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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Today we look at the unhappy history of celebrity stalkers. Robert Bardo became obsessed with young actor Rebecca Schaeffer. He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived and shot her to death, leading the LAPD to set up a Threat …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Some TV and movie stars sing on hit records. Others have criminal records. For example, in 1970, Suzanne Somers was arrested for passing bad checks. Larry King was accused of larceny after siphoning off cash intended to fund the New Orleans DA's …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 20Last month, we mentioned that Edward James Olmos had been in the running for the captain's role on "Star Trek: Next Generation." Canadian actor Genevieve Bujold had actually been cast as Captain Nicole Janeway on "Star Trek Voyager," and even filmed a few scenes, before quitting the series altogether. Going further back, Lloyd Bridges and Martin Landau had been approached to play the captain and Spock on the original series. You may remember Koo Stark as the woman who dallied briefly with Prince Andrew, at least until it was discovered that she was also a soft-core porn star. But Stark nearly landed a role in a very respectable film. She was cast as Camie, one of Luke's buddies back on Tattoine in "Star Wars." She appeared in scenes at a bar called the Arrowhead, which were all cut out.
Naturally enough, what is the nickname of sports teams from the U.S. Naval Academy? A) Destroyers B) Midshipmen C) Tidal Wave D) Topsails Previous answer: Chris Isaak was in the video for "Wicked Game." TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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