The 100 Dumbest Things Hollywood's Done Lately

21. Mandatory retirement was not imposed on Marcello Mastroianni after his performance in Ready to Wear, nor on Katharine Hepburn after hers in Love Affair.

22. Director Michael Ritchie bought the Brentwood home where Marilyn Monroe lived and died, and said he intends to turn it into a museum.

23. Tommy Lee Jones followed up his Oscar win last year with terrible performances in Natural Born Killers and Cobb.

24. As a way of explaining the box-office failure of Quiz Show, director Robert Redford said, the year after the success of Schindler's List, "It's risky to ask the audience to think."

25. Ben Kingsley said, "There's been a shift within me and because of that people are noticing other aspects of me which they find attractive," as he announced his interest in three upcoming romantic leading roles.

26. Warner Bros, ran a full-color two-page spread in Variety reminding Academy members that Wyatt Earp was available for Oscar nominations in several major categories.

27. Oliver Stone's ex-wife shared the following perspective on Natural Born Killers: "All the lines of dialogue are things he screamed at me. It is my divorce up there on the screen."

28. Actress Jane March married one of the producers of her box-office bomb Color of Night.

29. Supermodel Vendela broke up with producer Jon Peters before securing her first film role.

30. Shelley Long was resurrected.

31. When Michael Keaton was replaced by Val Kilmer after reportedly demanding $15 million to play Batman for the third time, Keaton's manager claimed that it was Keaton who walked out on Warner Bros., not the other way around, and stated, "money was never a factor."

32. Isabelle Adjani reportedly informed Daniel Day-Lewis that she was pregnant with his baby boy by sending him a fax.

33. New Line Cinema agreed to pay Joe Eszterhas $2.5 million for four pages of "notes and thoughts" on a love story that he and director Adrian Lyne were to "shape into a movie," and they agreed to pay another $1.5 million when the film went before cameras.

34. Director Paul Verhoeven, explaining there wasn't much need to change Joe Eszterhas's script for Showgirls, said, "I learned on Basic Instinct that when you start to think you know better than Joe, you're in bad shape."

35. John Tesh and Connie Sellecca named their daughter Prima Sellecchia Tesh.

36. The Samuel Goldwyn Company issued a press release announcing that O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance Ito had approved The Madness of King George for viewing by the jurors and had "claimed himself to be a great fan of [Helen] Mirren... and hoped the jurors admired her talent as much as he did."

37. Spike Lee's brother Cinqué wrote a script called No It U Lover about a guy who gets bitten by a rabid rabbit and comes out of a coma to discover that all the women in the world are now dead.

38. The makers of Legends of the Fall eliminated some of Brad Pitt's sex scenes and left in interminable passages of Anthony Hopkins's scenery-chewing as a stroke victim.

39. After agreeing to be interviewed by three fifth-graders from Kidsday, a children's page in New York Newsday, Macaulay Culkin blew the tots off and flew back to L.A., making it necessary for the studio to intercede and fly him back to New York to do the interview.

40. Bernardo Bertolucci confessed to an interviewer that, having grown up in the Italian countryside, he gets horny when he smells "the perfume of cow dung."

41. Producer Robert Evans consulted with Los Angeles magazine writer and film critic Rod Lurie in order to come up with a leading lady for the big-budget, steamy film Jade.

42. Isabella Rossellini agreed to marry Gary Oldman.

43. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

44. CQ published an investigative cover story supporting the theory that Michael Jackson was framed.

45. Upon arriving in England to shoot the film adapted from Valerie Martin's book Mary Reilly, Julia Roberts revealed to the British press that she had never read the original novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on which Martin's book was based, and had not, in fact, read Martin's book either. "It's more information than I want at this stage," she said. "I'm not sort of a big research nut. I just sort of wing it, you know."

46. Julia Ormond was given the leads in Legends of the Fall, First Knight and Sabrina without proving any value at the box office.

47. An American in Paris and Daddy Long Legs star Leslie Caron commented as follows about dancing with Patrick Stewart in Let It Be Me: "It reminds me of what I did with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire."

48. MGM/UA signed the artist formerly known as Prince, fresh from having all of his songs cut from the abortive musical I'll Do Anything, to write songs for their lap-dance musical Showgirls.

49. On a visit as an unofficial observer of the Mexican election, Edward James Olmos stopped near the rebel-held province of Chiapas, and said, "All of humanity is interested in what happens here in Chiapas."

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