Post a true but little known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- Part 9

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Paul Simon has won 16 Grammy Awards.




Many, many more true but little known facts about someone famous, living or dead, Part 8
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181139743

[mercuryblues]

1. Bill Murray co-owns

a class-A, minor league baseball team in Charleston. The Riverdogs, an affiliate of the NY Yankees.

[underpants]

128. Wayne Rogers once co-own Kleinfeld the "Say Yes to the Dress" shop

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/jobs/12boss.html

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159. He was actually part of a group of VCs that bought out Kleinfeld.

My sister worked at the original Kleinfeld store in Brooklyn. The new place has the name but none of the magic.

[First Speaker]

2. Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander was named after one President of the United States..

...and portrayed in the movies by another...

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4. The guy who saved Reagan's life,

Jerry Parr, decided to become a Secret Service agent after watching a film where Reagan played a Secret service agent.

[Nay]

5. That's freaky!!

[NCjack]

3. Trump, Pence, and McConnell and Russian-style fascists. nt

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6. Paul Simon is worth $65 million

Art Garfunkel is worth $45 million

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7. Ringo Starr is worth $350 million.

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8. George Clooney and director David O. Russell got into a fight during the filming of

"Three Kings"

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9. During his early days performing as a guitarist, a friend told Bruce Springsteen that he had an old

Gibson guitar "that was gathering dust" and asked him if he wanted it.

Bruce took the guitar, which had no strings.
The neck was so long he was barely able to re-string it.
When he plugged it into his amp, the sound was absolutely awesome, and he began playing it at his gigs.
After one performance, a young kid, who knew guitars, came up to him and told him that it was great that he was playing a 6-string bass guitar like a regular electric guitar.

Until then, Springsteen had no idea that it was a 6-string bass guitar,

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10. Bob Barker hosted "The Price is Right" from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime

game show in television history.

(Bob Barker is now 95)

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11. Jimmy Carter created two new cabinet-level departments, Dept of Energy & Dept of Education

He's 94.

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12. Teenage climate activist Greta Thurnberg challenged her parents to lower the family's carbon

footprint by becoming vegan and giving up flying, which in part meant that her mother had to give up her international career as an opera singer.

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13. The reason Tom Petty became a member of The Traveling Wilburys was because

George Harrison was at Bob Dylan's house, (along with Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne), and he had to go to Tom Patty's house to retrieve his guitar.
He told Petty, "Hey, why don't you come too..we're gonna' jam!"

[Wolf Frankula]

14. Maybe not a little known Fact

Madonna is not a natural blonde. Her first name is really Madonna.

Wolf

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15. When Bruce Springsteen performed at The Spectrum in Philadelphia on December 9, 1980,

the day after John Lennon was murdered, he opened the show with a dedication:
"If it wasn't for John Lennon, a lot of us would be someplace much different tonight."

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16. Tom Hanks is a collector of typewriters. He owns 250.

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17. Very interesting!

I remember first seeing him in a sitcom called "Bosom Buddies" back in 1980

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. And he's written an incredibly good collection of short stories

called "Uncommon Type".

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18. Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while high on LSD.

[maveric]

202. With 11 walks too.

But it was against the Padres who were the worst of the worst at that time.
But No-No on acid was a great accomplishment.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

19. When she was a teenager, Loni Anderson's mother...

...was very struck by an attractive actor on television and told Loni that was the kind of guy she ought to marry. The actor's name was Burt Reynolds, who she eventually did marry.

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20. Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who died Monday, was born Robert Burns, and, according to

author Charles Perry, Hunter is the great-great-grandson of noted Romantic poet, Robert Burns.

[AllenVanAllen]

21. Souxie Sioux ...

of Souxie and the Banshees is a huge Godzilla fan!

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22. Sue Upton, who was the gorgeous blonde from The Benny Hill Show, will turn 65 in a few weeks.

