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John Wayne credited his walk, talk, and persona to his acquaintance with Wyatt Earp.
The "Duke" had lost his football scholarship to USC after he broke his collarbone in a bodysurfing accident and had to drop out of college, because he couldn't afford the tuition.
Actor Tom Mix was USC football fan and friend of the USC football coach.
He gave John Wayne a job as an extra, and, through him, Wayne subsequently met Wyatt Earp, who was a close friend of Tom Mix.
More true but little known facts about someone famous, living or dead, Part 9:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181259008
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...under the name "Packy East".
katusha
(809 posts)Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Yul Brynner, actor, The King and I, owned Roller pigeons, known to take private helicopter to view aerial performance of his pigeons.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)He was in my math class.
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(27,757 posts)His huge Airedale, Duke, used to come along with him, and a fireman at the firehouse he would walk by gave him the nickname "Little Duke" (as opposed to "big" Duke, the dog.
Wayne later changed his nickname to just "Duke"
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(27,757 posts)as well as playing harmonica, organ and piano.
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(27,757 posts)He was at the Ambassador Hotel with RFK the night he was assassinated.
Bobby Darin died at age 37.
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(27,757 posts)(in New York City)
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(27,757 posts)and put on a chain gang
(He later escaped & returned to his family in Delaware)
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(27,757 posts)writing and singing songs as a hobby.
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(27,757 posts)I'm apparently the only one who wants to "post a true but little known fact about someone famous"
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(27,757 posts)He had an excellent singing voice and put out two albums.
He also wrote "The Battle of Thunder Road"
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(27,757 posts)Or should I just let this thread "die"?
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(27,757 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)Wolf
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(27,757 posts)(His family moved often)
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(27,757 posts)He helped lead a perennially losing team to an undefeated season in his senior year.
Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)Bela Blasko (his original name) was born in Lugos, now part of Romania, then in the Austro-Hungarian part of Transylvania.
Wolf
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(27,757 posts)(I didn't know that)
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(27,757 posts)(once with an iron skillet)
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(27,757 posts)75 weeks, from April 1969 to September 1971.
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Jackie Robinson, who wore # 42...(This has never been done before or since)
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)When Major League Baseball retired Jackie Robinson's number, they allowed every player who was still wearing the number to continue to use it until the end of his career. The last player in baseball to wear 42 was Mariano Rivera of the Yankees.
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(63,221 posts)I never see him though. I have before, but not in a long time.
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(63,221 posts)realized what the republicans were capable of. I was pretty much shell shocked. I couldn't go to work the next day. I was just numb. I got the feeling that he didn't believe it either but he knew that it was bigger than him and there was no point in trying to fight it.
We need to trounce them so badly this time and after that, we need to bring them all to justice and reform our political process so that we are never this vulnerable again.
red dog 1
(27,757 posts)Obama proved this in 2008 and 2012.
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(27,757 posts)obsessed with killing Lennon.
Chapman showed her the gun and bullets, but she did not inform the police or mental health services.
(Wikipedia)
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(27,757 posts)The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Bryan Adams and others.
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(27,757 posts)prized records from his friends.
"He stole a bunch of them," said one acquaintance, Paul Nelson.
"He'd come along and take about 20 or 30 of them..But Bob had impeccable taste..He took the best."
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(27,757 posts)- private airline
- missile-parts firm
- real estate holdings across the nation
- a personal staff of 75 people
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(27,757 posts)In 1995 as a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
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(27,757 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)He, of course, is an actor, and she was in the production/executive side of the business.
They didnt know at the time that they were from the same city!
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(27,757 posts)Also, he's s a first cousin, twice removed, of Gene Autry.
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)We grew up together and are still friends via the dreaded Facebook.
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(27,757 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)"Modal" refers to music using modal scales. Common in folk music and ethnic music in many places.
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(27,757 posts)It was the Holy Modal Rounders"
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I am no expert on music theory.
red dog 1
(27,757 posts)I heard about the Holy Modal Rounders in Patti Smith's 2010 book, "Just Kids" (Great book)
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(27,757 posts)where he encountered a young girl on the stairway who was too shy to go into the hall, even though she had an invitation.
Hendrix talked briefly with the girl and told her that he was actually very shy around a lot of people too, contrary to what his fans thought.
The girl was Patti Smith.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)Ulysses S. Grant's middle name was Ulysses
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(27,757 posts)when he went to school, because he wanted a guitar so bad.
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(27,757 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)She went to Finch College with Tricia Nixon.
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(27,757 posts)And he was afraid of horses.
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(27,757 posts)Football coach Walter Camp, who invented football's line of scrimage and the system of downs, considered Robeson "the greatest end ever"
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(27,757 posts)In the book "Leading with My Chin," he says he is aware of surgery that could reset his mandible, but does not want to endure a prolonged healing period with his jaws wired shut.
