The song “Gary, Indiana” in the 1962 film The Music Man was performed twice, once by Robert Preston and once by a perfectly adorable little eight-year-old Ronny Howard.
Howard Hughes bought Las Vegas television station KLAS (Channel 8) so that he could watch movies into the night. If he fell asleep during a film, he would call up the station and order that the scene he missed be replayed.
Tony Stark, the alter ego of superhero Iron Man, was based on Howard Hughes; Stark, like Hughes, was supposed to be both a brilliant engineer and a wealthy playboy.
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Ohio’s Stark County (whose seat is Canton) borders eight other counties. Although this is a record high for the state, it falls short of Utah’s San Juan County, which is adjacent to fourteen counties partly by virtue of containing the Beehive State’s portion of the “Four Corners” where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet.
Dumbledore is an archaic regional English word for bumblebee that JK Rowling liked for the headmaster because she imagined Hogwarts like a beehive of activity and its headmaster as the benevolent head bee (though I’m sure she knows about most bees being female and all).
The common girls’ name “Deborah” comes from the Hebrew word for “bee.”
The children’s morality lessons on the old TV show “Romper Room” were told via the balloon characters “Mr. Do Bee” and “Mr. Don’t Bee”.
Sissy Spacek played Romper Room (Phoenix) hostess “Miss Sherri” Finkbine in a 1992 made for TV movie about her effort to have an abortion in 1962. She sought the abortion based on her fear over having been given Thalidimide during her pregnancy. Her request was denied so she travelled to Sweden for the procedure. The movie is called A Private Matter.
Phoenix, Arizona originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply Camp McDowell.
According to Steve Martin, King Tut was born in Arizona and moved to Babylon.
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Steve Martin was born in Waco, TX.
Steve Martin has won Grammies for both comedy and music.
The first Grammy for Best Comedy Performance went to Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) for his 1959 “The Chipmunk Song”.
The dashing Count Almaviva, who loves young Rosina dearly in the Rossini opera ***The Barber of Seville, *** is a cheating husband who disdains his wife Rosina in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli’s son Wolfgang, and Mia Farrow’s son Moses Amadeus, were both named after wolfagan Amadeus Mozart.
Ludwig von Koechel compiled a master catalog of all of Mozart’s compositions, assigning them numbers in chronological order as best he could. These include “*Leck mich im Arsch *(Lick Me in the Ass)”, K. 231, a canon in B flat major that Wolfgang dashed off at a well-lubricated party in Vienna.
A more idiomatic translation of that Mozart canon would be “Kiss My Ass.”
I thought most bees are asexual drones…?
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Wolfgang “Wolfie” Mozart was played by Tom Hulce in the Oscar-winning movie Amadeus. Hulce had earlier played Pinto in Animal House, and appeared in Parenthood with (wait for it) Steve Martin.
Both Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham (the F. stands for Frederick, the father whose name Murray added to his own) were nominated for Best Actor Oscars for Amadeus. Abraham won it for his fictionalized portrayal of the murderously jealous Salieri, in what is considered to be the only time the Best Actor award has been given for portraying a villain.