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Albert Einstein: Nuclear Re...
Albert Einstein was once introduced to the eighteen-month-old son of a young fri...

G-Spot
One day Robert Schimmel's wife told him about a hot book about finding a woman's...

Out of Order
One day at the height of the Vietnam War, Lord Mountbatten agreed to appear on "...

Sammy Davis Handicap
One day in the 1950s, Sammy Davis, Jr lost his left eye in a car crash (on his w...

Smart Move
While working as an impecunious young reporter in Virginia City, Mark Twain was ...

Faith Hope & Charity
Fulton Sheen once spoke at an inter-faith rally in Baltimore. Having been welcom...

Air Guitar Champion
In August 2003, David "C-Diddy" Jung, having won the first annual U.S. Air Guita...

Deductive Reasoning?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, ofte...

The Eagles: Like Hell
Shortly after the Eagles split up in 1981, Glenn Frey was asked when the band mi...

William F. Buckley: New Yor...
In 1965, William F. Buckley ran for the office of mayor of New York City. Given ...

Hard Work
Clarence Darrow was once interviewed for a magazine article on prominent men and...

Cool Customer
One day long before his incarnation as a railway mogul, James Cooley worked as a...

No Justice!
One day in his eighty-seventh year, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. passed a b...

Fundamentalist Films
Irked that Muslims were being blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Cana...

Thoreau's Library
When Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers failed to sell,...

Stu Grimson
Chicago Blackhawks left winger Stu Grimson was once asked why he kept a color ph...

Schumann-Oink
One evening, the contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, noted for her enormous girt...

Al Gore: Weekends Free
In December 2002, Al Gore gave a much-lauded performance as the host of "Saturda...

Hasselblad I?
In July 1966, Michael Collins was selected to pilot NASA's three-day Gemini 10 m...

Sandler & Nicholson
Adam Sandler once attended a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game with legendary f...

Classic Groucho
The day after his retirement, Groucho Marx, having long planned a trip to Paris,...

George Bernard Shaw: Finger...
On his ninetieth birthday, George Bernard Shaw was visited by Scotland Yard's ce...

Classic Shaw
While he was directing Caesar and Cleopatra on Broadway, Sir Cedric Hardw...

Sting & Tantric Sex
While out drinking with Live Aid star Bob Geldof one evening, Sting boasted that...

Benny Roast
Jack Benny once attended a surprise roast in his honor. Dozens of friends and co...

George W. Bush: Canadian Ho...
In November 2004, President George W. Bush traveled to Ottawa to meet with Canad...

Robert Frost: Beloved Profe...
Between 1916 and 1920, Robert Frost taught English literature at Amherst College...

Alex Nussbaum & Hugo Boss
"Hugo Boss manufactured the first Nazi uniforms," Jewish comedian Alex Nussbaum ...

Nikita Khrushchev: Russian ...
"While Minister of Labour for Great Britain, I had the pleasure to have a meetin...

Bette Midler: Bette's Breasts
"Got myself a little mail scale, the kind they weigh postage and cocaine on," Be...

Monaco
While visiting the Astrodome (a massive stadium covering some nine acres in Hous...

Peerless Wit
One day a studio usher knocked on the door of Ethel Barrymore's Hollywood dressi...

Amateur Performance
Although Hamlet would later become one of John Barrymore's most famous roles, th...

Audentes Fortuna Juvat?
A scene in one of Robert Benchley's movie shorts called for the writer to be str...

Optimist?
One day in 1996, Kenny Rogers found himself discussing his career with his manag...

Sarah Bernhardt
In her last years, Sarah Bernhardt lived on an upper level in a Paris apartment ...

Albert Schweitzer: Jungle H...
Many of the poverty-stricken patients admitted to Albert Schweitzer's jungle hos...

Waiting on Fame
Shortly after her "American Idol" victory, Kelly Clarkson appeared as a guest on...

Gallantry
G. K. Chesterton's corpulence occasionally afforded him unusual opportunities fo...

Executive Privilege
One day following his retirement, Dwight Eisenhower was asked whether his depart...

Slinger Zinger
Like most pitchers of his era, New York Yankees slinger Tommy John was a great a...

