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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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Trivia Bits, April 15Arquette ancestry update: After reading here that actress Rosanna Arquette's father was named Lewis after his ancestor of Lewis and Clark fame, Jim Dickie of Livermore, Calif., wrote us to add to the story. Jim knew Russ Arquette, Rosanna's great-uncle and Cliff "Charlie Weaver" Arquette's brother. Russ' son, Lewis Arquette's cousin, is named "Clark." Coincidence? We don't think so.
Nearly 30 years before his starring role in the sitcom "Green Acres," Eddie Albert wrote and starred in what is believed to be television's first original drama. In October 1936, Albert and co-star Grace Brandt appeared in "The Love Nest," which was broadcast from a transmitter atop the Empire State Building, and received in the RCA Building, about a mile away. The tune "Eye of the Tiger," performed by the rock group Survivor, was written for the 1982 film "Rocky III" and was #1 on the U.S.
A) Sylvester Stallone playing the drums B) A spoken introduction C) The growls of a tiger D) An extended guitar solo Previous answer: To date, only two people have been to the deepest part of the world's oceans -- the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific. In January 1960, a U.S. Navy lieutenant and a Swiss explorer/engineer got there in a Navy bathyscaph, reaching a depth of 35,813 feet. 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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762.
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