(She was one of the "Hill's Angels" and still looks pretty good)

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23. Benny Hill's father and grandfather were both circus clowns.

He never married, but he had proposed to two women, but neither accepted.

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24. At the time of his death in 1992, Benny Hill was worth about $2 million

(I would have thought he was wealthier than that)

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25. Redd Foxx's mother outlived him by two years

He died in 1991 at age 68.

His mother, Mary Carson, died in 1993 at age 90.

[empedocles]

76. Redd may have looked older than his still living Mother did at 88

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27. On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all the Vietnam War draft evaders.

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28. Steve Allen not only was the first host of "The Tonight Show," he co-created it.

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29. John Ritter was Tex Ritter's son

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30. Tiny Tim played the ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and violin

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

31. Years ago, I used to listen to the "Don & Mike Show" ..a syndicated radio program,

and one day Tiny Tim called in from Laughlin, Nevada, where he was performing.
Apparently Don & Mike knew him, so he must have been on the show previously.
They kidded him about his having to wear "Depends" because of a urinary problem he must have had at the time.
He seemed to be a truly nice guy, with a good sense of humor; and Don & Mike seemed to really like him.

(I bought his first album way back when)

[Brother Buzz]

32. Herbert Khaury, a.k.a. Jilian Foxglove, Larry Love, Rollie Dell, Darry Dover, Emmett Swink....

AND Tiny Tim was a walking encyclopedia of early 20th century popular music.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

63. I liked Tiny Tim

I bought his first album, and I just loved it.

He was a "head of his time"....One of the songs (and this was the '60s) was titled "The Ice Caps Are Melting"

[Brother Buzz]

64. Ah, 'The Other Side' by Bill Dorsey

Rumor was, that song was written for the Monkees, but they passed on it.

[yonder]

177. I did not know that about the aka's.

I may not have this right but I think one or more members of The Who noticed him at a club in New York City and may have had something to do with his subsequent success.

[Brother Buzz]

180. Are you thinking of The Cake?

I always assumed he got noticed because of his bizarre performances in the weird 1968 film, You Are What You Eat.


Here's Tiny Tim singing with Eleanor Barooshian a member of the band the The Cake (Note: Eleanor Barooshian had a couple of AKA's too: Eleanor Baruchian and as Chelsea Lee)

The film had a pretty cool soundtrack, but the rest of the film is, well, ah, um, I'll get back to you....

[yonder]

181. The Cake is new to me, but my ancient memory

still wants to say it was The Who. There's no way I could back that up though.

[Brother Buzz]

182. The Band?

Before becoming famous for backing Bob Dylan, The Band worked the Canadian bar circuit and grabbed whatever other gigs they could, including recording with Tiny Tim.

The Band backed up Tiny Tim on "I Got You Babe" and "Be My Baby". (Both performed in the the film, You Are What You Eat.)


Jeez Louise, my ears are bleeding.

[yonder]

183. I did a little digging and found nothing about The Who but

The Band certainly popped up. Over the years, I must've over-written a failing fragment of brain hardware with something retrieved elsewhere.

Thanks for the links.

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33. Patti Smith once danced off a high stage in Tampa, Fla. & fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra

pit, breaking several neck vertebrae.

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34. Patti Smith's biggest hit, "Because the Night" was co-written with Bruce Springsteen

[Dave Starsky]

51. She also contributed lyrics to several Blue Oyster Cult albums.

She was dating a member of the group during the mid-70s.

"Shooting Shark", one of my favorite BÖC songs, is one of her compositions.

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35. D.A. Pennebaker's documentary about Bob Dylan, "Don't Look Back" was first shown publicly on

May 17, 1967, at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco.

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36. Patti Smith used to live at the famous Chelsea Hotel in NYC

[Zoonart]

176. With Robert Maplethorp.

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178. Later, she was involved with playwright Sam Shepard

I think that was at the Chelsea Hotel as well. (He stayed & wrote there)

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37. From 1970 to 1971, playwright Sam Shepherd was involved in an extramarital affair with

musician Patti Smith, who didn't know that he was a famous playwright until much later.

