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Wesley Snipes Was Smart Enough to Avoid Major League II

Sports Illustrated looked back on 22 years of Major League by interviewing nearly everyone involved in the making of the sports classic with one notable exception: the incarcerated Wesley Snipes . Not that he would have wanted to contribute anyway. “A couple years after Major League I saw Wesley,” recalled co-star Corbin Bernsen. “I said, “Hey, man, they’re gonna make Major League II !” And he was like, ‘You’re gonna do that?’ And I thought, ‘Wow, how quickly they forget.’ He’d become Wesley Snipes. That rubbed me the wrong way.” [ Sports Illustrated ]

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Wesley Snipes Was Smart Enough to Avoid Major League II

About That Time Marlon Brando Invented Swimming Pool Shoes and Conga Drums

Oscar winner, letter writer , Godfather… drum innovator? Turns out Marlon Brando was all of those things, an avid inventor with multiple patents to his name including one for a revolutionary tuning system for conga drums. Said prototype still sits in a storage facility in West L.A., which NPR visited recently to get the scoop on Brando’s secret scientific pursuits.

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About That Time Marlon Brando Invented Swimming Pool Shoes and Conga Drums