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Movie Legends Revealed | Did Bay Really Apologize For <i>Armageddon</i>?  

Movie Legends Revealed | Did Bay Really Apologize For Armageddon?

This week, Brian Cronin doesn’t want to miss a thing, so he drills into a fresh legend: that director Michael Bay apologized for his commercially successful, if widely panned,1998 blockbuster Armageddon.

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TV Legends Revealed | Were McCoy’s <i>Star Trek</i> Instruments Salt Shakers?  

TV Legends Revealed | Were McCoy’s Star Trek Instruments Salt Shakers?

This week, Brian Cronin beams aboard to determine whether Dr. McCoy’s medical instruments on the original Star Trek were really just fancy salt shakers.

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Movie Legends Revealed | Did Nimoy Ask For Spock to Die in <i>Star Trek II</i>?  

Movie Legends Revealed | Did Nimoy Ask For Spock to Die in Star Trek II?

This week, Brian Cronin transports us back to 1980 to determine whether Leonard Nimoy made the death of Spock a condition of his participation in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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TV Legends Revealed | Was Krusty Supposed to Be Homer in Disguise?  

TV Legends Revealed | Was Krusty Supposed to Be Homer in Disguise?

This week Brian Cronin pays a visit to Springfield to determine whether The Simpsons creator Matt Groening originally intended for Krusty the Clown to be Homer Simpson in a wig and makeup.

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Movie Legends Revealed | Myers’ ‘Minor’ Change Cost <i>Shrek</i> $4M?  

Movie Legends Revealed | Myers’ ‘Minor’ Change Cost Shrek $4M?

This week Brian Cronin digs into whether a decision by Mike Myers to redo his dialogue for Shrek with a Scottish accent led DreamWorks to recreate $4 million worth of animation.

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TV Legends Revealed | Did BBC Buy Rights to Blue Police Boxes?  

TV Legends Revealed | Did BBC Buy Rights to Blue Police Boxes?

This week Brian Cronin travels back through time to investigate whether the BBC purchased the trademark from the Metropolitan Police Service for the iconic blue police box used for the TARDIS on Doctor Who.

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Movie Legends Revealed | How Did Optimus Prime Save Duke’s Life?  

Movie Legends Revealed | How Did Optimus Prime Save Duke’s Life?

Because knowing is half the battle, Brian Cronin explores whether negative reaction to the death of Optimus Prime in the animated The Transformers: The Movie saved Duke from the same fate in G.I. Joe: The Movie.

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TV Legends Revealed | Does Vanna Have Trademark on Letter-Turning?  

TV Legends Revealed | Does Vanna Have Trademark on Letter-Turning?

This week, Brian Cronin solves the puzzle of whether longtime Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White really holds the trademark on turning letters.

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Movie Legends Revealed | Was <br /><i>Toy Story 2</i> Nearly Deleted?  

Movie Legends Revealed | Was
Toy Story 2 Nearly Deleted?

Brian Cronin explores the tale of computer terror involving the accidental deletion of almost all of Pixar’s Toy Story 2 in early 1998.

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TV Legends Revealed | MLK Kept Nichols From Quitting <i>Star Trek</i>?  

TV Legends Revealed | MLK Kept Nichols From Quitting Star Trek?

In this week’s “TV Legends Revealed,” Brian Cronin explores whether civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. convinced actress Nichelle Nichols to remain on Star Trek following the first season.

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Movie Legends Revealed | <i>Die Hard 3</i> Started Out as <i>Lethal Weapon 4</i>?  

Movie Legends Revealed | Die Hard 3 Started Out as Lethal Weapon 4?

This week Brian Cronin takes aim at the legend that 1995′s Die Hard With a Vengeance began life as a screenplay for Lethal Weapon 4.

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TV Legends Revealed | Did Carson Cause a Toilet Paper Shortage?  

TV Legends Revealed | Did Carson Cause a Toilet Paper Shortage?

In this week’s installment of “TV Legends Revealed,” Brian Cronin rolls out the story that legendary Tonight Show host Johnny Carson unintentionally triggered a toilet-paper shortage in 1973.

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