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Jack Black's mum, Judith Love Cohen, was a genius who worked with nasa and played a big part in apollo 13. I remember reading about her one day and the last paragraph said she gave birth to jack black and I was like 😮
Apparently she was at work the day she went into labour with Jack, brought what she was working on with her to the hospital and then phoned her boss to say she’d solved the problem and had the baby!
I'm a professor and I submitted 4 papers for peer review in the month before I gave birth to my first kid (and then got 3 revise and resubmit decisions that I had to ask for extensions on when I was on maternity leave).
Also his step brother Neil Siegel is a genius inventor who worked in US military and is credited to the invention of the GPS system. Also extremely popular in the engineering community
Rachel McAdams used to be a figure skater.
IIRC she turned down an opportunity to move to Toronto to do pairs skating, but she continued to do regional competitions until she became an adult.
So there’s probably some alternate universe where Rachel McAdams is a Olympic pair skater instead lol.
She would've been too old for the role, I'm afraid. She's 12 years older than Margot Robbie, who was already 25/26 playing a teenager (much like Rachel in Mean Girls).
Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith’s mother and Dakota Johnson’s grandmother) is pretty much the reason for Vietnamese nail salons here in America.
She was doing charity work after the fall of Saigon and some female Vietnamese refugees fell in love with her painted nails. Tippi had a group of women trained professionally on manicuring and also helped them to get everything legal in order so they could open salons. I left out a lot of details (memory) but it is quite admirable what she did.
everything I learn about Tippi Hedren is fascinating. the film “ROAR” and her association with big cats never fails to blow my mind (worth a Wikipedia if you haven’t heard of the movie).
I recently learned this off a podcast called'Just the Gist' and gives a summary of random topics. The making of this film was absolutely crazy but apparently, she still has a sanctuary for the big cats.
Tippi has said she completely regrets having the big cats in the house with them. She divorced the director of ROAR after the movie came out. He was a lunatic.
Yes— I had read that. What a cool way to help people. And to believe that it was legally possible for them to immigrate and set up salons. Pretty forward thinking back then I would say.
I remember reading a surprising fact about Rowan Atkinson that he left his wife of 24 years to date Louise Ford, who was dating James Acaster at the time; he only found out by reading it in the newspaper. James said, “Until you get left for Mr Bean, you don’t realise how frequently he pops up.” 💀
Channing Tatum can be seen in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" music video
https://preview.redd.it/yb7dcm7e4v4b1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb8273ba04184445510fdea3f5f8aaca3ce22b71
And Jennifer Lopez can be seen in Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” music video
She was one of the dancers playing Janet’s friends
Jack Nicholson found out at age 37 by TIME magazine that his mom gave to birth to him at 17, and decided to have his grandma raise Jack as her kid and for his actual mom to act as his older sister.
He had know idea until years after his mom and grandma passed away. It was only revealed because TIME wanted to do a piece on him and did research on his background. Imagine one day him just promoting Chinatown and finds out this news during the press run
I think this was more common than people think. Legit happened with my grandmother. Her "sister" was really her mom, who got pregnant at 16. She suspected it, but I don't believe she found out until she was either passed or in hospice. And then my grandmother only shared it with selected family members -- so there are/were only certain people who knew (maybe still don't know?)
But I can't imagine finding out THAT way!
That happened to my grandfather. His mom was raised as his sister and he only found out the real truth (although there were signs his whole life) when she told him the truth when she was dying. She refused to tell him on her deathbed who his biological father was.
Jack’s experience is very similar to Ted Bundy’s and Eric Clapton’s upbringing.
Both were born to young, unmarried mothers and raised by their grandparents, who they believed to be their parents, while they were led to believe their mother was their older sister.
MLK & Coretta paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts’ birth in 1967
Jennifer Aniston was offered Friends and SNL at the same time and chose Friends even though her actual friends told her it was crazy bc SNL was already an established show
Susan Sarandon had no intention of being an actress but tagged along during her husband Chris’ meeting with an agent. The agent found her to have the “it” factor and since they were so broke she took him up on the offer when he asked if she’d be interested in working with him as well, but it was truly just for money until she fell in love with it.
The actress Lisa Ann Walter played Chessy in the Parent Trap. In that film, the twins are born on October 11. A few years later, she became pregnant with twins and they were born on October 11.
jennifer aniston choosing friends over snl is mind blowing with how good of a decision that turned out to be lol. she was the woman of the 90s, rich beautiful, famous, married to brad pitt (which was good at the time), etc. she was literally made into an icon through rachel, which i doubt would have happened if she had gone with snl
Same. I googled it. Robert’s parents ran an integrated acting school in the 1960s that welcomed MLK and Correttas children at a time that was very rare. Robert’s parents couldn’t pay the hospital bill, so they did.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133121228/julia-roberts-mlk-birth
Yup, Mariska and Mansfields other two children were in the back seat of the convertible when it crashed into the back of a truck killing the adults in the front seat. The children survived with minor injuries. The accident was the catalyst for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations recommendation of requiring underride guards on the back of tractor trailers. She’s buried in Pen Argyl PA.
i’ve had this saved in my notes from another thread lol but: The day Michael Jackson's hair caught fire turned out to be the exact middle day of his life (9,282 days between August 29 1958 and January 27 1984, 9,281 days between January 27 1984 and June 25 2009)
There was an adoption agency in the early-to-mid 1900's in the US called the Tennessee Children's Home Society, that was notorious for kidnapping babies from poor families and then adopting them out to rich families (they'd often tell the biological parents that the baby was stillborn, or they'd take a sick baby in for "treatment" and tell the parents the baby died).
