This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Hedwig Kiesler (age 19), later American movie actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, married Friedrich Mandl (age 32), businessman and Austrofascist, in the tiny chapel of this elaborate church on 10 August 1933. With over 200 prominent guests attending, Kiesler wore "a black-and-white print dress" and carried "a bouquet of white orchids."[4]

In 1974, Glick worked as Telly Savalas's personal assistant. Savalas was mean, so Glick embezzled $85,000 from him. He was caught on his way to Ecuador and served a four-month hard labor sentence in Mississippi.[3]

Margaret Rutherford

Rutherford's early life was overshadowed by tragedies involving both of her parents. Her father, journalist and poet William Rutherford Benn, married Florence Nicholson on 16 December 1882 in Wandsworth, South London. One month after the marriage, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum. Released to travel under his family's supervision, he murdered his father, the Reverend Julius Benn, a Congregational Church minister, by bludgeoning him to death with a chamber pot, before slashing his own throat with a pocket knife at an inn in Matlock, Derbyshire on 4 March 1883.[1][2]

Following the inquest, William Benn was certified insane and removed to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Seven years later, on 26 July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor and reunited with his wife. He legally dropped his surname.

Margaret Taylor Rutherford, the only child of William and Florence, was born in 1892 in Balham, South London. Margaret's uncle, Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, was a politician, and her first cousin once removed was the Labour politician Tony Benn. Hoping to start a new life far from the scene of their recent troubles, the Rutherfords emigrated to Madras, India, but Margaret was sent back to Britain when she was three years old to live with her aunt Bessie Nicholson in Wimbledon, South London, after her pregnant mother hanged herself from a tree.

Mike Flanagan would like to buy the option

Milei owns five English Mastiffs, with the progenitor being Conan, who died in 2017 after suffering from spinal cancer. He considers Conan his son and has named four of Conan's six clones, including one named after the original and another named Angelito, Milton (in honor of Milton Friedman), Murray (in honor of Murray Rothbard), Robert, and Lucas (both named after Robert Lucas Jr.).

[Lawrence Eagleburger] had three sons, all of whom are named Lawrence Eagleburger, though they have different middle names (Scott, Andrew and Jason).[28] When discussing his decision to give his three children the same first name, Eagleburger stated "It was ego," adding "and secondly, I wanted to screw up the Social Security system."[29]

6 Controversies
6.1 Exposing teenagers' genitals and simulating sex during 'Hide the Sausage'
6.1.1 Teenagers during Little Britain Down Under
6.1.2 Exposing Jeremy Edwards' genitals and Mark Ronson's buttocks
6.1.3 Criticism and violent reaction from theatre goers

is it bad that I know who's Wiki article that is just from that

*whose

A nobleman, Gustaf is the 11th Baron Lagerbielke and the oldest son of the 8th Count Lagerbjelke.

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And somehow, the father of the 7th Count of Lagerbelk or whatever

. At the time, no company made a (guitar)string that could be tuned to the high A on his classical guitar. Breau used fishing line of the correct gauge[8] until the La Bella company began making a string for him. T

In July 2016, it emerged that in Series 9, Episode 6 called "Troubled Waters" – in which Elvis slips on a piece of paper and falls into a stack of sheets of paper, causing them to fly everywhere – one of the flying pages that briefly came into view was identified as a page from the Quran: "Surah Mulk (67), verses 13–26".[10] The production company Mattel apologised for this accident, removed the episode from broadcast, and ceased work with Xing Xing, the animation company responsible for the error. Mattel stated: "Someone from the production company thought they were just putting in random text.[10] We have no reason to believe it was done maliciously."

(this is referring to a kids show called Fireman Sam in case that helps context).

Some random book we have lying around the office.

In July 2005, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich performed at the Merryhill Music Festival at the Merryhill Leisure naturist club in Norfolk, England.

This greatly diminished the emotional impact of the final scene.

At one point in his life, Cage had decided that he wanted to develop the philosophical aspect of his nature, and he went on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Cage traveled to England to look for it, but also looked at some areas of the United States.[178][179]

None of Wild Cherry's three subsequent albums were very popular.

Shot by Eric Boman, the Country Life cover features two scantily-clad models, Constanze Karoli (sister of Can's Michael Karoli) and Eveline Grunwald (who was also Michael Karoli's girlfriend). Bryan Ferry met them in Portugal and persuaded them to do the photo shoot as well as to help him with the words to the song "Bitter-Sweet". Although not credited for appearing on the cover, they are credited on the lyric sheet for their German translation work.

His family moved to Oakland, California, when he was eight. Initially, they shared a home in Oakland with his cousins, four of whom became members of the rhythm & blues group The Pointer Sisters.

Frankenstein was an unpaid project, Wrightson describing it as a "labor of love" he worked on over seven years.[24]

In the summer of 2010, Stuke was featured on Celebrity MasterChef, where it was discovered that he was not a very good chef, despite his claim that he was.

