What'a a 5150?

Search: 5150

Why: In Ryan O'Connell's "Top Ten Celebrity Excuses for Acting Completely Bat Shit Insane" on Thought Catalog (I wasn't exaggerating):

Liar: Mischa Barton

Bullshit Meter: 9

Remember when Mischa Barton was placed under a 51/50 and spent two weeks in a mental hospital last year? Now, she’s telling everyone that it all stemmed from having her wisdom teeth removed. She explains, “I’d had enough (of the pain) and I went to the hospital. I am terrified of needles and they wanted to pump me full of drugs and I said, “No, absolutely not. I don’t want to be here,” and got into a fight with the nurses, and that led to my 5150.’ Okay, Mischa. No one’s going to believe that you’re afraid of needles because you look like Amy Winehouse’s wacky cousin. Also, it’s hard to believe that someone could be placed under a 51/50 for simply arguing with a nurse. Liar, Liar, skinny jeans on fire!

Answer: An involuntary psychiatric hold! Police code for "crazy on the loose"!

CALIFORNIA WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE, SECTION 5150, second paragraph:

"... an application in writing stating the circumstances under which the person's condition was called to the attention of the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person, and stating that the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person has probable cause to believe that the person is, as a result of mental disorder, a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled."

Source: Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia

The More You Know: Also the name of the 1986 Van Halen album that featured "Why Can't This Be Love," and also the name of a song on it.

I want to see the leaked set photos for "The Hunger Games"

Search: Fangirltanstic for more The Hunger Games set photos

Why: I finished the 3rd book last night finally. It was... um...

Then I was looking for more casting info, and I saw this:

New set photos from The Hunger Games, Piranha 3DD, and Gravity have leaked online. The Hunger Games photos show some of the buildings like the Hall of Justice, an insignia that fans of the book will probably recognize (I’m reading the book soon! I have a long plane ride ahead of me!), and a first look at Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket.

Answer: Inneresting. I think I imagined the Hall of Justice to be a bit more grandiose. And cream-colored. All of them. Which is, I guess, why you read books first. There's also Willow Shields as Prim.

Source: FanGirltastic

The More You Know: Also,

The Piranha 3DD set photos show the water park where the sequel’s mayhem will go down (how does a freshwater fish survive in a chlorinated water park? Fuck you, that’s how) as well as some grisly corpses.

I was in a waterpark just last week! I lost my sunnies, but not my life. Shots:

Oooh! Poor Big Dave.

How did Andy Warhol die?

Search: andy warhol

Why: On Thought Catalog, "5 Celebrities Who Would've Been Perfect for the Internet" by my new favorite writer* Ryan O'Connell:

Andy would’ve ruled supreme on the web. He would’ve beat Kim Kardashian in Twitter followers, and a tweet as simple as “i like oranges” would’ve gotten, like, a thousand retweets. He would love Twitpics. There’d be photos of Viva slumped over in the corner of the Factory in a heroin daze with the caption: “viva goes zzzzz.” His Facebook fan page would have so many “like”s but the comments would be terrible. “Andy is the worst. I wish he would just die!” or “he’s sO UGlY N siCk ewwww. whatAfAG!” When he was shot by Valerie Solanas though, there would’ve been an outpour of digital love. Fans would write, “Hang in there, Andy!” and “Say hi to Edie in heaven for me…” And like the freak that he is, he would’ve tweeted from his hospital bed something like, “someone shot me today and it was brilliant….” Ugh, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe Andy would’ve just had the most annoying internet presence in the world.

*4srs, I've read like 30 of his essays in the last 48 hours.

Answer: From complications after a gall bladder surgery!

Late in his life, Warhol suffered chronic gall bladder problems. His pain intensified in January 1987 during a trip to Italy. On February 20, 1987 he was admitted to New York Hospital. The next morning his gall bladder was successfully removed and Warhol seemed to be recovering well—watching television and talking on the telephone. During that night, however, complications arose which resulted in sudden cardiac arrest. Warhol was pronounced dead at 6:31 am on Sunday, February 22, 1987. He was 58 years old.

