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15 unusual facts about Cupid


Amors Baller

Harald Weedon, who plays Lucas' sex-obsessed friend, came up with the title of the film, "Amors Baller" (literally: "Cupid's Balls").

Château de Malle

The statues were done by Italian artists brought there for that purpose in the early part of the 18th century, and represent figures from Greek mythology: Cephalus, Aurora, Cupid, Aphrodite (Venus), Adonis, and Flora, the goddess of flowers and gardens.

Christabella Rogers

Christabella Rogers (b. 1618? - ?) was a 17th-century English poet and author of an untitled song addressed to Cupid.

Cupid's Chokehold

The video begins with a dancing Cupid who shoots McCoy with a love arrow as he passes a girl, portrayed by actress, singer Porscha Coleman.

However, she eventually becomes tired of being exploited and expresses this in a humorous scene where the two are playing Scrabble (she spells out the words 'krush', 'kill', and 'destroy').

Cupid's Fireman

Cupid's Fireman is a 1920s American film directed by William A. Wellman.

Cupidon Mouse

The title character is a mouse who is an Cupidon; he has a wings, meaning he must always be good to stop it from slipping, and receives instructions from God.

Emanuele Propizio

Also in 2009, he acts in the film Natale a Beverly Hills, directed by Neri Parenti and in 2010 is one of the protagonists of Genitori & Figli, film by Giovanni Veronesi and again with Veronesi he acts in Manuale d'amore 3, where he played Cupid.

General Tom Thumb

Stratton made his first tour of America at the age of five, with routines that included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte as well as singing, dancing and comical banter with another performer who acted as a straight man.

Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety

She can summon a bow and arrow which acts like Cupid's arrow, causing anyone to fall in love with the first person they see.

Paula Marshall

Marshall's third television series, Rob Thomas's Cupid, premiered in 1998.

It featured her as Dr. Claire Allen, a psychiatrist supervising a man named Trevor (Jeremy Piven) who thinks he is Cupid.

Soap Girl

Soap Girl is a 2002 drama film directed by Young Man Kang, a Korean-born filmmaker who made his U.S. directing debut Cupid's Mistake.

Termitotrox cupido

The specific name "cupido" comes from the resemblance of the trichomes to the wings of Cupid, the child god from Greek mythology.

The Last Eve

The Last Eve is a 2005 action film directed by Young Man Kang, a Korean-born filmmaker who made his U.S. directing debut Cupid's Mistake (2001).


Alfred Gatley

In 1844 he received the silver medal for the best model from the life, and exhibited marble busts of "Cupid" and "Psyche", and in 1846 he exhibited a bust of Marshal Espartero, and a model in bas-relief of "The Hours leading out the Horses of the Sun", which went to the library of Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire.

Bill Dow

Bill Dow recently completed his M.A. in Liberal Studies at Simon Fraser University through an examination of Greek tragedy and the writing of a ‘new’ tragedy – Cupid’s Arrow, that tells the beginnings of the story of Jason and Medea – the pre-quel to Euripides’ Medea.

Cartman Finds Love

Cupid Me then tells the satisfied Cartman that he has found someone for him as well: Stacy Mullenberg, the poster child for Halitosis Kidz!, an organization dedicated to aiding children with morbidly bad breath.

Casa de la Panadería

Carlos Franco won with a design based on mythological figures such as Cybele, Proserpine, Bacchus, and Cupid, as well as others invented by the artist, interwoven into the history of Madrid and the Plaza Mayor.

Chasing Trouble

Frankie Darro as Frankie “Mr. Cupid” O’Brien and Mantan Moreland as Thomas H. Jefferson are making deliveries for the local florist; and, manage to get a job for their out of work friend, Marjorie Reynolds as Susie Carey.

College Magazine

In April 2009, College Magazine's business plan won first prize in the U. Maryland "Cupid's Cup" Business Competition sponsored by Kevin Plank.

Cupid Car Club

Join our Club, sometimes known as Werewolves!, was the only EP from the short-lived band Cupid Car Club.

Gertrude T. Widener

Gertrude Widener notably bred and raced Dan Cupid, sire of Sea Bird whose 145 Timeform rating is the highest in flat racing history.

Glenn Kesby

Other opera roles have included Silvio in Handel's Il Pastor Fido (Harmonie Universelle), Cupid in John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Burghley Opera), Tolomeo in Julius Caesar, Arsamenes in Xerxes, Polinesso in Ariodante, and Venus in Pepusch's Venus and Adonis for the Handel House Museum.

Great Wakering

You can also cross MOD land and walk across the Range from Cupid's Corner to follow a muddy track to the seawall which offers great views over the Maplin Sands.

