Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 John Mellencamp has stated that his song "Jack & Diane" was originally about an interracial couple, but that the record company persuaded him to remove that element. Also, it was inspired by the Tennessee Williams movie Sweet Bird of Youth. (The movie does not have an interracial theme, but is about a 'forbidden love')

As an infant, Craig Lucas was found abandoned in a car in Atlanta.

"What do I get? A one way ticket to Palookaville..."

 Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan was, for a time, married to Betty Grable.

 George Michael wrote this song when he was 17 years old!

Based on a novel called "E=mc^2, mon amour"  

 

The line is "How ill this taper burns."  He's looking at a lamp, fer crying out loud!

 Before he ran the Jet Propulsion Lab in The Martian, he was Laertes to Michael Sheen's Hamlet.