- and lawsuit -- over Belushi's plans to build a guest home on his property. As a gesture of friendship after settling the suit out of court, Newmar agreed to appear on the show.
TCTTS said:
This is so good…
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPA018LkXxW/
What a special and loving tribute.
Incredible jaws lore
Many scenes did have real sharks. The Australian stunt diver who pretended to be my dad in the cage scene had a complete nervous breakdown because he was so scared of the real shark. Literally had lied about his familiarity with sharks, freaked out, and ended up in a nut house. https://t.co/IQSmlpXCTW
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) October 10, 2025
One of the best directors in the world worked with one of the biggest movie stars in the world, waited like 12 years, and then made a movie that deconstructed the movie stars cult with laser focus
— Miss Gender (@girldrawsghosts) October 16, 2025
Gotta imagine it got a bit intense in there
From the comments
For the record, PTA has never publicly said that Cruise "erupted with anger" or anything specific bout Cruise's reaction to the movie, just that he screened it for him.
— Doc Sportello (@TheDocSportello) October 16, 2025
With the Wonderman trailer, the existence of American Horror Story is canon to the MCU
In 2003, "The Office" auditions showed a very different potential cast pic.twitter.com/aj1dZM8Hu5
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) October 21, 2025
You guys have chemistry? pic.twitter.com/jh8b2JllPQ
— Clips (@pmtclips) October 29, 2025
I would bet this is really common.
Jennifer Lawrence says she has a secret TikTok account where she rage-baits people
— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) November 7, 2025
“I get in fights on TikTok... One girl was like: ‘How old are you? Get a life’”pic.twitter.com/RHzEdfUNXH
Finalist for the greatest sentence ever written per the Wikipedia entry on the movie Philadelphia.
"John Leguizamo was offered the role of Miguel Alvarez (Antonio Banderas) but turned it down to play Luigi in the film Super Mario Bros."
"John Leguizamo was offered the role of Miguel Alvarez (Antonio Banderas) but turned it down to play Luigi in the film Super Mario Bros."
In 1964, a composer named John Williams was hired to write a theme song for a new TV show called GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
— Hollywood Horror Museum (@horrormuseum) November 19, 2025
Sherwood Schwartz disliked it, fired him, and got someone else to write a new theme song.
This is the John Williams original for the pilot. pic.twitter.com/Y09ge8Cs5d
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