I know how addicted our society is to celebrities and all of their odd comings and goings and I have yet to truly understand it. So, in the spirit of “giving the people what they want”, here are a few celebrity tidbits of information you may not have heard.

• Uma Thurman’s father was the first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk.

• Ben Affleck’s reformed alcoholic father, Tim, became Robert Downey Junior’s drug counselor.

• The fathers of Robert Duvall and Jim Morrison were admirals in the U.S. Navy, while Kris Kristofferson’s father was a US Air Force general.

• When Michael Caine was a child, his mother pasted his ears to his head to stop them from sticking out.

• David Schwimmer’s mother is the attorney who handled Roseann Barr’s first divorce.

• The mothers of Oscar Wilde, Peter O’Toole, Ernest Hemingway, General Douglas MacArthur, Bill Tilden and Franklin D Roosevelt dressed their sons as girls for the first few years of their lives.

• Uma Thurman’s mother had been married to Timothy Leary of LSD fame before marrying Uma’s father.

• The fathers of Judy Garland, Jacqueline Onassis, Liza Minnelli, and Anne Heche were all gay.

• Rachel Weisz’s father invented the artificial respirator.

• Julianna Margulies’s father wrote the “Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” jingle for Alka-Seltzer.

I hope all you celebrity lovers out there enjoying these little factoids. There’s many more that I’ll share with you over the coming weeks and months.

HAPPY HUMP DAY