Moon Shot?
In 1963, New York Yankees pitcher Gaylord Perry jokingly remarked that "they'll ...

Wendy Liebman: Blind Dates
Wendy Liebman was often set up by her friends on blind dates, with mixed results...

Mud
The American sculptor Jo Davidson, noted for his celebrity sculpture portraits, ...

Friedman's Penis
When A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis was first publish...

Basic Research
Famed rocket scientist Werner von Braun was once asked what he meant by the term...

Only Human?
"Once, when he had behaved with particular rudeness to a young French intellectu...

Oscar
The king, vislting a local school one day, asked the young students to name the ...

Famous Father
While campaigning for the New Jersey governorship in 1940, Charles Edison was ca...

Trouser Moose?
Having performed some 20,000 autopsies, New York City Coroner Michael Baden had ...

Stutterer
Henry Carleton had a sense of humor about his famous affliction. Greeting the co...

E Responsible?
Hip hop bad boy Eminem once sought to dispense some 'responsible advice' to his ...

Paul Newman: Newman's Own
In 1998, Paul Newman was overjoyed to see his eponymous line of food products re...

Colin Powell: Like a Baby
One day in February 2003, with America on the verge of a war with Iraq, Secretar...

Game Book
"One of the gentleman's most treasured possessons is his game book, in which he ...

Woody Allen Oscar Speech
During the Academy Awards in 2002, Woody Allen explained why he had At the 2002 ...

Brain vs Brawn
The celebrated dancer Isadora Duncan once wrote to George Bernard Shaw declaring...

Toby Keith: Famous Comment
After playing a show one night, Toby Keith stepped onto his tour bus and found a...

C-Student
In 2001, President George W. Bush accepted an honorary doctorate from his alma m...

Lead Zeppelin?
One day the Who's late drummer Keith Moon told Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and the ...

The Dink
The 4' 5" Peter "The Dink" Dinklage was once asked which commonly-asked intervie...

Dean Acheson: Gainful Emplo...
Upon leaving his post as secretary of state in 1953, Dean Acheson was asked abou...

Lynch Mob
The free-thinking Voltaire frequently found himself in trouble with the French a...

Virchow's Blessing?
One day when appendectomy operations were just becoming standard medical practic...

Bon Jovi's Penis
"He sounds like he's got a brick dangling from his willy," Paul Lester later rem...

Consolation
Following the 1912 presidential election, William Howard Taft was asked to comme...

Assinine Question
Marie Antoinette found life with Louis in general and court etiquette in particu...

Mickey Spillane: Conyak
During a meeting of the Mystery Writers of America one day, Mickey Spillane was ...

Bruce Campbell Drinking Game
Shortly after his appearance in Army of Darkness (as Ashley J. 'Ash' Will...

Pearly Gates
Harrison Ford was once asked: If heaven exists, what would you want God to say t...

Los Angeles Country Club
Victor Mature once applied for membership in the exclusive Los Angeles Country C...

Perfect Couple
During his first term in office, Dwight Eisenhower appointed Arthur Burns to ser...

Sense of Humor
At the height of his fame, Alexander Woollcott was often mentioned in the arts c...

Leprechaun
In 2003, Dylan McDermott, best known for his role on "The Practice," made a gues...

Dylan Thomas
One evening, Dylan Thomas, as was his wont, indulged in drink and conversation f...

Hunter S. Thompson: 22
Hunter S. Thompson's extensive drug use led to bouts of depression and sporadic ...

Elizabeth Taylor: Many Wedd...
During one of her many weddings Elizabeth Taylor was asked by a presiding offici...

Blood Sport
During a particularly rough hockey game one day, Camille Henry, one of the small...

Chestertonnage?
G. K. Chesterton, famed for his corpulence, gave a lecture in Pittsburgh one day...

Damn Fool
"I see in The Times today," George V's private secretary remarked one day...

Edith Wharton & Henry James
"Edith Wharton mentioned to Henry James that the car in which they were riding h...

Great Ordeal
"I am ready to meet my Maker," Winston Churchill declared as the end drew near. ...

After the Blitz
"I boast of being the only man in London," New Statesman editor Kingsley ...

