Celebrity Rubber
Ducks (Celebriducks)
Approximate Size: 4.5" Long x 3.5" Wide x 4" Tall
Ozzy Osbourne
The legendary rock and roll madman gets top billing with his own Celebriduck!

In 1970, Ozzy joined with Tonny Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, to form the band Earth. While rehearsing in Birmingham, there was a cinema across the street playing the movie "Black Sabbath." They decided to write music that would scare people since people seemed willing to stand in line to see a movie that would scare them. Subsequently, they wrote "Black Sabbath." Later, Geezer would come up with the idea of calling the band Black Sabbath. With the releases of Paranoid (1970), Black Sabbath (1970), Master Of Reality (1971), etc. Black Sabbath defined what heavy metal would become. Ozzy has since become known as the "Godfather of Metal." Unfortunately, in 1978, Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath. In 1980, Ozzy teamed up with Randy Rhoads (1956-82), former guitarist and founder of Quiet Riot and the rest is history.

Dr. Frank-N-Furter
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is an outrageous assemblage of the most stereotyped science fiction movies, Marvel comics, Frankie Avalon / Annette Funicello outings, and rock-n-roll of every vintage. Running through the story is the sexual confusion of two American, middle-class, "Ike Age" kids confronted by the complications of the decadent morality of the 70's, epitomized in the person of the mad "doctor" Frank-N-Furter.

Amazingly, the show went from being an experimental production in a small London theater, to a smash international stage hit, to a major motion picture and cult classic, all in the space of 18 months! Usually a play must run at least year on Broadway before a film production is begun. Lou Adler, the movie's executive producer, attributes the show's quick production as a film to the fact that it opened in Los Angeles, where studio executives could witness the success of the show with their own eyes and easily see its potential.

"Don't get strung out by the way I look; don't judge a book by it's cover . . . I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm one hell of a lover!"

Biker Betty
Most people are familiar with Betty Boop, although many know very little about her. She was born in 1930, inspired by a singer of the time named Helen Kane.

When Betty first appeared in a cartoon, she was intended to be a romantic interest for Bimbo, the Max Fleischer cartoon studio's dog character (an attempt to create a Mickey Mouse equivalent). Therefore, when she first appeared, she was a dog, singing in a nightclub where Bimbo worked. Betty soon became so popular that she replaced Bimbo as the central character in Fleischer cartoons. Soon afterwards, Betty became a human although Bimbo remained a dog.

Mr. T
When he wasn't working as a bodyguard, Mr. T filled in by working as a bouncer. One job he had was at Dingbat's Club in Chicago. Club owner Ron Riskman says, "He was always very smartly dressed and he shaved his head completely bald. He'd confront trouble makers and say to them, 'It's only fair to warn you that my patience is as long as the hair on my head.' Most of them would get pretty quiet after that."

His big break came in 1982. He was spotted by Sylvester Stallone at the 1982 World's Toughest Bouncer Contest (which he won twice). Stallone was impressed, and chose Mr. T to be Rocky Balboa's opponent in Rocky III.

Uncle Sam
All of us know UNCLE SAM. Generally dressed in red, white, and blue, he wears a top hat, and is portrayed as a tall, white-haired man with a goatee, who symbolizes the United States.

The American flag, and the American bald eagle, and Uncle Sam. These three are widely recognized as the best-known symbols of the United States, symbols around which Americans particularly rally in times of trouble. But where did Uncle Sam come from?

Historians aren't completely certain how the character "Uncle Sam" was created, or who (if anyone) he was named after. The prevailing theory is that Uncle Sam was named after an actual man, Samuel Wilson. Samuel Wilson was born in Arlington, Mass., on September 13, 1766. His childhood home was in Mason, New Hampshire. In 1789, he and his brother Ebenezer moved to Troy, New York.

Dracula
It is hard to believe now . . . but there was a time when most of us did not know about vampires. We didn’t know you do them in with a wooden stake through the heart. We didn’t know that a ray of sunlight is injurious to their health. Nor did we know that they sleep in coffins all day and go about at night as bats and wolves. We didn’t even know that vampires drink blood!

All that changed in a single magnificent cinematic achievement. "I am DRAH - COOL - AHHH. I bid you . . . velcome." Bela Lugosi's first words (spoken in his unforgettable, thick, Hungarian accent) in the classic 1931 movie, Dracula.

Carmen Miranda
Thanks to American movies, Carmen Miranda - who had arrived in New York in 1939, a complete unknown, risking a solid career in Brazil and South America - became a star, even though she had none of the physical traits valued by most Americans: She was short (less than five feet), dark, a Latin, and knew no more than a few heavily accented words in English.

"Hokay! Theese time, make weeth the careful! Knock one banana off my head and I will make you the flat pancake!"

Mona Lisa
Without a doubt, the most famous and most admired (and perhaps most mysterious) painting of all time is Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa del Gioconda, also known simply as "La Gioconda". The portrait was painted on a 77cm x 53cm large poplar-wood by Leonardo in the year 1506, in the midst of an extraordinary life of unparallelled genius. As the quintessential "Renaissance man", Leonardo was not only one of the greatest Italian artists of all time, but also a brilliant scientist, architect, and inventor far ahead of his time; his inventions included the helicopter and the machine gun.

Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven is arguably the greatest composer of all time. But his greatness, and the greatness of his music, was not the result of genius alone (though he certainly had the lion's share of that). Out of the great tragedy of his life -- the loss of a composer's most treasured sense: his hearing -- and the anguish, loneliness, and bitterness engendered by that tragedy, was born that extraordinary music. The music of Beethoven -- by turns, passionate and sublime -- was destined to stir and to break the hearts of all its listeners. Beethoven was a master symphonist - the master symphonist in the eyes of most musicians and listeners. His compositions for orchestra were revolutionary in his day; while he adhered to classical musical forms, his melodies and orchestration were of such unprecedented power and beauty that they astonished even the most hardened listeners.

Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth quotes: "Do I deserve to make more than President Hoover? Why not? I had a better year than he did."

"My theory is that the bigger the bat, the faster the ball will travel. It's the weight of the bat that drives the ball. Some of my bats weight as much as 52 ounces."

"I didn't exactly point to any spot. All I wanted to do was give that a ride out of the park, anywhere. I used to pop off a lot about hitting homers, but mostly among the Yankees. ...Sometime I did, sometimes I didn't. Hell, it was fun."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."