Hollywood Trivia: 100 Curious Lists from Tinseltown by Aubrey Dillon-Malone
Did you know that James Dean's first role was in a Pepsi commercial? That Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart? That Tom Cruise was voted the pupil "least likely to succeed" at High School? That Henry Hathaway made Dennis Hopper do a retake 85 times in "From Hell to Texas"? That Demi Moore ordered a retake of a scene in "The Scarlet Letter" because she didn't like the way her hair looked in it, at a cost of $100,000? It's all here and more in hundreds of lists of the weird and wonderful world that is Tinseltown. We have lists of stars who have been in porn flicks, stars' old jobs, stars who have been to prison, films with the most extras, most sadistic directors, mistakes in films, weirdest actor contract clauses, bizarre star deaths, and more.