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if (day == 1) 
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document.write("<P>In late 2002, <I><B>My Big Fat Greek Wedding</B></I> (2002) became the highest grossing movie to never have been number one at the box office. <I><B>Dances with Wolves</B></I> (1990) had been the previous record holder.")
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if (day == 2) 
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document.write("<P><B>All Quiet on the Western Front</B></I> (1930), which won the best picture Oscar, was easily the most violent movie of its time. The film was banned in Italy until 1956.")
}
if (day == 3) 
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document.write("<P> In <I><B>Jurassic Park</B></I> (1993), the glass of water seen sitting on the dashboard of the Ford Explorer was made to ripple using a guitar string that was attached to the underside of the dashboard.")
}
if (day == 4) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>Richard III</B></I> (1955) there is a murder scene in the Tower of London which could have been filmed in one day, and would have been, except one of the actors in the scene was out of work at the time and Director Laurence Olivier stretched the filming out for three days to help him out.")
}
if (day == 5) 
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document.write("<P>Director Peter Jackson is arachnophobic and the design of the giant spider Shelob, in <I><B>The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</B></I> (2003), was based on the types of spiders he feared the most.")
}
if (day == 6) 
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document.write("<P>While filming <I><B>Planet of the Apes</B></I> (1968), during breaks in the filming, actors made up as different ape species tended to hang out together, gorillas with gorillas, orangutans with orangutans, etc.  This behavior simply happened and was not planned or expected.")
}
if (day == 7) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>The Postman</B></I> (1997), The Postman (Kevin Costner) tells the locals that the federal government is reforming and has a new president by the name of Richard Starkey. Richard starkey is the real-life name of Ringo Starr, drummer for The Beatles.")
}
if (day == 8) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</B></I> (2002), Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Sean Astin (Sam) spent most of their scenes acting to an orange ping pong ball which was turned into Gollum in post-production.")
}
if (day == 9) 
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document.write("<P><I><B>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</B></I> (1975) was only the second film to win Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. The first was <I><B>It Happened One Night</B></I> (1934).")
}
if (day == 10) 
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document.write("<P>The tanks used by the Germans in <I><B>Patton</B></I> (1970) are actually post-war American M-48 \"Patton\" tanks.")
}
if (day == 11) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</B></I> (2002), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) broke two of his toes while kicking the steel helmet by the orc pyre. Mortensen continued acting despite the injury and that take is the one that actually appears in the movie. His display of pain was actually for the pain in his foot rather than remorse for the perceived fate of his two hobbit friends.")
}
if (day == 12) 
{
document.write("<P>The name of Harrison Ford's character in <I><B>Raiders of the Lost Ark</B></I> (1981) was originally Indiana Smith, but the last name was changed to Jones during the first day of production.")
}
if (day == 13) 
{
document.write("<P><I><B>Marty</B></I> (1955), which won the 1955 Oscar for Best Picture, reportedly cost the producers  more for its award campaign ($400,000) than for the actual making of the movie ($343,000).")
}
if (day == 14) 
{
document.write("<P>The boxing match scene in <I><B>Rocky</B></I> (1976) was filmed in reverse oder, starting with the fifteenth round and with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) and Carl Weathers (Apollo) in heavy make-up. As the filming proceeded, the make-up was slowly removed until they were down to round one.")
}
if (day == 15) 
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document.write("<P>Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Lentulus Batiatus in <I><B>Spartacus</B></I> (1960), which makes him the only actor to ever win an Oscar for a Stanley Kubrick film.")
}
if (day == 16) 
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document.write("<P>During the filming of <I><B>Spider-Man</B></I> (2002), Tobey Maguire's stunt double fractured his leg when he slammed in to a brick wall while attempting a stunt and a welder building sets for the movie was killed when a crane fell over onto a construction basket he was riding in.")