Lunar Embassy
In July 2003, Dennis Hope, the founder of the Lunar Embassy which sells property...

Connoisseur
Johannes Brahms was once invited to dinner by a noted wine connoisseur. In the c...

David Duchovny: Size Matters
While starring in Ivan Reitman's sci-fi comedy Evolution, David Duchovny'...

Young Vincent Starrett
Fittingly, the mystery writer Vincent Starrett was born (in 1886) in a small apa...

Don Cherry: Minor Problem
"When I was a kid," Don Cherry once recalled, "I used to pray to the Lord to mak...

Alice Cooper Obituary
One day in the early 1970s, a British music magazine ran a mock obituary for Ali...

Josey Scott: Christmas Gift
Saliva frontman Josey Scott was once asked about the gifts he had received for C...

Bob Probert: DWI
After crashing his motorcycle into a car in 1994, Chicago Blackhawks left winger...

Keenan Ivory Wayans: Respect
Keenan Ivory Wayans inherited his self-deprecating nature from his lively mother...

Walt Disney: Celebrity
Walt Disney was once asked how it felt to be a celebrity. "It feels fine," he re...

Balzac: Wealth of Laughter
One night, a thief who had broken into Balzac's tiny apartment to pick the lock ...

Jon Lovitz: Poop-Head
Jon Lovitz once appeared as a guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (a fellow...

Tom Bosley: Happy Days Blooper
While shooting an episode of "Happy Days" one afternoon, Tom Bosley (who played ...

Connoisseur
Noted New York Times editor Mervyn Rothstein once attended a performance ...

Dolly Parton Exercise Plan
Dolly Parton rarely worried about her figure. "I bought all those Jane Fonda vid...

Apt Students?
Friedrich Schleiermacher was once complimented on the apparent popularity of his...

Curb Your Enthusiasm
At the 2003 Golden Globes, Larry David won an award for best comedy series for h...

Crappy Physics? (long)
After a bout of heavy partying one night, physicist João Magueijo awoke with a h...

Timepiece
In the 1890s, Hugo Wolf began to have delusions that he (rather than Gustav Mahl...

Eudora Welty: Honest Agent
Eudora Welty once credited her agent, Diarmuid Russell, with kick-starting her c...

Lamb's Farce
The debut performance of Charles Lamb's farce "Mr. H" was an abject failure. Wat...

Celine Dion: Celine Dion Jokes
There is no shortage of jokes about Celine Dion's music. One day in 2002, for ex...

Early Career
Burt Reynolds was far from proud of his early career. "My films were the kind th...

Adam Duritz: Performance An...
Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz was once asked whether he ever got stage fri...

Deserter
After their disastrous defeat at Kunersdorf, many of Frederick the Great's men d...

Good Doctor?
During the proceedings of a certain meeting of the Kit-Kat Club, Dr. Samuel Gart...

Armpit of America
In December 2001, Washington Post scribe Gene Weingarten spent several mo...

Jawaharlal Nehru
In November 1957, a curious article appeared in an Indian newspaper called ...

House of Commoners
Upon hearing the little-known author James Harris' maiden speech before Parliame...

Serj Tankian
During an interview with Rolling Stone's Neil Strauss in 2005, System of ...

Molnar's Mistress
Ferenc Molnar, returning to Budapest after a long absence, was confronted by his...

Robert Reich: Stump Speech?
In 2002, former U.S. Secretary of Labour Robert Reich announced his intention to...

Reagan & Asner
Ronald Reagan, who had been a well-known actor before embarking upon a political...

Moronic Comment
In 2001, President George W. Bush, a former C student, returned to Yale (his ...

It's Monday Night - Time fo...
Every Monday night for years, viewers of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" have b...

Wretched Wither
Dryden once declared of George Wither's verses that "if they rhymed and rattled ...

Sacre du Printemps
At the historic premiere of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913, u...

Are You John Erskine?
One day the president of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga went to the ...

Russell's Legacy
Bertrand Russell once had a curious nightmare in which he found himself on the t...

Appendectomy
Wilson Mizner was once hospitalized for an appendectomy. Before his surgery, he ...