That Solanas / shooting thing was just a blip. She was a super radical feminist in the 60s:

In 1966, she wrote a play titled Up Your Ass about a man-hating prostitute and a panhandler. In 1967, she encountered Andy Warhol outside his studio, The Factory, and asked him to produce her play. Intrigued by the title, he accepted the script for review. According to Factory lore, Warhol, whose films were often shut down by the police for obscenity, thought the script was so pornographic that it must be a police trap. He never returned it to Solanas. The script was then lost, not to be found until after Warhol's death, in the bottom of one of his lighting trunks.

Later that year, Solanas began to telephone Warhol, demanding he return the script of Up Your Ass. When Warhol admitted he had lost it, she began demanding money as payment. Warhol ignored these demands but offered her a role in I, a Man. In his book Popism: The Warhol Sixties, Warhol wrote that before she shot him, he thought Solanas was an interesting and funny person, but that her constant demands for attention made her difficult to deal with and ultimately drove him away.

Warhol did give Solanas a role in a scene in his film I, a Man (1968–1969).

On June 3, 1968, she arrived at The Factory and waited for Warhol in the lobby area. When he arrived with friends, she produced a handgun and shot at Warhol 3 times, hitting him once in the chest. She then shot art critic Mario Amaya and also tried to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes, but her gun jammed as the elevator arrived. Hughes suggested she take it and she did, leaving the Factory. Warhol barely survived; he never fully recovered and for the rest of his life wore a corset to prevent his injuries from worsening.

Later that same day, Solanas turned herself in to a NYPD officer passing by her on the street where she produced the gun and told him about the shooting. She made statements to the arresting officer and at the arraignment hearing that Warhol had "too much control" over her and that Warhol was planning to steal her work. Pleading guilty, she received a three-year sentence in a psychiatric hospital. Warhol refused to testify against her. For the rest of his life, Warhol lived in fear that Solanas would attack him again.

Source: Warhol.org

The More You Know: Andy Warhol's weird white hair was a wig, y'all.

In the mid-1950s Warhol began wearing a hairpiece, which matched his natural dark brown hair color.

In the mid-1960s he supposedly spray-painted his wig silver. Later that decade he adopted the wig that became his permanent look; it was brown in back with shades of blonde on the front and sides.

What is onanism?

Search: onanism

Why: In this story "Man Accused of Masturbating on Flight Faces $5,000 Flight, 90 Days in Jail" on Gothamist (which I went to because Brian's post on The Gate):

Airborne onanism is costly these days! Alleged wanker Kyle Pearce, a 25-year-old Floridian (Go Gators!), was arrested on May 19th after witnesses saw him remove his penis and masturbate "to the point of ejaculation" during a United Airlines flight to Denver. An 18-year-old woman sitting across the aisle from Pearce told police, "I heard a noise and looked over and saw his penis. He was wearing jeans tucked into cowboy boots... He told me his name was Kyle. He ejaculated & got some on the seat." Wow, that Kyle sure knows how to break the ice!

Answer: It's masturbating! Jerking off! J-ing O! And it's Biblical!

• after Onan, son of Judah (Gen. 38:9)
  

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother.

Yuck!

Here's the rest, y'all. It's one of the passages lunatics quote when talking about the Lord's distaste for contraception. Onan's brother was dead, ftr, and Onan only wanted to bang his widow Tamar, not raise her kids:

8 Then Judah said to Onan, 'Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her; raise up offspring for your brother.' 9 But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to see his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother. 10 What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Apparently, the thing that made God mad was that Onan was doing something fun without any consequences. Unacceptable!

Source: Dictionary.com, Matt1618

The More You Know:

What did Thomas Edison due to an elephant?

Search: edison elephant

Why: When Rachel said someone spoiled The Usual Suspects for her, Jeff said:

I hope it wasn't me.

I recently spoiled Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant for the wife.



1903.

Don't tell him, but he just spoiled it for me, too.

Answer: He electrocuted it to death! Oh god...

BUT it turns out this was a very mean elephant who had already trampled to death 3 handlers (one of whom was trying to feed her a lit cigarette) and was scheduled to be euthanized. So it's OK then.

