The ending of "Charlotte's Web" will always wreck me.
The ending of "Charlotte's Web" will always wreck me.
I was the same age and was full-on obsessed with the Taco Bell tie-in. I think we went twice a week.
Where's the lie?
He wrote and filmed Kill Bill with the intention of it being one film, so I think it's the first (it was Miramax that decided to split them in two).
Everyone backstage knew that Owen wasn't gonna survive, but the audience in the arena didn't. The people he had been most recently working with, Jeff Jarrett and Debra, literally had to be the first people to come out after the accident. Almost 20 years later, I still can't believe they didn't stop the show.
I remember when the previews came out and (pretty sure we were in pre-DVR days, no?), in very small font and for .5 seconds, there was a disclaimer on the TV ads that any depiction of Britney Spears was fictitious or coincidental. Someone had her legal team all over that.
I stumbled upon the elevator scene while flipping through channels and it scarred me for life.
54 was supposed to be way darker but the studio balked at Breckin Meyer and then mega-heartthrob Ryan Phillippe as bisexual lovers so it ended up being a whole lotta nothing.
I *hate* Leprechaun in Space!!! I saw it on TV at 3 A.M. when I was an insomniac child. The doctor turns into a half-spider whyyyyyyyyyyy? The only reason I kept watching was for Brent Jasmer who I recognized from The Bold and the Beautiful and at the end he finally takes his shirt off.
I live in Minneapolis, so I always get a kick out of it when Oprah says "I wanted to move to Minneapolis BECAUSE I THOUGHT SHE LIVED THERE."
Yes! Against Davina McDaniel! And then people found out that Davina was a working actress (she calls Julia Roberts a bitch in the bathroom scene of "My Best Friend's Wedding") and thought the whole thing was fake, so I think they even had a rematch.
What about pouring an entire quart of it over someone's head, as Roseanne did to Jackie on an episode of "Roseanne" that traumatized me as a youth?
Batman Forever doesn't need my defending, but … ugh.
Mariah Carey did a cover of "One More Try" on her last album, and god DAMN if that song doesn't get you right in the feels.
I watched an Actors Roundtable with Julianna Marguiles, and she said that "Ghost Ship" was originally going to be a psychological thriller about cabin fever, and that went she arrived to start shooting, the studio had completely changed the script from the one she had read.
Her take on why "All-American Girl" failed is rather astute. In "I'm The One That I Want," Margaret Cho, who also developed an eating disorder because the network told her she was too fat to play the role of herself, talks about how first ABC was worried that she was being *TOO ASIAN*, and then halfway through its run…
I have the Oprah 20th anniversary DVD and there's an interview with Seinfeld on there about ending his show. He compared it to being onstage, how it took him years to learn it, the exact right time to leave the stage — just when the audience wants more, when you've given them everything and you know you've done what…
That was during the tapes submission era of the Emmys, because every year they would do a SERIOUS! episode so Helen Hunt would win. I still think she should give one of her Emmys to Calista Flockhart. Producers would later use this formula when Debra Messing was the last cast member of "Will & Grace" to get an Emmy…
I was too young at the time to appreciate it, but I remember the episode when she had a boyfriend who always wanted to RIP her clothes off (ruining them!) and then she had a great idea that she would wear velcro clothes and then the magic was gone.
River Phoenix in Stand By Me was one of my first cinematic "Oh, crap, I think I'm gay" moments. I must specify that I was nine at the time!!!