Many celebrities today claim to be health food nuts. You would think that they have a special garden of life where they can grow foods that make them look younger and thinner!
Here are some celebrities favorite health foods:
Kate Walsh - brown rice and sesame oil soy sauce
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Wasabi peas
Marg Helgenberger - […]

Merv Griffin passed away on August 12, 2007 at the age of 82 from prostate cancer. He was best known for producing a series of game show television shows including, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.

Merv was born July 6, 1925 in San Mateo, California. He started his entertainment career as a […]

PayDay is one of those movies that you find on late night television. It was released in 1973 and stars Rip Torn (I think he is great) as Maury Dann, a country-western singer that everyone loves. However, the film delves into Maury Dann’s off performance live and we soon find that he is […]

Here is another phrase origin. You will often hear people use the phrase “dead ringer” in the following manner:
Julia is a dead ringer for Jessica Simpson.
The meaning, of course, is that they look exactly alike. The phrase originated in the horse racing scene. Often, horse owners would have two horses that […]

The first Halloween movie was released in 1978. I was a Senior in High School. I never did see the movie at the theaters, but saw it much later. A whole franchise of movies arose about the Michael Myers legend and this year movie number nine is being released. Halloween the movie […]

Who are todays best paid young actors? Who is breaking the payroll software every time a check gets cut? Forbes made a list in 2006 and here are the results:
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, $40 million
Scarlett Johansson, $16 million
Paris Hilton, $7 million (is she considered an actress?)
Nicole Richie, $2 million
All of these actresses […]

Joan Crawford, super star of the 1930s and 40s, had a little obsession with bathrooms. Every time she stayed in a hotel room, she scrubbed the bathroom (including the toilets, tubs and bathroom faucets) herself before using it. Her other weird bathroom obsessions included:

After a workman installed a new toilet and bathtub in […]

I am often interested in the origin of words and terms, so I have added a new category - Word Origins.
Wallflowers - Wallflowers are any number of herbs of the mustard family. They got the name because they often grow on old walls, rocks or quarries. The plant name was first used […]