Someone in the House
"Producer George C. Tyler commissioned George Kaufman to adapt Jacques Deval's F...

Dick Rodgers?
Richard Rodgers was often asked how collaboration with (the very short) Larry Ha...

Bottomley
In 1922, after years of fraud and evading the law, Horatio Bottomley was finally...

Height of Arrogance
Wes Anderson once asked fellow director Peter Bogdanovich to sign an old photo. ...

Rodney Dangerfield: Lost Child
"Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parent...

Chouinard Upset
Three-time Canadian ladies figure skating champion Josee Chouinard (who had a hi...

Anthrax Scare
The terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th 2001 were soon followed by a...

Dolly Parton: Strange Anatomy
The apparent size of Dolly Parton's breasts was greatly increased by her disprop...

Time
John Erskine was once asked whether he found it discombobulating to see people g...

Keith Richards: Da Vinci's ...
While rummaging around in his library one day, Keith Richards fell and broke two...

Elton John: Cameo Appearance
"Home Improvement" star Tim Allen once asked Elton John about his recent appeara...

Question of Taste
One day radio director Tom Carlson found to his dismay that his dog had destroye...

Henry Kissinger: Being Boring
Henry Kissinger once recalled that, as a professor, he would go to parties, stan...

Heavy D
Dave Barry and his wife were once invited to attend the Hollywood premiere of a ...

Richmond
Though suffering from a terrible headache one day, Bret Harte attended a lecture...

Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass
"I've seen the young people," Bette Midler declared during a performance of her ...

Moss Hart Tribute
"In 1959, I [Carl Reiner] appeared in a movie called Happy Anniversary, and Mel ...

Little Voice
In January 1999, Michael Caine won a Golden Globe award for best actor in a musi...

Odd Timing
Rather ironically, Tony Randall won a long overdue Emmy for his classic portraya...

Pretzel Incident Part II
One day in January 2002, President George W. Bush got so excited while watching ...

William H. Wussy?
Despite his role as one of Hollywood's finest character actors, ...

Chunky Chesterton
During World War I, a young woman handing out white feathers in Fleet Street reb...

Fallen Idol
Shortly after his acrimonious ouster from Warner Brothers, John Calley was appro...

Actors' Studio
John Leguizamo was accepted into Lee Strasberg's actors' studio in 1982, and stu...

Hot Rod
One night at a bar, "Hot Rod" Hundley picked up a woman who he soon realized was...

Cato
Cato the Censor was once asked why no statue had ever been erected to commemorat...

Engelbert Humperdinck's Fans
Engelbert Humperdinck once appeared as a guest on Arsenio Hall's short-lived tal...

Keanu Reeves: Sex with Meryl
Keanu Reeves once professed a desire to have sex with Meryl Streep. "Even if it ...

Silly Glasses
"Years ago, Phil Silvers had a crush on Olivia Ue Havilland. She went out with h...

The Real Phyllis Diller
"My photographs don't do me justice," Phyllis Diller once jokingly complained. "...

False Alarm
On the day before Labouchere's death, A. L. Thorold (his nephew and biographer) ...

Arabic
In 1952, Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup to depose Egypt's King Farouk. So intense...

Diamond in the Rough
By 1970, Neil Diamond felt that his television persona had dramatically changed....

Earth in the Balance
The Grateful Dead became involved in environmental issues only very reluctantly....

Orson Oink
Orson Welles, famed for his prodigious appetite, once visited Pink's (a Los Ange...

Wheatcroft
Harry Wheatcroft was as famed for his flamboyance as he was for his love of rose...

Holy Moses
In June 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir attended a state dinner honoring...

Confidence Game
The famous chess player Savielly Tartakower had a weakness for experimenting wit...

Dim Starr?
After joining the Beatles, Ringo Starr was regarded by his bandmates as a "faith...

Young Chesterton
"I have a notion that the real advice I could give to a young journalist," G. K....

75th Birthday
"I'm celebrating my 75th birthday," Victor Borge announced one day in 1994, "whi...

Two-Faced Abe?
Abraham Lincoln was once accused of being two-faced. "If I were two-faced," he r...

Kissimmee Cooper?
one day early in his career, Frank James Cooper's agent suggested that he change...