Ugh

When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progressing to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump."

(bernie) "Taupin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music"

The lyrical content includes many references to nature conservation, politics and feces.

Einstein was carried backstage, where five physicians worked to revive him. One surgeon used his pen knife[18] to make an incision for open heart massage; another used the ends of an electric cord as a makeshift defibrillator. With the remaining comedians on the bill reluctant to continue under the circumstances, Art Linkletter asked Tony Martin to sing a song; Martin's unfortunate choice was "There's No Tomorrow".[22]

Albert Brook’s dad?

Brooks’s

A whole new year for dumbass typos!

Yup, Parkyakarkus

Still kills me that Albert's birth name was Albert Einstein

That whole section reads like a comedy routine

Einstein turned to Milton Berle, who was seated next to him on the dais, and said, "Yeah, how come?" — then slumped into his lap. Berle's shout of "Is there a doctor in the house?" was initially thought to be a humorous ad lib (the event was a charity benefit for local hospitals and several physicians were in attendance), but the gravity of the situation quickly became clear.[18]

All the vaudeville comedians probably died premature deaths because everyone thought they were doing a bit

One time I took my cat to the the Emergency Animal Hospital for surgery and the waiting room was full of NYers in a way reminiscent of a Barney Miiler episode. At one point some older lady fainted, presumably stressed out about the expense in my cynical mind, but it could of course have just been about the possiblilty of losing the loved one, and one of the white coated vets immediately shouted "Is there a doctor in the house?"

Also, DIck Shawn to thread! (xpost)

One of the other pet lovers in that waiting room was a rock-and-roll-looking dude who turned out to be a very high level soundman who has worked with everybody and anybody and is also known for being discrete and keeping the secrets of the stars.

And told me how he once put a cat through chemo and the expense was nothing compared to the love the cat had given him.

But I digress. What do you call a cat like that?

Thank you Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainers_who_died_during_a_performance

Longevity expert J. I. Rodale's death on the Dick Cavett Show:

On June 8, 1971, Rodale was a guest on an early-evening taping of The Dick Cavett Show in New York City. The episode was slated to air later that evening. During his interview, Rodale said that he had "never felt better in his life!", and made quips like "I'm in such good health that I fell down a long flight of stairs yesterday and I laughed all the way" and "I've decided to live to be a hundred".[19] He had previously said, "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I'm run down by some sugar-crazed taxi driver."[12][13] Rodale's last interaction with Cavett before dying was "offering the host his special asparagus boiled in urine".[20]

After his interview, Rodale remained onstage and was seated on a couch beside the next interviewee, New York Post columnist Pete Hamill. Rodale suddenly made a "snoring sound" and slumped over.[19] According to Dick Cavett, Hamill leaned over to Cavett and said, "This looks bad." Cavett initially believed that Rodale was feigning disinterest for comedic effect; some in the studio recalled him joking, "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?", though he denied any memory of saying this.[19] Upon realizing the severity of the situation, he asked if there were any doctors in the audience. An internist and orthopedic surgeon, both in residency, rushed onto the stage and tried to revive Rodale with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

That one is the most legendary.

Comedian Frank Fontaine died of a heart attack immediately after performing at a benefit show where he had just raised $25,000 for heart research.[27]

Oh, come on.

The most eerie death on stage is the dude who played Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar in Australia and accidentally hung himself for real during a show.

This one's eerie too

Actress Edith Webster died onstage from a heart attack while performing her death scene in the play The Drunkard, in a lodge in Baltimore. The role called for her to sing "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" and then slump to the floor, which she did.[35]

That Wikipedia article is grimly fascinating.

2012: 23 December: American guitarist Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis, Ministry, Revolting Cocks) collapsed on stage during a specialRigor Mortisperformance in Fort Worth, Texas. Scaccia was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Cause of death was listed as a heart attack.

Shocking there was another nightclub fire involving pyrotechnics and flammable acoustic tiles just a few years after the Station nightclub disaster.

All the vaudeville comedians probably died premature deaths because everyone thought they were doing a bit

See Tommy Cooper in that listicle.

That Scaccia death really sucked. Hard to believe it's already been 12 years

Actor and comedian Joe E. Ross suffered a heart attack and died while performing on stage on the evening of 13 August. His wife reportedly collected just half of Ross's fee because he had failed to do a full show.

My God that's cold

Actor Renato Di Paolo was portraying Judas in a passion play outside of Rome on the day before Easter. During the hanging scene he accidentally hanged himself, and died soon after

Jesus how many Judases accidentally hung themselves

I've been compulsively reading the list of unusual deaths as well.

A poodle named Cachy, in Caballito, Buenos Aires, fell 13 floors and hit 75-year-old Marta Espina, killing both instantly. In the course of events, 46-year-old Edith Solá came to see the incident and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital.[254][255]