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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 Wednesday, June 24900 Seconds of Posthumous Fame: In a 15-minute ceremony in 1998, Andy Warhol's Manhattan townhouse was designated as a cultural landmark by the Historic Landmark Preservation Center. Built in 1910, the five-story brick townhouse is on East 66th Street. Warhol owned it from 1974 until his death in 1987. He paid for it in cash. By the way, the ceremony was exactly 15 minutes long. Exactly. Get it? The "Real" Evangeline: When Longfellow wrote his poem about a couple in love, separated when the British ordered them out of Canada and deported them to Louisiana, he captured the American imagination. The local boosters in St.
What was Don Vito Corleone's relationship to Johnny Fontane? A) He was Fontane's godfather B) He was Fontane's real dad C) He was Fontane's uncle D) He was Fontane's gay lover Previous answer: The Holy See is the Vatican. 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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