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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 30Classical Punk: In the 1980s, Elvis Costello became interested in classical music. He had written a ballet score and worked with the Brodsky Quartet and Anne Sofie von Otter when he was approached by the Danes to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. The result was the "The Secret Arias," an opera based on Andersen's unrequited yearning for Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. It debuted in Copenhagen in 2005. Things One and Two: You know Theodor Seuss Geisel as Dr. Seuss, and in 1957, he was challenged to help kids learn to read by writing a book using just 400 words.
Strictly speaking, what was the Ugly Duckling? A) An ugly chick B) An ugly cygnet C) An ugly drake D) An ugly gosling Previous answer: The age that appears in songs by the Beatles and Joan Jett is 17. 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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