Oprah Winfrey’s given name was actually ORPAH, after the sister of Ruth in the Bible. But so many people said and spelled it wrong, she just gave up.
James Franco
worked at the McDonalds drive-thru to make ends meet after dropping out of UCLA, where he would practice his foreign accents on female customers over the counter.
Jackie Chan
This is the face of universal entertainment. This is undoubtedly one of the most loved faces in the world. This is the face of our ever-smiling, charming Jackie Chan.
But how many of you know that this face has suffered at least 7 fractures?
Jackie Chan is known to effortlessly do his own stunts in most of his movies. However nothing heroic comes so easily. He has had several injuries in his body throughout his film career, his nose being the most fractured part.
The following poster was made as a promotion in Japan for one of his recent films, pointing the major injuries in his body, just the major few.
The translations of the major injury list, starting with Chan’s eyebrow and going counterclockwise.
- Supercilliary bone (eyebrow bone!) damaged, almost causing blindness:Drunken Master (1978)
- Broken Nose: Young Master (1980), Project A (1983), Miracles (1989), Mr. Nice Guy (1997)
- Knocked out tooth: Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1978)
- Lip lacerated: Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)
- Lower chin injury: Dragon Lord (1982)
- Dislocation of the right shoulder: City Hunter (1993)
- Broken breastbone: Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1991)
- Broken finger bones: The Protector (1985)
- Knee damage: City Hunter (1993)
- Ankle (well, malleolus) injury: Who Am I? (1998)
- Eye injury: The Medallion (2003)
- Skull fracture, bone cave-in behind left ear, and brain bleeding from falling out of a tree: The Armour of God (1986)
- Cheek bone dislocation: Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)
- Cervical spine damage from falling from a 25 meter clock tower: Project A(1983)
- Spinal damage from falling from a pole: Police Story (1985)
- Pelvis dislocation almost causing partial paralysis: Police Story (1985)
- Tailbone damage causing temporary partial paralysis: The Accidental Spy(2001)
- Thigh injury from being caught between two cars: Crime Story (1993)
- Broken ankle: Rumble in The Bronx (1995), Thunderbolt (1996)
BRIAN MAY, Lead guitarist, Queen. He has a PhD. in astrophysics Imperial College, London.
Dolph Lundgren
from Rocky. He has a Masters in Chemical Engg. fromMIT and an IQ above 160.
HEDY LAMARR, Hollywood star from the 40s. She is credited with the invention of Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Without her efforts mobile communication, Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi would have been unimaginable.
The biggest irony is that initially her efforts were rejected considering her as a beauty without brains. The importance of her work only came to light after her patents expired in the 60s. She never gained anything from her invention.
Christopher Nolan
Director of Batman Trilogy, doesn’t have a cellphone or an email account.
Jason Statham was an Olympic athlete before coming into Hollywood
Jason Statham has been an Olympic diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992.
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Bruce Lee’s Corpse Acted in his Final Movie!
Bruce Lee was filming Game of Death when he died unexpectedly. So what did the studio do? Well, they rewrote the script so Bruce’s character faked his own death to escape the mafia. Then they took footage from Bruce’s actual funeral – including close-ups shots of the open casket showing his embalmed face – and work that into the movie!
Ben Kingsley is of Indian Origin
Kingsley’s real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Gujarati Indian descent.
The Joker would have been Spider-man
Heath Ledger (who played Joker in TDK) was offered the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man but declined because he didn’t want to risk being typecast as a super-hero.
Brad Pitt is banned from China
The People’s Republic wasn’t happy when Pitt played a real-life friend of the Dalai Lama in Seven Years in Tibet. They blacklisted him from entering the country.
Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of Abraham Lincoln.
Their common ancestor is John Hanks, who is Abraham Lincoln’s great-great-grandfather and Tom Hanks’ great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
At Tetris’s 30th anniversary, the one and only Steve Wozniak dropped by to regale the tales of his long reign as America’s #1 Tetris champion. He was so good, Nintendo Power magazine stopped accepting his score submissions. So Woz had to get crafty.
