I read an article were Eliot Ness' name was mentioned (can't remember the article, I will post it if I do.) and couldn't figure out why his name got stuck in my head. No, not from my time as a history major but from the Tupac song, California Lovin'. On some strange level that is extremely amusing.
References in Popular Culture:
In the fictional television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles a 21-year-old Indiana Jones dorms with Ness at the University of Chicago and solved a murder mystery together connected to Capone, along with Ernest Hemingway.
Ness stars as the main character in the graphic novel Torso, written by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko. The fictitious story is inspired by Ness' investigation of the Cleveland Torso murders.
Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland has a beer named the Eliot Ness. "Named after one of Cleveland's most respected safety directors who frequented the Brewpub's bar during his tenure from 1935-1941 and, according to popular legend, was responsible for the bullet holes in the bar still evident today. Margaret Conway, the mother of owners Patrick and Daniel Conway, worked with Ness as his stenographer."
Eliot Ness is mentioned in the Tupac Shakur song California Love in the verse rapped by Dr. Dre.
Lil'Wayne mentions Ness in his song "Comfortable."
In the Fugees' "Ready Or Not" Lauryn Hill mentions Ness.
In The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" the character of Rex Banner is based on Eliot Ness fight over alcohol dealers.
In Breaking Bad episode "Bit by a Dead Bee" the character Hank Schrader likens his success to Ness'.
In Prison Break episode "The Sunshine State" Don Self likens Lincoln Burrows to Eliot Ness.
He is parodied by Warner Brothers cartoons as Bugs Bunny plays Elegant Mess
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It is "California Love" not lovin'
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