Timelines for year 1965
Bruce Lee
Lee knocked out Wong Jack-Man in Oakland, CA, in a 1965 no-holds-barred challenge match. It was Lee's last official fight. It lasted three minutes.
Michael Jackson
In the early 1970s while still very young and a member of the Jackson 5, appeared on "The Dating Game" . Roles were reversed; Michael asked questions and picked a date from three eligible "bachelorettes".
Britney Spears
April 2005: The guy in her "Curious" fragrance commercial is played by actor Eric Winter of the daytime soap "Days of Our Lives" .
Christopher Plummer
Is only 13 years older than Charmian Carr who played his daughter in The Sound of Music .
On April 22 he was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre by the Roundabout Theatre. His The Sound of Music co-star Julie Andrews was among those in attendance.
Charlton Heston
He was unable to campaign for Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election when Major Dundee went over schedule. Heston later admitted in his autobiography "In the Arena" that it was here that his political beliefs began moving to the Right.
Offered to return his entire paycheck to the producers of Major Dundee so that director Sam Peckinpah could film some crucial scenes that were cut due to time and budget constraints. The producers took back Heston's paycheck but still refused to let the scenes be filmed. Heston wrote in his autobiography "In The Arena" that the main problem with Major Dundee was that everyone had a different idea of what the film was: Heston saw it as a film about life after the Civil War, the producers just wanted a standard cavalry-vs.-Indians film, while Peckinpah, according to Heston, really had his next film, The Wild Bunch , in mind.
Ann-Margret
Turned down the leading role in Cat Ballou , which eventually went to Jane Fonda.
Measurements: 35-23-35 (in 1965), 36D-25-36 (in 1986), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Liza Minnelli
1973: Became the seventh person to win the Triple Crown of Acting: Tony for "Flora, the Red Menace" and "The Act" ; Oscar, Best Actress for Cabaret ; and Emmy in 1973 for Liza with a Z: A Concert for Television (TV).
Has won three Tony Awards, two as Best Actress (Musical), for 1965's "Flora, the Red Menace" and 1978's "The Act," and, in 1974, a Special Tony Award "for adding lustre to the Broadway theatre season." She was also nominated as Best Actress (Musical) in 1984 for "The Rink," but lost that award to her co-star, Chita Rivera.
Ron Howard
In 1971, was a contestant on "The Dating Game" and ended up choosing Bachelorette #2, Nola Green.
Julia Roberts
At the 2002 Peoples Choice Awards she admitted to being a huge fan of "Days of Our Lives" and asked to be seated near the cast.
Quentin Tarantino
Considers Ride in the Whirlwind one of the finest Westerns ever made, even writing an extensive article about it for Sight And Sound magazine titled A Rare Sorrow. The article was featured in the Pulp Fiction Special Edition DVD as an extra and also appears in Paul A. Woods' Film Geek Files (pgs. 129-132). Interestingly, the director of Ride in the Whirlwind, Monte Hellman, was the executive producer of Reservoir Dogs .
Collects old board games having to do with TV shows like "I Dream of Jeannie" , "The Dukes of Hazzard" , "The A-Team" , etc.
Elvis Presley
He is credited as a co-writer of "(I'll) You'll Be Gone" . This was the B side of the hit from his film Girl Happy , "Do The Clam". It is found in his five-CD box set of '60s recordings. Elvis composed the lyrics and brought the song to a recording session.He is also listed in the writer's credits to "Heartbreak Hotel".