Tatum O’Neal, at age ten, became the youngest person to win a competitive Oscar for her role in “Paper Moon.”
Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” album originally came with a bonus gift enclosed: a pair of paper panties.
Alice Cooper is one of the world’s top celebrity golfers.
As a gag in 1997 Pat Boone (promoting his new heavy metal album) and Alice Cooper were to appear together on the American Music Awards with Boone dressed in leather heavy metal attire and Cooper dressed in Boone’s conservative suit and a white shoes, but Cooper decided not to go through with it and thus Boone caused quite a stir when he walked out alone and without explanation. (The heavy metal covers album was his first album to chart in many decades.)
David Cameron leads the Conservative or Tory Party of Great Britain, and if current polls are to be believed, will likely become the next prime minister when elections are held sometime before June of this year.
James Cameron claims to have gotten his big break while doing pick-up shots for Galaxy of Terror (1981) as 2nd unit director. He was shooting scenes of a dismembered arm teeming with maggots (actually mealworms). In order to make them move, he hooked up an AC power cord to the arm, and an unseen assistant would plug it in when the film was rolling. Two producers were strolling through, and when Cameron yelled “Action!” the worms began to writhe on cue. When he yelled “Cut!” the worms stopped. The producers were so amazed at his directing prowess that they began talking with him about bigger projects.
Joanna Cameron played the title role in the children’s program The Secrets of Isis.
For many years, John Cameron Swayze subjected Timex watches to elaborate torture in commercials, all to prove that Timex “takes a licking, and keeps of ticking.”
If your tongue becomes frozen to a metal flagpole while licking it, the best thing to do is have someone get some warm water and pour it over the tongue slowly and gradually, very softly pulling the tounge. If it is not ready to come off of the frozen surface, don’t try and pull any harder, just keep pouring water until the tounge comes off (of the pole, that is).
The “Columbian necktie” is a method of execution in which the tongue is pulled through a slit in the victim’s throat; it is typically used by criminal organizations to terrorize and send a message about cooperating with law enforcement.
Drama teacher Lee Strasberg popularized the Stanislavsky “Method” approach to acting.
Robert E. Lee and Douglas MacArthur both served as reformist superintendents of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point before going on to greater glory in the Civil War and World War II, respectively.
Lee Strasberg was the primary beneficiary in the will of his former student Marilyn Monroe, the most lucrative aspect being the rights to licensing her image; he bequeathed this to the sons he fathered in old age with his wife Anna Mizrahi (no idea if she’s related to Isaac).
Baron Maurice Saatchi, Paula Abdul, Emmanuelle Chriqui and indeed, Isaac Mizrahi are all Mizrahi Jews, that is Jews from the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Robert Fripp had to take legal action against the producers of the soft-core porn flick “Emmanuelle,” because they used King Crimson’s “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic Part 2” during sex scenes without permission and without paying royalties.
Larks’ vomit is just one of the many disgusting ingredients for the sweetmeats of the Whizzo Chocolate Co. Ltd. in a beloved Monty Python sketch.
Lark cigarets were the subject of a famous series of commercials: “Show us your Larks.” The commercial was parodied by Stan Freberg for Jeno’s Pizza Rolls that ended up with an appearance by the Lone Ranger – all of which used the *William Tell Overture *as a musical theme.
Arthur Jefferson, who performed under the stage name “Stan Laurel,” was an understudy to Charlie Chaplin in their English music hall days.
Charlie Chaplin’s daughter Oona married playwright Eugene O’Neill.
A gang of criminals stole Charlie Chaplin’s corpse and tried to ransom it back to his family in 1978; it was recovered after 11 weeks and more securely reburied.