He did it as a demonstration about the dangers of alternating current, which Westinghouse and Tesla were touting. Edison had established direct current at the standard for electricity distribution and was living large off the patent royalties when these guys showed up.

Edison's aggressive campaign to discredit the new current took the macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC (a killing process he referred to snidely as getting "Westinghoused"). Stray dogs and cats were the most easily obtained, but he also zapped a few cattle and horses.

So he found this elephant. A news report:

Topsy, the ill-tempered Coney Island elephant, was put to death in Luna Park, Coney Island, yesterday afternoon. The execution was witnessed by 1,500 or more curious persons, who went down to the island to see the end of the huge beast, to whom they had fed peanuts and cakes in summers that are gone. In order to make Topsy's execution quick and sure 460 grams of cyanide of potassium were fed to her in carrots. Then a hawser was put around her neck and one end attached to a donkey engine and the other to a post. Next wooden sandals lined with copper were attached to her feet. These electrodes were connected by copper wire with the Edison electric light plant and a current of 6,600 volts was sent through her body. The big beast died without a trumpet or a groan.

Yuck!

Is it weird that we have pictures of these guys? Or is it weirder that I don't think I had any idea what Thomas Edison looked like until right now?

Source: Wired.com, Railway Bridge

The More You Know: I was thinking the other day about how funny it is that my cat and dog just walk on and over me as though I'm not even there. I wish we had some giant animals to just walk and climb on all the time without being afraid they would bite me. Baby elephants climb like puppies.

Why did Philippe Croizon have his limbs amputated?

Search: Phillipe Croizon

Why: Edward just posted this article with the tagline, "This guy clearly aspires to get eaten":

Philippe Croizon, Quadruple Amputee, To Brave Shark-Infested Crossings Between Five Continents

Croizon, who made a splash with his English Channel swim in 2010, is going to dive into open seas again, Agence France Presse reported.

A custom pair of flippers enables the limbless Croizon to swim.

With Arnaud Chassery, a former long-distance swimming champion, Croizon will start an aquatic tour in May 2012 in the Pacific Ocean with a 12-mile crossing between coastal towns in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in an area known to be a shark and poisonous jellyfish habitat.

Etc. Where did his pre-existing limbs go? Into a shark's mouth? Because if so, he's really just an asshole.

Answer: Ha shoot:

• "A freak accident"
• His amputations were required due to a severe electric shock accident which occurred in March 1994.

And if I had scrolled to the bottom of the original article, I might have seen this:

• Croizon lost his arms and legs in 1994 after he was electrocuted while adjusting a television antennae on the roof.

That sucks.

Source: Daily Mail, Wikipedia, AOL

The More You Know: Speaking of sharks, I am going to the beach next week (in Florida, not California). Will I go in the ocean? I can't say for sure yet, but I will keep in mind that bull sharks attack in less than 2 feet of water, and also that they like to kill people in all parts of Florida, including Destin. Other sharks do, too!

Fatal, unprovoked shark attacks in Florida in the last 10 years:

• Thadeus Kubinski, 69 (8/30/2000) - Killed by a bull shark while swimming in Pinellas County, FL. Witnesses said Kubinski had jumped into the water from the dock behind his home for his daily swim and was splashing vigorously. The shark raced toward him with its dorsal fin out of the water. He died from massive blood loss and organ damage before rescuers could get to him. The shark was estimated to be 9 ft long and weigh 400 lbs.
• Eric Reichardt, 42 (9/16/01) - Drowned while diving on the wreck of the Ronald B. Johnson in 270 ft of water 2 miles off Pompano Beach, FL fighting off a bull or tiger shark. His diving regulator may have fallen out of his mouth causing him to drown.
• Jamie Marie Daigle, 14 (6/25/05) - Killed while swimming with a friend on boogie boards about 200 yards off a beach in Walton County, FL, 8 miles east of Destin, FL. Witnesses estimated the shark was 6–8 ft long.
• Stephen Howard Schafer, 38 (2/3/10) - Killed by a bull shark while kitesurfing at approximately 4:15 p.m. about 500 yards off an unguarded section of a beach south of Stuart Beach in Martin County, FL. Authorities initially thought that multiple sharks may have been involved in the incident due to reports by rescuers that he was surrounded by sharks; the Martin County medical examiner's office concluded that he died from massive blood loss from a leg wound

Can you guess how many fatal shark attacks have occurred on dry land? I bet you can.

