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Black Hawk Down is based on true events, but due to the large number of people involved, many of them were combined in order for the film to have fewer characters. Over 100 key participants were condensed down to 39.

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gee, I wonder if that embarrassed him?

All of Bing Crosby's sons are dead; two by suicide.

bing Crosby was a harshly strict father who did not believe in sparing the rod. his kids reacted against that for the rest of their lives and became a heartache for him.

BingCrosby's first wife, Dixie had been a severe alcoholic, and his second wife, thirty years younger than he,

married, apparently happily, moved out of Hollywood, out of the limelight, but years later was badly injured in an

awful car crash which killed her husband.

thanks largely to bing Crosby enterprises, America finally got high fidelity magnetic tape recording technology that Germany had already been using for 2 decades.

Years after Bing Crosby died, his friend Bob Hope said that at Christmastimes, Bing's voice, singing 'White

Christmas' was everywhere, and that it always made him cry, because he still missed him.

bing and bowie sang a xmas duet on tv shortly before bing bit it.

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'The Little Drummer Boy'.

only thing was bowie refused to sing the existing lyrics of drummer boy so they modified them to fit his sensibilities, and a new song was born, "peace on earth."

Bing's last American concert was the same day Elvis died, August 16, 1977. A day I'll never forget, as long as I live----one of those days, to ME, that you remember what you were doing, when you heard.

In 1978, the Star Trek: Phase II TV series was canceled before any episodes had been produced, even though sets had been built, test footage had been shot, and screenplays had been written for over a dozen episodes. Some of the material was later salvaged: the script for the opening two-part episode was used for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and two scripts were used for episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

bing crosby's doctor a little while before had just checked him out and given him a clean bill of health. IOW could not hear any evidence of heart dysfunction through the stethoscope. if only he had not gotten out on that sunny hot golf course that day and done all that walking, he mighta survived longer.

^^^he always seemed like a cool guy to me