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Tim Allen used to be a coke dealer.

"The Beverly Hillbillies"

Re: The character "Granny": The character's REAL name was "Daisy Moses".

HA----who knew!!

Three months ago, March 8th, Suzanne Leigh Holman, the only child of Vivien Leigh, died.

The character most frequently portrayed in horror films is Count Dracula, the creation of the Irish writer, Bram Stoker.

Though Vlad Tepes was supposedly the individual whom Bram Stoker patterned Count Dracula after, it was actually Tepes' neice, Countes Elizabeth Bathory who had the homicidal, blood-drinking habits.

Bathory wasn't related to Vlad to my knowledge, and she certainly wasn't his niece. (He was 80 years in the grave before she was born.) Neither of them are likely to have drunken blood, either, despite tall tales to the contrary. Bathory did, however, bathe in the blood of the young women she killed, believing that it would keep her young, and Vlad had his own kind of bloodlust: impaling his enemies on his front lawn to frighten off other challengers to his throne.

As for Bram Stoker, it's complicated. Did he base Count Dracula on Vlad the Impaler? Yes and no. He already had the book outlined before he ever heard of Vlad. After reading about him, he changed some details at the last minute to fit his vampire more in line with the tyrant. He gave the vampire Dracula's name, changed his homeland from Austria to Transylvania, and added some lines of dialogue suggesting that the count and Vlad are one and the same. ("He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land.")

R.I.P. Christopher Lee----you were SOOOO GOOD in LotR!!

canNOT believe that he is gone......one of the most fascinating lives ever lived!

I know.

He portrayed Johhny Depp's father in Tim Burton's Willie Wonka movie.

Alan Hale (father of Alan Hale Jr, who played the Skipper on Gilligan's Island) played Little John in three unrelated Robin Hood films spanning 28 years: Robin Hood (1922), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950).

Thorley Walters played Dr. Watson in four unrelated Sherlock Holmes films spanning 15 years: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), The Best House in London (1969), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), and Silver Blaze (1977).

In each case, the sidekick never worked with the same Robin/Holmes actor twice.

Though he was splendid in the film, Richard Burton did not really want to do 'Anne Of The Thousand


Days'.....he only did it for the money.

Michael Caine did Jaws: The Revenge only for the paycheck. When asked about the movie in an interview, he replied: "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

Dorothy Stratten is buried in the same cemetery as Marilyn Monroe.

The epitaph on her tombstone is a long quote from Hemingway.

I saw an episode of "Laverne and Shirley", last night, and Fred Willard was on there. His character brought-along a date, for Shirley (his character was dating Laverne), and said the person was his cousin. At the end of the show, the guy, that he brought-along, said: "He's not even my cousin----I met him at a dirty book store." I almost fell off my couch!! Could that have been the TRUTH? LOLOLOL

Meissa IV es jus sold her late mother's penthouse.

For twenty-eight million dollars.

Twenty.

Eight.

Million.

Dollars.

For an eleven-room penthouse overlooking Central Park.