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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 3Creamy Blind Faith: The first supergroup was Cream, a blues rock outfit that included guitarist Eric Clapton, drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce. Replace Bruce with Steve Winwood and you have another superband, Blind Faith, which only recorded one album. And that album ran into lots of trouble for putting a topless tween girl on the cover. (Clapton had also been in the Yardbirds, which was more like a superstar training camp: Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were also members.) Weird Superbands: It's not unusual for members of different bands to come together. What is unusual is an amalgam of punk, metal and new wave. Neurotic Outsiders came together as a 1995 jam band at the Viper Room in L.A.
Can you answer this in the heat of the moment? Steve Howe from Yes and Carl Palmer from ELP were part of what continentally named supergroup? A) Africa B) America C) Asia D) Europe Previous answer: Joe Walsh was the "new kid in town" with the Eagles. 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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