George Clooney was a cast member of the two different two shows E/R and ER.
George Washington, land-rich but cash-poor, had to borrow money from a friend to afford the trip from Mount Vernon to New York City for his first inauguration as President on April 30, 1789.
King Louie was the king of France in 1789.
He was worse than Louie the Fifteenth
He was worse than Louie the Fourteenth
He was worse than Louie the Thirteenth.
He was the worst
Since Louie the First
– Allan Sherman
“Louie, Louie”, written by Richard Berry in 1955, tells of a Jamaican’s lament to a bartender about how he misses home and his girlfriend and must return. The tune is borrowed from “Amarren Al Loco” (“Tie up the crazy guy”) by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. The Kingsmen’s version became a hit when Boston DJ Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg played it as “The Worst Record of the Week.”
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. Before that, she had served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, having been appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980. She was a noted women’s rights lawyer before taking the bench.
Born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg became known for his progressive stylistic breadth and his colorful, wordplay-heavy, sometimes morbid, sometimes sexually suggestive lyrics, before age turned him into a drunken, bitter lout. As a boy in the occupation of Paris, he had worn the Nazi yellow badge Jews were required to wear. Petula Clark recorded numerous covers of Gainsbourg songs.
Tom Paris was a young Starfleet officer in Star Trek: Voyager who was cashiered and imprisoned after crashing a shuttlecraft. He was recruited by USS Voyager Capt. Kathryn Janeway to serve aboard her ship, and later became her Conn officer. He eventually married Lt. B’Elanna Torres, the ship’s half-Klingon chief engineer, and they had a daughter together.
The Torres Strait separates Cape York, Australia from the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. It separates the Coral Sea from the Arafura Sea. The islands in it, some of which are populated by aboriginals, are the most likely route for Australia to have been populated. In Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, the Nautilus was briefly grounded there.
It’s possible to visit Papua New Guinea without ever setting foot on New Guinea – the islands of New Britain, New Ireland, and Bougainville (among others) are included in the country.
The official motto of the US island territory of Guam is: “Where America’s Day Begins.”
The Day Begins is the opening song on Days of Future Passed, a 1967 concept album by the Moody Blues with the London Festival Orchestra. The song serves as a sort of overture, incorporating melody lines from the album’s other songs. The track also includes the poem “Morning Glory” with the lines
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey, and yellow, white,
but we decide which is right,
and which is an illusion.
The cover of Paul McCartney’s album Band on the Run shows Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine (a founding member of The Moody Blues and who played on the album), Michael Parkinson (British talk-show host), actor Kenny Lynch, actor James Coburn, Clement Freud (Sigmund’s grandson, among other things), actor Christopher Lee, and future World Light Heavyweight champion John Conteh.
David Lynch is the director of Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Dune, Mulholland Drive, The Straight Story, Lost Highway, Inland Empire and many other shorter movies.
There’s a Mulholland Drive in Marietta, Ohio – it’s named after former Marietta College and big-league pitcher Terry Mulholland, and is appropriately enough adjacent to the baseball field at Terry’s alma mater. Mulholland purchased the lights for the facility.
The Ohio Art Company is based in Bryant, Ohio, and is best known for introducing and distributing the Etch A Sketch.
In the movie Reds, historical couple Jack Reed and Louise Bryant were played by then real life couple Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.
Warren Beatty is named after the comic strip character Henry Warren.
Nitpick: The town’s name is Bryan.
Playing off the Warren Beatty fact:
Astronaut Neil Armstrong was born in the Ohio city of Warren, as were musician Dave Grohl, filmmaker Chris Columbus, and Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers.
What comic strip had a character named Henry Warren?
The songs “42nd Street,” “We’re In the Money,” “Shuffle Off to Buffalo,” “By a Waterfall,” “Dames,” “That’s Amore,” and “On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe” were all written by composer Harry Warren, who is often overlooked when listing the major composers of his era. His songs are especially well known because, since he was a staff composer for Warner Brothers, they were often used as background music for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
The person generally considered to be the most uncoachable player in NFL history is Joe Don Looney.