If you are in California and thinking about joining Saturday Surf Club, don't forget to check the Pacific Coast Shark Watch (for reports about shark sightings this week at Long Beach, Newport, Seal Beach, etc.) every single day until you change your mind. And maybe also think about this poor kid:

• Lucas McKaine Ransom, 19 (10/22/2010) - Died after a great white shark pulled him off his bodyboard just before 9 a.m. about 100 yards off Surf Beach near in Santa Barbara County, CA. He suffered the loss of his left leg, resulting in massive blood loss. The shark that attacked Ransom is believed to have been 17–18 ft long, weighing approximately 4,000 lbs.

I want to see a picture of Brenda Reimer

Search: brenda reimer

Why: In response to this article about the Canadian hippies who are in the news because they controversially refuse to tell people the gender of their baby Storm, Caroline posted this sad tale about a boy (a twin) who - after a botched circumcision - was raised as a girl. He eventually went back to being a boy, and then he committed suicide. Let's watch:

Answer: Aww :( He was born Bruce, called Brenda, and then renamed David Reimer.

As little kids (with twin brother Brian):

And later,

And in between, the Peter Brady years.

Source: Google Images

The More You Know: Because the circumstances seemed so perfect - whatwith the lack of gender identity crisis (at least initially) and with an ideal control (identical twin brother [who turned out to be schizophrenic]) - Bruce/Brenda/David got sucked into being a gender reassignment guinea pig for most of his childhood. Once his dong got destroyed, psychologist John Money convinced Bruce's parents to get him a surgery to remove his testes, call him Brenda, and turn him into a lady. For years, the psychologist wrote notes like this:

The child's behavior is so clearly that of an active little girl and so different from the boyish ways of her twin brother.

I feel like I don't have to tell you that these were just nonsense lies. From 22 months into his teenage years, Brenda - who did not yet have her artificially constructed lady vagina - peed through a hole surgeons had placed in hiser abdomen. Hse was also given estrogen during adolescence so he would grow boobs. But really:

Reimer did not identify as a girl. He was ostracized and bullied by peers, and neither frilly dresses (which he was forced to wear during frigid Calgary winters) nor female hormones made him feel female. By the age of 13, Reimer was experiencing suicidal depression, and told his parents he would commit suicide if they made him see John Money again.

Turns out that the parents had been lying to Money the whole time about the success of the gender reassignment! So at age 14, they began to reverse the procedures with testosterone injections, a double mastectomy, and two phalloplasty surgeries, completing it all in 1997 when David was 32. He married and became stepfather to 3 children. But eventually, his strained relationship with his parents and depression about his brother's death-by-overdose in 2002 caught up to him. He shot himself in the head in 2004 at age 38.

What's a peccadillo?

Search: peccadilloes

Why: On Vulture's "9 Most Exciting New Shows of the Upcoming Fall Season":

We buy her here as a dorky weirdo, instead of a spunky girl with fascinatingly adorable peccadilloes. New Girl still needs to figure out if it's going to be quirky-good or quirky-annoying, but the whole rag-tag group of twentysomethings forming their own little family is a comedy staple for a reason.

Answer:

Look! It's Leo from "Veronica Mars"!

Answer: It's "a small, relatively unimportant offense or sin"!

The word comes from Latin peccatum, "a sin, fault, or error," and Spanish pecado and pecadillo, "a sin."

