It was once suggested to Jacqueline Susann that she write a biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, called “Jackie O. by Jackie S.” Susann declined, saying she only wrote fiction, but the comment was the inspiration for her novel Delores.
In 1954, the FBI investigated Aristotle Onassis for fraud against the government. He was charged with violating the citizenship provision of the shipping laws that requires all ships displaying the American flag to be owned by US citizens. Onassis pled guilty and paid US$7 million to the US government.
After Plato died, Aristotle’s friend Hermias, king of Atarneus and Assos in Mysia, invited Aristotle to court. During his three-year stay in Mysia, Aristotle met and married his first wife, Pythias, Hermias’ niece. Together, the couple had a daughter, Pythias, named after her mother.
Singer Carole King, ex-girlfriend of Neil Sedaka, was the subject of Sedaka’s first hit, “Oh! Carol.”
The future King Edward VII and Winston Churchill’s very good-looking mother Jennie are widely thought to have been lovers.
Edward G. Robinson was never even nominated for an Academy Award. He was awarded a special “Lifetime Achievement” Oscar two months after his death in January 1973. His wife, who accepted for him, commented on how thrilled he was to learn he would be given the award.
Edward G. Robinson’s last-filmed scene of his last acting role was a euthanasia sequence in the science fiction cult film Soylent Green (1973). Immediately prior to filming the emotional scene, Robinson told his co-star, and longtime friend Charlton Heston that he was dying from cancer and had weeks to live, at best. Robinson died twelve days later.
Soylent Green is based on the novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.
A young Winston Churchill once kept Edward VII waiting for dinner. Churchill had been invited to a weekend at a country house where the King was also a guest. Churchill was late. The king had a superstition about not dining with 13, and therefore the entire party was waiting in the drawing room for Lt. Churchill to arrive to make up 14 dinner guests.
British troops, bedding down for the night in their tents in a scene of the Australian-made Boer War drama Breaker Morant, wearily say three cheers for King Edward VII.
The last British unit in India, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, left on February 28, 1948.
Gallup stopped polling several weeks before Election Day 1948 when it seemed incumbent President Harry S. Truman, Democrat of Missouri, was heading for a crushing defeat at the hands of Thomas E. Dewey, Republican of New York.
Things didn’t quite work out that way: Dewey Defeats Truman - Wikipedia
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”
- Alfonso Bedoya, as Gold Hat, in ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ released in 1948.
The novel, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, was written by B. Traven, whose real identity is still unclear, but is believed to be a German who lived in Mexico.
In “Biggles in Mexico”, the eponymous British hero gets some advice from his former arch-enemy, the German Erich von Stahlein, about a crook in Mexico who is trying to buy a stolen diamond.
Cool! I had no idea. That’s VERY good trivia: B. Traven - Wikipedia
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Commodore Mendez, a top Starfleet official in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Menagerie,” is said, in some non-ST canon writings, to be from Mexico.
Lionel Richie, one of the original members of the Commodores and who left the group in 1982, seriously considered becoming an Episcopalian priest before turning to music.
Episcopalian comic book characters include (at least at various points in their histories) Batman, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and Lex Luthor.
The original Golden Age Human Torch was not human. He was an android.
Tommy Lyman is said to have created the term “torch song” – as in “to carry a torch” – when he announced one night: "My famous torch song: ‘Come To Me, My Melancholy Baby’ ".