BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY

The Good Robot Us’s were played by then-not-dead Beatle George Harrison and then-nine-years-dead jazz great Thelonius Sphere Monk. It was the antepenultimate time the two musicians would work together on screen.

Rumor had it that the original title for this film was Bill and Ted Go To Hell, but in reality, the working title was Bill and Ted Go to Hell and Party With All of Their Friends and Some Homosexuals and the President.

During the chess-playing scene, a television screen over Death’s shoulder is showing the gay-orgy scene from the first Bill and Ted Movie.

Due to a busy rehearsal schedule with his band Dogstar, Keanu Reeves wasn’t able to be on the set as much as the director would have liked. That’s why in some scenes Ted is played by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

FORREST GUMP

Making Sally Field look old wasn’t all that hard—but making her look Jewish took six to seven hours of makeup every morning.

In an attempt to keep the film from becoming too long, executives 86ed the scene where Forrest’s adorably non-retarded son explains to him that his entire life has been an elaborate television hoax.

There are over 600,000 characters in Forrest Gump, and they are all remarkably played by funnyman Eddie Murphy, except for two of the guys on the football team.

Producers ran ads in Variety before Academy Award nomination time suggesting that actor Tom Hanks, “really is retarded,” to try to win sympathy votes. It worked; that year actor Tom Hanks took home his 17th Academy Award for Art Direction.

Only Richard Nixon had to be exhumed for the making of the film; director Robert Zemeckis couldn’t remember what he looked like.

JACK THE BEAR

This movie was actually written, shot, edited and released in theaters in the early nineties.

A 15 year-old Reese Witherspoon had to take over directing duties when a distraught Marshall Herskovitz fled from the set mid-shoot never to be heard from again.

Everyone knows that the character of Norman Strick was played by Gary Sinise, but few know that Gary Sinise was played by kickboxing champion Louis Neglia.

Danny DeVito’s sideburns from Jack the Bear are still on display at Madame Tussaud’s in London. They are not part of the official collection, however, having not been made out of wax; somebody just keeps forgetting to remove them from the sink in the first-floor Men’s room.