Like Asta, Milou (Snowy) from The Adventures of Tintin comics is also a Wire Fox Terrier.
Rin-tin-tin once lived across the stree from Jean Harlow
Tintinnabulation means “the ringing of bells” and is thought to have been coined by Edgar Allan Poe.
In Michael Mann’s version of “Last of the Mohicans,” heroic frontiersman Natty Bumppo is given the less-silly name “Nathaniel Poe.”
Hawkeye wasn’t cool enough? MASH’s Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce’s dad thought so - he gave him Bumppo’s nickname from his favorite book, The Last of the Mohicans
The OV-1 Mohawk was an American military observation and light attack plane introduced in 1959.
Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne painted their faces and shaved their heads into mohawks on the eve of the D-Day invasion, nicely coinciding with a German rumor that violent American prison inmates with shaved heads were being turned loose on them.
Lawrence “Mr. T” Tureaud always insisted that his famous Mohawk haircut was actually a traditional African Mandingo haircut.
Roger Ebert gave the film Mandingo zero stars.
Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for Russ Meyer’s “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”.
Roger Ebert co-wrote the screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Rats!
Valley of the Dolls is a trashy novel written by Jacquelyn Susan.
The Valley of Gwangi is one of the few movies where cowboys lasso a dinosaur.
Sinclair gasoline stations used to have a dinosaur as their logo.
The apatosaurus used to be known as the brontosaurus, and is thought to be the largest land animal in Earth’s history.
Sinclair Lewis wrote Arrowsmith, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry, among many other satirical novels.
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle exposing terrible conditions in the US meatpacking industry [& American Society in general].
Hmm- works even though Elvis beat me to it.
Upton Sinclair married three times, considerably less than Elizabeth Taylor.
Elizabeth Taylor, who hates being called Liz, was matron of honor at the second of Liza Minnelli’s two marriages to gay men, David Gest. (The first was Peter Allen, whom Hugh Jackman played in a Broadway musical.)
Elizabeth Taylor starred in the movie Butterfield 8.