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I'm Grant Barrett.

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I was looking

through my Netflix queue the other day and I was trying to decide what movie to see next. There were so

many titles on that long list and all of them were saying, pick me, pick me, pick me, which made

me wonder, Grant. If you're only using words, how do you make a movie title stand out? And that got me to thinking about working titles.

And how is it that sometimes Hollywood decides to change the title of a movie that they've been working on?

And you know, you can have a lot of fun with this at the Internet Movie Database, IMD.com.

You know, because they have tons and tons of information, including the

working title of the film before it was released. And of course, there's that famous example

of Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall. Do you know what that was called originally? I don't, no.

He's called Anhedonia. Oh, yes. The inability to experience pleasure. So that was probably a good

call. And what about the movie that was originally titled $3,000? Do you know what that was? Or can you guess?

I don't know. Desperado by Robert Rodriguez. I don't know. What?

$3,000 became pretty woman. That that's you know much better call right

and here's one more you'll guess this one originally this movie was called Harry

this is Sally when Harry met Sally now why is it that when Harry met Sally is a better

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