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
.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.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

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

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
decision between trying out for the United States Olympic track
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.

Actress Cheryl Ladd 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.

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.
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.
The first inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 were Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose
and Hank Williams.

In October, 1959 Elizabeth Taylor became the first Hollywood star to

receive $1 million for a single picture - for Cleopatra.

Allman Brothers Band members Duane Allman and Berry Oakley

were killed in separate motorcycle accidents within only three blocks
and one year of each other.

MGM stars Clark Gable and Joan Crawford starred together in the
risqué film Dance, Fools, Dance in 1931, the first of eight features
that teamed the pair together

Barry Manilow sang, but did not write, the 1976 chart-topping song I
Write the Songs.

Brad Pitt posed for a campus calendar in college.

Actor Billy Bob Thornton’s mother, Virginia, is a psychic.

Paris Hilton has often been dubbed as the most “useless” celebrity
in America. Unable to claim talent, good deeds, any type of
purpose, business acumen, or even a memorable personality,
multiple sources bash the beautiful heiress whose only claim to
fame is in having made an amateur pornographic video. By some
descriptions of the video, she’s not even “good” in bed.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old
when they died.

Hank Patterson, the 80 year old actor, who played Fred Ziffel on
Green Acres was deaf. The dialogue coach , Phil Gordon, would lay
on the floor and tap him on his leg with a yardstick when it was time
for him to deliver his line.

C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

The teddy bear was named for Theodore Roosevelt because he refused to shoot a bear cub
while hunting.

Some of the shortest celebrity marriages on record include Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas
at 30 days, Cher and Gregg Allman at 9 days, Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips at 8 days. But
Britney Spears wins the infamous prize for shortest marriage, at just 55 hours.

The title role of the 1971 movie Dirty Harry was originally intended for Frank Sinatra. After he
refused, it was offered to John Wayne, and then Paul Newman, before finally being accepted by
Clint Eastwood.

Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller made his screen debut as the vine-swinging
ape-man in Tarzan, the Ape Man in 1932.

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a 1984 auto accident.
Lisa Kudrow has a degree in Sociobiology. She originally planned to be a doctor.

Traci Lords rose from an abused child to the reigning princess of porn while she was underage.
One of the most popular porn stars of the time, her career was cut short by a crackdown on child
pornography. Undaunted, Lords is one of the few porn stars who has been able to make the
transition to mainstream television and movies.

In Meg Ryan's 1981 film debut in Rich and Famous, Candice Bergen played her mother.

As a teenager, Kevin Costner sang in a church choir.

Everyone knows the Beatles were George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo
Starr. But there were also two lesser known, previous members of the band: Pete Best and Stu
Sutcliffe.

Actress Sally Field was paid $4,000 a week for her role in the TV show The Flying Nun.

Jerry Mathers was discovered at age 2 by a department store manager who used Jerry's photo
on the store's Christmas calendar. In 1954, at age 2.5 Jerry made his TV debut on The Ed
Wynn Show.

Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit.

Broadway actress Helen Hayes made her screen debut in The Sin of Madelon Claudet in 1931
and won the Best Actress Academy Award for her first talkie.

Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond was in 1995 Golden Eye.

Gerald Ford was the only president not elected into office.

Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

Nicole Kidman suffered a broken rib while rehearsing a dance routine for Moulin Rouge.

Before succeeding in the movie industry, director James Cameron was a school bus driver.

Tom Cruise started wearing braces in 2002. He removes them during filming.

Katharine Hepburn made her screen debut in A Bill of Divorcement in 1932.

Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular television

show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real
mother.

For the blockbuster movie The Terminator, O.J. Simpson was

considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers rejected
him as they thought he would not be taken seriously.

In 1968, John Lennon and girlfriend Yoko Ono's album Two Virgins
was sold in the United States in a plain brown paper wrapper as on
the real cover they both had posed nude.
The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress
Candice Bergen.

Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh’s father, Vic Morrow died in a

helicopter crash while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie.

he Beach Boys waited 22 years to score their first chart-toping

single.

Ozzy Osbourne was trying to bite the head off a bat in concert when
the bat decided to bite back.

Barbara Streisand has waxed more gold and platinum albums than
any other solo female artist.

Adolf Hitler had some Jewish heritage -- his great great

grandmother was a Jewish maid.

The first country artist to sell over 10 million copies of an album was
Garth Brooks.

Young platinum blonde star, Jean Harlow, appeared in her first major role in Howard Hughes'
World War I aviation epic, Hell's Angels in 1930. Harlow was then signed by MGM in 1932 and
soon became a major star.

Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.

Curly-topped, dimpled child star Shirley Temple appeared in her first films, an Our Gang type
series of shorts titled Baby Burlesks, in 1933.

Actress Jayne Mansfield accidentally exhaled her breast out of her dress during the telecast of
the Academy Awards in 1957.

Rock and roll singer, Little Richard, played a transvestite named Lavonne in gay clubs early in his
career.

Actor Kurt Russell once played minor league baseball for two years before tearing a shoulder
muscle.

When Tom Cruise was seven years old, he was diagnosed as dyslexic. He claims Scientology
helped him overcome it.

Christian Brando, Marlon Brando's son, murdered his pregnant, mentally disturbed sister's
boyfriend in a drunken rage. Brando and prosecutors reached a plea and Brando pled guilty to
voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Dolly Parton was the first woman in country music to have her her own
syndicated television show.
Doris Day, the wholesome actress whose movie career was on a down slide by the late Sixties,
was approached to play the role of Mrs. Robinson. She turned the part down because she
thought the movie was "trashy."

Winona Ryder's childhood home in Elk, California had no electricity.

The Beatles song Dear Prudence was written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, when she
wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

Oprah Winfrey's production company Harpo is Oprah spelt backwards.

Musician Eric Clapton grew up thinking his mother was his sister.

American Pie star Jason Biggs spent a year playing bad boy Pete Wendall on the TV soap opera
As The World Turns.

Roger Ebert is the only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Jenna Elfman of Dharma & Greg fame had such bad buck teeth in high school that the other kids
all called her Bucky Beaver.

Bela Lugosi was buried in his Dracula cape.

Actress Elizabeth Shoe’s movie debut was as Ralph Macchio’s girlfriend Ali in Karate Kid.

B-actor John Wayne made his first major role debut a western called The Big Trail in 1930. The
film was one of the first shot in "Grandeur," Fox's experimental wide-screen 70mm format. Both
the film and the new process flopped; it would be nine more years before his star-making
appearance in Stagecoach in 1939.

James Doohan, who played Scottie in Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right
hand.
Comedian Buddy Hackett was asked to become one of the Three
Stooges after Curly Howard suffered a stroke in 1946. He declined,
pursuing his own style of comedy.

The early stage names of Sonny and Cher were "Cleo and Caesar".

Lana Turner, glamorous movie queen of the 1940’s had an affair

with a small time hood named Johnny Stompanato in the late
1950’s. On the very night that she was nominated to get an Oscar
for her role in Peyton Place, she and Stompanato quarreled loudly
in the bedroom of her Beverly Hills home. When Turner’s 14-year-
old daughter, Cheryl Crane, overheard Stompanato threaten her
mother, the young girl grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and
ran upstairs. In the struggled, the eight-inch blade severed
Stompanato’s aorta and he died in the bedroom. The killing was
ruled a justifiable homicide but became one of Hollywood's most
talked-about crimes.

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg played a cameo role as the

clerk who receives Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi's money at the
end of the Blues Brothers.

Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake -- she had them knocked out
when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.

At age 21, George Clooney tried out for the Cincinnati Reds, but
obviously didn’t make it.

Actress Annette Bening cooked on a charter boat for a year to help

pay for college.

While mom Naomi and sister Wynonna tried to make it in the music
business, Ashley Judd attended 12 different schools.

