Pierce Brosnan, famous for starring as James Bond, worked as a fire-eater with the circus before joining Hollywood.

Eddie Van Halen, considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, built his guitar (Black and White) by hand, using an imperfect body and a neck.

Pierce Brosnan is a professional "fire eater", having performed a fire eating act in a circus at a young age. He is the third actor to play

After dropping out of UCLA, James Franco worked the late shift at McDonald's to support himself while trying to become an actor.

Michael Chiklis, the only one of four title actors of “The Fantastic Four” already familiar with the comic book, wore 60 pounds of latex

Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek has been credited as a song performer in three movies. The first was “Desperado” for the song Quedate Aquí.

Celebrated Bollywood actress Zeenat Aman got the role of Janice in Dev Anand's “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” (1972) after Zaheeda, Dev

The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 300 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the

Hoagy Carmichael wrote a song in 1943 titled “I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues”, making it the song with the longest title ever.

Iconic actor-martial artist Jackie Chan is also a prominent singer. Chan had vocal lessons whilst at the Peking Opera School in his

Suchitra Sen's debut Bengali film “Shesh Kothaay” was never released.

Michael Peter Balzary, known better as Flea and considered one of the best rock bassists of all time, was originally a jazz trumpet player.

Apart from being a successful actor and film producer, Australian star Nicole Kidman is also a singer. Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on “Come What May” peaked at No.27 in the UK Singles Chart.

Josquin des Prez was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance era, and is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime.

The makers of Bollywood superhero film, “Mr. X”, have teamed up with the creators of Chacha Chaudhary for a special edition of the comics to mark the release of the film.

“Love in the Time of Cholera”, Gabriel Garcia Márquez' timeless classic, was adapted on film in 2007 by Mike Newell.

While Bob Dylan was in his 10th grade, his back-up band was rejected from a high school talent show because the student council judged his performance at the audition too shocking.

Monica Bellucci's father is Persian and her mother is from Italy. Though she started her acting career in the mid-1990's she started modeling at an early age.

A woman from Indiana, USA, discovered that her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano.

Kittankhola (2000): Directed by Abu Sayeed, the film was adapted from a stage play by Selim Al Deen.