10 The Brothers Hansen

Two things Hans Christian Andersen recorded: tales for children and the frequency with which he masturbated. Fortunately, they did not intersect. “The Little Mermaid” and “The Snow Queen” creator Hans Christian Andersen maintained his innocence throughout his career. Beyond that, he struggled to control his sexual desires. In an effort to rein in his urges, he got “penis sores” from his chronic masturbation. His diaries were packed with drunken details of every incidence of onanism.

His life was shockingly virginal save for his constant masturbation. Andersen thought of himself as an ugly duckling, just like his eponymous creation. He was so terrified of having sexual relations that all he could do was daydream about having unrequited feelings for women and men. After he passed away, he was probably unmarried. When he hired prostitutes, that was the closest he got to having sex. The transaction itself remained pure. All they were hired to do was converse with him. He got up and left as soon as they finished talking so he could “let it go,” as Elsa would put it.

9 Roberts Xavier

Even more well-known than the name it represents is the Xavier Roberts signature. The foot of each Cabbage Patch Kid bears his autograph in cursive. Parents in the 1980s would riot in order to get their hands on the newest must-have holiday present. Roberts amassed a fortune thanks to the unparalleled phenomenon’s popularity. The women who came up with the concept got nothing.

Roberts was never forthright about the dolls’ origin, other from stories of tagging along with an enchanted BunnyBee to a vegetable patch. In his incessant speculation, he always thought the toys were memorials to his mother’s patchwork dolls. This whole thing was just a PR ploy. There is a simpler truth. At a craft fair, he purchased a doll baby by Martha Nelson Thomas.

Doll Babies were the inspiration for many characteristics that made it into Cabbage Patch Kids, such as the squished baby face and the information cards and documents that came with them that detailed their hobbies and adoption. Thomas gave her dolls personality traits and treated them like real humans. No emblem, not even a copyright, could tarnish them.

At long last, Thomas took Roberts to court, accusing him of stealing his ideas. The amount of money collected in the settlement, which remains confidential, didn’t bother Thomas much. There was just one thing she wanted Roberts to do: acknowledge that she was the real toymaker. He reluctantly admitted the truth.

8 Frank Lisa

Almost too sugary. Some evil plot lurked beneath the surface of those sugary unicorn scenes where the unicorns and dolphins shared ice cream cones. Lisa Frank is a much-loved business. People despise Lisa Frank.

The pressure to keep up production during the sticker craze created an unhealthy work environment for many companies. A number of former workers have made derogatory comparisons to the workplace, calling it everything from “the world’s shi**iest employer” to a “abusive alcoholic home” and the “Rainbow Gulag.” The rights of Lisa Frank’s employees were severely curtailed. The office was off-limits to visitors. Everyone on staff remained silent as they were ordered not to speak to one another. To ensure that her staff complied with her requests, Frank clandestinely taped their calls.

James Green, Frank’s husband and CEO, verbally abused disobedient staff. During his cocaine-fueled rants, Green insulted the employees. Green went to hurling chairs, padlocking employees’ offices, and threatening their lives when yelling names wasn’t cutting it. Green withheld the workers’ severance payments and unemployment benefits even although the offence was minor enough to warrant termination. Collective action ultimately resulted in their preservation of this fundamental right. They were released from their contracts, and the workers departed in droves. They were warranting a vacation.

7 The poetry master Robert Frost

Like the winter trees he elegizes, Robert Frost writes simple poetry. The frost was less perfect than freshly fallen snow. In the forest, two paths split. He chose to be a vengeful jerk, the path rarely taken.

The poets Frost was most envious of took the hit. He intimidated up-and-coming poets when they read their work, convinced that no one could match his level of skill but also terrified of competition. Frost started a little fire in the rear to divert Archibald MacLeish’s attention from one of his recitations. When Bernard DeVoto confronted the would-be arsonist, he informed Robert Frost, “You’re a good poet, Robert, but you’re a bad man.” After spreading rumours that DeVoto had mental challenges, Frost failed to debunk DeVoto’s accurate summary. Truman Capote, a cub reporter for the New Yorker, was fired by Frost after he provoked Frost in a similar way.

In Frost’s private life, his tendency to hold grudges was just as catastrophic. After accusing his wife of having an affair, he put his own marriage in jeopardy. He roused his kids from their slumber one night to tell them that he was going to murder their mum and himself. Thank goodness he didn’t really do what he threatened.

6 Northern Calloway

A Celebration of Northern Calloway

Rarely does Sesame Street fail to dispel cloud cover. Jim Henson’s village was cast into shadow in 1982 by the death of shopkeeper Mr. Hooper. Many have praised the show for the sensitive way it deals with loss. Another shopkeeper followed, adding to the audience’s cause for sadness.

David, played by Northern Calloway, took over Mr. Hooper’s duties at the store in the programme. Calloway garnered a great deal of positive sentiment during his eighteen years as a cherished regular on the show. As a trade-off, Sesame Street put up with his increasingly disorganised behaviour.

Calloway had a wild time tearing up Nashville streets in the early ’80s. The performer, who was not wearing trousers, used an iron rod to smash automobile windows. It was 1989 that Calloway’s mental decline became apparent. He was let go by the company when he bit Danny Epstein, the director of music. Harassing Alison Bartlett, a teenage actor, was the last straw. Stony Lodge Psychiatric Hospital was the destination of his admission. A seizure occurred while Calloway resisted his carers’ restraints. Tragically, the 41-year-old actor passed away due to a heart attack that ensued.

5 Christopher Reeve

“The Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade aspired to bring “God’s light” into the secular art world. His detractors said that his tacky pastoral scenes were more treey than artistically compelling. Many Americans felt differently. The designs created by Kinkade were featured on millions of trinkets. The fame funded an unhealthy drinking habit. A shadow is cast by that light.

