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White Heat

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 Hey! Olympian Jim Thorpe -- and one of my father's heroes -- had a cameo in Cagney's White Heat!

Kingsley Shacklebolt

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 The Fantastic Beast stories are fine, but I want a whole film about this guy!

Fredo

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 Are we to believe that Fredo's weakness and lack of intelligence are the result of the fever he experienced as an infant?

Iris Murdoch

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 "What I wrote before was written in water and deliberately so."

Alan Bennett

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 "I'm afraid that's the end of the story and now I'll have to write it."

Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with God

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RIP playwright Micki Grant

Mona Lisa

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 110 years ago today, Vincenzo Perrugia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

Batman origin story

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 "At best, at best! Bruce Wayne would have grown up to be Gotham City's most annoying slam poet"  -- Patton Oswalt

Talk to me like the rain and let me listen...

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Lex Luthor

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  I was today years old when I realized that Lex Luthor's first name is Alexander.

Carlos Castaneda

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 In 1973, Time Magazine described him as "an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a tortilla."

Aretha

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1913

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 William Carlos Williams visited the Armoury Show.

West Wing, Actually

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 In my head, they are the same guy. Dissuade me not. Mark Fuerstein, West Wing                           Andrew Lincoln, Love Actually

Songwriter Chip Taylor

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 Wrote The Troggs' Wild Thing and also Angel (of the Morning) for Juice Newton.

Yorick

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 23 years in the ground and his jaw has not separated from the rest of his skull.

Thirty Years Ago

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It has been seven years longer since The Mirror Players produced Hamlet in Denver than Yorick had lain in the earth.