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15 unusual facts about Richard "Popcorn" Wylie


Chaos at the Chateau

Appearing on the talk show Richard & Judy, Ann Darrell stated that "It's all real" and held her head in embarrassment at some of the events.

Gerry Markman

His particularly notable musical associations have been with The Cameo Blues Band, The Lincolns, Richard "Hock" Walsh and Alannah Myles.

Henry Lee I

#Richard "Squire" Lee (1726-1795), who married Sarah "Sally" Bland Poythress (1768-1828), daughter of Peter Poythress (1715-1785) of "Branchester", and Elizabeth Bland (1733-1792).

I. A. R. Wylie

In the 1930s, Wylie, Sara Josephine Baker and another pioneering woman physician, Dr. Louise Pearce, settled on a property near Skillman, New Jersey called Trevenna Farm.

J.C. Wylie

For his improvised integration of radar, gunnery, and torpedo control during these two actions, Wylie received a Silver Star.

Jenni Trent Hughes

She has appeared regularly as an advisory guest on GMTV, LK-Today, This Morning, and CH4’s Richard and Judy, speaking on relationship, family, career and political issues.

Jonathan Tropper

How to Talk to a Widower was a 2007 selection for The Richard and Judy Show in the United Kingdom.

Lloyd Pye

Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, Extra, Animal Planet, and Richard & Judy in the United Kingdom.

Mirage Publishing

The biggest accolade to be achieved by Mirage Publishing was to see its book Burnt (ISBN 1-902578-28-7), by Scottish author Ian Colquhoun, being held aloft by Richard Madeley on Richard & Judy on UK TV.

Nicci Jolly

Though much of her work is sport-related, Jolly has also presented a segment on the Beslan crisis for Richard & Judy, appeared as a guest presenter on This Week, and was a contestant on Celebrity Fear Factor.

Popcorn

At least six localities (all in the Midwestern United States) claim to be the "Popcorn Capital of the World": Ridgway, Illinois; Valparaiso, Indiana; Van Buren, Indiana; Schaller, Iowa; Marion, Ohio; and North Loup, Nebraska.

Rachel Zadok

In 2004, Zadok entered the ‘How to Get Published’ competition on Channel 4’s Richard & Judy Show, reaching the final five of 46,000 entrants.

Skillman, New Jersey

I. A. R. Wylie (1885–1959), popular writer; resident of Trevenna Farm with Baker.

Terry Brighton

According to the author’s website this makes good a promise made to Richard Madely on the British TV chat show Richard & Judy that he would “write the novel” of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

The Jane Austen Book Club

It was also recommended as the sixth best book of 2005 on the television show Richard & Judy


36th century BC

Excavations of the Bat Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico in 1948 and 1950 discovered ears of popcorn dated to circa 3600 BC.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe

In 1644 she married her second cousin, Richard (later Sir Richard) Fanshawe (1608–1666), Secretary of War to Prince Charles.

Blue Silver

Blue Silver is a Hard bop composition written in 1948 by American jazz trumpet player Richard 'Blue' Mitchell.

Broadway Theatre, Catford

Since 2001's production of Ben Elton's Popcorn the studio has hosted numerous productions including Cabaret, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange and their critically acclaimed take on Frank McGuinness's Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.

Carmen Brasilia

This song modernize the opera theme written by Georges Bizet by using a Minimoog to synthetize the electronics plops samples of the "Popcorn" song.

Christmas ornament

Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany, by Hans Greiner who produced garlands of glass beads similar to the popcorn strands and tin figures that could be hung on trees.

CHSH inequality

CHSH stands for John Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony and Richard Holt, who described it in a much-cited paper published in 1969 (Clauser et al., 1969).

Crackerjack

Cracker Jack, a snack consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts

David Bull

David Richard Bull (born 9 May 1969) is an English doctor, author, and host and commentator on a variety of British and US television programmes, such as Sugar Dome,the BBC's Watchdog, Watchdog Healthcheck,Newsround, Living TV's Most Haunted Live!, Channel 4's Richard & Judy, Tomorrow's World, and Sky's The Breathing Life Awards.

Diacetyl

In 2012, Wayne Watson, a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded $7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned him of its dangers.

