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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 Saturday, June 13Flying the Flag: This is probably the Cousin Oliver of American holidays, not least of which because it isn't an official holiday. For a while, Flag Day was a state holiday in Pennsylvania, since local girl Betsy Ross was credited with inventing the flag. Except that she didn't. It was probably designed by Francis Hopkinson, who was New Jersey's delegate to the Second Continental Congress, which officially adopted the flag on June 14, 1777. Blasted Unicorns: For creatures that don't exist, they have a lot to answer for. We'll let the Freudians explain our fascination with animals with single long horns, but it should be no surprise that legends associated those horns with aphrodisiacs.
John Tesh cameo'd as a holographic one on "Next Generation." John Larroquette had a bit part as one in "Star Trek III." What? A) Cylon B) Klingon C) Skrull D) Wookiee Previous answer: The Pixies, Frank Black's most famous band, was named after an elfin race. 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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