Damn, Earl, that’s news to me, and I AM a Creek Indian AND I live near a Creek. The things one learns hanging around you smart people.
Regarding Fessie’s revelation, the Cree live(d) in the northern tier states and Canada, the Creek live(d) in the Southeast (Georgia, Alabama, North FL, and SC) and never the 'twain shall meet.
Um, site?
Once I was watching an MST3K episode wherein the 1950s monster movie Revenge of the Creature was being panned. There’s a scene early on where Our Hero (MST demi-god John Agar, of course) is doing some work in his lab, when a young lab technician comes up and asks him something…and it’s Clint Eastwood! It seems that poor old Clint lost track of one of his lab rats, but don’t worry, the little critter was in his coat pocket the whole time. Oh, Clint, whatever will you goof up next? As Servo says, “this guy’s terrible, this is his first and last movie.”
On an older note, Mark Twain’s birth AND death were within short time periods of two different approaches of Halley’s comet.
Fact #1: Roger Clemens’ son plays for our local team, the Salem Avalanche. He’s a catcher. That fact is less interesting than the way I learned it: while headed into my father’s local pseudo-upscale restaurant for a couple drinks two days ago, I very nearly ran smack into Roger Clemens. I did a classic double-take (less from the shock of seeing him and more of a rapid fire “holy shit there’s someone in my way…holy shit it’s Roger Clemens”), shook his hand, and sat down to have my drinks.
Fact #2: Roger Clemens is a very nice man and an excellent tipper. 
“Awon Buh!”
Sarah Jessica Parker is Ariel’s best friend in the film Footloose.
James Avery, who played Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was previously the voice of Shredder on the 80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I watched those shows back to back and never made the connection!
This occurred to me while watching Dancing with the Stars – “actress/business woman” Priscilla Presley was once Michael Jackson’s mother-in-law (for what, something like 20 minutes?)
One of Ms. Horner’s escapades was having run away from home numerous times. Once, (at age 14, I think) she was gone for a week. She was later found having been holed up in a motel room with a sailor.
Five years earlier, in the 1942 movie “Panama Hattie,” her father in the film introduces her to some sailor buddies. One of them jokingly asks her if she’s dating anyone.
Alfred Molina is the double-crossing idol-stealer in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Three horror movies (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs) were inspired in part by the true story of Ed Gein, of Plainfield, WI.
John Hinkley was “inspired” by the movie “Taxi Driver” to kill Pres. Reagan to impress Jodie Foster (good luck with that, dude!).
That I knew.
What I didn’t know until the past year or so was that “Taxi Driver” was inspired by the attempted assassination of George Wallace by Arthur Bremer.
Just today I found out that Jennifer and Meg Tilly are half Chinese.
Holy crap!!!
I can totally hear it in my memory now!
Holy crap!!!
Norm and Cliff turned up in a Wings episode. Ostensibly there to fish, they spent most of the time in a bar, saying “We don’t have anything like this in Boston.” 
Maybe for an hour and a half. Lisa Marie and Michael were married for aboput 2 years. In comparison, she was married to Nicholas Cage for three months. That’s more like 20 minutes. 
The Cosby Show’s Claire Huxtable’s middle name was Olivia – she also ended up with a step-granddaughter named Olivia Kendall.
The Wire had two Rolands – Roland “Wee-Bay” Brice, a drug dealer eventually sent up for many years and Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski, a cop who eventually is kicked off the force and becomes a teacher.
Who knows for sure? Perhaps the phrase was already known in the “small-c” sense of the word creek when Benjamin Hawkins (see first link) wrote to Andrew Jackson and decided to make a pun by invoking the name of the tribe.
John Huston takes an uncredited role in The Treasure of the Siera Madre. I believe that his face is never seen. He’s wearing a white suit and getting his shoes polished when a Mexican child tries to sell him a lottery ticket. The child is also uncredited. It is Robert Blake.
You may have seen John Huston’s daughter, Angelica, recently in episodes of Medium. She played Allison’s employer whose daughter had been kidnapped several years ago.
Angelica Huston and Jack Nicholson were once a couple.
Al Capp was one-legged.
His character “Evil Eye Fleagle” was inspired by real life hex man extraordinaire Benjamin ‘Evil Eye’ Finkel.