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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 7Celebrity Twits: Yes, we're all a bit tired of hearing about Twitter by now, but credit is due to the celebs who blazed the trail. The best known one is Ashton Kutcher, who tweets @aplusk. He beat CNN in a race to be the first with 1 million Twitter followers. His wife, Demi Moore, is @mrskutcher. Other notable trailblazers include John Cleese, Shaquille O'Neal and "Heroes" star Greg Grunberg. Oh, Cosmo: Cosmopolitan magazine used to be known as a place to read top-drawer, high-fallutin' fiction. It published Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London and Edith Wharton. But circulation kept falling after WWII until Helen Gurley Brown took over in 1965.
In 2004, Lewis Lapham wrote a column describing the Republican National Convention, which hadn't happened yet, for what magazine? A) Atlantic B) Harper's C) The Nation D) The New Republic Previous answer: A-ha was the first Norwegian act to hit No. 1 in North America. 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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