Smith told VH1, “Axl came and he laid his head in my lap and became all serious. And he looked at me and said, ‘Adriana, I want to talk to you about something that’s very serious and very special and important to me, and nobody else will do this.’” Smith said she replied, “For the band, sure, no problem, for the band! And a bottle of Jack Daniels.” Once microphones were laid on the floor of the vocal booth, the lights were dimmed, and Rose and Smith commenced having sex…the sounds of which were recorded and inserted into the track’s audio. The song became notorious in the wake of the album’s massive success, and Smith later regretted taking part in it. “I ended up drinking and using drugs over this for a really long time, because I had this extreme shame and guilt and stuff.” This news appeared to shock Carvey and Spade. “Good lord, Ellen. Damn it! Goddamnit, I’m fucking pissed!” Carvey shouted. “Wow, that’s tough to hear,” added Spade. “You were doing as much as anyone.” Carvey, by comparison, said he was paid $4,500 per episode for his first year on the show in 1985…five years before Cleghorne joined the cast. Fifteen years later, Busey was on the set of Quigley, a critically reviled box-office bomb about a ruthless billionaire (Busey) who dies and comes back to earth as a Pomeranian. Filming of the movie was already three days behind schedule when Busey arrived to film the scene where his character goes to heaven. Busey’s co-star Curtis Armstrong (yes, Booger from Revenge of the Nerds), told the AVClub, “He showed up on this set made to look like heaven, and he looked around and said, ‘It’s nothing like this. I’ve been to heaven, and it doesn’t look like this. That sofa’s all wrong. That mirror is ridiculous. They don’t even have mirrors!’ It was ridiculous. He was completely nuts about the design of heaven.” Things only got more absurd when another actor who claimed he, too, had visited heaven took issue with Busey’s description of the place. Armstrong said, “This guy got into an argument with Busey about the way heaven looked! The two of them wound up coming to blows, and they had to send everybody home.” Nevertheless, Ortega forged on, performing the dance which she choreographed herself. “They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result,” Jenna added. “I asked to redo it, but we didn’t have time. I think I probably could have done it a bit better.” Netflix responded to Jenna’s story by saying, “Strict COVID protocols were followed, and once the positive test was confirmed, production removed Jenna from the set.” Still, many people criticized the production studio (MGM, not Netflix) for allowing her to film sick, and to expose all of her costars in the dance scene to possible infection. As for the boy in the window, it turns out it was a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson’s actor character, Jack. In fact, the cutout can be seen later in the film. Most likely, the cutout was placed in the window, and no one thought to move it before they filmed this scene. Nowadays, it would have been removed with CGI, but they didn’t have that option back in 1987! “When you are sitting on hardwood bleachers for hours upon hours, they (the pants) get uncomfortable, and anyone having been in the movie business knows it’s a hurry up and wait gig. I had seen a few girl extras unzipping their pants in between takes and then zipping up when we were about to shoot. I believe that was what happened. Her pants were uncomfortable; she unzipped them. It was about 3-4 a.m. that night the scene was shot, and we were all pretty tired — some were even falling asleep between takes — so, she was probably not quite awake and coherent, not realizing they had yelled action.” So, sorry, ’80s kids. There’s (probably) no penis in Teen Wolf. Crosby was initially nervous, and later said about their first encounter, “I was on the verge of tears because I felt like I went AWOL on this kid, and I’d been beating myself up about it for 30 years.” Raymond quickly put Crosby at ease, explaining he’d had a wonderful life with fantastic adoptive parents. Soon, the conversation turned to their shared passion of music, and not long after that, a musical collaboration with a new band called CPR. Crosby later told the L.A. Times, “It was amazing not just because [Raymond] was a great guy and very kind and let me into his life, but he’s also this incredible, jazz-level, Steely Dan-level player.” Raymond was thrilled, too, saying, “I’m getting to make music with one of the greatest songwriters of our time.” He also got to introduce Crosby to his then 3-year-old granddaughter. “He’s the perfect granddad,” Raymond said. “He’s got the perfect mustache to pull on.” They remained in each other’s lives — musically and personally — until Crosby’s death this year. Perry, who is now sober and dedicates time to helping others with alcohol addiction, told the Hollywood Reporter it was an unusual experience going through addiction issues while filming the biggest show in the world. “When I was in big trouble, it was so public because I was on a TV show that 30 million people were watching.” He then added, sounding very much like a teenager, “The first time we heard ‘Tomorrow’ on the radio, it was really embarrassing. We were in a car with a whole heap of our friends, and it came on. We turned it off as quick as we could.” Swift had started writing songs two years earlier. In fact, one of the first songs she wrote, as a 12-year-old, was “The Outside,” which appeared on her debut album. In an attempt to salvage their big summer movie, Fox decided Grant should keep his already scheduled media appearances, the first of which — on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — became must-see TV. So many people tuned in, in fact, that The Tonight Show beat The Late Show with David Letterman in the ratings for the first time in a year. Leno got right to it, asking Grant, “What the hell were you thinking?” Grant, to his credit, didn’t get angry or make excuses, saying, “I think you know in life what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.” He had a similarly even-keeled response on Larry King Live, saying, “In the end you have to come clean and say, ‘I did something dishonorable, shabby, and goatish.’” Grant’s public apology and lack of excuses played well with the general public. Nine Months became the biggest comedy of the summer, grossing $138 million worldwide. Eilish’s brother, Finneas — who was cowriter and producer on the track — added, “I found it very horrible to listen to, but it worked great in the song.” Stoltz filmed almost all of the classic scenes from the film, but eventually, there was no denying he wasn’t right. While Stoltz was a fine actor, his performance was too dramatic and lacked the comedic touch the role required. The filmmakers reached out to Fox again (was he really, really not available?), and arranged a deal where he would film Back to the Future at night after he wrapped that day’s shooting of Family Ties. Zemeckis broke the news to Stoltz himself and said it was “the hardest meeting I’ve ever had in my life, and it was all my fault. I broke his heart.” Interestingly, the role of Jennifer — which had gone to Melora Hardin (later Jan from The Office) in the Stoltz version — was also recast (mainly because she was much too tall to play opposite Fox). Stoltz probably doesn’t love missing out on a massive franchise, but he has had a long, successful career since famously appearing in Pulp Fiction.
