12 Bits of Trivia From the Entertainment World to Fill Your Cheeks With Before You Scurry Off to Your Quiet Little Life
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Who Has the Most Oscar Nominations of All Time?
Walt Disney has 59 nominations and 26 wins. As for people with actual talent, Meryl Streep has the most nominations (21) and Katharine Hepburn has the most wins (4).
Joe DiMaggio’s Adorable Last Words
After 37 years since seeing his late wife, Marilyn Monroe, he said, “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”
Groucho Marx’s Appropriately Ironic Last Words
As he lay dying, Groucho said, appropriately enough, “This is no way to live!”
The Barbie/Batman Crossover
To celebrate 85 years of Batman, DC and Mattel are launching Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Barbies.
Chris Evans Was Extremely Iffy on Playing Captain America
He debated heavily whether to take the role: “The pros were that I’d be able to take care of my family forever; the cons were that I would become deeply, deeply unhappy with fame and loss of control.” Everyone spare a moment to think about poor Chris Evans.
‘Star Wars’ Little-Known German Disco Television Special
In 1980, Mark Hamill appeared on a goofball German TV show in a disco parody sketch he “initially didn’t want to do, but then thought, ‘It doesn’t matter, no one will see it outside of Germany.’”
Natalie Portman Can Speak Six Languages
She says she’s iffy-to-fluent in English, Hebrew, French, German, Japanese and Arabic.
Lunchables for the Modern iPad Kid
Mega-influencers MrBeast, KSI and Logan Paul have teamed up to make expensive garbage food for kids, a Lunchables rip-off called Lunchly.
Marvel Is, Adorably, Pretending to Kill Deadpool
Shortly after a billion dollar movie, the Deadpool comic book says they’ve killed off Wade Wilson and replaced him with his daughter, Ellie. Surely this massively popular and unkillable character will stay dead for real.
David Schwimmer Has the Wrong Takeaway From His Almost-Casting in ‘Men in Black’
Schwimmer says he was supposed to play Will Smith’s role in Men In Black, concluding that it “would have made me a movie star,” and not that Men In Black would have sucked.
The Teletubbies Are Joining a Horror Franchise
The horror survival game Dead by Daylight routinely includes new pop-culture characters, and they’ve announced that the Teletubbies will be among the next batch.
Colin Farrell Had to Wear a Fake Dong to Play the Penguin
Farrell said that his “anatomically correct” bodysuit included a “Penguin pecker.”