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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
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.
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Thursday, January 28A few days ago, we mentioned that there were two well-known George Wallaces. There are also two somewhat-well-known George Segals. One George Segal is the banjo-playing actor best known for roles on the TV show "Just Shoot Me" and in the movie "Look Who's Talking." The other is an artist known for life-size sculptures and for using plaster bandages as a sculptural medium, as well as for using minimal color or detail. Sometimes, obscure movies can play pivotal roles in pop culture history. Take the film "The Lords of Flatbush." Two of the stars of the 1974 film, about a Brooklyn street gang, were Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone, the latter of whom was paid with 25 T-shirts. Winkler based his Fonzie character on Stallone's role from this movie, and a screening of the film helped Stallone land his role in "Rocky." What does the fastest muscle in your body do? A) Bat your eyelashes B) Pump your heart C) Shut your jaws D) Snap your fingers Previous answer: Jacob Cohen became Rodney Dangerfield. 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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