Mother of cute Canadian teenager Justin Bieber uploaded a video to YouTube of him singing. Bieber's mother Pattie Mallette, who was underage at the time of giving birth, raised her son with the help of her mother and stepfather. Pattie worked a series of low-paying...
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If Your Name Doesn’t Fit, Change It!
John Wayne was actually born Marion Robert Morrison. When Marion roamed the neighborhood, h never went anywhere without his Airedale terrier, Duke, at his side. The two were such constant companions that local firefighters began calling the boy 'Little Duke" The...
Bobby Clampett’s “Aha” Moment
In the 1980s my friend Bobby Clampett was the PGA Tour's new golden boy, a whiz kid from California who was the "next Jack Nicklaus" only it never quite worked out that way. While he did have a long and profitable career on both the PGA and Champions Tour. the...
Did an Eye Patch Grab an Oscar for the Duke?
John Wayne, the most iconic American actor of the 20th century, made almost 200 movies. Near the end of that run, without a single Oscar to his name, he played an aging, drunk, US marshal named Rooster J. Cogburn in the movie True Grit. The script called for him to...
The Cowboy Who Invented A New Way Of Teaching
Pat Parelli, was born in California's Bay Area. He was obsessed with horses at an early age, working in stables from nine years old. At 17, Pat was a natural bareback rider, good enough that he won the Bareback rookie of the year title in 1972. For the next 14 years,...
Start A Business, Any Business!
Richard Branson started a magazine in London and sold t-shirts and records by mail. He made a fortune and sold his record company for a billion dollars to start an airline - and then just about every other business known to man including health clubs, cell phone...
An Actor As Persistent As The Legend He Created!
1975, Stallone saw the Muhammad Ali - Chuck Wepner fight also known as the "Bayonne Bleeder". That match was like a flash of divine inspiration when for a brief moment Wepner knocked Ali to the canvas. That night Stallone went home, and after three days he had written...
One Bad Picture Can Ruin Your Career!
In 1972, actress Jane Fonda went on a controversial tour to North Vietnam. The trip would come to be the most infamous part of her activist career, and lead to her nickname "Hanoi Jane.". It was during that trip that a photograph was taken of her seated on an antiÂ...
Even Superstars Need A little Help to Get Started!
In the 1940s, Frank Sinatra - or Frankie, as he was known at that time-became America's first national teen idol. Sinatra later recalled a series of shows he performed in 1942 at a New York City Theater. "The sound that greeted me was absolutely deafening. I was...
Learn From The Boss!
People are no different today than they were forty years ago. Ask a struggling musician how rock star Bruce Springsteen became so big that, in the music business, he is now simply referred to as The Boss. Most will dismiss any further thought on the subject with a...