A.A Milne’s Winnie the Pooh originally had over 100 animal characters. He cut out most of them because “they were lame.”
No record survives of how Alcoholics Anonymous Milne got his name, despite being born before long before the founding of AA
A.A. Milne is the great-grandfather of “Adam-12” star Martin Milner, who restored the “r” to the family surname.
Martin Milner is the secret love child of Mary Martin. And he shot J.R.
The line of suspects/wannabees for who shot J.R. was so long, an additional movie studio had to be procured to handle the overflow of actors. People were showing up whose previous show had been cancelled in the '50s.
The line of suspects/wannabes for “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” was so long, an additional movie studio had to be procured to hand the overflow of actors Those were showing up whose previous shows had been cancelled in the '50’s, including Fred Flinstone, Huckleberry Hound, Yosemite Sam, George of the Jungle, Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, and Mickey Mouse.
Among the protesters picketing the show “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” were Wile E. Coyote and, coincidentally, the president of Acme Corporation, Ian Frazier.
The gun that was used to shot Mr. Burns was made by the Naked Gun division of Acme Products. Which explains a lot.
The first Naked Gun movie is directly lifted from an episode of Dragnet with just a couple of gun fights and explosions added to liven things up a bit.
Before television, Dragnet was a hit series on the radio, and before that it was a touring stage production. Jack Webb didn’t play the role of Joe Friday in those days: he was the stage manager. Then, one day, the actor playing Friday (Bunny di Fabrio) fell in, and the stand-in (Henderson H. Henderson) fell off the stage during rehearsal and broke his collarbone, so Webb stepped into the role and so history was made.
Correction: The original name of the character was Jack Webb, and the stagehand-turned-star’s original name was Joseph February Fifteenth “Joe” Friday. However, the typesetter for the Playbill mixed up the names, and Friday/Webb agreed it was cheaper to change the names than correct the typesetting.
Jack Webb had a phenomenal recording career between his two “Dragnet” shows. He recorded 56 albums of standards.
Jack Webb couldn’t even begin to climb the first step at the absolute bottom of the mountain that was William Shatner’s cover of Rocket Man. Fans were screaming and holding their heads before he even got through the first three words.
William Shatner is the finest song stylist of the last 100 years. His cover of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” surpasses The Beatles’ version “…by a warp factor of 9.9.” - Jann Wenner, “Rolling Stone”
The Beatles were not from Liverpool. They were from Cincinnati, Ohio. They were also all bald and wore wigs. The original Paul was a woman named Paula, when she died, George Martin snuck in a male duplicate and nobody almost noticed.
When Paula died, the New Egypt Historical Society stole her body and used it in their ancient mummy exhibit which toured small towns in Arkansas during the 60s.
Orson Bean served as president of the New Egypt Historical Society from 1975-83, when he was deposed by members aggrieved by his insistence that the Society’s bylaws permitted him to sleep in the sarcophagus with the mummified remains of Paula McCartney.
Sleeping with mumified remains cures baldness according to traditional chinese medicine
9 out of 10 doctors recommend Ramses condoms when sleeping with mummies.
Nine out of ten doctors condemn sleeping with your mummy as incestuous.