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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Gary Coleman's death in 2010 was another sad chapter in the history of the ?Diff'rent Strokes? kids. Robbed blind by his parents, he ended up working as a security guard and launched a quixotic run for the California governorship. His co-star, Todd …Read more.
RELEASE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Heath Ledger won an Oscar for playing the Joker, a role that has traditionally offered actors a license to chew scenery like it was bubblegum. Jack Nicholson devoured the screen in the first Batman movie, and Cesar Romero played him on TV, but there …Read more.
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
People are very particular about the people who play Sherlock Holmes, even more so than they are about the various James Bonds. No doubt, for some people, Robert Downey Jr. will be the definitive Holmes, or perhaps even the wonderfully named …Read more.
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Trivia Bits, February 23Punk Poetry: You know about punk music, but punk poetry? Yup. John Baine (aka Attila the Stockbroker) was the opening act for several punk bands. John Cooper Clarke played himself in “Control,” the movie about Joy Division, in which he reads "Evidently Chickentown." And the Medway Poets went on to form the nucleus of the Stuckists, who, ironically enough, were a conservative counter-reaction to the conceptual art popular in British galleries.
Neil Young: Canadian musician Neil Young really doesn’t care what you think. His critical songs about the U.S. South got him name-checked in “Sweet Home Alabama.” His attack on music commercialism, “This Note’s For You,” was initially banned by MTV, but was later named MTV’s Video of the Year.
Bobby Bare was nominated for a Grammy for what country novelty song? A) "Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goalposts Of Life)" B) "Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye" C) "She Got The Ring and I Got The Finger" D) "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" Previous answer: Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose." 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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