Here are a few more facts about celebrities that you probably didn’t know (or care about):

• Actor Michael Douglas flunked out of college;
• Mia Farrow was on the first issue of People magazine, dated March 4, 1974;
• Actress Natalie Portman was discovered by a scout in a pizza parlor in 1991;
• Sarah Michelle Gellar was once a competitive figure skater;
• Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas were married for one month;
• Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips were married for eight days;
• Britney Spears and Jason Allen were married for less than one day;
• Uma Thurman is six feet tall;
• Movie star Steve Buscemi worked as a fireman from 1980 to 1984;
• Actor Dustin Hoffman once worked as a toy salesman at Macy’s;
• Actress Demi Moore starred on ABC’s long-running soap opera General Hospital;
• Cary Grant never won an Oscar;
• Rock Hudson’s real name was Roy Fitzgerald;
• Fred Astaire’s real name was Frederick Austerlitz;
• John Wayne’s real name was Marion Michael Morrison;
• Woody Allen’s real name is Allen Stewart Konigsberg;
• Cary Grant’s real name was Archie Leach;

. . . and now some juicy stuff, courtesy of The Canada Free Press:

• Michelle Obama, the First lady of the United State of America, has (ironically) said, ”In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.”
  • Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of “the Great Recession”.  (Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War.  And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary . . .)
  • How things have changed!  If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
    • $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff);
    • $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady);
    • $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary);
    • $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady);
    • Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady);
    • $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady);
    • $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady);
    • $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady);
    • $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady);
    • $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary);
    • Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary);
    • $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady);
    • $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady);
    • Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady);
    • $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady);
    • $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
    • $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
    • Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
    • $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
    • $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
    • Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
    • Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
  • There has never been anyone in the White House at any time that has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life.  One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary had only three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.
  • (Note:  This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom travelled aboard Air Force One to Europe) .