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38. Sam Shepherd earned an Academy Award Nomination for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in

"The Right Stuff"

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39. Lt. Gen. David H. Berger, current Commandant of the Marine Corps...

...is assigned the license plate "1775" the year of the founding of the USMC.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

40. Bugs Bunny is an honorary marine

He is assigned the rank of Master Sargent.
Chuck Norris is also an honorary marine.

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41. Chuck Norris is also the worst actor in the world!

And a tRump supporter too!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

42. Perhaps that's why Bugs outranks him.

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43. Who's "Bugs"?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

46. See the link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1271359

The wascally wabbit.

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48. Ehh, what's up doc?"

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

50. That's what I'm talkin' about!

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44. Bob Dylan used to live at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC.

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47. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are now the longest married presidential couple

Celebrating their 73rd wedding anniversary.

[red dog 1]

49. John Wesley Hardin was shot in the back by a lawman, in a bar.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

52. John Wesley Hardin earned a Law Degree while serving time in prison

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

56. Hardin is famous for shooting a guy just because the guy was snoring in the next room.

What most people don't know is that Hardin knew the guy, and actually had checked into the hotel with the guy (and a third guy)

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53. John C. Reilly made his film debut in "Casualties of War" (1989)

[red dog 1]

54. Bobby Darin had two open-heart surgeries.

[TexasBushwhacker]

73. He had rheumatic fever as a child

that damaged his heart. He knew he was living on borrowed time and felt he had to succeed while he was young. He was only 37 when he died.

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55. Chico Marx had a lifelong gambling habit.

[Collimator]

57. William the Conquerer exploded at his own funeral.

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79. Maybe one of these days Shitler will explode.

Wouldn't that be great?

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58. Vincent Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life.

[red dog 1]

59. In the movie "Get Shorty," which was based on the life of gangster Chili Palmer,

the real Chili Palmer played one of Ray Bones' sidekicks and had one line:
"That was a good one, boss"

[OhZone]

130. Chili Palmer is also the name of someone who hosted a bunch of fetish stories.

[red dog 1]

132. I doubt that it was the same Chili Palmer

In fact, the fetish story guy probably stole the name after seeing the movie (or reading the book about Palmer)

[OhZone]

134. Yeah, prolly

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

60. John Ritter actively supported saving the South American rain forests.

[red dog 1]

61. Arthur C. Clarke wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" while staying at the Chelsea Hotel

in New York City.

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62. Dylan Thomas used to live at the Chelsea Hotel (NYC)

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65. Patti Smith started out as a poet.

She & Robert Maplethorpe lived at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

66. George Carlin often ran away from home.

He had a "difficult relationship" with his mother.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

67. In 2004, George Carlin entered a drug rehab center for his addiction to alcohol and Vicodin

He died 4 years later of heart failure.
He was 71.

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68. Harlan Ellison ran away from home when he was 13

and joined a travelling circus.

[GReedDiamond]

69. Leonardo DiCaprio's father, George DiCaprio...

...collaborated with Laurie Anderson...

...on an undeground comic called "Baloney Moccasins," published in 1970.

https://comixjoint.com/baloneymoccasins.html

[imavoter]

70. Gary Busey is an ass - been telling this story for years. lol....

although, probably not a little known fact...lol

I was working at a 5 star restaurant in the big D, and
I was working as a host and coat room girl.

We couldn't get his coat fast enough and he was snapping his fingers and
yelled at us.

What a douche.

All the famous sports people, musicians, and actors that came through there.
Everyone was nice as they could be. Busey? Not so much.