American Legend
In 1974, John Wayne agreed, in exchange for publicity for one of his films, to s...

Meeting the Goose
Arthur Koestler was once accosted by a gushing fan. "Liking a writer and then me...

Mother's Pride
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was once celebrated as the "sm...

Jane Addams: Social Reformer
When a corrupt Chicago bureaucracy endangered the health of slum dwellers by ref...

George Clooney & Martha Raye
"At 21, George Clooney worked as the driver for his late aunt Rosemary [Clooney]...

Bush Roast
In March 2001, George W. Bush made his first appearance as president at the Grid...

St. Lawrence's Last Words
In 258 AD, for his refusal to surrender the church's treasures to the Emperor Va...

Einstein at Princeton
"At Princeton, Albert Einstein was more like a kindly uncle. When he arrived in ...

Philo T. Farnsworth: Dr. X
One day in the late 1950s, Philo T. Farnsworth reluctantly appeared as a mystery...

Aragon & MSG
After a successful boxing career (sixty knock-outs!), Art Aragon, the original G...

Sound of Silence
As a child, Paul Simon smiled so rarely that his parents nicknamed him Cardozo (...

Matt Groening: Is There a God?
"Simpsons" creator Matt Groening - who often explained that his last name rhymes...

Ruthless F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy's public image was that of an intense young man who had driven...

R.E.M.'s Greatest Hits
R.E.M. used a "scientific method" for choosing many of the tracks on their secon...

Johnny Carson: Bomb Recovery
"Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson was unparalleled in his ability to recover fro...

Medical Superman?
After breaking his neck at an equestrian competition in 1995, Christopher Reeve,...

Palmer Blooper
At the L.A. Open at Rancho Park one year, Arnold Palmer reached the 18th tee in ...

Michael Douglas & Catherine...
"We were at his house in Spain," Catherine Zeta-Jones recalled of her early cour...

Angelina Jolie & Billy Bob ...
Shortly after breaking up with Billy Bob Thornton, Rolling Stone's Chris ...

Director David Hemmings
The British director David Hemmings, famed for his role in Michelangelo Antonion...

Bill Hunter & Rachel Griffiths
One day on the set of Muriel's Wedding (1994), Rachel Griffiths found her...

Bob Hope & the Academy Awards
Though he hosted the Academy Awards a record 17 times, Bob Hope himself never wo...

Howie Mandel: Howie's Hair
While guest hosting "Live with Regis and Kelly" with Kelly Ripa one day, the com...

Conan O'Brien: Hard to be H...
"A man in Pennsylvania who was arrested for indecent exposure says it can't be h...

Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Da...
Despite his Prince of Darkness moniker, Ozzy Osbourne frequently protested accus...

John Edwards: John Who?
Though touted as a candidate for the party's nomination in the 2004 presidential...

Jay Mohr: Bench-Warmer
"It was like being Sean Penn in Colors," Jay Mohr once recalled of his st...

Ron Howard: Academy Award A...
In 2000, Ron Howard won a Best Director Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. "I'm ...

Margaret Cho: Chink?
"I was walking down the street the other day and this man actually called me a C...

Bobby Brown: Lookin' for Work
After court appearance in March 2004 (concerning his failure to pay child suppor...

Mark McGrath: Summer Shrinkage
Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath was once asked whether, when he ever got naked w...

Lyle Lovett: Favorite Album
Lyle Lovett was once asked, "If you're in the record store and you're going to b...

Jeff Bridges: El Duderino
In 2002, Jeff Bridges appeared as "the Dude AKA Duder AKA His Dudeness AKA El Du...

Hugh Grant: Sex Scandal
"On June 27th, 1995, Hugh Grant was arrested by the LAPD 'on suspicion of lewd c...

Mickey Spillane: Tough Love
Mickey Spillane's books, though relatively tame by later standards, were titilla...

Ben Stiller: Self... Deprec...
During the production of There's Something About Mary (1998), Ben Stiller...

Jessica Yu: New Territory
In 1997, Jessica Yu won a "Best Documentary Short" Oscar for her film ...

