On July 12, 1967, a six-day riot erupted in Newark, NJ leaving 23 people dead causing $10 million in property damage, and scarred the city in ways it has yet to recover from.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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