12 Pop-Culture Trivia Facts To Quell The Monday Madness

KISS is offering an extreme VIP experience where fans can hang out with Gene Simmons (and act as his personal assistant and roadie) for a day, for just $12,495.

Johansson doesn’t like to take pictures with fans when she’s not working. She says it’s not meant to convey a lack of appreciation, but that “I don’t want to be identified as being in this time and place with you. I’m doing my own thing.” There’s a big difference, buddy.

Some of the NBA’s biggest stars are hiring firms to manage their social accounts in China to juice their personal brands in general, and specifically to get more All-Star Game fan votes.

According to the Russo brothers, Bateman’s legacy of failed pilots at that point in his career made people anxious about the fate of the future cult hit: “Mitch was very nervous. He was like, ‘This could be bad luck if we cast him.’”

Fey says that, while Gen Z may not judge the ultra-rich selling a bunch of branded garbage to make more money, she does: “I’m sick of rich people having a side hustle.”

The apparel brand’s “overlap” hats, where a team’s logo is overlaid on its name, has yielded three results that have been flagged for vulgarity. The Texas Rangers became the “Tetas,” the Houston Astros became the “Ashos” and the Anaheim Angels became the “Anaels.”

A beat-up Omega Seamaster that Daniel Craig used in a fight in Casino Royale is up for auction, listed at $3,750 but expected to go for much more than that.

After filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis beat out DreamWorks with the film he created using free and open source software, a statue of the protagonist cat was erected in his hometown of Riga, Latvia.

So far, we only know what it doesn’t look like. After hanging hog on White Lotus, Goggins has clarified that it was a prop dong: “Let me be very clear — that’s not my penis. My penis looks nothing like that whatsoever.”

Probably not, but the new documentary Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison says he might be alive, living in Syracuse and disguising himself as a maintenance worker named Frank.

Director Tamra Davis says, “I was kind of dressing him as if I wanted him to be cute to college girls.” Sandler’s ‘90s slacker style, and his current brand of schlubby basketball-shorts-chic are somehow very aligned with modern male fashion.

A study of around 2,000 historical speeches from the Oscars found that, in the 1990s, Spielberg was thanked in about nine percent of speeches, while God was thanked in just over six percent.