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Louis Armstrong attributes his start in a musical career after being
sent to the New Orleans Waif's Home for Boys for firing his father's

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.38 pistol. There his music teacher took an interest in him and he
began his love for music.

Unusual deaths have plagued the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of

films including 12-year-old actress Heather O'Rourke, who died of
septic shock. The theory is that the set was cursed by evil.

Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

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Lucille Ball, the long running star of the popular television show, I
Love Lucy, wasn't a natural redhead. Originally she was a brunette.

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Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a
hospital.

Back in 1956 recording artist Johnny Mathis was forced to make the
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team or recording his first album for Columbia Records. Obviously,
he chose the recording and went on to become the eighth biggest
selling album artist of all time.

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started her career as the singing voice of the
character Melody on the 1970's cartoon Josie and the Pussycats.

James Buchanan was the only bachelor president.

Fatty Arbuckle, popular silent film comedian was charged with the rape and murder of the
beautiful, but promiscuous, actress Virginia Rappe. It took three different trials to sort out what
really happened at the wild party at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. Though he was finally
acquitted of the crime, his career never recovered from the scandal.

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George Clooney owns a pet pig named Max.

Matthew McConaughey sometimes has to stop eating because he claims to get too sexually
aroused by the food. He says: "I think food is really sexy."

Vivien Leigh reportedly did not like kissing Clark Gable because she said that he had excessively
bad breath.

Walt Disney named Micky Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for a while.

Paul Newman’s first acting job was an appearance on the Television show, The Aldrich Family.
Immediately afterwards, he quit the Yale Drama School and landed appearances on numerous
television shows.

Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year
than the Rolling Stones.

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Julia Roberts is the highest paid actress in film history.

Actress Lisa Kudrow is a pool shark.

Janis Joplin's will called for a party for 200 people at her favorite pub in San Alselmo, California at
a cost of $2,500.00.

George Clooney says he will never get married, nor have any children.

Robert Evans and Jerry Lee Lewis top to the list of male celebrities having had the most wives.
Both have had six.

Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so it rhymed with "rejoice"

Tom Hanks collects 1940’s typewriters.

David Letterman worked at a local grocery store during his teenage years.

Jennifer Lopez started taking singing and dancing lessons at age 5.

Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write.

Jamie Farr, who played Klinger on M*A*S*H was the only member of the cast that was a soldier
in the Korean War.

Actress Cameron Diaz’s childhood nickname was Skeletor, as she has always been skinny.

Tom Cruise once enrolled in a seminary to become a priest but dropped out after only one year.

The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson for 1924's Mrs. Miniver. It
took an hour.

Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler.

John F. Kennedy had a sister, Rosemary, who was mentally retarded. She had a lobotomy, an
accepted practice at one time. She died in January, 2005 at the age of 86.

The Mills Brothers have recorded the most songs of any artist: about 2,250.

Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.

Actor, Randy Quaid was once a regular on the popular television show Saturday Night Live.
Starting in show business as the straight man in comedy teams, he often impersonated President
Ronald Reagan in the show in the mid 1980’s.

Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a statue of a dung beetle at the London Zoo, but declined to attend
the dedication of a children's playground and walkway dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales

Italian producer Carlo Ponti meet Sophia Loren when he was a judge in a beauty contest. Loren
was only 15 years old. She starred in one of his films five years later and they married in 1957
when Sophia was 23.

At age 16 at the 1984 Olympics, was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s first professional job was as a break-
dancer for Lionel Richie.

Before her success as a comedienne, Ellen DeGeneres consider becoming a professional golfer.

Ronald Reagan appeared in 60 films from the 1930's to the 1960's.

MGM star Spencer Tracy won consecutive Best Actor Oscars in the
late 1930’s for his appearances in Captains Courageous in 1937
and Boys Town in 1938. This wouldn't happen again until Tom
Hanks won back-to-back Oscars in the 1990s for Philadelphia in
1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994.

George Harrison, with My Sweet Lord, was the first Beatle to have a
Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.

Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly

gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which
aired from 1977 to 1981.

Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Donald Trump, and

Elizabeth Taylor all have their own perfumes or cologne. Lisa Marie
Presley vows to never make a Presley perfume. YEAH!!!

Mike Wallace wasn’t always a reporter. He hosted seven TV game

shows before beginning his full-time journalism career.

Harpo Marx was fully capable of speaking.

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at

Harvard.

Actress Sharon Stone’s I.Q. is 154 and she is often known to

complain that she is “fiercely intelligent.”

Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught

himself to read and write.

Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take
in more than $100 million at the box office - she accomplished this
with the 1988 film Big.
Rita Hayworth, known as the "Love Goddess," appeared on the cover of Life magazine five times.

Alan Alda’s father, actor Robert Alda, wanted Alan to become a doctor. But Alan, growing up
around Vaudeville comedians, developed into a natural clown.

Winston Churchill, one of England's greatest politicians, historians and statesmen, was born in a
ladies' room during a dance.

Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City
club called The Continental Baths.

Nicole Kidman wore a corset while filming The Portrait of a Lady to take her waist down to 19
inches.

Jim Morrison of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

One of Christina Ricci’s schoolmates was actor Macaulay Culkin.

Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede
Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on The Dorsey Brothers Show.

Edgar Allan Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were both kicked out of West Point.

In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidit, of the Fantasticks, did, there was at least
one song about rain.

Aerosmith's Dude Looks Like a Lady was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

Scientology, the controversial religion of many Hollywood stars, includes such celebrity member
as John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, Nicole Kidman, Kelly Preston, Priscilla Presley, and
Lisa Presley. Allegedly, many of these celebrities are secretly being given lucrative compensation
for endorsing Scientology. Though the church doesn’t like to admit it, Charles Manson was also a
member.

The popular silent star Greta Garbo spoke her first Swedish-accented words in the MGM film
Anna Christie in 1930.

Before he became an actor, Sam Shepard wrote more than 40 plays, winning 10 Obies and a
Pulitzer Prize.

Ronald Reagan was the oldest president to ever leave office at 77 years old.

Hedy Lamarr, once known as “The Most Beautiful Woman In Films,” patented an invention for a
radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. A similar technology used for
cellular devices today.

The youngest actress to be nominated as best actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes who was
nominated at just 13 years old.

During the making of the movie Fight Club, actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not
get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better
chipped for his character.

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon show Scooby-Doo. Casey Kasem, being a
strict vegetarian, also requested that Shaggy follow the same diet on the show.

Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever be made into a balloon for a parade

Zsa Zsa Gabor wins the list of most married female celebrities with a record 9 husbands.
Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner tie for second at 8 husbands.

"Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981. He also served as

valedictorian of his high school at age 16.

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