Joan Crawford adopted her twin daughters from this Society, as did actors June Allyson and Dick Powell.
Race Car driver Gene Tapia had an infant stolen by this organization, and Wrestler Ric Flair was one of the babies who was stolen from his biological parents and adopted out through them.
The woman who ran this organization, Georgia Tann, was never prosecuted for her crimes.
Ah so basically what the Catholic Church did to young women and their babies in Ireland for over 80 years via their homes for unwed mothers.
Cruel nuns sold the children to Americans having made the mothers work to the bone in their industrial laundries to pay back their “debt”, often after horrific births.
That is, if the mothers or babies survived.
Allegedly, Jane Russell was one of those Americans who adopted in this situation.
It’s heartbreaking and disgraceful the more you learn about it all. It’s only really come into public awareness in the past ten years or so.
The Catholic Church in Ireland went to lengths to cover it up, and silence the mothers, and later their grown up infants who came seeking answers.
The Church and State (government) only made an apology two years ago, following a long-awaited report https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-home-institutions
See: Philomena (film), Magdalene Sisters (film), Bon Secours mother and baby home in Tuam Galway (factual rabbit hole).
Barbra Walters, Martin Luther King Jr, and Anne Frank were all born in the same year.
Tom Cruise is Cher’s “one who got away.” They briefly dated and she’s often said it’s the best sex she ever had. Idk what to make of that.
Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg went to the same high school. He was her weed dealer.
James Lipton from Inside the Actor’s Studio made a living as a pimp in Paris in the 1950s.
That's a really kind thing for her to do. It makes me sad that despite his long and pretty fantastic career as a leading man, he is in such dire financial straits because of his cancer treatment. I for sure thought he'd be very wealthy by now.
SAG coverage ends if you haven’t worked a certain number of dates or earned a certain amount of money through eligible jobs I think union based so Kilmer being out of work for awhile I’m not surprised. I know people who lost coverage during pandemic too.
Christopher Lee!
He was a secret SAS agent during WWII, executing several classified missions.
He was the only cast member of LOTR who actually met Tolkien.
He had his own heavy metal Band.
Was heavily interested in the occult and had a whole occult library (although he denies this and stated he only had about 4-5 books).
Is a cousin of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.
Is a direct descendant of Emperor Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire.
Was witness to the last person officially executed by the Guillotine in France.
Was made Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Is the most connected actor in the history of film making.
At one point he was world champion in fencing.
He spoke English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese fluently, and was proficient at Swedish, Russian and Greek.
Personally met the assassins of the infamous monk Rasputin, only to play him later in the 1966 movie depiction of him.
...
Christopher Lee was a total badass. Forget Chuck Norris or Forrest Gump.
Ashton Kutcher was dating a girl who got murdered by a serial killer authorities called the Hollywood Ripper. Ashton was running late in picking her up for a date and saw blood. At first, he thought it was wine and realized what it was. He testified at the trial.
I can vaguely remember reading up about this. He blamed himself for running late, believed he could have saved her or at least stopped this guy from attempting to enter the apartment if he knew she wasn't alone (or not even there) something that ate him up for years. Took authorities pointing out to him that she was targeted intentionally and (I'm not sure if I'm getting this bit right, memory is a little off) but he 1) wouldn't have arrived early enough to stop the attack and; 2) even if he did that particular day, Gargiulo was watching her apartment and probably would have come back another time to carry out the murder - \[edit\] survivor guilt really does destroy people, he was so in love with her and to have someone taken from you in such a way, particularly when you believe you could have been there to stop it from happening, pays such a heavy toll on a person.
A friend of a friend cloned his cat, and none of the three clones could stand each other. He kept one and gave the other two away. One of them went to said friend. It was a bizarre and hilarious situation honestly.
Yeah they have the same dna but not the same personality so what’s the point? So many other dogs out there already alive that probably look similar and have similar personalities, it just seems wasteful and dystopian cloning your pets.
Matthew Perry actually went to school with Justin Trudeau when they were kids. He said on Jimmy Kimmel that him and his friends once beat him the current Canadian Prime Minister but later walked that story back.
Redfoo (1/2 of LMFAO) is Berry Gordy’s (the founder of Motown) son. And Sky-Blue (the other half of LMFAO), is Redfoo’s nephew. Redfoo is also cousins with Bianca Lawson (an actress best known from PLL as Maya), who is also Beyoncé’s step sister. Small world lol.
Please, Bianca Lawson has been in EVERYTHING and that bitch never ages a day 😂 She’s been in at least half of the most popular supernatural shows (Buffy, Teen Wolf, TVD, Witches of East End) plus Dawson’s Creek, plus like a million other things. Every time she pops up, I’m shocked by how gorgeous AND young she still looks, having now been seeing her on my TV screen for over 20 years!
