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Amy Winehouse
  • Amy Winehouse was kicked out of school for piercing her nose at the age of 13
  • Amy Winehouse died at the same age as Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain… the 27 club? Is it a fact?

Dirty Comic Artists
  • One of the creators of Superman, Joe Shuster, also drew S&M and bondage comics that were so despicable that they were banned by the Supreme Court. Their publisher, a mobster turn porn peddler was sentenced to jail
  • The creator of the original Star Trek series, Gene Roddenberry created another TV series in 1971 called ‘Pretty Maids all in a row’ about a gym teacher engaging in intercourse with his students. Scottie from the original series even casted in it as the lead actor’s partner
  • Dan DeCarlo drew Archie for almost 50 years. However, he also drew pinups for a girlie digest called Humorama

Reality TV
  • UK show Strictly Come Dancing sold to 38 countries and had a peak audience of 13.3 million vieweds which was almost a 50% audience share
  • It costs SGD$750,000 to make one episode of a reality TV show compared to SGD$3 million for a sitcom
  • More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women
  • 1 in 10 UK teenager would abandon their education to be on reality TV
  • Susan Boyle’s audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 was watched by over 120 million people on YouTube
  • 1 in 4 show on US primetime is a reality show
  • Gordon Ramsay said expletives over 80 times in one episode of Kitchen Nightmares
  • In 2010, Malaysia casted for Imam Muda where contentents were pitted in tests of Islamic theory, and challenges included counselling teenagers, preparing corpses for burial and Quran reciting. The top prize was a new car, a job as an Imam and a scholarship in Saudi Arabia
  • Reality TV actually started on the radio in 1947 with Candid Microphone

Oscars
  • The oscar statuettes were once made of plaster – during the war
  • Only one wooden statuette was ever presented. It was to a ventriloquist dummy (Charlie McCarthy)

Three stooges, The
  • The three stooges were made up of six men
  • Three of the men were actually brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp)

James Bond 007
  • James Bond Casino Royale is actually based on Ian Flemming’s first Bond novel
  • There have been seven American Bond Girls, four English , three French, two Swedish and one each from Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland , Italy, and Poland
  • Bond was born in Germany
  • Roger Moore was the oldest Bond actor at 58
  • The Bond franchise has raked in almost $4 billion dollars
  • Sean Connery’s wife doubled for actress Mie Hama in a water-dive scene for You Only Live Twice

Chaplin, Charlie
  • Charlie Chaplin once won 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest

shrek
  • The voice of Shrek (by Mike Myers) came from the accent that his mother would use when telling him bedtime stories

Barney
  • The actor playing Barney the purple dinosaur, David Joyner, is originally from Illinois, but moved to Dallas later in his life. A separate actor voiced Barney, Bob West. He is a graduate from Trinity University, named one of the top schools in the nation by US News; and now he’s making funny voices for a living

Oz, Frank
  • Frank OZ provides the voice of Yoda, also the Cookie Monster, Fozzie Bear and Ms. Piggy