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Garin Pirnia <\/strong>and Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present 14 Things You Might Not Know About Ghost<\/strong><\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. WHOOPI GOLDBERG CREDITS HER OSCAR WIN TO PATRICK SWAYZE. 4. DIRECTOR JERRY ZUCKER SAID HE\u2019D CAST PATRICK SWAYZE \u201cOVER MY DEAD BODY.\u201d 3. GHOST<\/em> TURNED DEMI MOORE INTO THE HIGHEST-PAID ACTRESS AT THE TIME. Garin Pirnia and Mental_Floss present 14 Things You Might Not Know About Ghost. Here are three of my favorites… 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/b>On The View<\/em>, Goldberg revealed that she only got the role of Oda Mae Brown because Swayze fought for her. The producers resisted casting her, but Swayze told them he wasn\u2019t doing the film unless Whoopi was in it, too, and that she was right for the part\u2014even though at that point she and Swayze had never met. \u201cAnd I won an Oscar because of Patrick Swayze,\u201d Goldberg said. In her 1991 Oscar speech, she thanked Swayze, calling him \u201ca stand-up guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>In a video that appears on the Ghost<\/em> DVD, screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin\u2014who won an Oscar for his script\u2014talks about how Zucker was at first against casting Swayze as Sam. \u201cJerry wanted to see him on film, so went out and saw the movie Roadhouse<\/em>, and we walked out of that movie and Jerry said to me, \u2018Over my dead body,\u2019\u201d recalls Rubin. Swayze really wanted the role, and because Zucker appreciated Swayze\u2019s gusto, he let Swayze audition. After Swayze read the end of the script aloud, Zucker changed his mind. \u201cWe all had tears in our eyes, right there in the office\u2014and we knew how it ends,\u201d Zucker told People<\/em> in 1990. \u201cI saw a side of Patrick that I never knew existed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>By the time Ghost<\/em> was released, Moore was already famous for her roles in St. Elmo\u2019s Fire<\/em> and About Last Night…<\/em>, but she wasn\u2019t considered a bankable star. After the unexpected $200 million domestic gross of Ghost<\/em>, she hit box office gold with a trifecta of other huge hits: 1992\u2019s A Few Good Men<\/em> ($141,340,178), 1993\u2019s Indecent Proposal<\/em> ($106,614,059), and 1994\u2019s Disclosure<\/em> ($83,015,089). If you add up all of Demi\u2019s film grosses, it comes out to more than $1 billion. In 1995, she was paid an unprecedented $12.5 million to take her clothes off in Striptease<\/em>. The film wasn\u2019t a huge hit, and a few years later she traded Hollywood for Idaho.
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