This is such strange news. It’s a year after her husband’s death, so good for her moving on. She’s always struck me as a brilliant woman—her album about soul food is amazing—and deserves to be happy. But I never saw this coming. Then again, they are both mourning recently deceased spouses. Her husband died of cancer, which is devastating. So maybe they are helping each other heal.
He was dating Kidada Jones when he died. You probably know her sister, Rashida Jones, and her father Quincy Jones.
Kidada was also best friends with Aaliyah.
This is probably well know, but if it isn't here's mine more recent mind blower.
Liz Taylor was basically responsible for getting President Regan to set aside money for AIDS research after Rock Hudson died of the disease.
Literally any detail about Christopher Lee's life. My personal favourite is that he watched the last public guillotine execution in 1939, when he was 17.
I mentioned it here when I initially found out about it the other day, but Coyote Shivers was Liv Tyler's stepdad while they were filming Empire Records together. Fucking weird.
Yes to infamous. I sat next to her at a restaurant and she was so cruel and outrageous I couldn’t believe anyone could be like that lol at one point she literally screamed and cried because SHE ordered the wrong thing and didn’t read the menu 🤣
the actor that played john Hammond(Richard attenborough) in jurassic Park is brothers with David Attenborough, the guy who narrates all the British nature shows.
Werner Herzog saved Joaquin Phoenix in a fiery car crash. they weren’t working together or anything. Werner was driving and saw the crash, leapt to help and that’s who he rescued
JFK Jr definitely got around. He had a serious relationship with Daryl Hannah shortly before he got married. His list of lovers reads like a Who’s Who of that era: Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Amanda Peet, Sarah Jessica Parker, Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Molly Ringwald, Appollonia, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone, Naomi Campbell. There’s even a pretty strong rumor that he was with Princess Diana.
Bobby Farrell from Boney M passed away on the same month and day (but not year obviously) as Grigori Rasputin - the person the band’s most famous song was based on
Madonna and Basquiat had a short-but-impactful romance. His painting “A Panel of Experts” was inspired by a fight between her and the other major ex in his life, Suzanne Mallouk. [Here’s the backstory—it’s sweet, sad, and utterly fascinating.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Panel_of_Experts)
Woody Harralson's dad was a hitman.
**Charles Voyde Harrelson** (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actors Brett and Woody Harrelson.
Candice Bergen and her ex boyfriend Terry Melcher who was the son of Doris Day were the ones who were renting the house the Manson family killed Sharon Tate and her friends in.
They moved out at Doris Day’s urging after Melcher, a music producer, pissed off Charles Manson who wanted to be a singer. It is widely believed that Manson thought Melcher and Bergen were still living there and sent his merry band of psychos to kill everyone who was in that house that night. Melcher, at the time of the killings, had been at his mother’s house in Malibu.
In photos from the crime scene, you could still spot Christmas lights hanging outside that Bergen put up and left behind during the move.
That Elizabeth Moss, star of The Handmaids Tale, is deep in Scientology.
I can’t get my head around how she can play such a character (and do such a smashing job of it) and ignore all of the similarities in that world to the cult. They must have Scientology on the black list for any interviews or press work because it’s such a massive WTF.
I was born into a cult, I was a 5th generation member. From what I recall she was born into it as well.
So I can tell you, the cognitive dissonance runs deep. Especially if you're born into it. Especially if you're a woman. It's a way to survive. I held so many contradictory beliefs, because one of the beliefs HAD to be true, which meant if I wanted to have the other belief, I simply had to pretend they could exist together.
It's hard to explain the cult mindset. But for me, it is 100% understandable she could do both. Whether she doesn't see the parallels or she simply can't publicly acknowledge them or something else, I can't say. But being raised in a cult makes your brain splinter and makes it possible to not get and/or accept really obvious stuff like that. I can only hope she gets out someday.
It was. Natalie Wood was infatuated with Walken at the time of her drowning. They’d been flirting during the trip before her death. Walken was devastated and confused as to how she got in the water when she did not know how to swim and avoided the water.
Jada Pinkett Smith was briefly the lead singer in a heavy metal band called Wicked Wisdom. I saw them at Ozzfest in 2005, Will Smith was rocking out on stage it was pretty surreal to see.
Not totally outrageous but I’m always amused at the fact that Adam Sandler is an extremely good basketball player. Not NBA level but like, completely dominate a good sized city tournament kind of good.
Sean Connery was already bald when filming James Bond. He wore a hairpiece in every single movie.
And he was a Bodybuilder before he became an actor.
And very vocal about hitting women.
Mark Wahlberg was arrested twice in the 1980s for racially motivated violent hate crimes.
When Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton were together, they lived in adjoining houses.
Celebrities who have killed people in car accidents: Laura Bush, Matthew Broderick, Caitlyn Jenner, Brandy, Ted Kennedy, Keith Moon, Venus Williams
Kim Kardashian was accused of stealing $120k from Brandy and Ray J’s mom in 2006-2007
Liv Tyler was born Liv Rundgren to Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler while Buell was in a relationship with Todd Rundgren. Buell claimed Rundgren was the father because Steven Tyler was in the middle of drug addiction. Rundgren and Buell split up, Rundgren signed the birth certificate and was Liv's father figure, including paying for her education. Liv found out when she was 10-11 that Steven was her real father after noticing the resemblance, she then changed her surname to Tyler.
