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document.write("<P>Mel Gibson improvised the opening scenes in <I><B>Conspiracy Theory</B></I> (1997) where  his character explains his conspiracy theories to a series of passengers in his taxi.")
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if (day == 2) 
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document.write("<P><I><B>The Long Riders</B></I> (1980), which is about the James-Younger outlaw gang, starred four sets of actual brothers playing the parts of four sets of outlaw brothers: the Carradines as the Youngers, the Keach brothers as the James brothers , the Quaids as the Miller brothers and the Guest brothers as the Fords.")
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if (day == 3) 
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document.write("<P>Author John O'Brien, on whose novel <I><B>Leaving Las Vegas</B></I> (1995) is based, committed suicide two weeks after the movie started production. The film is about a depressed man trying to drink himself to death.")
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if (day == 4) 
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document.write("<P>George Armitage, the director of <I><B>Grosse Pointe Blank</B></I> (1997), wanted to film the high school scenes at Grosse Pointe South High School. However, the school board felt that it would be inappropriate to show someone graduating from their school system to become a hit man.")
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if (day == 5) 
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document.write("<P>Alfred Molina, who played Dr. Octopus in <I><B>Spider-Man 2</B></I> (2004), actually named his four mechanical tentacles. He called them Larry, Harry, Flo, and Moe.")
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if (day == 6) 
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document.write("<P>During filming of <I><B>The Saint</B></I> (1997), the Bodleian Library, which is the main library at The University of Oxford, was closed to the public for several days. Unfortunately, a large percentage of students were studying for exams at that time and so resulted in a lot of  complaints from the students.")
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if (day == 7) 
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document.write("<P>Although it originally bombed at the box office, <I><B>Blade Runner</B></I> (1982) has gained a lot of fans and respect over the years and has even been said to have influenced every science fiction movie made since its release.")
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if (day == 8) 
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document.write("<P>In the Marx brothers' <I><B>A Night in Casablanca</B></I> (1946), Harpo was offered $50,000 to utter the word \"murder\". This would have marked the first time he ever spoke in a Marx brothers film, but he turned the offer down. He never did speak in any of their movies.")
}
if (day == 9) 
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document.write("<P>All of the children in the roles of the von Trapp children in <I><B>The Sound of Music</B></I> (1965) grew a lot during the making of the film. Consequently, various tricks had to be continually applied to make their heights appear to remain constant during the movie.")
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if (day == 10) 
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document.write("<P>Jetsun Pema is the real life sister of the Dalai Lama. In <I><B>Seven Years in Tibet</B></I> (1997) she plays the role of her own mother (the mother of the Dalai Lama).")
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if (day == 11) 
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document.write("<P>The release of <I><B>The Thin Blue Line </B></I> (1988) presented new evidence involving the the muder conviction of Randall Adams and ultimately lead to the overturning of his conviction and his release from prison.")
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if (day == 12) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>2001: A Space Odyssey</B></I> (1968), as Hal the computer is being shut down, he  sings \"A Bicycle Built for Two\". This was in fact the first song ever sung by a computer, a IBM 7094 computer at Bell Labs in 1961.")
}
if (day == 13) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>2001: A Space Odyssey</B></I> (1968, if you replace each of the letters in the name of the computer, Hal, with the next letter of the alphabet, you get IBM. Arthur C. Clarke has claimed that this is merely coincidence and was not done intentionally.")
}
if (day == 14) 
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document.write("<P><I><B>Apocalypse Now</B></I> (1979) took 16 months to film. It had originally been scheduled to take only 6 weeks. It took Francis Ford Coppola nearly three years to edit the footage to produce the final film.")
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if (day == 15) 
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document.write("<P><I><B>The Night of the Iguana</B></I> (1964) was filmed in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico and put the then unheard of town on the map. Today it is a major tourist destination and a port for cruise ships.")
}
if (day == 16) 
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document.write("<P>Animal rights activist Betty White was offered the the role of Beverly Connelly (Shirley Knight) in <I><B>As Good as It Gets</B></I> (1997), but turned it down after she learned how the dog would be treated in the movie.")
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if (day == 17) 
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document.write("<P>When director Mel Gibson was asked by a local why the Battle of Stirling Bridge was filmed on an open plain in <I><B>Braveheart</B></I> (1995), Gibson said that \"the bridge got in the way\". The local reportedly replied: \"Aye, That's what the English found.\"")
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if (day == 18) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>Casablanca</B></I> (1942) Rick (Humphrey Bogart) never says \"Play it again, Sam.\" Dispite the fame of this reputed quote, what he actually says is: \"You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!\"")
}
if (day == 19) 
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document.write("<P><I><B>Cleopatra</B></I> (1963) was the most expensive movie ever produced in real dollars. Its $44 million budget equates to $286.4 million in 2005 dollars.")
}
if (day == 20) 
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document.write("<P>During filming of <I><B>The Da Vinci Code</B></I> (2006), Lincoln Cathedral's bell \"Great Tom\" which rings every hour was silent for the first time since World War II while filming took place in the cathedral from August 15-19, 2005.")
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if (day == 21) 
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document.write("<P>Because of the song \"Springtime For Hitler\" in <I><B>The Producers</B></I> (1968), the movie was banned in Germany.")
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if (day == 22) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>Dances with Wolves</B></I> (1990), the liver that Wind in His Hair (Rodney A. Grant) offers to  Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) after the buffalo hunt is actually made of cranberry Jell-o.")
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if (day == 23) 
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document.write("<P><I><B>Wings</B></I> (1927) was not only the first movie to win the Best Picture Oscar, but it was also the only silent film to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture. The first Academy Awards were held in 1929 and honored films made in 1927 and 1928.")
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if (day == 24) 
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document.write("<P>The line \"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\", from <I><B>Forrest Gump</B></I> (1994), was voted as the 40th best all-time movie quote by the American Film Institute.")
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if (day == 25) 
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document.write("<P>During the filming of <I><B>Mutiny on the Bounty</B></I> (1935), an 18-foot replica of the Bounty with two crewmen on board became lost at sea for two days before being found.")
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if (day == 26) 
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document.write("<P>In <I><B>Gladiator</B></I> (2000), Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) fights Maximus (Russell Crowe) in the Roman Colosseum. The real-life Commodus was in fact the only Roman Emperor in history to fight as a gladiator in the arena.")
}
if (day == 27) 
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document.write("<P>Ernest Borgnine was the studio's original choice for playing the role of Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) in <I><B>The Godfather</B></I> (1972), but director Francis Coppola wanted either Brando or Laurence Olivier.")
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if (day == 28) 
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document.write("<P>Gary Cooper turned down the chance to play the role of Rhett Butler in <I><B>Gone with the Wind</B></I> (1939). He said, \"<I>Gone With The Wind</I> is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history.\" Clark Gable played the role.")
}
if (day == 29) 
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document.write("<P>There is no dialog in <I><B>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</B></I> (1966) for the first 10 1/2 minutes of the movie.")
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if (day == 30) 
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document.write("<P>When <I><B>It's a Wonderful Life</B></I> (1946) was released, it drew fierce criticism for its political statements about post-WWII society and the FBI labeled it a \"subversive\" movie.")
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if (day == 31) 
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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.")
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