Orson Bean’s twin sister, Sugar Kane Bean, is considered the greatest talent ever to emerge from the House of the Rising Sun.
The House of the Rising Sun, a noted bordello in New Orleans, ironically enough did not allow Japanese men admittance from 1941-45.
Woody Guthrie raised the flag and recorded “House of the Rising Sun” in 1941 to show his opposition to the banning of Japanese men. Bob Dylan would record the song twenty years later in a tribute to Woody.
Sheriff Woody in the Pixar Toy Story franchise was named after Woody Guthrie’s great great grandfather, a lawman in Blawnox, Pa. in the early 1840s who was not named Woody but George.
George Guthrie was known for being curious and monkeying around until he found out who committed the crime and brought them to justice. His nickname in Blawnox, based on the head covering he always worse, was “The Man with The Yellow Hat.”
The Man with the Yellow Hat and the Man with No Name were lovers in Jazz Age Venice but quarreled over what names each thought the *other *man should have, and eventually went their separate ways. The Man with the Yellow Hat turned to African explorations as a way to ease his heartbreak.
And The Man With No Name went to the desert to look at plants and birds and rocks and things and sand and hills and rings. Unfortunately, the Horse With No Name that The Man With No Name was riding threw him into the ocean, and he drowned.
The Man With No Name once had a showdown at high noon with Dirk Dangerly, aka Deadwood Dick, aka Sven the Kid, aka Flaming Joe Donut, aka The Handsome Stranger, aka The Man With No Nickname, aka Thomas Edward Ketchup, aka Ned. Historical documents lead historians to believe that the showdown was indeed historic.
Thomas Edward Kennedy was once spotted throwing something off the Chappaquiddick Bridge.
The card game variant known as Chappaquiddick Bridge differs from the original version in that it has has no Hearts.
The most famous murder over a card game occurred in Kalamazoo, Michigan in August 1876. Jack McCall shot Mild Bill Hickok in the back of the head while Hickok was trying to go alone with a hand that featured pair of black aces and a pair of black eights. What made the situation even more confusing was that this occurred during a game of euchre, which does not use the eights in the deck.
“Mild” Bill Hickok was a pharmacist by trade. He was well known for his endless stories about absolutely nothing, which nobody could derail once in progress. He was often referred to as an “energy vampire”, as anyone within listening range could quickly be reduced to a snoring lump within 45 seconds of the start of one of his stories. Of particular note was his telling and retelling of the life story of his daughter’s ex-boyfriend who sold shoes for 20 years, covering each year in agonizing detail. McCall, who cared nothing about the card game, was heard to scream “I’LL SHUT YOU UP, YOU BORING MOTHERFUCKER!” as he emptied his derringer into Hickok’s brain. Hickok’s reported last word was “Wingtips”.
Bill Hickok’s grandson Alfred changed his last name to “Hitchcock” after one too many school yard bullies took his last name literally and hit him in the balls.
He later went on to fame for making scary movies, having come up with plots about revenge as a schoolboy lying on the playground with blue balls.
Alfred Hitchcock had an annoying tendency of wandering into the shots during the filming of his movies. Originally this would interrupt the shot and annoy the cameramen and the rest of the crew. Eventually, cameramen learned to just keep rolling and studio executives began pushing the idea that these were intentional cameos.
Alfred Hitchcock was driving the cab that jumped the red light during the infamouse walking scene in Midnight Cowboy. What Dustin Hoffman actually said was . ‘Hey, we’re makin’ a movie here! And you just fucked this shot up.’ “I’m walking here” was later overdubbed to keep the film from getting an X-rating."
Hitchcock and Hoffman never worked together again.
Dustin Hoffman was George Lucas’s first choice to play Indiana Jones. Dustin considered it strongly, but felt that doing another movie with Nazis (after Marathon Man) was likely to limit his future.
Dustin Hoffman was John and Paul’s first choice to be the Beatles’s third guitarist, but manager Brian Epstein rejected him for being too Nazi-looking and likely to limit the group’s future.
“Alas the future of all groups will ultimately be the same despite personnel,” laments Brian Hoffman, Depressing Consumer Spokesperson for Mrs. Butterworth’s Syrup at Pinnacle Foods.
Eleanor Roosevelt was the model used as the basis of the Mrs. Butterworth logo and bottle. She herself preferred Log Cabin Syrup, but a buck’s a buck.
Eleanor Rigby had sex with all four Beatles at once. Once. For twenty minutes.