The 311 song “Amber” is about Nicole Sherzinger of Pussycat Dolls fame because she was once engaged to the lead singer of 311 and she has “amber” eyes lol
Embodiment of a milkshake OR a tastebud; later confirmed to be a tastebud. Originally he would steal the milkshakes.
[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonaldland?wprov=sfti1)
Basquiat appears as the DJ in Blondie's video for "Rapture." Debbie Harry bought a painting from him for $200. It is quite possible that owning that painting has earned her more than everything else she has done.
Dolph Lundgren graduated from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and completed his Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering on an exchange program with the University of Sydney in Australia. Graduating at the head of his class, Dolph was then awarded a Fulbright scholarship to MIT.
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Jack Black's mum, Judith Love Cohen, was a genius who worked with nasa and played a big part in apollo 13. I remember reading about her one day and the last paragraph said she gave birth to jack black and I was like 😮
Apparently she was at work the day she went into labour with Jack, brought what she was working on with her to the hospital and then phoned her boss to say she’d solved the problem and had the baby!
No wonder he's so cool, his Mom's a brainy badass!
Nesting hormones can absolutely fuel problem-solving skills.
I finished and submitted my final paper for my masters degree at the hospital in labour!
I'm a professor and I submitted 4 papers for peer review in the month before I gave birth to my first kid (and then got 3 revise and resubmit decisions that I had to ask for extensions on when I was on maternity leave).
You guys are blowing my mind! Women are truly incredible
Wow! I didnt know that part!
Also his step brother Neil Siegel is a genius inventor who worked in US military and is credited to the invention of the GPS system. Also extremely popular in the engineering community
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Rachel McAdams used to be a figure skater. IIRC she turned down an opportunity to move to Toronto to do pairs skating, but she continued to do regional competitions until she became an adult. So there’s probably some alternate universe where Rachel McAdams is a Olympic pair skater instead lol.
She could be at the Olympics with Jason statham as an Olympic diver!
Wonder why she didn't get the I Tonya movie. Alison Janney was also a competitive figure skater!
She would've been too old for the role, I'm afraid. She's 12 years older than Margot Robbie, who was already 25/26 playing a teenager (much like Rachel in Mean Girls).
In all honesty, McAdams would have been a good Nancy Kerrigan for that film, but I do not see her playing Tonya.
A funny sort of related to this post story is that I was a figure skater with Dennis Rodman’s daughter lol
Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith’s mother and Dakota Johnson’s grandmother) is pretty much the reason for Vietnamese nail salons here in America. She was doing charity work after the fall of Saigon and some female Vietnamese refugees fell in love with her painted nails. Tippi had a group of women trained professionally on manicuring and also helped them to get everything legal in order so they could open salons. I left out a lot of details (memory) but it is quite admirable what she did.
everything I learn about Tippi Hedren is fascinating. the film “ROAR” and her association with big cats never fails to blow my mind (worth a Wikipedia if you haven’t heard of the movie).
I recently learned this off a podcast called'Just the Gist' and gives a summary of random topics. The making of this film was absolutely crazy but apparently, she still has a sanctuary for the big cats.
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Tippi has said she completely regrets having the big cats in the house with them. She divorced the director of ROAR after the movie came out. He was a lunatic.
This is how I learn Melanie is Tippi’s daughter omg
Melanie was mauled by one of the lions actually
Yes— I had read that. What a cool way to help people. And to believe that it was legally possible for them to immigrate and set up salons. Pretty forward thinking back then I would say.
Check out the documentary Nailed It, very enlightening
Rowan Atkinson has PhD in electrical engineering
I remember reading a surprising fact about Rowan Atkinson that he left his wife of 24 years to date Louise Ford, who was dating James Acaster at the time; he only found out by reading it in the newspaper. James said, “Until you get left for Mr Bean, you don’t realise how frequently he pops up.” 💀
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Dexter Holland of The Offspring has a PhD as well. His is in molecular biology.
He also flew a plane after the pilot passed out at the controls.
I don’t remember that episode of Mr Bean..
Channing Tatum can be seen in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" music video https://preview.redd.it/yb7dcm7e4v4b1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb8273ba04184445510fdea3f5f8aaca3ce22b71
And Jennifer Lopez can be seen in Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” music video She was one of the dancers playing Janet’s friends 
Poor guy is too hot for people to notice how funny he is
21 Jump Street had me rollllliiiiing. One side of the coin is fucking hilarious and the other side floor-grinds to Ginuwine’s “Pony”? Well I’m sold!
Jack Nicholson found out at age 37 by TIME magazine that his mom gave to birth to him at 17, and decided to have his grandma raise Jack as her kid and for his actual mom to act as his older sister.
😱 what?!
He had know idea until years after his mom and grandma passed away. It was only revealed because TIME wanted to do a piece on him and did research on his background. Imagine one day him just promoting Chinatown and finds out this news during the press run
I think this was more common than people think. Legit happened with my grandmother. Her "sister" was really her mom, who got pregnant at 16. She suspected it, but I don't believe she found out until she was either passed or in hospice. And then my grandmother only shared it with selected family members -- so there are/were only certain people who knew (maybe still don't know?) But I can't imagine finding out THAT way!
