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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 Wednesday, September 2Really Foreign Writers: French novelist Pierre Boulle had been a secret agent in Southeast Asia during World War II and used the experience to write "The Bridge on the River Kwai." The movie version won him an Oscar for the screenplay, even though he somehow managed to write it without speaking any English. (It was actually written by two blacklisted writers.) Boulle also, weirdly, wrote "Planet of the Apes," which also became a hit movie. The M Word: In 1957, short-statured actor Billy Barty founded Little People of America while at a Reno wedding for people like him. Billing itself as "a nonprofit organization that provides support and information to people of short stature and their families," LPA has battled "dwarf-tossing" (don't ask) and has recently filed an FCC complaint over the word "midget." Incidentally, the standard definition of dwarfism covers anyone 4-foot-10 or smaller. The climax of what movie, which Hitchcock wanted to call "The Man in Lincoln's Nose," was filmed on a soundstage copy of Mount Rushmore? A) "The Man Who Knew Too Much" B) "Notorious" C) "North by Northwest" D) "Vertigo" Previous answer: Belinda Carlisle sang for the Go-Gos. 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.
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