tterbfan said...
Enough with the pencils! Did you know that beforeJack Nicholson stole the part, the role of McMurphy[in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest] actually belonged to a handsome quantity of ytterbium?
Well....I've been lucky enough to come into posession of some pre-release PR for the film and indeed it WAS starring Ytterbium! Apparently some studio execs got a bit jittery about hiring a chunk of metallic ore and the rest is history. Some years later, Ytterbium's agent made up the story about Nicholson stealing the part as he had done earlier after Alan Arkin beat out Ytterbium for the role of Yossarian in 1970's Catch 22.
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