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Fast facts: The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey, the newest heartthrob in the movie industry, cast as hero Jack Dawson in the 1997 box office hit "Titanic," but director James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio. The television show "Seinfeld" was set in New York City; however, the exterior that was used for Jerry Seinfeld's apartment is actually in Los Angeles, Calif. The term "Sword and Sandal Epic" is a film industry colloquialism for an epic film with biblical or fantasy elements. The term was named for the weapons and costumes that the characters typically wear. The theme played at the beginning of the "Green Hornet" series was the "Flight of the Bumble Bee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Three Stooges appeared in more movies than any other comedy team in U.S. film history. In the film industry, a "hot set" is a set that is ready for use and is not to be disturbed.

 

On this date: In 1531, an earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, killed 20,000 people. In 1732, mass was celebrated for the first time in an American Catholic church, St Joseph's Church in Philadelphia. In 1870, the first pneumatic-powered subway line opened in New York City. In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge established Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. In 1935, Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated RADAR. In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court barred race separation on public transportation. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed, killing six people.

 

Quotable... "She didn't deserve this. · I know they won't let me near him." - Steve Ricks, who says he was the common-law husband of Mona Wilson, who disappeared in British Columbia, about Wilson and the man who stands trial for her murder.