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Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone."

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6 Movies That Were Almost Other Movies

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)