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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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Saturday, May 23Scandinavian Sounds: Henrik Ibsen is the most famous Norwegian writer and Edvard Grieg is the country's most famous composer. When Grieg adapted Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," he also wrote "In the Hall of the Mountain King," famous for the bit where bassoons and cellos replicate the sound of a tiptoeing Gynt. The piece has been covered by the Who, ELO and Rainbow. It also inspired the theme songs for "Inspector Gadget" and "Sonic the Hedgehog." Scandinavian Scribes: Only France and the U.S. have won more Nobel literature prizes than Sweden has, perhaps because the Swedish Academy gives out the prizes. That being said, you likely haven't heard of any of the Swedish winners: writers like Par Lagerkvist, Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Verner von Heidenstam.
What Shakespeare play includes a witchy recipe that calls for "eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"? A) "Julius Caesar" B) "Macbeth" C) "The Tempest" D) "Twelfth Night" Previous answer: Innsbruck is the capital of Tyrol in Austria. 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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