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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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Thursday, May 14Hollywood, in Hollywood: Paramount is the last major movie studio still in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 as Famous Players by Adolph Zukor, it is also the oldest of the Los Angeles studios, beating Universal by a month. The mountain in the logo is just a drawing of a mountain, although some claim it was based on Ben Lomond in Utah, which a studio exec knew as a boy. The logo usually has 22 stars. Urban Myths: We love a good story, just like the next guy. So we believed it when Mariah Carey supposedly said this: "When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." According to snopes.com, the fake story was picked up by Britain's VOX magazine, which fed the story to The Independent in May 1996, after which point it was reprinted by dozens of newspapers and magazines. What Thackeray novel, subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," does have a heroine, named Becky Sharp? A) "An American Tragedy" B) "A Passage to India" C) "Great Expectations" D) "Vanity Fair" Previous answer: A third of the world's Arabs (as opposed to Muslims generally) are in Egypt. 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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