[red dog 1]

71. I never liked that guy

Lousy actor too

[underpants]

127. He was killed twice on Gunsmoke

He was the last actor to die on Gunsmoke

[red dog 1]

136. That's interesting.

btw, in my opinion, he absolutely sucked as "Buddy Holly"...terrible acting job, & he couldn't even sound like Buddy when he "did" Buddy's songs.
He made Buddy Holly seem like a "geek"..which he definitely was NOT
(Director Ray Fosse shares some of the blame for why that movie was so crappy)

[red dog 1]

137. "the big D"?

Dallas?
Detroit?

[red dog 1]

72. Harlan Ellison had gargoyles mounted around the outside of his house in L.A.

[lapfog_1]

129. Harlan Ellison has been long rumored to be the holder of the money

at a bar bet between Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard about the ability to create a bullshit religion.

Heinlein had written a short story named "the Sixth Column" about a group of scientists who invent a new technology that is used to re-take America from the invading "PanAsians" and they use the creation of a fake religion to spread the revolution and the technology. Robert thought this was a completely bogus premise for his own story whereas Hubbard submitted that Americans were stupid enough to believe anything so long as presented as religion.

So they made a small wager... Scientology resulted. Harlan has said that he was designated to hold the money for the bet.

The account has been disputed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Column

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2671/is-there-any-evidence-for-the-bet-between-robert-a-heinlein-and-l-ron-hubbard

[red dog 1]

131. Harlan Ellison used to sit in the front window of bookstores & write

and people could stand outside and watch him write (using a typewriter)

I remember once he did that at a book store in San Francisco on Haight Street

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

74. During his early career as a Vaudeville juggler, W.C. Fields never drank,

because he didn't want to impair his functions while performing.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

75. Actor James Woods used to be a Democrat

but he left the Democratic Party after Bill Clinton's impeachment.
He was a registered Independent from 2000-2016, then became a Republican, and backed Ted Cruz for president.

[red dog 1]

77. James Woods is a Trump-lover now.

[red dog 1]

78. Bryan Adams does many free concerts for worthy causes

[red dog 1]

80. Dennis Wilson was the only true surfer in The Beach Boys

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

81. Groucho Marx's earliest career goal was to become a doctor

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

82. Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac

He was only 47 when he died.

[red dog 1]

83. Chris Isaak uses a one-of-a-kind White Gibson electric guitar

The only one they ever made.

[red dog 1]

84. Patti Smith was in a relationship with playwright Sam Shepherd

[Harker]

85. and I watched her eat a sandwich....

at a bookshop I worked in. I also got to tell Lenny, "thanks for the Nuggets!" after he asked what music I was playing on the store stereo.

[red dog 1]

86. Lenny from Lenny & Squigy?

Lenny Bruce?

Leonard Cohen?

[Harker]

88. Lenny Kaye, her guitarist...

who put together the Nuggets collection of garage band and one-hit wonder singles from the 60s.

Great fun.

[red dog 1]

87. Robert Klein auditioned with Fred Willard for the Second City Improv. group

They both were accepted

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

89. Born Milton Teagle Simmons, Richard Simmons was obese as a child

At age 15 he weighed 182 lbs

He adopted the name Richard after an uncle who paid his college tuition.

[red dog 1]

90. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Richard Pryor number one on it's list of

the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.

(George Carlin was ranked second)

[red dog 1]

91. As a kid, alone in his room, Jonathan Winters would create characters

and interview himself.

[red dog 1]

92. In 1968, when he was 11, "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston

encountered Charles Manson while riding horses with his cousin at the Spahn Ranch.

[red dog 1]

93. Leonardo DiCaprio's movies have earned $7.2 billion worldwide

[red dog 1]

94. Many people know the "Rat Pack" as Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.

Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop

However, the origins of the "Rat Pack" go back to Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, who upon seeing Bogart with his friends after a night out in Las Vegas commented that they looked like a rat pack.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

96. Estimates of Robert De Niro's net worth range from $150 million to $500 million

[red dog 1]

97. Henny Youngman was born in London, England

He was married to his wife, Sadie, for 59 years, until her death.

