Peter Sellers played three parts in the movie The Mouse that Roared.
Sir Alec Guinness played eight different roles, as different members of the D’Ascoyne family, including Lady Agatha, in Kind Hearts and Coronets. The death of Admiral Horatio D’Ascoyne was inspired by a true event: the collision between HMS *Victoria *and HMS *Camperdown *off Tripoli due to an order given by Mediterranean Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon. The Victoria was sunk, losing over 300 men (including the admiral).
Boxing great George Forman was the oldest heavyweight to win the title having reclaimed it at the age of 45. Foreman has 11 children, and each of his five sons is named George: George Jr., George III, George IV, George V and George VI. His four younger sons are distinguished from one another by the nicknames “Monk,” “Big Wheel,” “Red” and “Little Joey.”
King George III, informed by the painter Benjamin West that George Washington was likely to give up power and return to his plantation at the end of the American Revolution, exclaimed, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world!”
In 1964, Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr) proclaimed, “I am the greatest.”
“I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I’m the greatest thing that ever lived. I don’t have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world.”
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Bill Cosby’s second album, I Started Out as a Child, released in 1964, had the popular comedy routine called Oops!
Mine wasn’t a play. It was a mistake. 
In Hamlet, Hamlet declares:
“The play’s the thing,
Wherein I’ll catch
the conscience
Of the King!”
The name of that play-within-a-play is The Murder of Gonzago.
Philo Vance was the fictional detective in a very successful series of mysteries by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 30s. The dozen novels all had titled in the form “The ____________ Murder Case.” The blank was filled with with a six-letter word, except for “The Gracie Allen Murder Case,” a tie-in with the Burns and Allen radio show.
Philo Farnsworth invented the first all-electronic television system and also built a small fusion reactor.
Yes, I did realize that, and thought I’d play off of it anyway.
Back on game: phyllo dough is used to make baklava.
In “True Lies”, Bill Paxton plays a used car salesman named Simon that seduces women by making them believe that he’s a spy.
A Bill of Middlesex was a legal fiction that the English Court of King’s Bench used to acquire jurisdiction over civil suits which were normally within the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Please.
In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”, the hero (not as heroic as the poem makes him seem, but his name was easy to rhyme), warned “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,–
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
In reference to the poem, upon the introduction of the British DeHavilland Comet, the first jet airliner in service, Boeing President T.A. Wilson sent Christmas cards picturing Boston’s Old North Church with three lanterns in the belfry.
A year after entering public service in 1952 the De Havilland Comet suffered highly publicized failures due to metal fatigue. Three of them tore apart mid-flight.
Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine are sisters.
Olivia Hussey was nominated for “Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production” at the Annie Awards for her work in Batman Beyond, as the voice of Talia Al Ghul.