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Forrest Gump went to space with a monkey in the novel, and the movie cut everything

Fans of the 1994 film may not recognize several chapters of Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump. The adaptation leaves out a NASA ...
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Lea Thompson is only 9 days older than the son she played mother to

Lea Thompson played Lorraine McFly, mother of Michael J. Fox’s Marty, across all three films in the trilogy. The actors were ...
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The man inside Vader’s suit was banned from Star Wars events, and Lucas never fully explained why

David Prowse gave Darth Vader his imposing physical presence in the original Star Wars trilogy. In 2010, Lucasfilm barred him ...
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Moose the dog got more fan mail than any Frasier actor, and the cast had feelings about it

Moose, the Jack Russell Terrier who played Eddie on Frasier, reportedly received more fan mail than any human cast member.
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Psychology says the latchkey kids of the 1980s didn’t become independent because anyone taught them to, they became independent because they came home to an empty house and ...

Accounts of Generation X often celebrate latchkey children’s resourcefulness. The available studies assessed their childhood adjustment, without testing whether self-care shaped their adult ...
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Casablanca was written day by day, and Ingrid Bergman never knew which man she’d choose

Casablanca was still being rewritten as filming continued, with new pages arriving during production and the ending ...
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Psychology says people who feel guilty throwing away food aren’t frugal, they grew up around someone who remembered what empty cupboards felt like

Food-waste guilt may reflect lessons learned around scarcity at home, rather than thrift alone. No study has directly tested whether a caregiver’s experience of food scarcity predicts that feeling. In ...
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Psychology says the reason adult children stop calling isn’t ingratitude, it’s that every phone call started feeling like a performance review they couldn’t pass

In a study of 898 parents and adult children, estranged adult children cited feeling unsupported or unaccepted among their ...
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In the Jurassic Park novel, Hammond is eaten alive, and Spielberg saved him on purpose

In Jurassic Park, John Hammond escapes the disaster he helped create. His fate in Michael Crichton’s novel is far harsher.
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Psychology says the happiest people over 65 aren’t the ones who stayed busy, they’re the ones who finally stopped treating rest as something that had to be earned

In the survey, 43% of Dutch retirees agreed that they could only really enjoy leisure after being active all day. That ...
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The reporter who broke Craig’s casting says Turner is Bond, and Brosnan just gave his blessing

Speculation around Callum Turner has intensified as the James Bond casting race continues. Final screen tests have taken ...
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Psychology says people who put their phone face down on the table during a meal share these 7 habits that make others trust them faster

In a brief experiment, strangers reported less trust after a conversation with a phone visible than with a notebook on the ...