I constantly had the top score for Gameboy Tetris in the Nintendo Power rankings. It got to where they wanted fresh names in the list and said they would not accept my submissions any longer. So I spelled my name backwards (Evets Kainzow) and changed the city from Los Gatos to Saratoga. Sure enough, they printed that name at the top of the next list of scores. I even have that issue of Nintendo Power, thanks to a thoughtful fan who gifted me with it recently.
Wozniak: Co-founder of Apple, designer of the modern home computer,
Ashton Kutcher, the actor in hit TV series Two and a Half Men and That 70s show, also starred in a variety of box office hits on the big screen, includingWhat Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, Valentine’s Day, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.
Less Known Facts
- In 2009, he was the first Twitter user to obtain 1 million followers, beating out CNN in a highly publicized race
- Ashton Kutcher has founded a venture fund, A-Grade Investments, which has invested in multiple tech companies including Spotify, Airbnb, Foursquare, Fab, Uber, Dwolla and Path.
- In 2010, Kutcher was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People.
- In that same year, another company of his, Katalyst (a media company creating original content for digital media, television and film), was named one of the year’s Top 50 Most Inspiring Innovators by Ad Age and one of Fast Company Magazine’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies.
- He has a fraternal twin named Michael, who has a heart condition. Ashton enrolled in the University of Iowa to pursue Biochemical Engineering, so as to hope to find a cure for his brother’s condition.
- Kutcher is collaborating with Lenovo on the new Yoga pad series of laptops.
In his new role as a Lenovo product engineer, Kutcher will work with the company’s engineering teams around the world to develop and market the Yoga line of tablets by providing input and decision-making into design, specifications, software and usage scenarios.
- Kutcher along with his ex-wife Demi Moore founded DNA foundation which works to prevent children sex trafficking. DNA Foundation was renamed Thorn Foundation after their divorce.
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Quentin Tarantino’s IQ is same as that of Stephen Hawking — 160.
One perfect example of beauty with brains.
Actress: Natalie Portman
Alma mater: Harvard University (Psychology)
The comedian dropped out of high school and lived in a VW bus with his family. They used to park the bus at different places in Canada. The family moved to Jim’s elder sister’s house. Jim’s sister had a lawn to live.
Daniel Craig
The 007 star used to sleep on park benches when he was a struggling actor. Today, Daniel Craig’s worth is $65 million.
Jennifer Lopez
She revolted against her mom. Her mom didn’t want her to join dancing classes and attend college. She left her house when she was 18 and joined the dance classes. Thankfully she got to sleep at the place where she learnt dance. This was her struggle.
Before she started a career in acting, she stayed in a car with her mom for many years.
These people didn’t gave up and achieved whatever they wished for. So, push your limits always and the universe will conspire for your victory.
Rahul Ram :- Bass Guitarist and Vocalist of Indian Ocean.. the band who sang masterpieces like Kandisa.
B.Sc. from St.Stephens College.
M.Sc from IIT Kanpur
Ph.D. from Cornell University on Andrew White Scholarship.
Was active part of Narmada Bachao Andolan
Dilip Kumar, the Tragedy King and one of the foremost actors to employ the Method acting.
After playing the doomed lover in Bimal Roy’s Devdas, Dilip Kumar found himself facing an acute depression. Later he admitted that he got dangerously close to his character’s personality, and had to seek psychiatric assistance. The doctor advised him to do non-serious roles for a while. From playing intense roles in Andaz, Mughal-e-Azam and his home production, Ganga Jamuna(which he is said to have ghost-directed), Dilip Kumar went effortlessly into flippant comedy in Azaad, Kohinoor and Ram Aur Shyam. He was as successful at the grin as he was at the grim.
In 1962 British director David Lean offered him the role of “Sherif Ali” in his film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), but Dilip Kumar declined to perform in the movie. The role eventually went to Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor.
Princess Diana’s death is quoted as an example of globalization.
She was an English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend. They crashed in a French tunnel, riding in a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Frenchman who was drunk on Scotch whisky, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi on Japanese motorcycles, treated by American doctors using Brazilian medicines.
