Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Billboard charts for 42 weeks. His album No Way Out was the third best-selling album in 1997. Last year the number of "Benji's" (hundred-dollar bills, in Puff-speak) he earned totaled a cool $150 million. Not that you need to know all this trivia to know he's a success--all you need to do is turn on the radio and he'll tell you about it himself: "You name it I can claim it, / Young, black and famous, wit' money hanging out the anus...
...running-on-fumes side of EMPTY, and there's even an exclamation mark shining crimson on the dashboard. But Campbell, preternaturally polite, continues blithe small talk. "Is that band the Cult still together?" she asks. You confess that when it comes to '80s goth-metal bands, you're no trivia master. She continues, "I went for coffee with this guy who was in the Cult, and I was wondering if they were still doing anything." The needle dips further. You're close enough to the hotel. You get out so she can get gas. She drives off, smiling...
Melia said he acquired much of this trivia knowledge in his days as a Harvard student. His work at the Fogg Museum as an undergraduate was particularly useful, he said...
...Just a lifetime of collecting trivia is about all you can do," Melia said...
...Start with a known quantity: It's a Wonderful Life (1951). Odds are you'll miss the ONE time Ted Turner lets it out of the box, so rise up and rent. Trivia note: Frank Faylen and Ward Bond play the cabby and the cop (or is it the cop and the cabby?). Their names? Ernie and Bert. Jim Henson was not sued...