Steven Spielberg put every actor in Saving Private Ryan through army training except for Matt Damon He was intentionally not brought into the camp to make the rest of the group feel resentment towards the characte

The Academy Awards ceremonies have been delayed or postponed three times: because of a flood in 1938 for the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981

COPS is an American documentary/reality legal series that started in 1989 is the longest-running television program that follows police officers constables and sheriff s deputies during patrols and other police activities

In 2011 Johnny Depp earned more than 53 million to act in the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean movie Previously the highest paycheck for a single movie had gone to Tom Hanks who received 50 million for his part in the Da Vinci Code

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

The Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas may not have had the option of many typewriters but that didn t mean he couldn t keep his writing genres separate He followed a routine of colour-blocking his creative writing using pink paper for non-fiction blue for fiction and yellow for poetry

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included both the oldest and youngest women ever nominated for a Best Actress awards in 2012 The youngest is Quvenzhane Wallis 9-years-old now but she was only 6 when she shot Beasts of the Southern Wild ; and the oldest is Emmanuelle Riva an 85-year-old who s been acting since 1958