Ellen Burstyn facts and trivia

Ellen Burstyn is an American actress which acting career began in theatre during the late 1950s.

She was born on December 7, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan.

Birth name: Edna Rae Gillooly.

Her astrological sign: Sagittarius.

Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1973).

Parents: Correine Marie and John Austin Gillooly.

Ellen's height is 5' 7" (1.70 m).

Ellen practices Sufism.

In the early to mid 1960s, Burstyn played Dr. Kate Bartok on the NBC television soap opera The Doctors.

She hosted "Saturday Night Live" (1975) in 1980.

Burstyn is a Vegetarian.

Ellen received a permanent spinal injury while filming The Exorcist (1973).

Godmother of Marcia Gay Harden,'s children. 

Ellen Burstyn was the first female president of The Actor's Equity (1982-1985).

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Anthony Hopkins facts and trivia

• Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television, best known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
• Anthony Hopkins resides in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.
• Parents: Muriel Anne Yeats and Richard Arthur Hopkins.
• Hopkins received the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
• He was born on December 31, 1937 in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales.
• Hopkins earned $15 million for his appearance in the movie Hannibal.
• The actor is the father of Abigail Hopkins
• Anthony Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts.
• Full name: Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins.
• Anthony Hopkins is a noted piano virtuoso.
• Astrological sign: Capricorn.
• Hopkins is 5' 8½" (1.74 m) tall.
• Hopkins became so hooked on alcohol he suffered severe hallucinations.
• The actor turned down the role of Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins (2005). 
• Anthony passed on the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
• Anthony Hopkins became a U.S. citizen on April 12, 2000.
• Said he moved to the United States because London was... ''boring.''
• Hopkins has been married twice: Petronella Barker (1968-1972), and Jennifer Lynton (1973-2002).
• The actor received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.

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Gold fast facts

• Gold has been a highly sought-after precious metal for jewelry, coinage, and other arts since the beginning of recorded history.
• Symbol of Element : Au
• Gold never rusts.
• Gold metal is the most malleable and ductile pure metal known.
• Gold melts at 1064.43° Celsius.
• A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history.
• An ounce of gold can be stretched over 80 km (50 mi).
• About 50 percent of gold is used in jewelry, 40 percent in investments, and 10 percent in industry.
• 75% of all gold in circulation has been extracted since 1910.

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South Africa facts

1. The Republic of South Africa takes up an area of 1,221,037 km² (471,443 sq mi)
2. The area in South Africa is equal to the combined land mass of France, Italy and Germany.
3. The country has 11 official languages: Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, Zulu, Pedi, Tswana, Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda and Ndebele.
4. The population of South Africa is approximately 49,991,300.
5. About 24 percent of the population in South Africa is unemployed and lives on less than US $1.25 a day.
6. Demonym: South African.
7. Johannesburg is the largest city in the country.
8. South Africa is a constitutional democracy in the form of a parliamentary republic.
9. 77 percent of the population in South Africa are black, 10 percent are white, 8 percent are mixed race, 2.5 percent are Asian.
10. South Africa is the 2nd largest exporter of fruit in the world.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame facts and trivia

Performer Gene Autry is the only celebrity to have 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Roy Rogers, Bob Hope, Tony Martin, and Mickey Rooney each have stars in four categories.

Each year, an average of two-hundred nominations are submitted to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Walk of Fame Selection Committee. Only about 10% of nominees are selected.

To date, 47 percent of the stars have been awarded in the motion pictures category, 24 percent in television, 17 percent in audio recording, 10 percent in radio, and less than 2 percent in the live performance category.

Michael Jackson was inducted onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1980 as member of The Jacksons and in 1984 as solo artist.

Not only is there a star for the Beatles, but John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr all have individual stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Carol Burnett was presented a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6439 Hollywood Blvd., in front of the Hollywood Pacific Theatre where she worked as an usher in 1957.

The crew of Apollo XI have 4 stars that are shaped as the moon instead of the traditional star.
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Carol Burnett facts and trivia

Birth name: Carol Creighton Burnett.

She was born on April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas.

In 1951, she graduated from Hollywood High School. 

Carol's astrological sign is Taurus.

She is 5' 7" (1.70 m) tall.

Carol Burnett started her career in New York.

Parents: Ina Louise Creighton and Joseph Thomas Burnett.

The Carol Burnett Show was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978.

Carol was great friends with actress Lucille Ball.

Carol Burnett received a Peabody Award in 1962.

On December 1, 2009, Burnett was inducted into the California Hall of Fame at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.

Carol's favorite actor is Anthony Hopkins.

Carol is the godmother to Emma Kate Walton.

Burnett is best friends with Julie Andrews.

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Facts about Galaxies

The word galaxy is from the Greek root galaxias [γαλαξίας], literally meaning "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy.

The observable universe alone may contain 170 billion galaxies.

Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars, up to giants with a hundred trillion stars.

Galaxies are classified into 3 main types: elliptical galaxies, spiral galaxies, and irregular galaxies.

Dark matter appears to account for around 90% of the mass of most galaxies.

The larger galaxies contain over a trillion stars.

The largest galaxies in the Local Group are the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy appears to harbor one supermassive black hole within its nucleus.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is 170,000 light years away from Earth.

Number of Stars in Average Galaxy: 40 billion.

There are an estimated 400 billion stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

It takes the Milky Way galaxy 250 million years to complete one rotation.

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