[red dog 1]

98. Henny Youngman used to write "comedy cards" containing one-line gags

The comedy cards were discovered by up-and-coming comedian Milton Berle, who encouraged Youngman & formed a close friendship with him.
Berle said about him: "The only thing funnier than Henny's jokes is his violin playing.

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99. Alfred Hitchcock had a lifetime fear of policemen.

[red dog 1]

100. While serving in the U.S. Navy during WW2, Johnny Carson was an amateur boxer

His record was 10-0 (while he was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania)

[LakeArenal]

101. Bernie Taupin raises professional bucking bulls.

[captain queeg]

102. Teddy Roosevelt used to have boxing matches in the WH

Got blinded in one eye during a match.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

103. Robin Williams and Mort Sahl were good friends and lived on the same street in Paradise City, CA.

(Paradise City is near Tiburon, CA)

[Brother Buzz]

184. Mort Sahl lives in Mill Valley

Robin Williams lived in Paradise Cay. Robin often rode one of his eighty bicycle to Mill Valley to hook-up with Mort Sahl, a whopping eight miles.

https://paddle8.com/auction/robin-williams/

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

104. Keith Richards plays both lead & rhythm guitar parts, often in the same song.

[red dog 1]

105. Denzel Washington is a registered Republican who likes tRump

[VOX]

142. Absolutely false!

Check here:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/denzel-washington-switches-trump/

https://newslit.org/get-smart/rumor-review-denzel-washington-supports-trump-false/

[red dog 1]

106. Jack Webb's first partner on Dragnet was actor Barton Yarborough

who suffered a heart attack during the 1st season and was eventually replaced by
Ben Alexander.

[red dog 1]

107. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" earned over $119 million dollars

and became the highest-grossing documentary at the American box office of all time.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

108. Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for "Capote"

and was nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor.

He also received five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one.

[red dog 1]

109. While Al Capone was serving time at Alcatraz, he played banjo

in the prison band, called the "Rock Islanders"

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

110. Charlize Theron's net worth is $130 million

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

111. John Dingell served as a page for the U.S. House of Representatives from 1938 to 1943

In 1944, at age 18, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of second lieutenant.

[red dog 1]

112. As of May, 2019, George Lucas' net worth is $7.62 billion

[red dog 1]

113. Will Rogers died in a plane crash in 1935

[red dog 1]

114. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day, July 4, 1826

[red dog 1]

115. Wyatt Earp is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California

next to his wife, Josie.

[red dog 1]

116. William Randolph Hearst ll is an excellent guitar player

aka "Billy" Hearst, he's the son of John Randolph Hearst, and grandson of William Randolph Hearst.

[red dog 1]

117. William Randolph Hearst was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

as a Democrat.

[red dog 1]

118. While Patty Hearst was in prison, she suffered a collapsed lung.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

119. Herbert Hoover lived to be 90

(Born 1874, died 1964)

[gratuitous]

120. Christopher Plummer, born 1929 and reared in Montreal

In his youth, knew Oscar Peterson and Maynard Ferguson. He also acted in radio serials, at one point opposite none other than William Shatner.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

121. The singer on "Surfin' Bird" was the drummer for The Trashmen, Steve Wahrer.

[Brother Buzz]

185. Steve Wahrer was entertaining as Hell after consuming a quart of fortified wine

[red dog 1]

122. Ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna smoked pot daily for 35 years

[red dog 1]

123. Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, not only wrote "Be Here Now"

but he also wrote or co-authored 12 other books.

[red dog 1]

124. By his own estimate, Steve Allen wrote over 8,500 songs.

[underpants]

126. He also wrote a lot of murder mysteries

I read several of them in the Army in the early 90’s.