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(27,757 posts)English before he became an actor.
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(27,757 posts)A well-researched biography of van Gogh called:
"Van Gogh: The Life"
by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
In a short chapter at the end of the 900-page book, the authors make the case that
Vincent Van Gogh "was shot by a 16-year-old boy named Rene Secretan, who had a history of tormenting the troubled artist."
The bullet entered Van Gogh's upper abdomen from an oblique angle - not straight on as might be expected from a suicide.
"So you have a couple of teenagers who have a malfunctioning gun, you have a boy who likes to play cowboy, you have three people probably all of whom had too much to drink."
So "accidental homicide" was "far more likely" than suicide.
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(27,757 posts)auditioned for the role.
He was at the studio that day while accompanying a friend who was auditioning for the role of "Johnny Wildlife"
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(27,757 posts)"a more appropriate facility" and paid all the expenses.
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(27,757 posts)with a jazz big band "Gus Dupree and His Boys"
His grandfather "teased" the young Richards with a guitar that was on a shelf that Richards couldn't reach at the time.
Finally, Dupree told Richards that if he could reach the guitar, he could have it, which he eventually did.
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(27,757 posts)own songs much.
At one point, their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, locked Jagger and Richards in a kitchen in order to force them to write a song together, even suggesting what type of song he wanted.
"I want a song with brick walls around it, high windows and no sex."
The result was "As Tears Go By' which Richards & Jagger both agreed was not "suitable" for The Rolling Stones.
Richards said of the song: "What a terrible piece of tripe!"
Oldham subsequently gave the ballad to Marianne Faithful, and it became a hit song for her.
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(27,757 posts)He was replaced by then 15-year-old Bryan Adams.
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(27,757 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)An elephant WAS electrocuted but it wasn't because of Edison's evil intent.
Reality time.
Topsy was the "house elephant" of Coney Island's Luna Park. They got her from Forepaugh Circus, who sold her because she killed a spectator. They eventually realized the elephant was too dangerous to deal with and made plans to euthanize her. Their original idea was to hang the elephant in a public spectacle, and charge admission. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made two objections: that it was wrong to turn the death of an animal into a public spectacle, and that they didn't think you even could hang an elephant to death. (Thirteen years later, the town of Erwin, Tenn., hanged an elephant from a railway crane. The town is still taking shit from tourists over that one.) Luna Park's Plan B: wrap a rope connected to an overhead steel framework around her neck, feed Topsy a pound of cyanide secreted in carrots, then electrocute her by connecting her feet to the city electric grid. Strangely enough, the SPCA thought this was just fine.
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(27,757 posts)Or the Humane Society of the United States, or PETA, or other animal rights groups.
(What a truly horrible and cruel thing to do to a defenseless animal)
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)In theory, they could order a case of euthanasia solution from a veterinary supply company and prepare the mother of all lethal injections. Problem is, then you'd have to deal with four tons of meat that would kill any scavenger that attempted to eat it. They'd be more likely to just haul it to the nearest Army base and have them kill it with a .50-caliber machine gun.
red dog 1
(27,757 posts)Did the spectator get too close?
Was her trainer mean to her?
Was she always "dangerous"?
Most elephants are not dangerous, except when protecting their babies.
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(27,757 posts)Lieutenant Commander in the British Royal Navy, and served on two British ships that were sunk by the Germans during WW 2.
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(27,757 posts)(at the high school talent show) so loud that the principal had to cut the power to the microphone.
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(27,757 posts)(His new step-father beat him)
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(27,757 posts)"Too Much and Never Enough: How My family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man"
On the night of her father's heart attack at Fred and Mary Trump's mansion, (he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance), Fred & Mary, his parents, just sat in the living room and did nothing.
Meanwhile, his younger brother Shitler and his sister Elizabeth "went to the movies"
(From transcript of Democracy Now, July 10, 2020 interview with David Cay Johnston)
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(27,757 posts)brother Jack's death from being seriously injured while he was operating a table saw at his job.
EX500rider
(10,798 posts)lol, met her backstage at the National Theater in DC in 1979 when she was in a play with Rex Harrison and she invited me to Barbados where she lived, I was 17 or 18, she was 76ish.
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(27,757 posts)Paul Ryan allow a vote on gun safety legislation.
Speaker pro tempore Daniel Webster ordered the House into recess, but Democrats refused to leave the chamber for nearly 26 hours.
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(27,757 posts)helped himself to nearly 100 of their record albums.
Documented in Martin Scorsese's documentary "No Direction Home" (2005)
drmeow
(5,012 posts)but I went to high school with Marc Cherry, who created Desperate Housewives. I still have the good luck card he gave me my freshman year for opening night of the first play I got a part in - I had to hit him in the stomach for my part!