Kinkade was a con artist who used exaggerated sales numbers to get gallery owners to put money into his business. Misled into thinking their value was safe, operators showcased Kinkade’s work. There was no way. His stock value dropped from $25 to $3 in early 2002. The investors’ fortune remained intact while Kinkade’s remained unaltered.

Drunken adventures were funded by the millions of royalties. Some disastrous examples include urinating on a Winnie the Pooh statue at Disneyland or rushing the stage of a Siegfried & Roy play. The worst part was that a number of his female admirers said he touched them inappropriately. His family staged an intervention to address his alcoholism after he briefly went into a coma due to excessive drinking. He was in imminent danger of death, according to the doctors, unless he reined in his drinking. That is precisely what transpired after combining valium with alcohol. The man was 54 years old.

4 Bing Crosby

When one thinks of the Christmas song, few names come to mind more than Bing Crosby’s forlorn longing. Songs that will live on in perpetuity, like as “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” and the disastrous duet with David Bowie, “The Little Drummer Boy,” will always be linked to the talented singer. His children probably hoped he wouldn’t return home for the holidays.

Bing instituted stringent rules of conduct for his sons out of concern that they would be spoiled by his immense fortune. It was almost painful how the corporal punishment was administered. Bing would weigh his boys once a week. They would be beaten with sticks until they bled if their weight exceeded their father’s arbitrary norm, according to Bing. In order to adhere to the food restrictions, son Philip would sometimes skip breakfast. Phillip once stowed his bacon and eggs beneath a rug. “Dust, hairs, and all,” Bing said as he dragged the food from the floor and had Phillip eat it. The lads would occasionally be made to sleep with their soiled pants pulled up over their faces; this was a regular enough practice that it was dubbed ‘the Crosby lavalier’.

The betrayal and shame broke the family. They did not have joyful, sunny days. Dixie, who was unable to escape the scolding, resorted to drunkenness. In due time, each of the four sons followed suit. An individual’s son was a chronic patient at psychiatric hospitals. When confronted with their depression, two more took their own lives.

3 Glasmarr Gary

Marvin Glass is mostly known for three toys: the complicated and ensnaring Mouse Trap, the anatomical game Operation, and the confrontational Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots. You can say what you want about Glass, but no one can dispute that he poured his heart and soul into his work.

Glass went to extreme lengths to protect his board game empire, even going so far as to outfit his home with cutting-edge security systems. Locks were triple-locked and bolted to the windows. Close circuit television cameras caught everybody who came near his house. At all times, armed guards were posted. He became a reclusive, shut-in due to his paranoia.

There was no impact on his social life from the hallucination. His mansion was a continual site of orgies, taking design cues from Hugh Hefner’s infamous Playboy Mansion. There were some nonconsensual experiences. “Manipulative and predatory” conduct was consistent with Glass’s personality. He frequently used the excuse that having sex with a lady was his only hope to keep himself from killing himself. For a while, it may have helped alleviate his despair. Glass made millions of people happy. That was not the case for him and many others.

2 The Dr. Seuss

Mr. Geisel, you are quite unpleasant. Under the alias Dr. Seuss, the imaginative stories of Theodore Geisel delighted kids of all ages. As a couple, he and Helen Palmer Geisel worked on the incoherent rhymes. Strangely, Theodore didn’t give a hoot about his target audience when he co-wrote these endearing pieces. The desire to have a family overtook Helen.

Helen believed that becoming a mother would bring her much-needed solace after enduring the crippling effects of Guillain-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune condition. Hospitalised with stomach discomfort, Helen was 33 years old. As part of her treatment, the doctors extracted her ovaries. She would never be able to have children of her own because of the operation.

Depression hit Helen hard when she was unable to conceive. Her already crippling disease was made worse by the emotional upheaval. Even worse heartbreak was revealed to her thereafter. Following 41 years of marriage to the married Audrey Diamond, Theodore cheated on Helen with his wocket. Helen intentionally took nearly 300 pills in 1967 and overdosed. Theodore was held responsible by her suicide note for the anguish he caused her. His inconsiderate treatment of females persisted. One year following Helen’s passing, Seuss wed Audrey Diamond, but only after she severed ties with her ex-husband and their children.

1 Robbins, Peter

Charlie Brown Actor’s Ex-Girlfriend Responds to His Outburst in Court

The court cautioned him against becoming a “blockhead.” The reference to his previous stardom was appreciated by Peter Robbins. The counsel went unheeded by him. In the most acclaimed “Peanuts” productions of the 1960s, Robbins provided the voice of the legendary Charlie Brown. In two beloved Christmas classics, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Christmas, he portrayed the title role. After entering puberty, the roles of an actor disappeared. Very few choices remained to him.

Robbins was broken up with by Shawna Kern in 2013. The fact that he had to pay for her breast implant surgery left him feeling cheated. He became so angry that he brutally attacked her and their dog, an action that even Snoopy would denounce. Seeking refuge, she escaped.

After Robbins was barred from communicating with Kern, he began to pursue her. For hours, Robbins’s threats were heard on Kern’s phone. The plastic surgeon Lori Saltz, whom Robbins blamed for the treatment that led to their breakup, became an obsession of his. In response to the couple’s domestic violence investigation, Robbins had a hitman attempt to assassinate the sheriff of the county. The plan was never put into action since he was sentenced to a year in prison. He found himself back in courtroom in 2015, this time for probation violation. He was instead moved to a mental institution as his symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder worsened. He could never learn from his failures, as evidenced by his luck with animated footballs.

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