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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.
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.
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Trivia Bits for Monday, August 17Obscenity on Screen: Marianne Faithfull has a small role in the history of obscenity, and we don't mean that urban legend about the Mars bar. She is credited with being the first person to say in the f-word in a major movie, 1967's "I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname." The movie also had distribution problems because of an implied oral sex scene. Another contender for breaking the f-barrier is a movie version of James Joyce's "Ulysses," also released in 1967. More Alt History: We were "bitting" about alternate histories novels. A key idea in many of them is that one influential event could go either way, depending on a fluke of one sort or another. These are called jonbar points, and have been since a character named John Barr described them in the 1938 Jack Williamson novel "The Legion of Time." Williamson also coined the terms "genetic engineering" in "Dragon's Island" and "terraforming" in "Seetee Ship." What creature is the symbol of the National Audubon Society? A) Bumblebee B) Great egret C) Giant panda D) Large-mouthed bass Previous answer: We have C.J.
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