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TIL that Steven Spielberg’s top choice for Eddie Valiant in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ was Bill Murray but they were unable to contact him since he has no agent. When Murray later read about this he screamed at the top of his lungs as he would have definitely accepted the part.

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