Tom Hanks: Little Voice
Among Tom Hanks's earliest roles was Kip 'Buffy' Wilson on the TV series "Bosom ...

Dick Gregory: Santa in the ...
"I never believed in Santa Claus," Dick Gregory once recalled. Why not? "Because...

Jennifer Love Hewitt: Big C...
"My breasts have a career of their own," Jennifer Love Hewitt once remarked. "Th...

Howard Stern Radio Show
On April 1st, 1998, Howard Stern and CBS announced that fans would soon be able ...

Ben Affleck: Gigli
In May 2004, Senator Edward Kennedy invited Ben Affleck to join him in promoting...

Kelsey Grammer: What's Next
In January 2004, Kelsey Grammer was asked what was "next" for him after the hit ...

Gary Cooper: Oscar Speech
In 1942, Gary Cooper won a Best Actor Oscar for his title role in Howard Hawks' ...

Steve Martin: Oscar Host
In 2002, Steve Martin was chosen to host the 75th Academy Awards. "I'm very plea...

Alex Delvecchio: 13-0
One sorry night in 1973, Detroit Red Wings captain Alex Delvecchio was asked to ...

Ted Koppel: Living Wage
Saturday Night Live's Darrell Hammond: "I performed for Koppel at a tribu...

Bill Murray: Comforting Cheri
Cheri Oteri once recalled Bill Murray's first stint hosting "Saturday Night Live...

Bob Hope's Nose
"It was my mother who discovered my nose," Bob Hope once recalled. "'Call back t...

Joey Pants: Celebrity Sighting
In 2006, "Tonight Show" producers sent a correspondent to the Sundance film fest...

Tim Cavanagh: Aptitude Test
Tim Cavanagh: "When I finished school, I took one of those career aptitude tests...

Maura Kennedy: Cheap Date
Maura Kennedy: "This guy took me to a coffee house for a dollar tea, then starts...

PMS
Roseanne, famed for her bitchy/butchy demeanor, once found herself discussing PM...

Horizon
During the course of a speech one day, Walther Ulbricht, extolling the glories o...

Richard Nixon: Glory Days
During a dedication at Dwight D. Eisenhower High School in Utica, New York, Rich...

Airport Disturbance
The novelist Irwin Shaw once found himself waiting for a flight to Europe in an ...

Save America
A gentleman visiting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas one day was surp...

Old Fontenelle
One day late in life, Bernard de Fontenelle gallantly (but foolishly) endeavored...

Yellow Gold?
While meeting with a journalist in Hong Kong one day, Beck was bemused to hear t...

Martha Stewart: Perfectly M...
In June 2003, Martha Stewart addressed the court during a hearing examining her ...

Zzzzzzz?
Among the speakers at the Democratic Leadership Council's meeting in August 2002...

Out-Bespoken?
Tristan Bernard, who was at best indifferent about his attire, was told by a fas...

Gambler
One day during the filming of Ocean's Eleven, Matt Damon invited Steven S...

Pen Pals?
In 2001, President George W. Bush hosted a White House dinner in honor of a grou...

Intelligence Briefing
"Those stories about my intellectual capacity do get under my skin," George W. B...

Lemons Lemons
In 1976 legendary University of Texas basketball coach Abe Lemons was asked whet...

Candidate Adlai Stevenson
While campaigning against Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, Adlai Stevenson addressed a...

Silent Cal
President Calvin Coolidge, not noted for his love of reporters, was asked one da...

Nice Guy
For a profile of their son in Details magazine one year, Noah Wyle's pare...

It's Tom Waits!
Because his flexible schedule allowed it, Tom Waits often volunteered to take sc...

Fool For Love
While Yoko Ono was often critically lambasted, many admired her media savvy and ...

Donizetti's Children
Gaetano Donizetti, the composer of more than seventy operas, was once asked whic...

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
"Late Night" host Conan O'Brien was once asked what his show's air time (12:35 a...

Queens Of The Stone Age: Co...
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme was once asked about the craziest th...

Perfect Actress?
Izabella Scorupco long dreamed of becoming an actress. Did her mother support he...

Conducting
Hans Richter once attended a performance at which an orchestra player of his acq...

