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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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Monday, May 11Ghosts of Hollywood Past: Three Hollywood titans — Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. — made their last silver screen appearance in the same movie, 1981's "Ghost Story," in which they play members of the Chowder Society, who swap ghost stories, only to end up tangling with an actual ghost. The movie was based on a novel of that name, which turned writer Peter Straub into a bookstore superstar. Drinking Canada Dry: As the name suggests, Canada Dry was invented in Canada, by Ontario pharmacist John McLaughlin, whose brother founded what is now General Motors Canada.
What hot pepper was named after the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz? A) Empanada B) Jalapeno C) Lomo D) Tequila Previous answer: George Eliot wrote about Silas Marner and Adam Bede. 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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