The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets.
The Beatles' second film, Help!, won first prize in the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in 1965.
The beauty of Jamaica not only draws tourists, but filmmakers as well. Some of the big-budget movies that have been filmed on the exotic island over the years are Dr. No (1962), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Legends of the Fall (1994), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Live and Let Die (1970), Cocktail (1988), A Civil Action (1998), The Blue Lagoon (1980), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Instinct (1999), and Lord of the Flies (1990).
The Broadway musical A Chorus Line, written by James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban, employed 510 different members during its record 15-year run at the Shubert Theatre.
The Broadway show "Grease" put performers John Travolta, Richard Gere, Marilu Henner, Treat Williams, and Barry Bostwick on the road to stardom.
The campy 1964 sci-fi flick Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which featured a young, unknown Pia Zadora as a spunky Martian girl, was filmed in an airplane hangar on Long Island, New York.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were NOT named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver on Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life as is widely believed. Sesame Street creators confirm it was purely coincidental
The characters in The Addams Family did not have names in the New Yorker cartoons; Charles Addams created their names when the television series in the 1960s was developed
The childhood word game Hangman was the inspiration for TV's Wheel of Fortune.
The comedy team of Wayne and Shuster, who were legends in the history of Canadian entertainment, appeared a record 67 times on the Ed Sullivan television show.
The comic strip "Tarzan," created by artist Harold Foster, debuted in U.S. newspapers in 1929.
The composer of "Stardust" was Hoagy Carmichael.
The composing team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II earned many awards for the eleven musicals they wrote during their seventeen-year partnership, including two Pulitzer Prizes, one Emmy, two Grammys, two Tonys, and fifteen Academy Awards. Partial credits of the talented duo include The King and I, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Flower Drum Song, Carousel, Show Boat, and Cinderella.
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The costume of Sesame Street's Big Bird is made of turkey feathers — dyed yellow, of course.
The Don McLean song "American Pie" is NOT named after the airplane Buddy Holly died in. This is incorrectly reported in many trivia web sites.
The F.C.C. fined The Howard Stern Show’s owner, Infinity Broadcasting, $600,000 in 1992 after listeners provided transcripts that had the controversial Stern talking about masturbating to a picture of Aunt Jemima and having violent sex with Michelle Pfeiffer.
The film crews for Armageddon (1998) got unprecedented access to NASA facilities and filmed actual launch sequences of the space shuttle. Fifteen cameras were specially outfitted to withstand the hydrochloric exhaust left in the shuttle's wake.
The first American pop group to tour the U.S.S.R. was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band during their 1977 concert tour.
The first career-girl comic strip was Winnie Winkle, debuting in 1920.
The first CD pressed in the United State for commercial release was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
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