While she was growing up, actress Glenn Close’s father operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo.
She lived in Africa and attended boarding schools in Switzerland.

Tom Cruise took up acting after losing his place on a high school wrestling team.

Ronald Reagan's first screen credits was the starring role in the 1937 movie Love Is On the Air.

Brad Pitt is banned from entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.

Julia Roberts lies on her back to have her make-up applied before going onto a film set. She
insists it gives her a relaxed look.

1,400 actresses were interviewed for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.

Spade Cooley, a wildly successful country music band leader during the 1940’s and ‘50’s,
shocked Hollywood with brutal murder of his wife. In 1961, Spade attacked his estranged wife,
beating her to death while their 14-year-old daughter watched. Spade was convicted of murder
and sentenced to life in prison, where he died of a heart attack at age 59.

In 1997, Tom Cruise and other big time Hollywood entertainers took out an international
newspaper ad denouncing Germany for resorting to the same totalitarian tactics against
Scientologists that the country used against the Jews under Hitler during the 1930's.

Actress Demi Moore is totally blind in her left eye after undergoing an operation to correct a
squint when she was a child.

Who in the heck is Kevin Federline? Before he married Britney Spears and fathered her baby, no
one knew who he was. Having no fame and no money, he was a small time dancer in Britney’s
opening act. That man has really come up in the world. Allegedly, he spends Spears’ money like
it’s going out of style. Most celebrity watchers predict a quick demise of the marriage, as well as
Britney’s potential for one day overtaking the title as the most married celebrity.

The original captain of Star Trek's starship Enterprise was Jeffrey Hunter, and not William Shatner
in the pilot episode The Cage which aired in 1964. The cast was quite different from the pilot with
the exception of Leonard Nimoy as Spock.

Johnny Depp has a tattoo that reads "Winona Forever."

Actress Sissy Spacek got so into the part of Carrie that she slept with fake pig's blood all over her
to ensure continuity.

Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and George Takei have all
appeared at one time or another on The Twilight Zone.

Actor Greg Kennear worked on the advertising campaign for the movie Space Sluts in the
Slammer.

The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide.

Denise Richards' first kiss was with a boy who’d had his front teeth taken out the day before.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is the great aunt of Paris Hilton.

Actor Denzel Washington graduated from Fordham University with a BA in journalism.

Angelina Jolie has a tattoo on her stomach that spells out the Latin words meaning "What
Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me."

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called the "American Pie." Thus the name of the Don
McLean song.

The Beatles' first song to hit the UK charts was Love me Do on October 11, 1962.

The first song played on the armed forces radio during Operation Desert Storm was Rock the
Casba by The Clash.

Christina Ricci was turned down for two roles opposite Leonardo DiCaprio including Juliet in
Romeo and Juliet, and Rose in Titanic.

Before allowing actress Annette Funicello to appear in all those beach party movies, Walt Disney
insisted that she could not be involved in any "suggestive" scenes, nor uncover her navel.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike
contest.

Winston Churchill had a learning disability.

In her first job, actress Anne Heche worked as a dinner theater

singer in high school to earn money to help her family.

Actress Sandra Bullock’s mother is a European opera singer.

Courtney Cox was dubbed TVs Hottest Babe by American Playboy

Magazine.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes

Actress Debra Winger helped to perform the voice of E.T. in the

movie E.T.

Thomas Edison couldn't read until he was twelve years old and had
a very difficult time writing even when he was older.

Michael Jackson has won the most grammies with a total of eight.

Don Johnson has been involved in four feature moves as the Music
Director.

Marvin Gaye, marketed as Motown’s lover man as he sang soulful

romances, often beat the women he loved and forced them into
degrading sexual acts. All this ended, after he attacked his father
who then shot and killed him in 1984.

As a teenager, actor-writer Matt Damon, earned extra cash by being

a sidewalk break-dancer.

Jamie Lee Curtis says plastic surgery makes her look weird and claims it is the worst thing she’s
ever done.

