re: Post Interesting Facts About Famous People

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The lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams, is the son of composer John Williams who wrote the scores to Jaws, E.T., Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, and about a million other movie soundtracks.

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Bobby Kimball, the original lead singer of Toto is from Vinton, LA.

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(Paul) Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater. He enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University but was dropped when his colorblindness was diagnosed. He later recounted that it was "a bit more complicated" than colorblindness. He also "couldn't do the mathematical things that being a pilot requires". A subsequent test found that he was not colorblind. Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and tail gunner. He performed poorly in that role, and a friend from the service recounted in Newman's posthumous memoir that his friends lied to Navy trainers so he could pass.

Qualifying in torpedo bombers in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He was assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100, responsible primarily for training replacement combat pilots and aircrewmen, with special emphasis on carrier landings.Newman later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the aircraft carrier Bunker Hill with other replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in spring 1945. The pilot of his aircraft had an earache and was grounded, as was his crew, including Newman. The rest of their squadron flew to the Bunker Hill. Days later, a kamikaze attack on the vessel killed several hundred crewmen and airmen, including other members of his unit.

In a 2011 interview, screenwriter Stewart Stern recounted that Newman drew on an incident from his Navy years as an "emotional trigger to express the character's trauma" when acting in the 1956 film The Rack. He said that Newman thought back to an incident in which his best friend was sliced to pieces on an aircraft carrier by a plane's propeller.

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He had Survivor's Guilt for the rest of his life and his widow is an LSU alumna.

George Strait had 60 songs reach number 1 but his most famous song, "Amarillo By Morning", did not.

Re Dolores Hart:

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Robert McQueeney (March 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an American actor, best known for television roles during the 1950s and 1960s. During and after his acting career, he also worked as a golf pro and instructor.

He appeared in guest roles on such television series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke and Decoy, as well as Warner Bros. Television's Lawman, 77 Sunset Strip, Bronco and the short-lived The Alaskans.

His one shot at a leading role in a series was his portrayal of newspaper reporter Conley Wright on Warner Bros./ABC's short-lived World War II series, The Gallant Men (1962–63). He played supporting roles in such films as Portrait of a Mobster (1961) and The Glory Guys (1965).

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After the annulment of his marriage, he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. For twenty years until his death, he was the spiritual director for the Padre Pio Foundation of America in Cromwell, Connecticut.

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Sister Dolores was also based in Connecticut

Call me sentimental, but I like to think they got together occasionally

When working on a movie together, a young Kurt Russell got Charles Bronson (a grown man, and a difficult SOB), a gift for his birthday. Bronson retreated to his trailer, but later called Russell over to thank him, and that no one had ever gotten him a gift before.

Bronson later buys Russell a skateboard, but when Kurt was caught riding it all-round the MGM lot, the president of the studio said it was against their insurance policy. Bronson marches into the president's office, and tells him that he and Kurt both have skateboards, and that they'll be riding them, and that's the end of that.

Russell and Bronson remaind warm friends throughout Bronson's life.

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Bettie Page Vanderbilt '44

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She actually graduated from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville it only later merged with Vanderbilt.

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The OG inventor of Frosted Flakes did It to keep people from being aroused by food.

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Graham crackers as well.

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Also, instead of a regular guitar pick, May uses a British sixpence coin.

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Fun fact/Pro Dad tip:
Old British wedding tradition is for the bride to have a sixpence in her shoe for the ceremony.

Also the caring father of a bride can help her kill two birds with one stone if they beforehand gift to her an old sixpence coin as it will also serve as the “something old” requirement brides care about.

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Counting Archie, the Mannings have won 4 Super Bowls

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And ZERO SEC championships.


Despite, of course, of their ridiculous claim...