Trivia - Entertainment

• "Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of the state of Ohio.
• Actor Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on MASH) was the only member of the television show cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean War.
• Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in the Hawaiian language.
• Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like A Lady," was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.
• All the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• Alladin was the first Disney movie to feature people(Jasmine) who have belly buttons.
• As of December 30, 1997, Disney held eight of the top ten spots on the All Time Movie Video Sales Chart. The Lion King(1), Aladdin(2), Cinderella(3), Beauty and The Beast(4), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(5), Toy Story(7), 101 Dalmatians(8), Pocahontas(10). The two non-Disney flicks to make the list - Forrest Gump(6), Jurassic Park(9).
• Cary Grant's real name was Archibald Leach, for whom John Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda was named.
• Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• During the 1930's and 40's posters showing movie star Marlene Dietrich's legs were banned from the Paris Metro because they were considered too distracting to riders.
• Elvis Presley had two nicknames for his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley: "Yisa" and "Buttonhead".
• Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again, Sam." He says "You played it for her; you can play it for me... If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"
• In Disney's "Fantasia", the sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney spelt backwards).
• In every episode of "Seinfeld," there is a Superman somewhere.
• Kermit the Frog is left handed.
• King Kong is the first movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
• Kramer made his "entrance" into Jerry Seinfeld's apartment 284 times.
• Mae West never said "Come up and see me some time" in a movie. She actually said, "Why don't you come up some time and see me."
• Mulan is the first feature length production which was created by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Florida which is located at Disney/MGM Studios at Waft Disney World.
• Of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all named after artists and / or sculptors, Donatello does not occur in the same time period as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.
• On the television show - Sesame Street, one man, Caroll Spinney, plays Big Bird AND Oscar the Grouch. From within the 8' 2" yellow feathered suit, Spinney watches a small monitor with the same view as the audience. He operates Big Bird's head with one hand while working bird's hand with his other. When Oscar and Big Bird are in the same scene, Spinney speaks for both Muppets, while another puppeteer operates Oscar.
• On TV game shows, a contestant who freezes before the camera is called a "Bambi", in reference to a deer caught in the glare of headlights."
• Paul Reiser himself plays the piano in the "Mad About You" theme.
• Rap music star - Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
• Shock Rocker Marilyn Manson created his stage name by combining screen legend Marilyn Monroe with serial killer Charles Manson's last name. His real name? Brian Warner.
• Televisions Mr. Ed was played by a horse named Bamboo Harvester. The voice was supplied by Allan Lane.
• The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on "Sesame Street" were NOT named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver on Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" as is widely believed. Sesame Street creators confirm it was purely coincidental
• The costume of Sesame Streets Big Bird is made of Turkey feathers - dyed yellow of course.
• The Don McLean song "American Pie" is NOT named after the airplane Buddy Holly died in. This is incorrectly reported in many trivia web sites.
• The first CD pressed in the US - for commercial release - was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.
• The first motion picture copyrighted in the United States showed a man in the act of sneezing. (The year was 1894.)
• The first television sitcom couple to ever share the same bed on a regular basis was Lily and Herman Munster.
• The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave It to Beaver."
• The first word spoken by an ape in the movie "Planet of the Apes" was "smile".
• The lyricist of the song "Keep the Home Fires Burning," Lena Gilbert Ford, burned to death in her home.
• The movies, The Turning Point (1977 and The Color Purple (1985) both share the record of the most Oscar nominations (11) and no Oscar wins.
• The name Oz, in The Wizard of Oz, was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz".
• The nickname "Tinsel Town" was coined by Oscar Levant, the pianist, composer who observed: "Strip the phoney tinsel off Hollywood, and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
• The Professor on Gilligan's Island was named Roy Hinkley. The Skipper was named Jonas Grumby. Both names were used only once in the entire series, on the first episode.
• The television show Seinfeld was set in New York City, however the exterior that was used for Jerry Seinfeld's apartment house is actually in Los Angeles.
• What do Harry Andersen, Cindy Crawford and (Weird) Al Yankovic have in common? They were all valedictorians.
• When actress Delta Burke competed at the Miss America Pageant as Miss Florida in 1974, she told reporters that she'd been named after her mother's "goofy" cat, Delta, who liked to chase dogs and swim in the ocean.
• When Diane Sawyer competed in the America's Junior Miss Pageant, several judges considered her too serious and sophisticated to serve as a teen titleholder. During rehearsals, nearsighted Diane walked headfirst into a metal post in front of the judges and dissolved into girlish giggles. Charmed by Sawyer's silly side, several judges changed their votes in her favor and she was named 1963 America's Junior Miss.
• When Mrs. New Jersey heard her name announced as Mrs. America 1952, she passed out cold on-stage. It took panicked pageant officials several minutes to revive her.
• While filming the popular 90's Televison series Baywatch, its cast and crew would go through 306 pounds of body makeup and one 50 gallon drum of sunscreen in a season.
• Zeppo Marx of Marx Brothers fame owned a patent for a wrist watch with a heart monitor.