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...that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
...that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the film Blood Diamond's screenplay, since he could potentially be sued by mining corporations?
...that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
...that director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters?
...that screenwriter Allan Loeb's agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?
...that screenwriter Daniel Knauf's polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
...that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood, California?
...that film director Brett Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?
...that screenwriter Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the television series South Park, despite never being part of the writing staff?
...that American actor Vincent Piazza was coached for a Puerto Rican accent by a woman who usually did the opposite?
...that Jewish screenwriter Barry Levy has taught Hebrew at Temple Israel California in between writing jobs?
...that film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout, location manager, assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy?
...that actress Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of twelve, making her the youngest-ever Tony nominee as of 2008?
...that despite writing a full action-and-dialogue screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?
...that Andrei Kravchuk gave up his almost-completed master's degree in Mathematics to study film after Aleksei German offered him a job as a director's assistant?
...that Jeremy Doner was the first student at Harvard University to write a screenplay as a creative thesis?
...that John Orloff was inspired to write his own screenplay when his wife, working for the HBO network, continually brought home "awful" scripts?
...that despite being involved in high school theatre, Darla Vandenbossche only decided to pursue acting when she reached the age of 36?
...that writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
...that Grey's Anatomy writer Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the 1998 film Free Enterprise?
...that film composer Mateo Messina has written a benefit symphony concert for the Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?
...that television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
...that British actress Anastasia Griffith spoke only in an American accent while auditioning for an American character on Damages?
...that despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia?
...that football (soccer) midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
...that actor Noah Bean says he was so shy as a child that his school asked his parents if there was something wrong at home?
...that gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend?
...that after screenwriter Chuck Tatham's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys?
...that television director Michael Lange's Jewish heritage landed him a non-speaking role as a rabbi in the episode "The Chrismukkah Bar-Mitzvahkkah" of The O.C., a show for which he had previously directed?
...that television director and editor Norman Buckley's older sister Betty landed him his first editing job on Tender Mercies, a film she featured in?
...that theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry, his first acting job twenty years prior?
...that until Darren Cheeseman's win in 2007, the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor candidate in over 70 years?
...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $26,000 for charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
...that The O.C.'s music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?

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