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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Gary Coleman's death in 2010 was another sad chapter in the history of the ?Diff'rent Strokes? kids. Robbed blind by his parents, he ended up working as a security guard and launched a quixotic run for the California governorship. His co-star, Todd …Read more.
RELEASE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Heath Ledger won an Oscar for playing the Joker, a role that has traditionally offered actors a license to chew scenery like it was bubblegum. Jack Nicholson devoured the screen in the first Batman movie, and Cesar Romero played him on TV, but there …Read more.
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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012Today 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 Management Unit to deal with stalkers. Bardo was inspired by Arthur Jackson, a stalker who used DMV records to find Theresa Saldana, whom he stabbed repeatedly. The story also ends badly for stalkers. Margaret Ray stalked David Letterman for years before lying down in front of a train in Colorado in 1997. What state's Office of Homeland Security adopted as its top priority not loose nukes or lone wolves but instead "stressing the dependence on Almighty God"? A) Alaska B) Florida C) Kentucky D) Utah Previous answer: WKRP is in Cincinnati, just like the TV show, although, ironically, reruns of "WKRP in Cincinnati" aired on WGN America at the time. 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.
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