Today would have been Warren Zevon's 61st birthday. Coverville, the all-covers podcast, is commemorating this with a themed show which you can download here.
Courtesy of Nathan Rabin's "My Year of Flops" on the Onion AV Club: The female lead role in "Howard the Duck" (which eventually got played by Lea Thompson) was initially offered to a "Y Kant" era Tori Amos.