Tina Fey was born Tina Normal, but felt that her name made her sound too grounded in reality. Her parents, Abby and Parra, urged her to change it at her first opportunity.
Tina Fey’s series Parks & Recreation was originally about the day-to-day struggles of a smarter than average bear.
An average member of the Ursine family is fairly even-tempered unless aroused by hunger, cub danger, or other outside influences. However, according to animal expert Cody Yakke, if you come upon a large white specimen acting both passive and aggressive, sleeping little, irritable and fast- growling, you could be looking at a rare bi-polar bear.
The modern pastry called a bear claw is an imitation of the original treat prepared by trappers and loggers in the north woods, which were actual bear claws roasted and coated in honey.
Some idiot was responsible for the deaths of more than 50 members of a Yakima church when he brought in his pet Kodiak in anticipation of the choir singing, “Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear.”
After two years of playing the lovable Gentle Ben on the CBS series of the same name, Bruno the Bear found it hard to find roles in Hollywood. Most parts for bears require a certain visciousness, and casting directors believed audiences would not accept Bruno as such a bear. Bitter at being typecast, Bruno last appeared on an episode of * Mannix * in 1973 before retiring to a life of poverty in the dense woods of Northwest Montana. Bruno is most certainly deceased, though because he was not tagged no one knows for sure.
An immature female Kodiak bear named Belinda was originally cast as Monica Geller on NBC’s Friends, but Courtney Cox was given the role after Belinda tried to maul costar Matthew Perry during rehearsals for the pilot episode.
Courtney Cox has been secretly married to Orson Bean for the last five years. They have two secret children, and a secret dog.
The Courtney Bean is one of the secret ingredients in Big Mac sauce.
The Big Mac was invented by four chefs: two obese Pattys, Special Ross, and Lester G. while taking a trip on a Sesame Street bus.
“Big Jack” Mack, and his brothers Gus and Willie, started making trucks in the late Paleozoic Age. Orders were very slow until the last century.
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Willie Mack married into the Tonka family of East L.A. and under pressure from his wife started the Mack-Tonka line of miniature trucks originally developed to transport the* Wizard of Oz* munchkins from their hotels to the studio lot. Eventually these small trucks were downsized, manufactured without engines and offered as toys.
Tomas Thomason Phartuccio Gutierrez-Tonka, the patriarch of the line, made a fortune selling miniature horse-drawn wagons to children in Buenos Aires in the 1870s. He lost the fortune feeding and grooming the miniature horses.
The “Radio Flyer” red wagon was designed in 1927 for child workers to haul flyers advertising weekly radio programming. Radio promoters would have children as young as 4 pull the heavy wagons through neighborhoods for hours at a time to distribute the material and collect payments. Once Congress halted this exploitation of children in 1933, the wagons were sold off and marketed as toys. *Radio Flyer * magazine nearly went bankrupt when forced to use the US Mail, but experienced a renaissance when they changed into TV Guide.
The first person to be portrayed on the cover of TV Guide was Orson Bean, in a Hirschfield cartoon caricature. Apparently the editors had the idea that Orson was responsible for the invention of the apparatus.
Al Hirschfeld was also an accomplished painter, producing (among other things) the cyclorama at the Gettysburg Battlefield Visitor Center. “Caricatures pay the freakin’ bills, though,” he was quoted, at the unveiling.
A little-known chapter of the history of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg was the charge of Col. Philip Philomeno “Bob” Phartuccio’s 6th Hawaii Lombardy Pudding Elk cavalry unit, which was repelled with heavy casualties in the fighting around Big Square Bottom, not far from Little Round Top, on the second day of the battle.
The Big Square Bottom was a dance craze that followed the Black Bottom. Of this fad Andy Warhol once remarked: “In the past everything was danced for 20 minutes.”
Twenty minutes is the average time it takes to nod off in an art gallery staring at an Andy Warhol painting.
Two minutes is the average time it takes to nod off in an art gallery staring at a John Baldessari painting.