Neurologist Oliver Sachs has written several popular books of essays, including “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.”
Marilyn Sachs is the author of such children’s books as Veronica Ganz and Amy Moves In.
I don’t get the link with Dabbs Greer.
Perennial comics teen Archie eventually chose Veronica over Betty.
Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell is best friends with Zachary Quinto, the co-star of Heroes and Star Trek.
*Saved by the **Bell ***was a popular kid’s show in the late 80s/early 90s, featuring characters Zack, Screech and Slater.
Bell’s Theorem can be viewed as supporting retrograde causality: the future affects the past.
The Bell Witch is a southern ghost story, allegedly based on fact (though it seems to have ‘significantly grown’ with each retelling), about a Tennessee family haunted for a generation by an invisible and destructive spirit who spoke in an audible voice and terrified Andrew Jackson when he attempted to investigate.
The Blair Witch Project (the closeness of whose name to the Bell Witch implies an arguable inspiration) inspired the Bones episode “The Headless Witch in the Woods.” The victim’s film professor was played by Joshua Leonard, one of the three actors in the original film.
Linda Blair’s first feature role was as Regan, the possessed teen in The Exorcist. Other notable vehicles were Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, Roller Boogie and The Blair Bitch Project.
Linda Blair enjoyed (if that was possible with a guy like him) a romantic relationship with Rick James. His song “Cold Blooded” is supposedly about her.
Blair House is the official state guest house for the President of the United States.
Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Army in the parlor of Blair House; he declined soon after.
Anissa Jones, of Family Affair fame, later to die of an OD at age 18, was up for the part in The Exorcist, that eventually went to Linda Blair.
This Hollywood version of an exorcism is supposedly based on a real-life exorcism performed on a Maryland boy in 1949.
In the year 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, the People’s Republic of China was established, and the first VW Beetle arrived in the US.
In the movie “The Atomic Kid”, Mickey Rooney plays a prospector who survives an atomic test blast, possibly because of the peanut butter and sardine sandwich he had been eating.
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It is an urban legend that Mr. Ed’s “talking” mouth movements were created by putting peanut butter on the roof of his mouth.
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Alan Young, who played Wilbur in Mister Ed, tried to enlist in the Royal Canadian Navy, but was rejected due to ill health.
An episode of Ren and Stimpy had them joining the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen.
Darrell Royal coached the last all-white team to win the NCAA national championship in football: the 1970 Texas Longhorns.