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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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Tuesday, May 12Alpine Puppies: Popular lore notwithstanding, the St. Bernard never actually carried casks of brandy from its collar. That's a good thing, since the last thing you should give somebody with hypothermia is alcohol. The dog was likely named after the Great St. Bernard Pass in Switzerland, where monks bred them at a hospice. Ironically, the breed was nearly wiped out by a series of avalanches in the 1810s. Epic Comedy: Stanley Kramer intended for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to be to an epic, as well as a comedy. To that end, the film was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in Cinerama. It also included some of the Golden Age's greatest comedians: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters and cameos from the Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny and Buster Keaton.
If you are a pariah aboard a catamaran, you may know that "catamaran" and "pariah" come to English from what language? A) Arabic B) Dutch C) Sioux D) Tamil Previous answer: Jalapeno is both a pepper and a Mexican city. 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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