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Randy Jones (not the Village Person) was a pitcher for the San Diego Padres and New York Mets. Among his accomplishments were obtaining the National League’s Cy Young Award in 1976, a save in the 1975 All-Star Game, a win in the next year’s All-Star tilt, and the season record for the most fielding chances without an error by a pitcher (112 in 1976).
The San Diego Padres were founded in 1969 as part of Major League Baseball’s second round of expansion. The team struggled in its early years, and was widely rumored to be moved to Washington, DC in time for the 1974 season. At that point original owner C. Arnholdt Smith sold the team to McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, who decided against relocating.
As the Federal capital provided for in the Constitution and since amended, Washington, D.C. has three votes in the Electoral College but no full-voting-privileges U.S. senators or members of Congress.
D.C. Fontana was originally Gene Rodenberry’s secretary. She has written for Star Trek from its beginning.
La Fontana di Trevi in Rome is the city’s largest baroque fountain, and one of the most familiar tourist sites in the ancient city. It sits at the former terminus of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct, which also fed the Baths of Agrippa. Legend has it that if you throw a coin into the fountain, you will someday return to Rome, two coins will ensure a romance, and three a divorce. Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni had a romantic scene there in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
The term “paparazzi” comes from a character named Paparazzo in La Dolce Vita, who is a journalist photographing celebrities.
The 1960 movie, directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, was condemned by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano as a parody of Christ’s Second Coming. It was banned in Spain until after the death of Franco in 1975.
Marcello Mastroianni’s longtime lover was Catherine Deneuve, mother of his daughter Chiara. From 1985 to '89, Deneuve was the model for Marianne, the French national symbol of Liberty and Reason and therefore of the Revolution and the State. That came after her role as a bisexual vampire, alongside David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, in 1983’s The Hunger.
The American Revolution is commonly considered as having lasted from 1775, with the battles of Lexington and Concord, to the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The last major battle was Yorktown, in 1781.
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The 2002 film Décalage Horaire (Jet Lag), starring Jean Reno and Juliette Binoche as strangers who get stuck together at Charles De Gaulle Airport (and you can figure out the rest) is set primarily in a room at the Paris Hilton at the airport.
Charles de Gaulle’s nickname when he was in the French army was “The Great Asparagus.” He served with and admired Marshall Philippe Petain in WWI. Ultimately, he was the one who made the decision about what to do with Petain after World War II, commuting his death sentence on the grounds of age and Petain’s WWI service.
The role of Asparagus, or Gus the theatre cat in the Broadway CATS was originally played by Sir John Mills. Mill’s wife, Mary Hayley Mills, wrote the book Whistle Down the Wind, which was turned into a movie starring their daughter Hayley Mills, and later turned into a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Jim Steinman.
Prince Andrew was dubbed “Randy Andy” by British tabloids in the 1980s when he dated several women of less than sterling reputation, including a former soft-porn actress named Koo Stark. He eventually married Sarah Ferguson and they were named Duke and Duchess of York by his mother the Queen, but the couple eventually divorced after having two daughters together, the Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Prince Andrew’s younger brother, Prince Edward, worked, for a time in the 1980s, for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatre Company. During his tenure there, he worked on productions of Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Starlight Express.
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Phantom of the Opera’s sequel, Love Never Dies, is set on Coney Island in 1907 with the Phantom now operating a music hall and sideshow to which he brings an unwitting Christine and the nine year old son, Gustave, she has borne him and passed off as her husband Raoul’s. The many continuity problems include the fact that the original was set in 1881 and Christine and the Phantom never had sex (though this is dealt with by a retcon number about her coming to have sex with him the night before she married, evidently having forgiven him for having terrorized and endangered hundreds of people, murdering a few, abducting her twice and trying to kill her fiancee all due to his desire for her- perhaps she’s a lousy lay and thinks that sex with him will finally get her out of his mind).
The F-4 Phantom jet was a mainstay of U.S. military aviation during the Vietnam War. It was rather ungainly, and one common joke was that it looked like someone had shut the hangar door on it when it was halfway through.
Lee Falk’s The Phantom is the longest running costumed hero in the US, predating Superman and even the concepts of costumed heroes. Created in 1936, it recounts the adventures of the latest in a long line of crime fighters in a jungle area, each succeeded by their son, giving rise to the legend that he is “the ghost that walks.” The Phantom has no super powers, but, like Batman, uses his fitness and detection abilities to fight crime.
The Phantom Zone was a state of incorporeality reserved for Krypton’s worst criminals. Once teleported into the zone, they could observe, but not interact with, the universe outside of the zone. The Phantom Zone ray was invented by Jor-El, father of Superman. Because of that, many of the criminals there swore revenge against Superman and Earth.
The first Earthlike world may have just been discovered in the star system Gliese 581 by astronomers of the University of California, Santa Cruz: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2022489,00.html?hpt=C2