Hollis Resnik

She appeared three times on the television show Cupid, and had a support role in the motion pictures Backdraft and Little Big Top, an independent film.

III Sides to Every Story

The use of Abbey Road may be perceived as yet another nod to the Beatles, besides the various lyrical references throughout the album: "Cupid's Dead" quotes a line from "A Day in the Life"; "God Isn't Dead?" quotes "Eleanor Rigby"; and "Rest in Peace" quotes John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance".

James Chean

The Surreal Life (TV series) - Ron Jeremy's Sidekick (1 episode, 2005) I'm with Cupid - Ron Jeremy's Sidekick 2005

Jealousy in art

In art, depicting a face reflecting the ravages of jealousy was a frequent studio exercise: see for instance drawings by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) or Sébastien Leclerc (the Younger) (1676–1763), or in a fuller treatment, the howling figure on the left in Bronzino’s An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (probably 1540-50).

Jeffrey D. Sams

His Cupid co-star Paula Marshall previously had a recurring role on the show, and Thomas has stated that - at some point - he would like to reunite Marshall, Sams, and their Cupid co-star Jeremy Piven on Veronica Mars.

John Adams Jackson

Jackson's portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851); Adelaide Phillips (1853); Wendell Phillips (1854); "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid Stringing his Bow"; "Titania and Nick Bottom"; "The Culprit Fay" (many times repeated); "Dawn" (repeated); "Peace"; "Cupid on a Swan"; "The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times); "Reading Girl" (1869); "Nusidora" (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and "Il Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat.

Live at the Cimarron Ballroom

This album also features some songs Cline never recorded, like "When My Dreamboat Comes Home", and her version of the Connie Francis hit "Stupid Cupid".

Magic Shop Books

The Greek goddess of strife Eris breaks into the Magic Shop while Mr. Elives is away and gives the shy but acid-tongued Juliet Dove a crystal amulet containing Cupid that causes every boy she meets to become truly, madly and strongly in love with her.

Mars Being Disarmed by Venus

Most of David's models for it were figures involved in the Théâtre de la Monnaie: Venus was modelled by the actress Marie Lesueur, Cupid by Lucien Petipa, Mars by a subscriber or 'abonné', and one of the Graces by the Prince of Orange's mistress.

Otto van Veen

Another example familiar to us today as the story of The Tortoise and the Hare (originally a fable by Aesop), is titled "Perseverance winneth: The hare and the tortes layd a wager of their speed ..." shows us a cupid and tortoise outpacing the hare and exemplifying the idea that the love which is steady and constant will ultimately win the race.

Rollo in Emblemland

In it, a young boy named Rollo falls asleep and finds himself not in Wonderland, but in "Emblemland", a place described by Cupid as "the home of all Emblems.... Emblems are signs and symbols. I'm an Emblem, because I am the symbol of love; Uncle Sam is the symbol of the United States, and John Bull is the symbol of England, and the Owl is the symbol of wisdom...."

Rose Melberg

Cupid (Written by Sam Cooke) 7" Split w/ Magpies I Want a Love I can See (I Wish I Was a Slumberland Record #3; Sleeve by Adrian Tomine & colored by hand; Recorded Spring 1994)

Sex 'n' Money

The animated music video based on the fable of Cupid and Psyche (Directed by DEADBUG A.K.A. Christopher Heary) shows Cupid ( seen in the CD cover) arriving next to a limousine to a party at "Club Perfecto".

Thank You, Fog

The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who also included an "antimasque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses", written in 1973 by Auden and Chester Kallman as an interpolation in a planned production of James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death (1653); the antimasque was commissioned by the composer John Gardner.

The Asiatic Society

Some masterpieces, like Joshua Reynolds’ Cupid asleep on Cloud , Guido Cagnacci's Cleopatra, Thomas Daniell's A Ghat at Benares and Peter Paul Rubens’ Infant Christ are also in the possession of this museum.

The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina

The gladiator Taurus makes a good profit selling his sweat to make love potions, and many maidens come to dance away the effects of Cupid's arrow, or "the spider's bite" of love by dancing the Tarantella.

Thomas Nabbes

Nabbes contributed commendatory verses to Shackerley Marmion's ‘Legend of Cupid and Psyche,’ 1637; Robert Chamberlain's ‘Nocturnal Lucubrations,’ 1638; Thomas Jordan's ‘Poeticall Varieties,’ 1640; John Tatham's ‘Fancies Theater,’ 1640; Humphrey Mills's ‘A Night's Search.’ 1640; Thomas Beedome's ‘Poems Divine and Humane,’ 1641; and the ‘Phœnix of these Late Times; or, the Life of Mr. Henry Welby, Esq.’ (1637).

Ye Gods

The next day, he tries to track down Bacchus and does so, finding him at a party along with Cupid.