Web site: Notable Names Database, more than just a biography
When you're looking to learn a quick fact about someone famous, you either A) click over to IMDB.com or B) cross your finger and hope the info on Wikipedia holds true. Well, we'd like to introduce you to a third option: Notable Names Database where the quickest search will lead you to informative and hilarious, if not slightly-biased, info.
A few tidbits we learned today:
Gwyneth Paltrow
In the aftermath of 9/11, Paltrow reportedly stocked up on gas masks and anthrax antidotes. Months later she said she had given up alcohol because it was interfering with her yoga, but after that declaration she appeared in a series of European ads for vermouth-makers Martini & Rossi.
Dr. Phil AKA Phillip Calvin McGraw
Executive summary: Dispenses poor advice.
Tom Cruise AKA Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Executive summary: Flamboyant Scientologist
Risk Factors: Dyslexia; he is 5'7" tall, somewhat short for an American man. He usually wears "elevator shoes" and works with diminutive actresses to hide his height.
Courtney Love
Crimes [Ed: there were so many we only listed a few]:
1978 - Shoplifting KISS t-shirt from a Woolworth's
Feb 2003 - Air Rage: becoming combative with the crew on a Virgin Atlantic flight
Oct 2003 - Vandalism: breaking out the windows of her ex-boyfriend's house
Oct 2003 - Drug Possession: Oxycontin
Mar 2004 - Assault: allegedly hit someone with a microphone stand
Apr 2004 - Allegedly attacked a woman with a metal flashlight,
