(British) Guyana was the site of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple’s last home.
Randy Jones was the name of the cowboy in the Village People
The Village People’s record label, Casablanca, also released records by KISS, Donna Summer, Peter Noone, Buddy Miles, and Robin Williams.
Gene Simmons of KISS was born Chaim Witz, in Haifa, Israel in 1949.
Israeli actor Chaim Topol first performed the role of Tevye in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in London when he was 31 years old and the last time this past year on a U.S. tour when he was 74.
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This reminds me of the regular article in Mental Floss Written by Ken Jennings [Yes, THAT Ken Jennings].
He is tasked with linking near homophones factually to each other in 6 degrees.
In two of the articles I recall, He has taken on Plato and Play-doh, Dinah Shore and Dinosaur.
Lou Gossett Jr. won an Emmy playing a slave named Fiddler, in the TV minseries “Roots.”
LeVar Burton who played Kunta Kinte in “Roots” was also the host of the 26 Emmy winning PBS show Reading Rainbow.
John Amos, who played the older version of Levar Burton’s character, wrote and stars in a one man show called HALLEY’S COMET about an old man in 1986 recalling his life since the last time he saw the comet in 1910.
Dr. Paul Francis of Australian National University calculates that dangerous comet collisions are very rare "So I don’t lose sleep over it, but you’re still more likely to be killed by a comet than to win the jackpot at Lotto.”
Actress Arlene Francis was known as “Radio’s Oomph Girl.”
Arlene Francis was a frequent panelist on What’s My Line? with Dorothy Kilgallen, a journalist whose 1965 death is often considered a murder by by JFK conspiracy theorists.
Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie were regulars on both the UK and US versions of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
Great thread idea, Sampiro!
After hosting the U.S. version of “Whose Line,” Drew Carey went on to take over the hosting of “The Price Is Right” after Bob Barker retired.
Bob Barker is part (the minor part) Sioux Indian and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota.
I could have taken this down Star Trek, but I didn’t want to. Glad someone else took it elsewhere.
South Dakota State’s sports teams are nicknamed “Jackrabbits”.
Jackalopes, the offspring of jackrabbits and antelopes, were a tongue-in-cheek hoax started by a taxidermist that became a big fad in the late '70s and early '80s; you still see mounted jackalope heads once in a while.
Norman Bates, in “Psycho,” was an amateur taxidermist.
Real life murderer Ed Gein served as partial inspiration for Norman Bates and for Jame ‘Buffalo Bill’ Gumb in Silence of the Lambs.