12 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Won’t Repeat If You Know What’s Good for Ya

There’s a good reason why the characters remark on Mordecai looking different: the hawk that played Mordecai was hawknapped part way through filming, but instead of paying up, the producers just brought in a new one.

After arresting Timberlake for drunk driving, police officer Michael Arkinson was presented with Sag Harbor’s Officer of the Year Award.

Estonia’s entry in this year’s Eurovision is a crazy string of Italian stereotypes, with lyrics like “Ciao bella, I’m Tomaso, addicted to tobacco. Mi like mi coffè very importante” and “Mi money numeroso, I work around the clocko. That’s why I’m sweating like a mafioso. Life is like spaghetti, it’s hard until you make it.”

Brody’s five-minute, 40-second acceptance speech for Best Actor at the Oscars was the longest in history, beating out Greer Garson’s 1943 speech by 10 seconds.

Rugmeister Steve Olive has been providing custom red carpets for Hollywood events for three decades, including 150 feet of special “Academy Red,” shipped in from Georgia, that’s only used at the Oscars.

The most recent category to be added to the Oscars is Best Casting, which started in... the future. 2026 will be the first year that category will be awarded.

While filming The White Lotus, Goggins was bit by a snake and had to be rushed to a hospital. He claims his fear of snakes eclipses the average phobia: “I am terrified of snakes. There’s something, like, genetically wrong with me when it comes to snakes.”

Curry slammed his first dunk since 2019 in a recent game, and said he’s probably done with all that now: “That will probably be my last dunk. I’m calling it right now. That was the last one you’re going to see.”

In an L.A. Lakers game against the New Orleans Pelicans, LeBron’s first point made him the first NBA player in history to score 50,000 points in regular season and postseason games.

The Hollywood Reporter has tracked down 27 novels that are set to become movies or streaming series this year, including Stephen King’s The Running Man, kids’ graphic novel Dog Man and classics by Judy Blume and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A judge has ruled that Crichton’s widow can continue her lawsuit against Warner Bros. for revving ER back to life under a different name and cutting her out of the deal.

In a recent interview, Hammer said, “I tried hooking up with a dude one time. I was like, you know what? Like, women are the worst. Gay dudes seem to have it so easy.”