Source: Google, EtymOnline

The More You Know: Here is the full list; teaser/trailers on each page:

1. Smash (NBC) - A musical-drama about the creation of a Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe - Angelica Huston, Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee; EP Steven Spielberg
2. Up All Night (NBC) - Will Arnett is a stay-at-home dad of a new baby; Christina Applegate is the working mom; Maya Rudolph is her "feisty" boss.
3. Awake (NBC) - After a car crash, a man wakes up in parallel universes - one where his son is dead, the other where his wife is.
4. Apt. 23 (ABC) - A bitch and a nice girl are roommates; James Van Der Beek lives down the hall.
5. Person of Interest (CBS) - From producer J.J. Abrams and writer Jonah Nolan (The Dark Knight), some sort of crime procedural starring Michael Emerson.
6. 2 Broke Girls (CBS) - "A poor waitress and a formerly rich waitress brave the wilds of Williamsburg" - co-written by Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City," "The Comeback")
7. The New Girl (Fox) - Zooey Deschanel deprecates self, wears glasses.
8. Alcatraz (Fox) - A "historical fiction/supernatural mystery/government-led conspiracy trifecta" starring Sam Neill, produced by J.J. Abrams.
9. Ringer (The CW) - Sarah Michelle Gellar poses as her wealthy twin sister to try and evade the mob, but soon discovers that her sister has a price on her head as well.

Also,

• Pan Am (ABC) - Christina Ricci is a “rebellious bohemian (who) turns into a buttoned up professional" flight attendant in the 1960s.

Did someone really propose in the food court of the CNN building?

Search: cnn food court

Why: On Facebook:

Edie - Were you eating in the food court when Train helped the guy propose to his girlfriend?
Rebecca - no!! I think it happened Sunday because I had no idea!! I wish I had been!!
Edie - Eric knows a guy who was sitting and eating in the back ground of the clip that was on cnn.com and works there.

At first, I thought they were talking about this food court marriage proposal, which I saw on the Internets around Valentine's Day and then on ABC News this morning:

Answer: Yep! It was a soldier, and he had the band Train sing the song "Marry Me" to help him out. WHAT! At 8:48 -

Source: CNN.com

The More You Know: All this talk of public proposals is making me thirsty.

I watch to hear the song "The General" by Dispatch

Search: dispatch the general

Why: Keely just posted this article about their first album in 10 years, which is probably how long it's been since I heard that song.

Answer: Well, here it is! What a nice jam.

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: Dispatch used to be called One Fell Swoop. When I was in 9th grade or whatever, I probably told people that I had known them since the name change, but that wasn't even a little bit true. Not even a little bit! That was probably before I ever even had my first Discman.

Anyway, all the people in that band went to Middlebury (and graduated before I hit middle school!). They are playing at the Greek Theatre in June; maybe I will go.

When does the new Danger Mouse album come out?

Search: danger mouse

Why: They've been playing the shit out of it all week on "Morning Becomes Eclectic." Here is "Two Against One" featuring Jack White:

Answer: May 16th! It's called Rome, and it's actually by both Danger Mouse and Italian composer Danielle Luppi. Jack White sings on 3 tracks, and Norah Jones sings on 3 others - one of which Jason Bentley played yesterday and the day before. It will probably be the first album I buy in 2011.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: We bowled next to Danger Mouse (Brian Joseph Burton, 1977, White Plains, NY) one time at The Spare Room. His friends were kind of dicks.

Wow, did you know he produced all these albums? It's true!

• Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
• Danger Doom – The Mouse & The Mask (2005)
• The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love (2006)
• Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (2006)
• Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere (2006)
• The Good, the Bad and the Queen (2007)
• The Black Keys – Attack & Release (2008)
• Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple (2008)
• The Shortwave Set – Replica Sun Machine (2008)
• Martina Topley-Bird – The Blue God (2008)
• Beck – Modern Guilt (2008)
• Joker's Daughter – The Last Laugh (2009)
• Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
• Broken Bells – Broken Bells (2010)
• The Black Keys – Brothers (2010)
• Broken Bells – Meyrin Fields - EP (2011)
• Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome (2011)
• U2 – TBA (2011)

What's the real quote by Martin Luther King?

Search: mlk quote

Why: I have seen this quote attributed to MLK between 7 and 45 times in the last day and a half:

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr

but according to Haterade sipper Megan McArdle, it's not real.

