Archive for November, 2012

Did the Green Day Song “Stuck With Me” Gain Its Name Accidentally?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: The Green Day song “Stuck with Me” got its name by someone in the studio switching the […]

Was Pearl Jam Really Named After a Peyote Concoction Made by Eddie Vedder’s Great-Grandmother?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Pearl Jam was named after a peyote concoction that Eddie Vedder’s great-grandmother Pearl used to make. The […]

Did An Impostor Accept Betty Thomas’ Emmy For Her?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far. TV URBAN LEGEND: An impostor came up on to the stage to accept Betty Thomas’ Emmy for her in 1985. […]

Was an Episode of Hill Street Blues Re-Shot to Bring Officer Joe Coffey Back to Life?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far. TV URBAN LEGEND: A Hill Street Blues episode was actually re-shot after airing to show a character who was killed […]

Were Renko and Hill Originally Meant to Die in the First Episode of Hill Street Blues?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far. TV URBAN LEGEND: Officers Renko and Hill were intended to be killed off at the end of the first episode […]

Was Djuna Barnes’ Novel, Nightwood, Named By T.S. Eliot?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of all poetry legends featured so far. POETRY URBAN LEGEND: The famed poet T.S. Eliot came up with the name for Djuna Barnes’ classic novel, Nightwood. […]

Did the Founder of the Modern Olympics Also Happen to Win the First Olympic Gold Medal for Literature?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of all poetry legends featured so far. POETRY URBAN LEGEND: The first winner of an Olympic Gold medal for Literature went to a poem written by […]

Did an Irish Poet Sneak An Insult Into a Seemingly Patriotic Poem?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of all poetry legends featured so far. POETRY URBAN LEGEND: Oliver St. John Gogarty wrote a poem dedicated to the returning Irish soldiers from the Boer […]

Did Frances McDormand Really Almost Miss Out On Her Big Break to Watch a Soap Opera?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far. MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: Frances McDormand almost lost her role in Blood Simple because she had to watch a soap opera. […]

Did Elvis’ First On-Screen Kiss Really Later Become a Nun?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far. MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: Elvis Presley’s first on-screen kiss became a Catholic nun a few years later. Dolores Hart was the […]