The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release.

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

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The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red homestrip.

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The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.

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TVs 'Bananas in Pajamas' are played by women.

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Pablo Picasso's career lasted seventy-eight years, from 1895 until his death in 1973. He made more than 13,000 paintings over the years and over 100,000 prints, engravings and designs. He also did over 300 sculptures and ceramics. Picasso used his mother's maiden name. His father's last name was Ruiz.

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Gary Burghoff who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.

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When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".

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A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.

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The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

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They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a Glockenspiel

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The real name of Astro (the dog from The Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.

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The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.

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The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin, "pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.

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Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.