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...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 4, 2020 | Getting Famous
In 1972, actress Jane Fonda went on a controversial tour to North Vietnam. The trip would come to be the most infamous part of her activist career, and lead to her nickname “Hanoi Jane.”. It was during that trip that a photograph was taken of her seated on...
by Andrew Wood | Sep 4, 2019 | Getting Famous
The question was posed by the understandably concerned Gladys Presley after her 11-year-old son, Elvis, asked to get a .22-gauge rifle. He had first asked for a bicycle, but the strapped family couldn’t afford it. Ultimately, they agreed on the six-string Kay...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 8, 2019 | Getting Famous
In the 1940s, Frank Sinatra – or Frankie, as he was known at that time-became America’s first national teen idol. Sinatra later recalled a series of shows he performed in 1942 at a New York City Theater. “The sound that greeted me was absolutely...
