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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.
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.
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Friday, May 15But You Probably Do Need an Editor: The next time soulless bureaucrats and bosses bowdlerize your works of genius, think of Thomas Bowdler, the physician who did an even worse hatchet job on Shakespeare. Concerned that the bard was warping the morals of youth, he produced an 1818 "Family Shakespeare" in which he promised, "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The Dude Abides: According to the Bartenders Association of America, sales of White Russians quadrupled after it appeared as the Dude's favorite drink in "The Big Lebowski." A White Russian is made from vodka, coffee liqueur and either milk or cream, served in an old-fashioned glass with ice.
Signed in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia ended a war that began in what year? A) 1548 B) 1618 C) 1638 D) 1641 Previous answer: Becky Sharp is in "Vanity Fair." 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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