Answer: Oh, look, it's almost exactly the same. He first said the following in a 1956 sermon called "Our God is Able," and it's published in the 1963 collection Strength to Love (p. 108):

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ... The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."

All this hullabaloo started because one poor girl - whose name (Jessica Dovey) will now forever be tied to this embarrassing Internet disaster - inadvertently misquoted MLK on her Facebook status, and then Penn Jillette - professional factchecker - Tweeted it. Oh well.

Source: Good

The More You Know: In related news, Mark Twain didn't say this thing about obituaries:

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

You know who did? Clarence Darrow! Remember talking about him in 8th grade? I do. Here is the truth:

The quotation actually comes from Clarence Darrow, the lawyer of Scopes Trial fame. Here's a fuller version of the quote, which appears in Darrow's 1932 work The Story of My Life:

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

Meanwhile, Mark Twain did say / write this:

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it."

Spread the word!

I want to watch that news anchor lady who had a stroke or whatever at the Grammys

Search: news anchor stroke

Why: Did you see this on "30 Rock" last week? (Not this week; last week.) I know I'm late on this, but we still can't get enough of it.

Answer: Omglol. He did it so perfectly.

Well, a very, very heavay - ah - heavy durr, burtation tonight... We had a very darris, darrison? ...

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: In case you didn't follow up, Serene Branson says she suffered some sort of "complex migraine" that mimicked symptoms of a stroke. I dunno. I had a migraine today, and I sure didn't tarris tazen let's go to bet who had the pet.

What does Mark 11:12-14 say?

Search: mark 11:12

Why: On The 55 Funniest Signs from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear:

Answer: Lol:

¹²And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

¹³And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

¹⁴And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

Read an unreasonably enraged commentary about this episode here.

Source: Bible Gateway, atheism.about.com

The More You Know: I love the pizza at Figs in Boston. Try it! Or roast some figs with honey:

I want to see a picture of Rico Genest before he was covered in tattoos

Search: rico genest before; rico genest young

Why: Joel at 2Pz posted this:

it's a nicola formichetti interview where he discusses his own obsession with zombie tatto guy rico genest. he was discovered on facebook. via.

Nicola Formichetti is the new creative designer for French brand Thierry Mugler (now just MUGLER), and Lady Gaga is his other muse.

Answer:

UPDATE!!!!!! Thanks again Joel for this awesome link!!!

Humm. I'm pretty sure that's just a picture of my friend Allen.

---originally ---

I can't find any anywhere! Somebody halp!

But here are some more from now and his krazy tatz:

Source: not Google Images, nowhere --- then Buzzfeed

The More You Know: Speaking of zombies and horror and things that scare me, are you ready to see Insidious? It comes out next Friday, April 1st! It was written by Saw's Leigh Whannell and features Chandler's sister Corbett as not 1, not 2, but 3 different characters! Keep your eyes peeled! (When I saw a screening several months ago, I missed one of her shots because the scene was too scary and I was looking down at my hands, so ... really, keep them peeled.) Go see it!

Is Angela Lansbury English?

Search: angela lansbury

Why: A very important announcement!!! The Hallmark Movie Channel is now showing "Murder, She Wrote" every night at 9 and 10 PM! Someone is picking off the visitors to Cabot Cove! Set your DVR to find out whom!

Answer: Yes, sort of! She is even a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) - but then, so is Kevin Spacey. Jessica Fletcher was born in London in Oct. 1925, so she will be 86 this year. That is almost as old as Nana!

The hiccup is that she became a naturalized American citizen in 1951, after a failed marriage to a bisexual and during her 54-year marriage to British born producer - and producer of "Murder, She Wrote" - Peter Shaw.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: How many of the distinguished EGOT awards has Angela Lansbury won? Well, not all of them yet, but here's crossing my fingers for a roll in whatever Tom Hopper makes next year. She has:

• Emmys - 18 nominations! (mostly for "Murder, She Wrote," obvi, but also for 2005 crossover episodes of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury")
• Golden Globes* - 6! wins! (4 for "M,SW" and others for The Manchurian Candidate and The Picture of Dorian Gray) and 8 other nominations!
  
