by Andrew Wood | Jul 9, 2020 | Getting Famous
John Wayne, the most iconic American actor of the 20th century, made almost 200 movies. Near the end of that run, without a single Oscar to his name, he played an aging, drunk, US marshal named Rooster J. Cogburn in the movie True Grit. The script called for him to...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 8, 2020 | Getting Famous
Pat Parelli, was born in California’s Bay Area. He was obsessed with horses at an early age, working in stables from nine years old. At 17, Pat was a natural bareback rider, good enough that he won the Bareback rookie of the year title in 1972. For the next 14...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 7, 2020 | Getting Famous
Legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs never put a license plate on his cars. He got away with it legally thanks to a California loophole. Anyone with a brand-new car had a maximum of six months to affix the issued number plate to the vehicle. So Jobs would simply trade his...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 6, 2020 | Getting Famous
Richard Branson started a magazine in London and sold t-shirts and records by mail. He made a fortune and sold his record company for a billion dollars to start an airline – and then just about every other business known to man including health clubs, cell phone...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 5, 2020 | Getting Famous
1975, Stallone saw the Muhammad Ali – Chuck Wepner fight also known as the “Bayonne Bleeder”. That match was like a flash of divine inspiration when for a brief moment Wepner knocked Ali to the canvas. That night Stallone went home, and after three...