Hoot Evers

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1921, Evers gained the nickname "Hoot" as a child when he was a devoted fan of the films of Richard “Hoot” Gibson, a popular cowboy who released nearly 75 short films during the first 10 years of Evers’ life.

Hotsauce TV

Ross's brother and sister-in-law own the similar company Cactus TV, who produce Richard & Judy.

James Vicary

In it, he claimed that an experiment in which moviegoers were repeatedly shown 0.03-second advertisements for Coca-Cola and popcorn significantly increased product sales.

Jerry G. Bishop

The show's title was derived from Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a yellow, sugary glazed popcorn snack, first produced in the 1960s.

Judy Finnigan

The TV show also launched two very successful "clubs", the Richard & Judy Book Club and the Richard & Judy Wine Club, both of which are similar in style to those used by Oprah Winfrey.

King-Size Homer

This is in reference to the legend of Newman's Own popcorn products, in which Newman threatened anyone who might try to steal his popcorn.

Laurence Boswell

Laurence Boswell (born 1959) is a theatre director, whose credits include Ben Elton's Popcorn, Madonna in her London stage debut, Eddie Izzard in a revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hayden Christensen, Freddie Prinze Jr and Anna Paquin for West End debuts in This Is Our Youth, which, in 2002, ran concurrently with Up for Grabs, featuring Madonna.

Mother Popcorn

"Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)" is a song recorded by James Brown and released as a two-part single in 1969.

"Mother Popcorn" has a beat and structure similar to Brown's 1967 hit "Cold Sweat", but a faster tempo and a greater amount of rhythmic activity (including a lot of agitated 16th note movement from the horn section and the three guitars) give it a more frenetic quality than the earlier song.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

The Foot-Worshipper's Guide to Watching Maula Jatt (The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies Do to Writers., Ed. by Jai Arjun Singh, Tranquebar, 2011)

Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma

Unlike classic RSC, the non-classic popcorn-shaped RS cells of NLPHL are CD15 and CD30 negative while positive for the B cell marker CD20.

Orville Redenbacher's

Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn is a brand of popcorn made originally by Chester Inc. which was owned by Charles F. Bowman and Orville Redenbacher (who starred in nearly all the commercials the most exceptional being its Reden-Budders products up to his death in 1995).

Oxygène

The motif of the track Oxygène IV is a variation on a phrase from Popcorn by Gershon Kingsley, which Jarre himself had previously covered under the pseudonyms of The Popcorn Orchestra and Jamie Jefferson.

Popcorn Deelites

Popcorn Deelites also starred in the title role of the 2003 Oscar-nominated Seabiscuit.

Popcorn Press

Some American poets who Popcorn Press has recently published are: J. Robert King (Humors), Lester W. Smith (Would You Dance? ), Shelly L. Hall (Tonguebones), and Patrick T. Randolph (Father's Philosophy), (Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless).

R. Jay Soward

He told Los Angeles radio station KLAC that he got the popcorn idea from seeing Keyshawn Johnson do it after scoring a touchdown when he was playing football for West Los Angeles College.

Reiger Park

In 1997, the Popcorn area experienced violent rent boycotts; in 2008, it was one of the sites of violence during the anti-immigrant riots, beating and burning émigrés on streets described as "war zones".

SFM Holiday Network

Popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher hosted the show (his company was a main sponsor of the Holiday Network), in special segments with his grandson.

That Was Only Yesterday – The Last EP

In late 1983 Richard Manners (Blue Mountain Music) asked Richard "Digby" Smith (Rough Diamond, Free, Sammy Hagar, Mott the Hoople) to put together a band and cut some tracks with David.

Think Fast!

The "uncles" were enormously fat men who would be snacking on bowls of random food items which included popcorn, tortilla chips, candy and Pepto-Bismol.

Trollie Wallie

The background music for Trollie Wallie consists of versions of Popcorn by Hot Butter and Equinoxe (part 5) by Jean Michel Jarre.

Wayne Perkins

In Nashville, Wayne wrote music for Catdaddy Music and co-wrote soundtracks with Emmy Award winning composer/producer/remixer Richard "Wolfie" Wolf for films including The Karate Kid, Part II and Back to School.