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b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
l7YQK TIL the last shot of Terminator where Sarah drives her jeep into a storm was done without a filming permit. James Cameron (who was 29 at the time) told a cop who spotted him that he was a UCLA student.
xVQx1 TIL that anything went for a brief period in Hollywood at the start of the sound era, when suggestions of sex, sin and sordidness were all waved through by the censors.