[red dog 1]

133. Didn't know that, thanks

He was a genius, imo.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

125. Bernie Sanders was U.S. Congressman for 16 years before he became a U.S. Senator

[red dog 1]

135. Will Rogers wrote more than 4,000 syndicated newspaper columns.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

138. Lenny Bruce's father was a shoe salesman

[red dog 1]

139. Harold Ramis was the original head writer of the TV series SCTV.

[red dog 1]

140. Friedrich Nietzsche went insane at 40 and never wrote again.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

141. Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, the son of Clinton Eastwood.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

143. Richard Pryor had seven children with six different women.

[red dog 1]

144. John Wesley Hardin killed his first man when he was 15

He claimed it was in self-defense.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

145. In the 1989 film "When Harry Met Sally," the one who uttered the line "I'll have what she's having"

was director Rob Reiner's mother, Estelle Reiner.

[red dog 1]

146. Joe Don Baker has a degree in Business

and he's now 83, but hasn't acted since 2012.

[red dog 1]

147. Sara Silverman made her film debut in "Who's The Caboose? (1997)

(I just now requested it from the library)

[Mendocino]

148. Joni Mitchell and Neil Young

both suffered from polio from the same epidemic in 1951. Joni developed different tunings to help compensate for weak strength in her left hand.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

149. John Ritter's final live action film was "Bad Santa" (2003), which was dedicated to his memory.

[red dog 1]

150. Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781,

believed that there was life on the sun.

[red dog 1]

151. Johnny Crawford, who played Chuck Conners' son on "The Rifleman"

recorded 16 singles & 5 albums in the late '50s & early '60s

[red dog 1]

152. Tiny Tim played the ukulele left-handed but played the guitar right-handed.

[frogmarch]

153. Doris Day, while on filming location in Morocco:

https://www.peta.org/blog/doris-day-hero-to-animals/

Snip:

Day didn’t turn away when she saw an animal in need. While filming Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much in Morocco in 1956, she was so distressed about the starving goats, lambs, horses, cows, dogs, cats, burros, and other animals she saw on and around the set that she refused to continue working until they were helped. A feeding station was quickly set up, and Day supervised the animals’ care.

The Man Who Knew Too Much wasn't made in the U.S., so there was no on-set supervision by the American Humane Association, which had begun to monitor sets of American-made films in 1940.

[red dog 1]

154. Thanks for that

I always liked Doris Day.

[red dog 1]

155. Jeff Goldblum made his screen debut in "Death Wish"

He played "Freak 1"

[red dog 1]

156. In the movie "Death Wish"..the ER doctor is played by Tom Hayden.

[red dog 1]

157. Henry Winkler's biggest competeter for the role of The Fonz was "Monkee" Mickey Dolenz

But Winkler got the part because they thought Dolenz was too tall for the role, and would "tower menacingly" over the other actors.
(Dolenz was 6' 1'')

[red dog 1]

158. Elvis Presley's first manager was Scotty Moore, the guitarist in his band.

His second manager was Bob Neal.

[red dog 1]

160. George Harrison and Paul McCartney met when they were kids,

and shared their love of music.

[red dog 1]

161. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is the one who came up with the name "Jefferson Airplane"

He got that from a friend who had given his dog the name "Blind Lemon Jefferson Airplane"

[red dog 1]

162. Grace Slick was not the original female vocalist for the Jefferson Airplane

Signe Toly Anderson preceded her, and was on the first Jefferson Airplane album.
She left the group to become a mother.

[Mendocino]

169. Signe and Paul Kantner

died on the same day.

[red dog 1]

173. Yeah, I know...that was weird.

[red dog 1]

163. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was one of the writers on "Have Gun Will Travel"

[red dog 1]

164. Brit Hume worked two years for Jack Anderson (1970-1972)

[red dog 1]

165. John Travolta won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in "Get Shorty"

[Mendocino]

168. Fonda and Katharine Hepburn

never acted together nor even ever met each other before On Golden Pond.

