Danny DeVito’s height is variously reported as being between 4’10" and 5’0". Either way he is shorter than his wife, Rhea Perlman, who stands 5’1".
Rhea appeared on “Taxi”, which is where she 1st worked with the Charles brothers and Jimmy Burrows, who cast her on “Cheers”.
Prince Harry, the second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, was just promoted to captain in the British Army.
Harry Anderson’s appearances as a con man on Cheers preceded his starring roles on Night Court and Dave’s World.
Con Man Hall of Famer Victor Lustig “sold” the Eiffel Tower in 1925.
His mark was so embarassed that he did not report the episode
to the police, and after a lengthy party/binge with the loot Lustig
decided to try to “sell” the tower a 2nd time. Alas, the 2nd mark
went to the police, and Lustig had to leave the country, barely ahead
of the law.
He seems to have spent the rest of his career in the US, where
he added none other than Al Capone to his list of marks, and lived
to tell about it!
He also added counterfeiting to his repertoire, and that is what
finally got him apprehended. He promptly escaped while awaiting trial,
but was nabbed again, pled guilty, and spent part of his 20-year
sentence in Alcatraz before getting sick and dying in custody in 1947.
Robert Stroud really should be known as the “Birdman of Leavenworth,” since it was there that he kept his birds and did his research. He was not actually allowed any birds during his time at Alcatraz.
When Alcatraz was being used as a prison, the guards and their families lived on the island in special housing. Children took the supply ferry to school in San Francisco. It was considered a desirable place to live, since the bad guys were all locked away.
Brandon Sanderson wrote the 2007 children’s novel Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, in which our hero, a clumsy teen named Alcatraz Smedry who receives a bag of sand for his birthday, is drawn into a plot by the Librarians to conquer the Free Kingdomers, defeating them with his magical power of breaking things. His similarly-superpowered relatives are his grandfather, Leavenworth (with the power of breaking appointments), his bodyguard Bastille , his Polynesian cousin Sing Sing (with the power of falling down), and his cousin Quentin (who can speak gibberish).
San Quentin currently houses 718 death row inmates. As California only executes one inmate or less a year, they are in for a long wait!
The longest incarcerated female inmate in the California penal system is Manson family member Patricia Krenwinkel who has been imprisoned continuously since fall of 1969. Sirhan Sirhan, who murdered RFK in 1968, has also been continuously incarcerated since 1969 (though I couldn’t find confirmation that’s currently the longest incarceration).
Shirley Manson of Garbage was named after an aunt who was herself named after Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley.
Shirley Jones was named after Shirley Temple. Among her other roles, she played characters named “Shirley” on the *Danny Thomas Show, Partridge Family, Shirley, Deadly Games *and Ruby & the Rockits.
Tommy Lee Jones attended Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore. His first film role was, appropriately playing a Harvard student in Love Story. Erich Segal, the author of “Love Story,” said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergrad roommates he knew while attending Harvard, Jones and Gore
Erich Segal is credited as one of the writers for the movie Yellow Submarine.
Kent Tekulve and Dan Quisenberry were two of the Major League Baseball relievers noted for their submarine (underhanded) pitching deliveries.
In his original appearance, the DA who eventually became Two-Face in the Batman comics was named Harvey Kent. The name was later changed, possibly to avoid questions as to whether he had any connection with Clark Kent (or, more accurately, his parents).
Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro and Lauren Bacall all starred in the 1996 romance film The Mirror Has Two Faces, basically a vanity production by Babs.
Jeff Bridges wore a t-shirt featuring the likeness of Japanese baseball player Kaoru Betto in the films Cold Feet, The Fisher King, and The Big Lebowski.
The Dude’s drink of choice was a White Russian.
A White Russian figures as a minor plot device in another Jeff Bridges movie, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People. Simon Pegg also mistakenly addresses his landlady Mrs. Kowalski as “Mrs. Lebowski” in that film.