Keenan Ivory Wayans is from a family of 11 children. Three brothers, Damon, Marlon, and
Shawn, and sister Kim are also in show business.

Hitler ordered tanks to be made in Michigan and told the company to not worry about sending
them to Germany, he'd 'pick them up on his way through Detroit.

Actor Richard Gere was considered to play the role of John McClane in the movie Die Hard.
Instead, Bruce Willis played the part.

John Holmes, star of 2,500 pornographic movies was the main suspect in the Laurel Canyon
murders in the hills above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. In what is thought to have been a
drug-related murder, four people were beaten to death with a steel pipe on July 1, 1981.
Authorities were unable to prove Holmes was behind the atrocity. He died in 1988 from AIDS-
related complications.

Sarah Bernhardt, regarded as France's greatest actress, was disabled by a knee injury. Though
her leg was amputated in 1914, she continued starring on stage until just before her death in
1923.

Actress Kate Winslet, at age 11, appeared in a television cereal commercial frolicking with a
honey monster.

Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer is the most aired video in MTV history.

Canadian actress Joanna Gleason the daughter of Monty Hall.

Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie Silence of the
Lambs. She turned down the role because she found it too scary.

Kim Basinger once threw her modeling portfolio off the Brooklyn Bridge.

George Clooney is terrified of earthquakes.

Albert Einstein had a learning disability and did not speak until the age of three. When he got to
school he a very difficult time in math it was very hard for him to express himself through writing.

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

Hollywood box office star, Tommy Lee Jones, appeared in the soap opera One Life to Live as the
character of Mark Toland, who was involved in blackmail, numerous affairs and was wanted for
murder. Jones spent four years on the soap opera.

The Carpenters signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television
commercial for a California bank. The music played in the background of a scene in which a
newlywed couple had, of course, just begun their lives together. Richard Carpenter saw the
commercial and sculpted it into the classic song that we know today.

Actress Liv Tyler first realized she might be singer Steve Tyler’s daughter at the age of 11 when
she went to a Steve Tyler concert and realized how much she looked like him.

Actress Brooke Shields’ grandfather, Francis X, was a tennis champion.

Beethoven, the composer, was deaf.

Mel Blanc holds the distinction as the most prolific (most projects) actor ever, with 836 film efforts.

Johnny Mathis’ 1958 album, Johnny’s Greatest Hits, was the first Greatest Hits album ever
marketed, spending three weeks at #1 and 490 consecutive weeks on Billboard’s Pop Album
chart. That’s almost 9 ½ years!

Singer Mick Jagger was once a porter at a mental hospital.

David Letterman started his TV career as a weekend weathercaster at an Indianapolis station.

98% of today’s popular movies have characters that use drugs, alcohol, or tobacco.

Julia Roberts is a vegetarian.

Chastity Bono’s only movie role was in the 1994 film Bar Girls. In a bit part, she played “Scorp.”

George Washington could barely write and had very poor grammar skills.

Before breaking into films, actor Hugh Grant headed a comedy group called the Jockeys of
Norfolk.

In 1979, actor Mel Gibson had an edge for the starring role in Mad Max because just before the
audition he had gotten into a fight and his face was badly battered.

Scientology actively helps arrange celebrities' divorces and marriages when Scientology deems
them beneficial to Scientology. These include Tom Cruise's divorce from Mimi Rogers and Lisa
Marie Presley’s marriage to Michael Jackson. The organization hoped to make Jackson a
Scientologist so he would recruit large numbers of youth.

Melanie Griffith's mother is Tippi Hedren, best known for her lead role in the movie The Birds.
When Britney Spears checks into a hotel she uses the name Allota Warmheart so that no-one will
recognize her.

Rita Moreno is the first and only entertainer to have received all four of America's top
entertainment industry awards including the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony, and the Grammy.

Actor Richard Gere attended the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship for gymnastics.

Michael di Lorenzo who is on New York Under Cover was one of the lead dancers on Michael
Jackson's Beat It video.