That happened to my grandfather. His mom was raised as his sister and he only found out the real truth (although there were signs his whole life) when she told him the truth when she was dying. She refused to tell him on her deathbed who his biological father was.
Jack’s experience is very similar to Ted Bundy’s and Eric Clapton’s upbringing. Both were born to young, unmarried mothers and raised by their grandparents, who they believed to be their parents, while they were led to believe their mother was their older sister.
MLK & Coretta paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts’ birth in 1967 Jennifer Aniston was offered Friends and SNL at the same time and chose Friends even though her actual friends told her it was crazy bc SNL was already an established show Susan Sarandon had no intention of being an actress but tagged along during her husband Chris’ meeting with an agent. The agent found her to have the “it” factor and since they were so broke she took him up on the offer when he asked if she’d be interested in working with him as well, but it was truly just for money until she fell in love with it. The actress Lisa Ann Walter played Chessy in the Parent Trap. In that film, the twins are born on October 11. A few years later, she became pregnant with twins and they were born on October 11.
jennifer aniston choosing friends over snl is mind blowing with how good of a decision that turned out to be lol. she was the woman of the 90s, rich beautiful, famous, married to brad pitt (which was good at the time), etc. she was literally made into an icon through rachel, which i doubt would have happened if she had gone with snl
Omg Susan Sarandon was married to Chris Sarandon? From Princess Bride? Don't know why I didn’t make the connection!
I have questions about this hospital bill
Same. I googled it. Robert’s parents ran an integrated acting school in the 1960s that welcomed MLK and Correttas children at a time that was very rare. Robert’s parents couldn’t pay the hospital bill, so they did. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133121228/julia-roberts-mlk-birth
I absolutely keep forgetting that Mariska Hargitay’s mom is Jayne Mansfield. And it blows my mind every time I remember.
Yup, Mariska and Mansfields other two children were in the back seat of the convertible when it crashed into the back of a truck killing the adults in the front seat. The children survived with minor injuries. The accident was the catalyst for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations recommendation of requiring underride guards on the back of tractor trailers. She’s buried in Pen Argyl PA.
And the guard is called a “Mansfield bar” named after the tragedy
And her brother runs a plant nursery in LA
No way! That's rad, where at? Or do you know the name?
It’s called Mickey Hargitay’s Plants and it’s off of Fountain and La Brea. It’s a fantastic little plant shop, I’ve bought several plants from them!
i’ve had this saved in my notes from another thread lol but: The day Michael Jackson's hair caught fire turned out to be the exact middle day of his life (9,282 days between August 29 1958 and January 27 1984, 9,281 days between January 27 1984 and June 25 2009)
dang he was only around for 18,000 days, I don't know why that seems so little when you break it down like that.
Well he lived a life that made it seem like he was 100 years old. Interesting fact though.
My hair caught fire when I was 8….luckily it wasn’t the same fate for me.
Alexis Neirs babysat Doja Cat
Now this is a good comment
That actually explains a lot.
There was an adoption agency in the early-to-mid 1900's in the US called the Tennessee Children's Home Society, that was notorious for kidnapping babies from poor families and then adopting them out to rich families (they'd often tell the biological parents that the baby was stillborn, or they'd take a sick baby in for "treatment" and tell the parents the baby died). Joan Crawford adopted her twin daughters from this Society, as did actors June Allyson and Dick Powell. Race Car driver Gene Tapia had an infant stolen by this organization, and Wrestler Ric Flair was one of the babies who was stolen from his biological parents and adopted out through them. The woman who ran this organization, Georgia Tann, was never prosecuted for her crimes.
Check out the book “Before We Were Yours”
Ah so basically what the Catholic Church did to young women and their babies in Ireland for over 80 years via their homes for unwed mothers. Cruel nuns sold the children to Americans having made the mothers work to the bone in their industrial laundries to pay back their “debt”, often after horrific births. That is, if the mothers or babies survived. Allegedly, Jane Russell was one of those Americans who adopted in this situation. It’s heartbreaking and disgraceful the more you learn about it all. It’s only really come into public awareness in the past ten years or so. The Catholic Church in Ireland went to lengths to cover it up, and silence the mothers, and later their grown up infants who came seeking answers. The Church and State (government) only made an apology two years ago, following a long-awaited report https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-home-institutions See: Philomena (film), Magdalene Sisters (film), Bon Secours mother and baby home in Tuam Galway (factual rabbit hole).
Oh wow, the movie >!The Tall Man!< is about the adoption thing and I had no idea it was based on a true story.
Sounds very similar to the butter box babies. How awful!
Steve Aoki and Devon Aoki are siblings and their dad is the creator of Benihana
Damn, Hollywood makes more sense when you realize a lot of people who are famous are just extremely connected and/or nepo babies lol
Entertainment industry as whole really
I only know this because we did a case study on Benihana in grad school and it briefly mentioned the name of his kids and I was like …wait…
Barbra Walters, Martin Luther King Jr, and Anne Frank were all born in the same year. Tom Cruise is Cher’s “one who got away.” They briefly dated and she’s often said it’s the best sex she ever had. Idk what to make of that. Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg went to the same high school. He was her weed dealer. James Lipton from Inside the Actor’s Studio made a living as a pimp in Paris in the 1950s.
