17 little-known and surprising facts about celebrities (18 photos + 3 videos)
This collection contains wonderful stories about celebrities that sound like fiction, but are true. For example: director James Cameron almost made Jurassic Park. And if he did this, then he would have not only dinosaurs in the film, but also aliens. 
1. For his role in Fight Club, Brad Pitt asked the dentist to chip off part of his front teeth. 
He is ready to do a lot for the sake of Stanislavsky's character and system.
2. Melanie Griffith grew up in a home with pet lions. This one's name was Neil 
The lions belonged to Melanie's mother, actress Tippi Hedren (she still has many of them today).
3. In 1980, Suzanne Somers was fired from the sitcom Three's Company for demanding equal pay with her co-star John Ritter. 
He received five times more. The producers told the actress: "Who are you? No one. And he is a star." And this despite the fact that the series had been successfully running for several seasons and she played one of the key roles there.
4. Michael Jackson didn't invent the moonwalk. 
It was based on a move called the backslide, and was shown to Jackson by one of the professional dancers on his show. The author of "sliding backwards" is attributed to Bill Bailey.
Here's a video of Bailey doing this move back in 1955
5. Dolly Parton was a "silent" producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Parton founded Sandollar Entertainment with her friend Sandy Gallin in 1986 
This company is listed as the producer of the series on IMDb.
6. Before he became famous, Steve Martin competed on the dating game show The Dating Game and won three times. 
"Steve Martin. Wild and crazy guy."
7. Frances McDormand was born Cynthia Ann Smith. She was adopted by Noreen and Vernon McDormand at the age of one. 
Vernon was a pastor, and the girl's biological mother was rumored to be one of his parishioners. The child's name was also changed.
8. Mick Jagger sings background vocals on Carly Simon's 1972 cult hit "You're So Vain" and it's not credited anywhere. 
This is the thing, you can listen to it. Jagger's voice is unmistakable
9. Jim Carrey was the first actor in cinema history to have three films reach number one in the ratings in one year. It was 1994 
Then, within 11 months, The Mask, Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber came out.
10. Famous radio host Casey Kasem voiced Shaggy in the TV series “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” from 1969 to 1995. He was also a vegan and left the show in 1995 when he was asked to voice Shaggy for a Burger King commercial. 
Kasem returned to the show in 2002, but only after producers agreed to make Shaggy vegan.
11. Although he's best known as an action star, Bruce Willis had a short music career. 
The Return of Bruno was Willis' debut studio album, released by Motown Records in 1987.
Watch Bruce sing live in concert
12. James Cameron almost made Jurassic Park. And his version would be much darker 
According to the director himself, he tried to buy the rights to the book, but Steven Spielberg beat him to it by several hours. "When I saw the film, I realized that I was wrong. It’s good that he made the film. Because he made it about dinosaurs for children, and mine would have been about aliens with dinosaurs, and that’s unfair. Dinosaurs are for 8-year-olds "We can enjoy the show too, but the kids need to get their dinosaurs. I'd go further and it would be nastier, much nastier," Cameron told The Huffington Post UK.
13. Famous 1920s jazz pianist Fats Waller was kidnapped by Chicago gangsters and taken to Al Capone's birthday party. 
One evening Fats felt a revolver being stuck in his stomach. He was shoved into a black limousine and taken to a fashionable saloon, where he was simply pushed towards the piano and ordered to play. He obeyed. Among those cheering was a man with an unmistakable scar. It was Al Capone's birthday and he, Fats, was a gift from the "homies."
14. Laurence Fishburne was only 14 years old when he was cast in Apocalypse Now. 
He lied about his age to get hired, saying he was already sixteen.
15. That impressive basketball shot Sigourney Weaver makes in Alien: Resurrection was real, not CGI. 
The actress trained for two weeks under the guidance of then-basketball star Nigel Miguel, averaging one shot out of six. Everything turned out perfect on the set.
16. Tom Cruise's cousin is actor William Mapother, aka Ethan from the TV series "Lost" 
Tom's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. The actors' fathers were brothers.
17. The famous American artist Bob Ross (died in 1995), who hosted a television program, was missing the phalanx of his index finger on his left hand (injury in adolescence) 
But few people noticed this: he usually held a palette in his left hand.
