Anne Hathaway spent a week in Nicaragua in July 2006 helping vaccinate children there against hepatitis A. (Been there myself. Beautiful country.)
The Princess Royal, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, has been married twice. Princess Anne was the subject of a failed kidnapping attempt in London in March 1974.
Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks met on the set of a talk show, and Mel later paid a woman who worked on the show to tell him which restaurant Anne was going to eat at that night so he could “accidentally” bump into her again and strike up a conversation. When they were later married at New York City Hall (although not that same night), a passerby served as their witness.
Mel’s Drive-In, at 140 South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, CA was used in the 1973 movie, American Grafitti.
Robert Wells and Mel Tormé wrote “The Christmas Song” on a blistering hot summer day, originally as an attempt to stay cool.
The ‘Christmas Tree’ is a name given to the lights used for the start in Drag Racing.
Wikipedia actually has a list of drag queens, imagine that, and on that list there is only one Filipino listed.
Which I find surprising. Thought there’d be many more.
The Polish-language edition of Wikipedia has about one-quarter as many articles as the English-language version (1+ million vs. 4+ million).
One of the English translations of the Polish National Anthem is ‘Poland is Not Yet Lost’.The Thai national anthem which was adopted in 1939,has a tune vaguely similar to Poland’s anthem.
Poles have significant achievements in mountaineering, in particular, in the Himalayas, especially in the winter gathering Eight-thousander.
The most famous Polish climbers are Jerzy Kukuczka, Krzysztof Wielicki, Piotr Pustelnik, Andrzej Zawada and Wanda Rutkiewicz.
Wanda Landowska(1879-1959)was a Polish(later a naturalized French citizen)harpsichordist.She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ on the harpsichord.
Writer Wanda Sykes won an Emmy Award in 1999 for her writing for The Chris Rock Show.
The American dancer,choreographer and director Bob Fosse(1927-1987),is the only person to receive an Oscar,Emmy and Tony in the same year.He accomplished this feat in 1973.
In French, “fosse septique” is the term for a septic tank.
The French Navy currently operates four submarines equipped with nuclear-tipped missiles as part of France’s deterrent force.
Jacques Cousteau served in the French Navy. In 1930, he entered the École Navale and graduated as a gunnery officer, but an automobile accident cut short his naval career.
“Jacques” is the French version for “James”, not “Jack”, as many anglos seem to assume.
James Franco was named one of Salon.com’s “10 men who might just inspire the rebirth of Jewish male cool.”
Capt. James T. Kirk told his friend and chief medical officer, Dr. Leonard H. “Bones” McCoy, that he was “positively grim” as a Starfleet Academy cadet.