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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 Tuesday, June 16What Goes Around Comes Around (Star Trek Edition): When Nichelle Nichols wanted to quit "Star Trek," Martin Luther King encouraged her to stay on as a role model for young black girls. And indeed, Mae Jemison grew up with Uhura before going into space herself. She returned the favor by appearing as Ensign Palmer in the episode "Second Chances" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." It's Bloomsday: Dedicated James Joyce fans know that this is the date on which the events of "Ulysses" take place. In Dublin today, fans will follow the route the book lays out, as Leopold Bloom goes on his date, locating those landmarks still around.
What name was shared by a member of Archie Bunker's lodge and by a sitcom starring Kevin James? A) The Freemason Conspiracy B) The King of Queens C) The Royal Water Buffalos D) The Scimitar Previous answer: A harpy is half-bird, half-woman. 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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