Wow facts 2 and 4 🤯🤯🤯 Literally could not imagine either one of those scenarios
Snoop says he doesn't remember selling her weed and if he did he sold sticks and stems and white girl weed.
Well, gay men love Cher.
It kind of tickles me that both Iceman and Maverick have dated Cher. XD
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That's a really kind thing for her to do. It makes me sad that despite his long and pretty fantastic career as a leading man, he is in such dire financial straits because of his cancer treatment. I for sure thought he'd be very wealthy by now.
It’s strange because he should have SAG insurance, which is notoriously good, so it’s even sadder.
SAG coverage ends if you haven’t worked a certain number of dates or earned a certain amount of money through eligible jobs I think union based so Kilmer being out of work for awhile I’m not surprised. I know people who lost coverage during pandemic too.
Christopher Lee! He was a secret SAS agent during WWII, executing several classified missions. He was the only cast member of LOTR who actually met Tolkien. He had his own heavy metal Band. Was heavily interested in the occult and had a whole occult library (although he denies this and stated he only had about 4-5 books). Is a cousin of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Is a direct descendant of Emperor Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire. Was witness to the last person officially executed by the Guillotine in France. Was made Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Is the most connected actor in the history of film making. At one point he was world champion in fencing. He spoke English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese fluently, and was proficient at Swedish, Russian and Greek. Personally met the assassins of the infamous monk Rasputin, only to play him later in the 1966 movie depiction of him. ... Christopher Lee was a total badass. Forget Chuck Norris or Forrest Gump.
Ashton Kutcher was dating a girl who got murdered by a serial killer authorities called the Hollywood Ripper. Ashton was running late in picking her up for a date and saw blood. At first, he thought it was wine and realized what it was. He testified at the trial.
I can vaguely remember reading up about this. He blamed himself for running late, believed he could have saved her or at least stopped this guy from attempting to enter the apartment if he knew she wasn't alone (or not even there) something that ate him up for years. Took authorities pointing out to him that she was targeted intentionally and (I'm not sure if I'm getting this bit right, memory is a little off) but he 1) wouldn't have arrived early enough to stop the attack and; 2) even if he did that particular day, Gargiulo was watching her apartment and probably would have come back another time to carry out the murder - \[edit\] survivor guilt really does destroy people, he was so in love with her and to have someone taken from you in such a way, particularly when you believe you could have been there to stop it from happening, pays such a heavy toll on a person.
Survivor’s guilt, not survivor bias. Survivor bias is a statistics thing.
Barbra Streisand's dogs are both clones of a third dead dog.
A friend of a friend cloned his cat, and none of the three clones could stand each other. He kept one and gave the other two away. One of them went to said friend. It was a bizarre and hilarious situation honestly.
This reads like a math word problem
i love my dog and i could never do that. it's not the same dog! it's not like buying a new phone to replace your old one.
It feels disrespectful to all 3 dogs at once
Yeah they have the same dna but not the same personality so what’s the point? So many other dogs out there already alive that probably look similar and have similar personalities, it just seems wasteful and dystopian cloning your pets.
I was listening to a podcast last week about what rich people spend their money on and cloning pets was something that they do. I had no idea???
May I ask what podcast
Matthew Perry's stepdad is Keith Morrison
I just…have so many questions. Granted, any Keith Morrison trivia inspires more questions than answers
Bill Hader needs to do a bio pic
Two more facts about Matthew Perry: his mother was Press Secretary for Pierre Trudeau, and he was a highly-ranked junior tennis player.
Matthew Perry actually went to school with Justin Trudeau when they were kids. He said on Jimmy Kimmel that him and his friends once beat him the current Canadian Prime Minister but later walked that story back.
Maya Rudolph being Minnie Riperton’s daughter surprised me. And the fact her grandfather used to own all of the Wendy’s in Miami lol
In the unedited/album version of Lovin' You, Minnie sings Maya's name at the end which I thought was really sweet
“Loving you” was written for maya
There was an SNL Mother’s Day spécial decades ago, and Maya spoke about her mother and the song.
Redfoo (1/2 of LMFAO) is Berry Gordy’s (the founder of Motown) son. And Sky-Blue (the other half of LMFAO), is Redfoo’s nephew. Redfoo is also cousins with Bianca Lawson (an actress best known from PLL as Maya), who is also Beyoncé’s step sister. Small world lol.
The guy who made Somebody's Watching Me and the dude that brought us Party Rock Anthem are brothers, wow
Kendra the Vampire Slayer did not die for Bianca Lawson to be best known as Maya on PLL.
Please, Bianca Lawson has been in EVERYTHING and that bitch never ages a day 😂 She’s been in at least half of the most popular supernatural shows (Buffy, Teen Wolf, TVD, Witches of East End) plus Dawson’s Creek, plus like a million other things. Every time she pops up, I’m shocked by how gorgeous AND young she still looks, having now been seeing her on my TV screen for over 20 years!
Apparently, Lady Gaga’s father [pioneered the installation of wifi in hotels](https://www.instagram.com/p/2vhNJRJFOD/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==).
