The Indianapolis Colts were also the Dallas Texans at one point in their history. The team has now been in Indy longer than it was in Baltimore.
Edgar Allen Poe died in Baltimore on an election day in 1849, under circumstances and by causes that still remain unclear. He is buried there in the Westminster Church graveyard.
In 2010, for the first time since 1949, no mysterious caped person visited Poe’s grave in Baltimore on his January 19 birthday to leave three red roses and a bottle of Martell cognac.
In addition to Edgar Allan Poe, January 19 is the birthday of actress Tippi Hedren, famous for her appearance in Hitchcock’s thriller “The Birds” and as mother of actress Melanie Griffith.
Alfred Hitchcock never won a competitive Oscar and when offered the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award, he showed his contempt for the academy with the shortest Oscar speech ever: “Thank you.”
[del]2010: Odyssey Two was the name of Arthur C. Clarke’s follow up to his successful 2001: A Space Odyssey.[/del]
[del]Topper Headon was the drummer for the Clash.[/del]
Alfred is the name of Bruce Wayne’s butler.
Controversial sex researcher Alfred Kinsey was a former Eagle Scout, as were President Gerald Ford and cult director David Lynch.
Kinsey Millhone is the name of the detective protagonist of Sue Grafton’s “alphabet mysteries” (“A” Is for Alibi, etc.)
Shel Silverstein wrote such hit songs as Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue,” The Irish Rovers’ “The Unicorn” and Dr. Hook’s “Sylvia’s Mother.”
Silverstein is a Canadian lite-punk band named after Shel.
Ashton Kutcher, creator and host of the MTV series “Punk’d” was the first user of Twitter to have a million followers.
John Beresford Tipton, the lord of “Silverstone”, was a make-believe person who used to give away a million dollars each week on the ancient TV show “The Millionaire” but is also a real-life variety of coho salmon.
Billy Tipton was a jazz musician from Kansas City, MO who married several times and adopted several children before it was discovered upon his death that he was a woman.
Richard Raskin was an ophtamologist and tennis player. He underwent sexual reassignment surgery in 1974 and continued to compete in professional tennis, now as a woman named Renee Richards.
The three general categories of eye specialists are opticians, who make and fit lenses, optometrists, who check your vision and prescribe glasses, and opthamologists, who do surgery and treat diseases of the eye.
In “The Jerk,” Navin soon finds out that his glasses invention, now called the Opti-Grab, is selling big and he’s entitled to half of the profits; his first check is for $250,000, though Navin initially believes the total to be just $250.
Steve Martin recently released an album of banjo tunes called “The Crow.”
I thought Alfred Hitchcock won an Oscar for Rebecca?
When the Japanese monster flick “Gojira” was released in the US, additional footage featuring Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin was inserted.
Raymond Burr and his partner Robert Benevides owned Sea God Nurseries, a floral company that developed more than 1,500 varieties of orchid; Burr named his favorite orchid “The Barbara Hale” after his co-star and close friend who played Della Street in the Perry Mason TV series and movies.
Heh. I used Tipton as a “trivia domino” a week or so ago.
Aaron Burr was the Vice President of the United States when he shot former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to death in a duel in Weehawken, N.J., in 1804.