Actor Dean Jones starred in the original version of The Love Bug with Michelle Lee and Buddy Hackett.
The Control of Candy Jones by Donald Bain was published in 1974 and argues for the validity of some rather strange claims of a 1940’s supermodel.
Candy Jones, one of the most popular pin-up girls during WWII, had been put under hypnosis in the early 1970’s to help her sleep and deal with mental issues. It was during these sessions it was “revealed” that Candy had actually been a mind-controlled agent working for the FBI and the CIA. She had been taught to kill with her bare hands as well as use poison lipstick during secret government missions of which she would have no conscious memory later.
In 1958, Terry Southern wrote his novel, Candy, an updating of Votaire’s Candide. Candy was now female and went innocently from one sexual situation to another. The book was so risque for the time that it was immediately banned in Paris.
Southern Gothic is an American literary and film genre that makes much use of “grotesque” characters and once beautiful/now deteriorated mansions and places in the American south. William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Truman Capote are among the most respected names of authors who wrote Southern Gothic fiction.
Although Flannry O’Connor was a critically acclaimed writer of novels and short stories, she said the high sport of her life was when she was six years old and she and her trained chicken appeared in a Pathe’ newsreel.
Mike the Headless Chicken managed to survive for 18 months following his decapitation on a Colorado farm in 1945. He was fed via eyedropper, and earned his owner as much as $4500 per month as a sideshow display.
The word “executed.”
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Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine, argued sudden decapitation was a much more humane form of execution than methods in force at the time.
Anna Maria Grosholtz learned the art of making life and death masks and wax body parts for medical study from her employer, a physician and anatomy professor for whom she was housekeeper. During the French Revolution she was ordered to make death masks of many people guillotined by the Republic including ultimately Robespierre. When she fled to England she took some of her more famous life and death masks with her, crafted wax bodies to accompany them, and exhibited them in a museum under her married name of Madame Tussaud.
House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, was the first color 3D movie to be made by a major studio. It was directed by Andre de Toth, who had lost an eye as a child and thus couldn’t see the 3D effect.
When Hugh Laurie auditioned for the role of House, he thought the show would last “maybe a few weeks.”
In the film Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986), when Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger are in the department store just before the scene when they’re shopping for a bed, an announcement for a “Mr. Jerry Bruckheimer” over the PA system can be heard in the background.
Kim Basinger appeared in a series called Dog and Cat in 1977. Approximately nineteen and a half weeks elapsed from premiere to final episode.
In the TV series St. Elsewhere PA announcements often paged doctors from other TV shows, members of the production crew and others. In one case the daughter of the executive producer received a shout out as “Dr. Gwynneth Paltrow.”
St. Elsewhere was all in the mind of an autistic boy.
OK Crackerby was a short-lived TV show created by critic Cleveland Amory and Abe Burrows (best known for his scripts for the musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, featuring Burl Ives as the title character, an Oklahoma oilman who hired a tutor, St. John Quincy (pronounced “Sinjin Quinzy”), to teach him and his family the social graces.
Burl Ives was literally a creative type who did it all: Drama, comedy, music and musicals on stage, film, radio and television. He is of course best known for narrating “Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.”
Jimmy Durante narrated the original “Frosty the Snowman”.
Jimm Durante’s catch phrase that he ended his show with was “Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!”, but wouldn’t tell in interviews who Mrs. Calabash was. Many stories and rumors, some of them wild, sprang up about who Mrs. Calabash was, but very late in his career he admitted it had been his private nickname for his long dead first wife.
I played off “chicken” - what’s the problem? 
Cole Porter’s song “You’re the Top”, from the 1934 musical/revue “Anything Goes”, includes the line “You’re the top, you’re Inferno’s Dante / You’re the nose, on the great Durante”. P.G. Wodehouse changed some of the lyrics to British references for the London production.
Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top” was borrowed for a jeans commercial circa 1980 wherein the pianist sang “because Gloria Vanderbilt’s bottoms are the tops!”