I recommend “Platinum Girl”, by some author whose name I can’t remember, for that, but it’s safe to say that the first biography of Harlow is more or less worthless.
It depends on how you define the term, but the first feature film with a full synchronized soundtrack was “Don Juan” in 1926, and the first feature film that was all-talking was “Lights of New York” in 1928. “The Jazz Singer” is a mostly-silent film with talking sequences.
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Early on in the movie, the three filmmakers are interviewing people in the small town nearby. One of them told the story about the old man who kidnapped children and kept them in a room. He’d take them out two at a time to another room, and make one of them stand in the corner as he killed the other one.
Well thanks for bursting my bubble! I thought A.I was about aliens! lol…god help me but I may have to go back and watch the ending again…
So was OJ.
Paul McCartney isn’t dead.
Elvis IS dead.
Accept it.
In Easy Rider, the cocaine Fonda & Hopper’s characters are smuggling is NOT real cocaine. It’s baking powder. (Hopper does claim that they smoked real hootch on film though.)
There is no such recording technique as “backward masking” and “Stairway to Heaven” does not contain subliminal satanic messages.
Neither the Exorcist, nor Poltergeist are cursed movies. While the early deaths of the two “daughters” from “Poltergeist” are a tragic coincidence, both are attributable to natural causes. Similarly, the “plague” of deaths striking crew members for “the Exorcist” is easily explainable by the fact that the movie is 40 years old, and among the sizeable crew of a big-budget Hollywood movie, there are simply going to be a certain number of deaths over that period of time.
No ghosts can be seen in Three Men and A Baby. The “phantom” is a backstage crewmember who inadvertantly wandered into the shot.
Similarly, a “munchkin” did not hang himself on the set of “Wizard of Oz.” The silohouette that can be seen behind the rock is one of the exotic birds that were brought in for background
Also, the “munchkins” did not run riot in the hotel they were booked into. The legend that they trashed the place was a cruel fabrication that Judy Garland made up while being interviewed on a talk show. (I suspect that Garland, not a model of temperance & sobriety, probably trashed the hotel herself and was seeking to lay the blame elsewhere! 
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It actually makes more sense of the ending once you realize they are machines and the whole movie is basically a robot fairy tale.
I don’t believe in the “curse” but being strangled by your crazed boyfriend isn’t exactly natural causes. It’s not supernatural, but still…
To add to your list, The Amityville Horror is NOT a true story. My husband and I snicker every time we see that stupid trailer in the theater. We went through this “true story” crap back when the original came out. People have not gotten any less gullible since then, sad to say.
The Blair Witch Project wasn’t a real documentary either.
True, but still with a sad ending. As Alessan said, Mankind has gone extinct, so the only way the robots can learn about humans and their emotions is by studying David and his (its) interactions with his “mother.” She’s not a real human (and she wasn’t like that in real life anyway), that’s not real love, and those aren’t real emotions. The robots will never be able to understand what it was really like. David gets (what he imagines) is “love” from his “mother,” and then he shuts down, “dies,” leaving poor Teddy all by himself. Man, that’s one of the saddest endings I’ve ever seen, this side of Dancer In The Dark. Just because David and the mother-construct have a few seeming laughs and a few seeming tender moments does not a sugery ending make. Think about everything that surrounds those fake, re-created, clinically-studied for robot posterity moments.
Please! It’s “sugary,” not “sugery.” (Whenever I see the latter, I think you’re talking about an operation.) There’s no E in sugar, after all.
Thank you.
Okay, poor choice of words on my part. But still, her tragic death was not a result of “mystical energy emanating from an ‘anti-christian’ movie.”
Anyway…
Ronald Reagan was never seriously considered for the role of Rick Blaine in Casablanca. A movie-industry magazine posted an article about the studio commencing on pre-production on the film, and mentioned Reagan as a possible candidate for the role, but it was merely speculation on the part of the article’s writer. He was never seriously considered by the studio for the part that eventually went to Bogart.
Actually, it’s a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson wearing a tuxedo.
Some for the OP:
Marlin Perkins did not get bitten by a snake on live TV. He got bitten before the show started and went to the hospital. It never aired live, contrary to what my parents, aunts and uncles all claim.
The kid from the Life cereal commercial did not overdose on pop rocks and soda.
Jerry “The Beaver” Mathers from Leave it to Beaver was not killed in VietNam.
Fidel Castro never tried out for a major league baseball team.
Oh I agree, I think the ending frequently gets unjustly maligned because folks don’t realize they are robots and not aliens. This, of course, is a failinfg of the Director and not necessarilty the audience. In fact, I think the movie is fantastic and much more layered than it is given credit for. That is just my humble opinion , of course.
Arnold was the Predator .
The alien was not the Predator.
(see the trailer on the DVD)
Sorry it took so long, I completely missed the question!
The significance of Mike standing in the corner in the scary woods house’s basement goes back to the story told by one of the townspeople in the beginning of the movie, about the guy who murdered children in twos–one would be told to stand in the corner, facing the wall, while the other was killed.
So, he was possed by a ghost making him renact the standing in the corner? It that it? Or maybe it was a run of the mill pycho killer recreating the earlier murders. I seem to recall there was a tie-in video game, maybe that would say why. Can you explain in more detail, please?
Unfortunately, I can’t explain in more detail, because the movie ended right there. No answer as to who did it, be they possessed or copycatting.
There was a video game that I believe tied into the original killer. I even have it. Have I played it? Um … no.
The murderer mentioned earlier in the movie was The Blair Witch (whatever the Blair Witch is…). Of course, it’s just a story, right? So when they get to the house and the Witch is there, of course, we never see him/her/it. All we know is that they’re being attacked–or they think they’re being attacked. Throughout the sequence in the old house (IIRC) it’s pretty damn vague. They could just be going crazy. When we see the guy standing in the corner, with his back to the camera, we know two things. 1) The girl is being murdered right that second in probably a horrible and gruseome way and 2) That they found the Blair Witch. Not a copycat or a ghost.
That’s how I remember it anyway. I haven’t seen it since its theatrical release.
At the time the auditions for The Monkees were held, Charles Manson was in prison.
Maybe Dobie Gillis slipped in there?
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One more:
In the Family Guy theme song, Stewie says “Effin’ cry.” Not “deaf and cry”. Not “laugh and cry”. "Effin’ cry."