Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment Kirsty MacColl, vocalist and female singer in "Fairytale of New York", died saving her son from an oncoming powerboat owned by a multimillionaire while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico. The boat's driver escaped jail time by paying a fine of $90USD. March 18, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Actor Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player, often playing on set between takes. During World War II, he played correspondence chess with members of the military posted overseas or in hospitals. The FBI intercepted this mail and thought he was sending secret codes to Europe. March 17, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Hallmark movies take 3 weeks to film with a $2mil budget. March 15, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Actor Jack Gleeson, who played King Joffrey on Game of Thrones, said the scene he enjoyed the most after three seasons on the show, was when Joffrey's corpse was lying on a plinth in the set with ceremonial stones covering his eyes, because he got to sleep for the whole day. March 12, 2019

Arts & Entertainment The Pearl Harbor memorial development had slowed to a halt, only for Elvis to jump in and contribute 50,000 dollars through his "Aloha from Hawaii" benefit concert. March 11, 2019

Arts & Entertainment To determine which movie characters best embodied psychopathic traits, forensic psychiatrist Samuel Leistedt and ten colleagues watched 400 movies over 3 years. Their winner: Anton Chigurh from "No Country for Old Men." March 10, 2019

Arts & Entertainment In Marvel comics, The Beatles are actually a group of rogue skrulls who came to Earth to invade it but decided that the money and power was better. March 9, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Willie Nelson has played the same guitar,"Trigger" for 50 years. It has been signed by friends, family, lawyers, and Johnny Cash. It was his last remaining possession twice. Willie has played it at over 10,000 shows and he gets it repaired every year at the same shop in Austin,TX March 9, 2019

Arts & Entertainment How Much Do Pat Sajak and Vanna White Make on The Wheel of Fortune? March 7, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Schwarzenegger faked interest in the movie "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot" to trick Stallone into starring in it. Stallone later called the movie "maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen." March 6, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Alec Guinness agreed to be in Star Wars (Obi-Wan Kenobi) only after his initial salary was doubled, and that he would receive 2.25% of all gross royalties paid to George Lucas, and never have to make a publicity appearance. March 6, 2019

Arts & Entertainment The star wars theme was written purposely on the same key as the 20th Century Fox fanfare (that used to appear before the movie started) so that there will be a continuous feeling and a smooth entry to the film for the viewers. March 5, 2019

Arts & Entertainment After "Rocky IV," a joke circulated around Hollywood that Rocky had run out of earthly opponents and would have to fight an alien if a fifth film was made. That joke inspired the script for "Predator." March 5, 2019

Arts & Entertainment After realizing his voice would be dubbed, David Prowse, the actor for Darth Vader, often improvised his lines which resulted in his co-stars having to respond to the correct lines anyway. March 5, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Pink Floyd's The Wall is implied to be an endless loop. The final song, Outside the Wall, ends with the words "Isn't this where...", and the album begins with the words "... we came in?" with a continuation of the melody of the last song, hinting at the cyclical nature of Water's theme. March 5, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Billy West, who does the voice of Philip J. Fry's on Futurama among other characters, intentionally made Fry's voice close to his natural voice as a job security measure because it would be more difficult to replace him. March 5, 2019

Arts & Entertainment Mark Knopfler Agreed to Allow Weird Al to Parody "Money for Nothing" on the Condition That He Play the Lead Guitar on the Track. February 14, 2019