}
if (day == 17) 
{
document.write("<P>In <I><B>Titanic</B></I> (1997), the hands shown sketching Rose (Kate Winslet) wearing the necklace are not Jack's (Leonardo DiCaprio), but director James Cameron's. Since Cameron is left-handed and DiCaprio is right-handed, the shots were mirror-imaged during post-production.")
}
if (day == 18) 
{
document.write("<P>Robert Taylor had to have his hairy chest shaved for his part in <I><B>Quo Vadis</B></I> (1951). The studio was concerned that showing a hairy chest might be too sexy for a Biblical movie.")
}
if (day == 19) 
{
document.write("<P><I><B>Hello, Dolly!</B></I> (1969) evolved out of an attempt by Twentieth Century-Fox to duplicate the studio's great success with <I><B>The Sound of Music</B></I> (1965).")
}
if (day == 20) 
{
document.write("<P><I><B>Waterworld</B></I> (1995) was the most expensive movie ever produced until  <I><B>Titanic</B></I> (1997), two years later. However, if you adjust for inflation then <I><B>Cleopatra</B></I> (1963) is the most expensive movie ever produced, at a budget of $44 million in 1963 dollars.")
}
if (day == 21) 
{
document.write("<P>Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Woodsman in <I><B>The Wizard of Oz</B></I> (1939), but Ebsen had an allergic reaction to the aluminum powder makeup for the Tin Woodsman.")
}
if (day == 22) 
{
document.write("<P>The X-Men characters in the comic books always wore yellow outfits until the success of <I><B>X-Men</B></I> (2000). Afterwards, the comic book characters had their outfits changed to a black leather design that closely matched the outfits worn in the movie.")
}
if (day == 23) 
{
document.write("<P>After its initial release, <I><B>Peyton Place</B></I> (1957) was well on its way towards becoming a failure until news broke out about Lana Turner's (Constance 'Connie' MacKenzie) infamous scandal - her affair with mobster Johnny Stompanato and her daughter's killing him. After the scandal broke, the movie became a huge hit.")
}
if (day == 24) 
{
document.write("<P>William Holden won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Sefton in <I><B>Stalag 17</B></I> (1953). His acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ceremony was, and still is,  the shortest in the history of the Academy Awards. He said,  \"Thank you.\"")
}
if (day == 25) 
{
document.write("<P><I><B>Independence Day</B></I> (1996) holds the record for the most miniature models to appear in any one film. In fact, it is thought that more minatures were used for this film than in any other two movies combined.")
}
if (day == 26) 
{
document.write("<P>When Spooner (Will Smith) opens the door at the beginning of <I><B>I, Robot</B></I> (2004), the robot standing on his doorstep has the number 42 painted on his head. This is a reference to the answer to the question of \"life, the universe and everything\" in Dougles Adams' books, <I><B>The Hitchhiker's Quide to the Galaxy</B></I>.")
}
if (day == 27) 
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document.write("<P>The story in <I><B>High Noon</B></I> (1952) takes place all in one day between the times of 10:35 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. (100 minutes).  Since the film is 85 minutes long, the movie practically takes place in \"real time\".")
}
if (day == 28) 
{
document.write("<P>The mechanical shark in <I><B>Jaws</B></I> (1975) was broken during much of the filming of the movie and couldn't be used for certain shots. As a result, in many cases Steven Spielberg filmed from the shark's point of view and used the camera as the \"shark\".")
}
if (day == 29) 
{
document.write("<P><I><B>Ben-Hur</B></I> (1959) is one of only three movies to have won 11 oscars. The other two movies are  <I><B>Titanic</B></I> (1997) and <I><B>The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</B></I> (2003).")
}
if (day == 30) 
{
document.write("<P>The song \"Moon River\" in <I><B>Breakfast at Tiffany's</B></I> (1961), was specially written for Audrey Hepburn, since she had no training as a singer.")
}
if (day == 31) 
{
document.write("<P>Audrey Hepburn said the scene in <I><B>Breakfast at Tiffany's</B></I> (1961), in which her character Holly Golightly throws her cat into the rainy street was the most distasteful thing she ever had to do on film.")
}

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