Harrison Ford
Not happy with the roles being offered to him, Harrison Ford became a self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife and two small sons. While working as a carpenter, he became a stagehand for the popular rock band The Doors. He also built a sun deck for actress Sally Kellerman and a recording studio for Brazilian band leader Sérgio Mendes.
He was then hired to build cabinets at the home of director George Lucas, who subsequently cast him in a pivotal supporting role for his film American Graffiti (1973).
1. Robert did not have a healthy family to grow up in. His father turned out to be homosexual and divorced his mother.
2. His first role at the age of 10 was that of The Cowardly Lion from a school production of The Wizard of Oz. It was when performing this character that Robert fell in love with acting.
3. Robert De Niro’s favorite actress is Meryl Streep. He said that working with Meryl Streep is easy and fun as she has an incredible presence on the set.
4. In 2003, Robert was diagnosed with a prostate cancer. The disease, however, was no challenge for Robert, who successfully managed to defeat it.
5. Robert dropped out of high school. He did not want to waste any time and went straight to an acting school.
6. Rumors say that Robert De Niro is a very bad tipper. Limousine drivers even came up with a nickname for the actor – “No Dinero“. 😀
7. For his first role, Robert got payed only 50 dollars. His last role, however, got him 20 million dollars.
8. Robert De Niro used to be a part of a New York street gang. However, he quickly decided that should do something meaningful with his life and focused on acting.
9. Robert De Niro was a direct witness of the 9/11 attacks. He saw the twin towers falling from the window of his house.
He is one of the greatest actors in Tamil Cinema, Who Truly personifies Versatility, Dedication and True Acting Soul. He’s none other than Kamaal Hasan.
2) Four national award for nayagan, indian ,moonram pirai and kalathur kannama.
3) Three south asian international best film award for virumaandi, swati muthayam, saagar sangamam
4) First actor in indian cinema whose 7 films made an official entry to oscar, this itself is a record.
And these movies are as follows :
1. Saagar (1985)
2. Swati Mutyam (1985)
3. Nayagan (1987)
4. Thevar Magan (1992)
5. Kuruthipunal (1995)
6. Indian (1996)
7. Hey Ram (2000)
1. Mr. Bean can fly plane.
In 2001 while on a trip in Africa, the plane Rowan Atkinson and his family were in started to go down because the pilot had passed out. Atkinson managed to gain control of the plane before the pilot woke up. The plane landed safely
His wife, Sunetra Sastry, is Half Indian.
4. Rowan Atkinson went to the same school as Tony Blair.
- Matt Damon is a Harvard university dropout. He attended Harvard University from 1988 to 1992
- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are not just friends, they are also related. Matt Damon is Ben Affleck’s tenth cousin, once removed, through a common New England ancestor. Damon grew up near Ben Affleck since childhood. They collaborated on several films.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, commonly known as ‘Charlie Chaplin’.
A few months after Charlie Chaplin’s demise, two robbers burgled his coffin from a Swiss cemetery and sent his wife a ransom demand of $600,000. When she refused to pay, they allegedly intimidated her kids. The bungling robbers were soon taken into custody, however, and the coffin was recovered. It was then reburied in a theft-proof concrete vault.
James Cameron, the director of Titanic and Avatar has a frog named after him. Pristimantis jamescameroni, is a newly discovered frog species in Venezuela named in recognition of his efforts to alert the general public to environmental problems through pioneering high quality blockbuster movies and adventurous documentaries. Pristimantis jamescameroni is a tiny (adults measure 20 to 27 mm in total length), orangish-brown frog covered with numerous tiny white flecks. It is only known from the summit of an isolated table-top mountain (tepui) in Bolívar state, Venezuela.
He missed the flight by just 10 minutes, after oversleeping from a hangover.
(This was before the creation/flourishing of the above shows/films.)
He’s named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was in a museum in Italy looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting when he first kicked.
Robert Downey, Jr. almost ruined his career and got arrested several times due to excessive drinking and substance abuse in the late 90’s. One night, he was so dazed that he entered a random house in the neighbourhood and went to sleep in the bedroom, convinced that he was in his own house.
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