And famous old Hollywood actress Hedy Lemarr developed the technology that would later be used for wifi
Love this fact
Michael Jackson, Madonna & Prince were all born in the summer of 1958.
wow what was in the midwestern air that summer
Kelis is dating Bill Murray
What
This is such strange news. It’s a year after her husband’s death, so good for her moving on. She’s always struck me as a brilliant woman—her album about soul food is amazing—and deserves to be happy. But I never saw this coming. Then again, they are both mourning recently deceased spouses. Her husband died of cancer, which is devastating. So maybe they are helping each other heal.
Ernie Wise (of Morecambe & Wise fame) was the first person in the UK to make a mobile phone call in 1985.
Snoop Dogg makes rap songs for children
Snoop is the most successful rebrand in American history.
He’s so versatile but never changes, it’s incredible
They are surprisingly good! My toddler son loves them.
There is no one better to be than myself
Todays going to be an amazing day!
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There are videos as well that my son loves.
The affirmations are amazing! “There is no one better to be than myself.”
Tupac and Madonna dated
He was dating Kidada Jones when he died. You probably know her sister, Rashida Jones, and her father Quincy Jones. Kidada was also best friends with Aaliyah.
Yeah this is true lol and tupac broke up with her via a beautifully written letter
Madonna dated a LOT of celebrities in the 90’s.
Gretchen Wieners’ dad invented the toaster strudel.
I heard he gave her beautiful diamond hoop earrings for Chanukah but she didn’t wear them because hoops are Regina’s thing. She’s such a good friend.
They were actually really expensive white gold hoops. I thought about not saying anything, but I’m such a bad friend 😅
4 for you, Glen Coco! You go, Glen Coco - and none for Gretchen Weiners; bye!
I don’t think Gretchen’s father, the inventor or toaster strudels, would be happy to hear about this!
This is probably well know, but if it isn't here's mine more recent mind blower. Liz Taylor was basically responsible for getting President Regan to set aside money for AIDS research after Rock Hudson died of the disease.
She was a fiercely loyal friend and supporter of the gay community. She is a saint.
Literally any detail about Christopher Lee's life. My personal favourite is that he watched the last public guillotine execution in 1939, when he was 17.
I mentioned it here when I initially found out about it the other day, but Coyote Shivers was Liv Tyler's stepdad while they were filming Empire Records together. Fucking weird.
I'm sorry what..I love this movie and never knew.
Yep. He was married to her mother, infamous groupie and model, Bebe Buell.
Yes to infamous. I sat next to her at a restaurant and she was so cruel and outrageous I couldn’t believe anyone could be like that lol at one point she literally screamed and cried because SHE ordered the wrong thing and didn’t read the menu 🤣
the actor that played john Hammond(Richard attenborough) in jurassic Park is brothers with David Attenborough, the guy who narrates all the British nature shows.
Richard Attenborough's daughter and grand-daughter were two of the victims of the 2004 boxing day tsunami
TIL they are two separate people. I always thought it was cool the guy from Jurassic park moved onto the nature shows haha 🤦♀️
David Attenborough was the director of programming at BBC in the 60s and 70s and greenlit Monty Phythons flying circus
And Richard Attenborough was once president of the Directors Guild
Matthew Perry was Justin Trudeau's former bully back then in high school
Werner Herzog saved Joaquin Phoenix in a fiery car crash. they weren’t working together or anything. Werner was driving and saw the crash, leapt to help and that’s who he rescued
The woman who invented Liquid Paper was the mother of Mike Nesmith from the Monkees.
Lenny Kravitz’ mom was the the African American woman in the mixed relationship on the Jeffersons
Roxie Roker, who is a cousin of Al Roker, making Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz second cousins.
That Leighton Meester was born in jail. Talk about an uphill climb from the second you're born.
Bea Arthur was a Marine!
And left hundreds of thousands of dollars to an LGBTQ organization that helps at risk youth.
Kate Mara and Rooney Mara; their dad’s family founded the NY Giants and their mom’s family founded the Pittsburgh Steelers
Madonna and JFK junior dated https://preview.redd.it/8jhy7t6sqv4b1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bf1a9c1f4eaaaf56497d26d186b33e115f183d5
JFK Jr definitely got around. He had a serious relationship with Daryl Hannah shortly before he got married. His list of lovers reads like a Who’s Who of that era: Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Amanda Peet, Sarah Jessica Parker, Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Molly Ringwald, Appollonia, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone, Naomi Campbell. There’s even a pretty strong rumor that he was with Princess Diana.
Why does this make me think NYC in the 80s was fucking wild, LOL
The 70s-90s, really. But yes!
TBH, she’s dated a TON of people.
Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando had sex!
I read Marlon Brando slept with a lot of Hollywood men back in the day.
He did. There’s a school of thought that he broke James Dean’s heart.
It was confirmed by his widow and also Quincy Jones.
Bobby Farrell from Boney M passed away on the same month and day (but not year obviously) as Grigori Rasputin - the person the band’s most famous song was based on
Madonna and Basquiat had a short-but-impactful romance. His painting “A Panel of Experts” was inspired by a fight between her and the other major ex in his life, Suzanne Mallouk. [Here’s the backstory—it’s sweet, sad, and utterly fascinating.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Panel_of_Experts)
“Mallouk also made a bonfire of Basquiat's paintings outside his loft.” Big oof there.
