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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 Thursday, October 1Bogie in the Caribbean: There is a Hollywood legend that Ernest Hemingway bet Howard Hawks he couldn't film "To Have and Have Not." Hawks won the bet, when he produced a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. One of the writers hired to work on the script was a down-on-his-luck William Faulkner, making this an unprecedented instance of a book by one Nobel laureate being adapted for film by another Nobel laureate. Awful, Artificial and Amusing: Speaking of legends, as the story goes, when Queen Anne said that St. Paul's Cathedral was "awful, artificial and amusing," "awful" meant "awe inspiring," "artificial" meant "clever use of artifice" and "amusing" meant "astonishing." So, despite sounding rather mean, the queen was actually paying Christopher Wren a compliment. When you win each of these awards, you can check for yourself.
A) Emmy B) Grammy C) Oscar D) Tony Previous answer: St. Patrick was actually a Welshman. 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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