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DID YOU KNOW?

GIG YOUNG (Byron Elsworth Barr) - Actor 1978 shot and killed his wife of three weeks, KIM SCHMIDT, then shot himself.

LILLIAN MILLICENT ENTWISTLE

23 year-old actress depressed from being dropped by RKO and after a night of drinking, jumped to her death from the top of the 50-foot high 'H' of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign. Shortly after her death a letter from the Beverly Hills Playhouse arrived at her uncle's home for her. They wanted her to star in their next production which, ironically, was about a young girl who commits suicide.

GLENN MILLER 1941 Received the 1st Gold Record ever awarded to a recording artist.

PETER SELLERS 1964 1st male to appear on the cover of PLAYBOY magazine.

BILLY CRYSTAL 1977 played 1st openly gay main character, Jodie Dallas, on network TV on ABC's SOAP

which aired from 1977 to 1981.

HALLE BERRY 2002 1st Black Woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

CARNEGIE HALL in New York City opened in 1891 with TCHAIKOVSKY as Guest Conductor.

Chocolate Syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S PSYCHO

which actually took 7 days to shoot.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

1959 became the first Hollywood star to receive $1 million for a single picture CLEOPATRA.

Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 270 million 1999 dollars

In the movie CASABLANCA Rick never says "Play it again Sam" he actually says:

"You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'.

The 1st time the 'f-word' was spoken in a movie was by MARIANNE FAITHFUL in the 1968 film I'LL NEVER FORGET WHATSHISNAME. In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie SCARFACE the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.

The MONTY PYTHON movie THE LIFE OF BRIAN was banned in Scotland.

The Song WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING was written by George Graff, who was German

and was never in Ireland all his life.

Between 1931 and 1969 WALT DISNEY collected thirty-five oscars.

Time Magazine's MAN OF THE YEAR for 1938? ADOLF HITLER.

INTERESTINGLY?!!

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Now the longest running production ever on Broadway having reached its 8521st performance 13/7/08

Now 21 Years Old (9/10/07)

243 actors have appeared in the New York production 13 of whom have played the leading role

Has won seven Tony Awards & cost $8m to stage

Original production Her Majesty's London Oct 9 1986

The Broadway production followed Jan 26 1988 with a record advance of $18m

The show has played 119 cities in 24 countries, currently there are seven productions around the world

On Broadway, the show has used 1.4 million gallons of shot powder, 18,981 sheets of flash paper, 6,899 ounces of liquid fog, 455,760 AAA batteries and more than two tons of apples!!

The original Phantom was to be played by Steve Harley but was bought out of contract