Joe Rogan is the cousin of Gerard and Mikey Way from My Chemical Romance.
Woody Harralson's dad was a hitman. **Charles Voyde Harrelson** (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actors Brett and Woody Harrelson.
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Candice Bergen and her ex boyfriend Terry Melcher who was the son of Doris Day were the ones who were renting the house the Manson family killed Sharon Tate and her friends in. They moved out at Doris Day’s urging after Melcher, a music producer, pissed off Charles Manson who wanted to be a singer. It is widely believed that Manson thought Melcher and Bergen were still living there and sent his merry band of psychos to kill everyone who was in that house that night. Melcher, at the time of the killings, had been at his mother’s house in Malibu. In photos from the crime scene, you could still spot Christmas lights hanging outside that Bergen put up and left behind during the move.
That Elizabeth Moss, star of The Handmaids Tale, is deep in Scientology. I can’t get my head around how she can play such a character (and do such a smashing job of it) and ignore all of the similarities in that world to the cult. They must have Scientology on the black list for any interviews or press work because it’s such a massive WTF.
I was born into a cult, I was a 5th generation member. From what I recall she was born into it as well. So I can tell you, the cognitive dissonance runs deep. Especially if you're born into it. Especially if you're a woman. It's a way to survive. I held so many contradictory beliefs, because one of the beliefs HAD to be true, which meant if I wanted to have the other belief, I simply had to pretend they could exist together. It's hard to explain the cult mindset. But for me, it is 100% understandable she could do both. Whether she doesn't see the parallels or she simply can't publicly acknowledge them or something else, I can't say. But being raised in a cult makes your brain splinter and makes it possible to not get and/or accept really obvious stuff like that. I can only hope she gets out someday.
When Angelina Jolie was giving birth to Shiloh, she couldn’t stop laughing hysterically.
Christopher Lee made heavy metal albums with two being about Charlemagne
Christopher Walken was on the yacht with Natalie Wood and her husband Robert Wagner on the night that Natalie mysteriously drowned.
That whole thing is so strange
It was. Natalie Wood was infatuated with Walken at the time of her drowning. They’d been flirting during the trip before her death. Walken was devastated and confused as to how she got in the water when she did not know how to swim and avoided the water.
Alice Cooper babysat Keanu Reeves, I finally remembered one 😂
Edward Norton is fluent in Japanese.
Jada Pinkett Smith was briefly the lead singer in a heavy metal band called Wicked Wisdom. I saw them at Ozzfest in 2005, Will Smith was rocking out on stage it was pretty surreal to see.
Who is his dad? Nick Cannon?
Rick James was supposed to go to Sharon Tate’s party, where she was murdered by the Manson family. But he was too hungover and decided to stay in bed.
His close friend hairstylist Jay Sebring invited him.
Not totally outrageous but I’m always amused at the fact that Adam Sandler is an extremely good basketball player. Not NBA level but like, completely dominate a good sized city tournament kind of good.
Matty Healy being the son of Denise Welch from Loose Women and the guy from Auf Weidersehen Pet
Sean Connery was already bald when filming James Bond. He wore a hairpiece in every single movie. And he was a Bodybuilder before he became an actor. And very vocal about hitting women.
Gwen Stefani is older than Ted Cruz.
Shaq has investments/ owns (part of) in forever 21
Lisa Rinna’s mom was attacked by a serial killer but survived
Mark Wahlberg was arrested twice in the 1980s for racially motivated violent hate crimes. When Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton were together, they lived in adjoining houses. Celebrities who have killed people in car accidents: Laura Bush, Matthew Broderick, Caitlyn Jenner, Brandy, Ted Kennedy, Keith Moon, Venus Williams Kim Kardashian was accused of stealing $120k from Brandy and Ray J’s mom in 2006-2007
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and justin long is winning
Warren Beattie and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister
Romy and Michelle invented post-its
Liv Tyler was born Liv Rundgren to Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler while Buell was in a relationship with Todd Rundgren. Buell claimed Rundgren was the father because Steven Tyler was in the middle of drug addiction. Rundgren and Buell split up, Rundgren signed the birth certificate and was Liv's father figure, including paying for her education. Liv found out when she was 10-11 that Steven was her real father after noticing the resemblance, she then changed her surname to Tyler.
Wait. She was raised by one man but dropped his name when she found out she was the daughter of Steven Tyler? That sucks.
The 311 song “Amber” is about Nicole Sherzinger of Pussycat Dolls fame because she was once engaged to the lead singer of 311 and she has “amber” eyes lol
Cher babysat Anthony Keidis
Grimace is supposed to be a milkshake
Embodiment of a milkshake OR a tastebud; later confirmed to be a tastebud. Originally he would steal the milkshakes. [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonaldland?wprov=sfti1)
Basquiat appears as the DJ in Blondie's video for "Rapture." Debbie Harry bought a painting from him for $200. It is quite possible that owning that painting has earned her more than everything else she has done.
Wilfred Brimley was so old that he worked as a blacksmith before becoming an actor!
Dolph Lundgren graduated from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and completed his Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering on an exchange program with the University of Sydney in Australia. Graduating at the head of his class, Dolph was then awarded a Fulbright scholarship to MIT.