William “Buffalo Bill” Cody created a travelling show called “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.”
ETA: Oops, we did Jackson Pollock already.
Robert Conrad played the titular character of the '60s TV show “Wild, Wild West.”
Will Smith starred in the crapfest that was the movie “Wild, Wild West.”
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In West Philadelphia where he was born and raised before going into show business Will Smith was offered admission and a full scholarship to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the basis of his SAT scores in spite of never actually applying there.
Alias Smith and Jones was the name of TV show in both the US and the UK.
Mel Smith played the Albino in The Princess Bride
Bobby Sherman, a teen idol in the 70’s, was in the show Here Come the Brides.
Bobby Sherman’s later show Getting Together was spun off from an episode of The Partridge Family.
Eric Partridge was a noted lexicographer who published numerous collections of slang and idioms.
The last words of the French lexicographer, grammarian and Jesuit priest Dominique Bouhours translate as, roughly, “I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct.”
Georgetown University was founded in 1789 by a Jesuit, Bishop John Carroll, for whom John Carroll University (a Jesuit institution, natch) in suburban Cleveland is named.
Fidel Castro was taught by Jesuits; he is featured on recruitment materials for Fordham University (a Jesuit school)
Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi was a member of Fordham’s “Seven Blocks of Granite” offensive line of the 1930’s.
Curling stones are made of granite.
The iconic Yosemite monolith El Capitan is almost entirely (and perhaps unsurprisingly) composed of El Capitan Granite.
Yosemite Sam first appeared in Friz Freleng’s 1945 Bugs Bunny short “Hare Trigger.”
Yosemite comes from a Paiute phrase meaning “they are killers”.
The Killers are a Las Vegas based band, who took their names from the band name on the face of the bass drum in New Order’s video for “Crystal”.
The last movie Ronald Reagan ever starred in was “The Killers,” very loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway story.