• Oscars - 3 nominations! (for the 2 movies above and also Gaslight [1944])
• Tonys - f!i!v!e! wins! - tying neverheardofher Julie Harris for the most a performer has ever received (for Mame [1966], Dear World [1969], Gypsy [1975], Sweeney Todd [1979], and Blithe Spirit [2009])
  

*The G in EGOT stands for Grammy, not Golden Globe.

She also won the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, the year before Elizabeth Taylor, and was the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in 1968. She could teach Betty White a thing or two.

How old is Mike Krzyzewski?

Search: mike krzyzewski

Why: He just won his career 900th game! He is the second winningest coach of all time, behind only Bobby Knight with 902. That means that if Duke wins 3 more games this season - including the championship - Coach K will be #1! Let's all cross our fingers!

Answer: He's 64! WHAT! That's older than my dad! He was born in Chicago in Feb. 1947. He has always looked exactly the same.

1991:

2010:

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: Mike Krzyzewski is married to Carol “Mickie” Marsh, originally from Alexandria, VA. Coach and Mrs. K have three daughters, Debbie Savarino, Lindy Frasher, and Jamie Spatola, and five grandchildren, Joey, Michael, Carlyn and Emelia Savarino, and Quin Frasher. I learned how to spell Krzyzewski when I was, like, 8.

What's the origin of the word tournament?

Search: tournament etymology

Why: How are everybody's brackets doing? I am 24-4. Thanks for nothing, Villanova.

Answer: It comes from French! Torneier means "to joust or tilt," and a torneiement was a "contest between knights on horseback." In the 1300s, that word came to mean something about a "medieval martial arts contest," and we started using it how we do now - regarding games of skill - around 1761.

Source: EtymOnline

The More You Know: What's the origin of "seeding" in basketball? First used in tennis (1924), it comes from the idea of spreading certain players or teams apart - like seeds - so they will not meet too early in a tournament. Barry O wants all of the #1 seeds in the Final Four. OK!

I want to see a picture of Kurt Cobain and RuPaul

Search: rupaul cobain

Why: Ever since my hairdresser told me that Logotv.com has full episodes online, I have been watching the everliving shit out of "RuPaul's Drag Race." Last night while watching Delta Work and Shangela act the fool on the runway, Chandler queried aloud whether RuPaul had penned the lyrics to her 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)" herself. (She did.)

But then we saw this:

Singer Kurt Cobain of Nirvana cited the song as one of his favorites of 1993 and the two were photographed together at the MTV Video Music Awards that year.

Answer: Oh lor, there are tons!

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The More You Know: Speaking of Dave Grohl, he is apparently the most recent "rock star" to get all pissy because he doesn't want his songs to be on "Glee." Remember: the Kings of Leon people did that a few months ago, telling NME:

"We got an offer to appear on an episode of Ugly Betty. They wanted us to play ourselves. We were supposed to come in and help her out with some problem or other."

The band also confirmed they had rejected an offer from Glee, with Jared saying: "We could have sold out so much more. We turn stuff down constantly."

Here's the thing, though. I have it on pretty excellent authority that nobody ever asked Kings of Leon if "Glee" could use their songs in the first place. They were saying that to sound fancy, and since Ryan Murphy is an idiot, it caused a whole heap of drama. Anyway, I'm just saying. It makes me wonder about Dave Grohl, who otherwise hasn't been in the news much lately. Slash, too.

I want to see some pictures of Cassandra Jade Estevez

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Why: You've read that Charlie Sheen has 5 kids. So there's:

• Sam and Lola (the two girls with Denise Richards)
• Bob and Max (the twins with Brooke Mueller)

Who is Charlie Sheen's 5th kid?

• Cassandra Jade Estevez (b. Dec. 12, 1984 to Paula Profit)

She is 26.

Answer: There she is with her parents and with Brooke Mueller.

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The More You Know: Cassandra married high school sweetheart Casey Huffman in Sept. 2010.

x17 posted this picture of her minutes ago. Minutes!