Why didn't Nic Cage want to play Shrek?
Who initially was supposed to be Indiana Jones?
Episode Transcript
Well, that was kind of random. Mel tying for Random Facts with Mel
Taylor. So Walt Disney's brother Roypurchased the first ever Disneyland ticket. It
cost a dollar in nineteen fifty five. This is about twelve bucks in today's
money. You think about going outto the parks now a lot more money.
You always hear Lassie saving Timmy whenhe fell down the well, but
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it never happened in any of thefive hundred and seventy one episodes of Lassie.
The only character whoever did fall downa well was well Lassie. Nicholas
Cage was offered the role of Shrek, but turned it down because he was
afraid kids would only think of himas an ogre. The last NFL game
to end in a zero zero tiewas the New York Giants against the Detroit
Lions in nineteen forty three. GeorgeLucas originally wanted Tom Selleck to be Indiana
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Jones, and he would have beenif he hadn't signed a contract to do
Magnum Pi. That's today at short. Random Facts
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