[red dog 1]

170. Sylvester Stallone was in Woody Allen's "Bananas"

He played a subway thug.

[red dog 1]

171. In "Pulp Fiction, Marcellus Wallace sent "The Wolf" to supervise

the cleanup of the bloody mess in the car made by Vincent Vega accidentally shooting Marvin.
The resident of the house, a friend of Jules named Jimmy, was played by director Quentin Tarantino.

[red dog 1]

172. When Pat Conroy's first novel "The Great Santini" came out, members of his mother's

family felt that he had betrayed family secrets by writing about his father.
Some of them would picket his book signings, passing out pamphlets asking people not to buy the novel.

[red dog 1]

174. Neil Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice

In 1995 as a solo artist, and again in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.

[red dog 1]

175. In 1951, Neil Young had Polio during an outbreak of the disease in Ontario, Canada

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell also contracted the disease during this epidemic, when she was 9.

[dameatball]

179. As a young man Tom Petty worked on the grounds crew at the University of Florida. A lime tree he

planted is now known as "The Tom Petty Tree."

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186. Neil Young and Stephen Stills have been best friends since they were teenagers in Canada.

In fact, the main reason why Neil Young headed out to LA from the East Coast was to look up Stills, who was forming a band.

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187. Although at one time Robin Williams was worth $100 million, at the time of his death

his net worth was estimated to be $50 million.

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188. Steven Van Zant, who played Sylvio Dante on the Sopranos,

is a guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

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189. The last movie Robert Mitchum did was "Dead Man" a 1995 western

Johnny Depp starred in it, and Billy Bob Thornton was also in it.

(Mitchum died 2 years later)

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190. To prepare for his role as a New York City cab driver in "Taxi Driver"

Robert De Niro, among other things, lost 35 pounds and drive a cab around New York for two weeks, while working on another film in Italy, Bernardo Bertolucci's "1900"

He also repeatedly listened to a taped reading of the diaries of Arthur Bremer, (who shot George Wallace)

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191. Bob Dylan once asked Mavis Staples to marry him.

She turned him down because she thought she was too young to get married.

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192. Jaime Pressley played Joy Turner in "My Name Is Earl," for which she was nominated

for two Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actor's Guild Award.

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193. Dylan Thomas would often drink "on a monumental scale"

up to 15 or 20 pints of beer a day.

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194. Nicholas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew

His birth name is Nicolas Kim Coppola

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195. As of 2019, Bob Dylan's net worth is in excess of $200 million

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196. Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson once dated Greg Brady, her oldest Brady step-son

(Barry Williams)

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197. Patti Smith is playing San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium today, Sunday, March 8

Average ticket price..$864

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198. In 1974, Phil Spector was thrown through the windshield of his car in a crash in Hollywood

It was only because the attending police officer detected a faint pulse that Spector was not declared dead at the scene.

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199. Elvis Presley recorded his first record for Sun Records in August, 1953.

In January, 1954, he recorded his second record.
Nothing came of either record.
On the evening of July 5, 1954, he was again at Sun Records, this time accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and upright bass player Bill Black.
After doing hours of work, with no success, they were about to go home, when Elvis grabbed his guitar and launched into Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right."
Moore & Black began following along with Elvis when Sam Phillips stuck his head out of the control room and said,"What are you doing?"
The guys said, "We don't know."
Phillips told them, "Well back up, try to find a place to start, and do it again."
Phillips quickly began taping, and the rest is history!

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200. Albert Camus died in a car accident - he was 46.

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201. Jerry Lee Lewis once drive his car right through Elvis Presley's gate at Graceland

He was shitfaced drunk at the time...(It was around 3 AM)

Elvis told the guard at the gate to call the cops

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203. John Harvey Kellogg, along with his brother Will Keith Kellogg, invented corn flakes

Also, he was a medical doctor and director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, which was founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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204. John Wayne credited his walk, talk, and persona to his acquaintance with Wyatt Earp.