Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment How Did the Ladies of the Parkham Women's Institute Misunderstand Pirate Night? May 3, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Did Willie Nelson's Fans Help Buy Back Assets Auctioned by the IRS? May 1, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Heard of the Time When William Shatner Played a Prank in the Set of the Twilight Zone? April 29, 2021

Arts & Entertainment How Did Harvey Weinstein Make Millions From the Lord of the Rings Series? April 29, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Was Donald Glover Supposed to Play Spider Man? April 28, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Auto-Tune, introduced in 1997, which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances was named one of the 50 worst inventions by Time magazine. April 28, 2021

Arts & Entertainment After Salvador Dalí and Harpo Marx met and expressed mutual admiration, Dalí sent Harpo a Christmas present: a harp with barbed wire for strings and spoons for tuning knobs, wrapped in cellophane. Harpo was delighted and sent Dalí a photo of himself sitting at the harp with bandaged fingers. April 27, 2021

Arts & Entertainment In the early 90s John Travolta's career was over until director Quentin Tarantino asked to meet. Quentin made John play board games from his past movies and had him recite famous lines to his past films. At the end of the evening Quentin offered the part of Vincent in Pulp Fiction. April 17, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Breaking Bad character Mike Ehrmantraut was created because Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) was unavailable for one of the episodes of Breaking Bad as he had to shoot for How I met your mother April 15, 2021

Arts & Entertainment DMX avoided a maximum jail term for tax fraud when his lawyer played his song "Slippin'" for the judge in order to show X's struggles and how bad his upbringing was. April 11, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and hundreds more, started smoking at the age of 9, changed his last name from Blank to Blanc, survived a car accident resulting in a two week coma, recorded The Flintstones in a full body cast, and died only a year after recording Who Framed Roger Rabbit. April 4, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Roller coasters were invented to distract American people from immorality of taverns, gambling and dancing halls, and brothels April 3, 2021

Arts & Entertainment The parents of "Simpsons" creator, Matt Groenig, were named Homer & Marge. He also had sisters named Lisa, Maggie, & Patty. April 3, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator in an episode of The Golden Girls and used his pay (about $3600) to help finance Reservoir Dogs. April 2, 2021

Arts & Entertainment The 1990's cult hit "Event Horizon" was heavily inspired by Warhammer 40,000 and many fans of the tabletop strategy game consider the movie to be an unofficial prequel April 2, 2021

Arts & Entertainment The vocal effect used in the song Zombie by the Cranberries is known as 'keening'. This is a wailing sound used in Ireland to mourn the dead at funerals. March 31, 2021

Arts & Entertainment 'Saturn devouring his son' and the 13 other Black Paintings were never meant for public display. In 1819 Francisco Goya went into near isolation and painted the works directly onto the walls of his house. The haunting pictures reflect Goya's internal demons and civil strife occurring in Spain March 24, 2021

Arts & Entertainment The University of Southern California's Spirit of Troy is the only collegiate band to have two platinum records. They have performed at the Oscars, the Grammys, on Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk", for five U.S. Presidents, and at the fall of the Berlin Wall. March 23, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Loretta Lynn's Song "Coal Miner's Daughter" is 100% a true story. The song describes her dad working all night in the coal mine and hoeing corn all day. Her father really was "a coal miner and subsistence farmer," and she really was born in Butcher Hollow, KY. March 22, 2021

Arts & Entertainment Jim Henson originally wanted the Muppets to be for adults and didn't see his characters as a vehicle for children's education and family entertainment. Indeed, he first envisioned something closer to South Park rather than Sesame Street and in the 1950s they did dark comedy in commercials. March 21, 2021