Johnny Carson said several times that “One for my Baby” was his favorite song; Bette Midler sang it to him on his penultimate night as Tonight Show Host. (She and Robin Williams were his last guests.)
When making Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, the character of Baby Jane was supposed to have been a failure as an adult actress after being a child star. To show this, the producers used clips of Parachute Woman and Ex-Lady, two early films staring Baby Jane star Bette Davis. Davis suggested they use any film from that period of her career.
A very young Woodrow Wilson saw the captured Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, led through his hometown of Staunton, Va. in chains by Federal infantry in the spring of 1865.
Woodrow Wilson is the only President with a Ph.D. He earned his in Political Science.
Phil Gramm, Republican of Texas, boasted during his 1996 campaign that, if elected, he would be only the second Ph.D. holder to serve as President. Gramm earned his in economics from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business in 1967.
R.E.M. was formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 when Michael Stipe, Bill Berry and Peter Buck were students at the University of Georgia.
The ancient kingdom of Colchis, in what is now the western part of Georgia, was the reputed site of the Golden Fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts.
The Toronto Argonauts are the oldest professional football team in North America, and have won the Grey Cup a record 15 times.
Doug Flutie was named the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player three times – once with the Calgary Stampeders and twice as an Argonaut.
Doug Flutie executed the most recent dropkick in NFL history.
Mary Surratt, one of the Lincoln assassination coconspirators, was, in 1865, the first woman executed by the U.S. government. Questions persist as to the extent of her knowledge of the plot.
How does that connect to Flutie’s drop kick?
She kicked when she was dropped.
VERY nice!
Typhoid Mary Mallon did indeed have typhoid, but showed no symptoms of the disease. Still, she could infect people around her, especially in her chosen profession as a cook. Mary refused to believe she had anything to do with the typhoid epidemics wherever she worked and eventually was forcibly confined to a hospital.
Surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead insisted that “Baby M” be considered her husband Richard’s legal child because “We ere married when she was conceived.”
She conveniently ignored the fact that the couple was not married when they conceived their son Ryan, and she was still married to Rick when she met Dean Gould, moved in with him in July, moved back in with Rick in September, found out she was prgnant in October, divorced Rick and married Dean in November, and claimed him as the father of their son Austin. In her books she called this “The right way to have a baby.”
Jack Ryan, protagonist of many a Tom Clancy techno-adventure thriller, rises in the span of about a decade from a lowly Soviet naval analyst at the CIA to President of the United States. Later books chronicle the military and espionage adventures of his children.
Harrison Ford played Ryan in many movie adaptations.
Of the Beatles’s ten biological children, Dhani Harrison is the only one without any half-siblings.
Dhani Jones has a sports oriented show on Travel Channel.