Ben Folds
Frampton Comes Alive, the third record which Ben Folds ever bought, made ...

John Irving: Vanity Plates
A dyslexic child, John Irving did not perform well in school. It took him five y...

Wake Up Call
During the reading of a lengthy speech at a rehearsal of Voltaire's latest play ...

Jenny MacCarthy
Jenny MacCarthy, having dyed her hair from blonde to brown, discovered a new fon...

Grant of Modesty?
On his way to a reception in his honor one day, Ulysses S. Grant offered to shar...

Public Enemy?
Randolph Churchill was notorious for his rudeness - an unfortunate trait which o...

Einstein
Chaim Weizmann once shared a transatlantic crossing with Albert Einstein. "He ex...

Jim Murray: Sports Writer
In 1990, Los Angeles Times sports writer Jim Murray was awarded the Pulit...

Powell Diet
William Powell was once asked how he kept so slim. "I highly recommend worrying,...

Sir Ian McKellen: Modest Mc...
During a guest appearance on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" one Christmas, Ian ...

Incognito
U.S. Congresswoman Katherine Harris - as famed for her liberal use of makeup as ...

Selfless-ishness?
Some time after his marriage to actress Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton was as...

Self-Deprecation?
Was Arthur Koestler a child prodigy? Perhaps not: "It is reported that John Stua...

Independent Producer
During the production of Frederick Brisson's first project as an independent (19...

Garry Shandling's Life
"I had a car accident when I was twenty-seven in which I was nearly killed," Gar...

Chesterfield's Carriage Ride
In the last weeks of his life, Lord Chesterfield became so infirm that his carri...

Christina
After she had abdicated the Swedish throne, Christina, traveling south to Innsbr...

Darryl 'Flea' Virostko: Sur...
"Darryl 'Flea' Virostko is the Tommy Lee of surfing - wastedly magnetic, yet sme...

Pop Idol Rejects
In September 2003, Gary "Bananaman" McGrogan and four other colorful "Pop Idol" ...

Teflon Terry
For the cavalry scenes in The Wind and the Lion - John Milius's great Mor...

Curried Hash?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show's Tim Curry once issued a CD entitled 'The ...

Botha
In August, 2002, rumours began spreading around the South African parliament tha...

Michael Moore: Oval Official?
Controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was often advised to run for p...

French Academy
The French political philosopher Gabriel Mably was once asked why he did not cam...

Monkee See Monkee Do
Whenever the Monkees toured England, masses of screaming girls would fill the st...

Commander in Chief
On a tour of inspection of Fort Stevens one day during the Civil War, Abraham Li...

Dempsey & Firpo
"On the evening of September 14, 1923," Vancouver Sun publisher Stuart Ke...

Self-Abuse
In July 2003, researchers reported that frequent masturbation appeared to protec...

Self-Deprecation
During the production of Cleopatra (1963), director Joseph L. Mankiewicz ...

Precept
An admiring student once asked Martin Routh to supply a precept which might serv...

Leaping Ambition
C.B. Fry, of Britain's greatest sporting heroes, was both a first-class athlete ...

Indians Pitcher
Cleveland Indians pitcher Jim Kern once fell into an awful slump. "I'm working o...

Bee Gees
Barry Gibb and his Bee Gees bandmates were never thrilled with the name of their...

Old-Timer Johnny Mize
One day in 1992, 79-year-old Johnny Mize explained that he could not play in an ...

Mises
One day late in life, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises was asked how he f...

UHO?
The Hungarian pysicist Leo Szilard and his colleague Enrico Fermi once fell into...

Star Reporter
While visiting the Coalition Media Center one day during the war in Iraq in Apri...

Jennifer Ehle: Best Actress
In 1996, Jennifer Ehle won a BAFTA Award for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the...

Style Point?
In 2000, answering rumors that he was gay, magician David Copperfield replied th...

America's Sweetheart
"I most admired Clark Gable for his lack of vanity," Anita Loos once recalled. "...

Charles Laughton's Face
Charles Laughton, famed for his roles in such films as The Hunchback of Notre Da...

Little Confidence?
In 1998, shortly after their live LP Rock Spectacle (a compilation of per...

Posh Club
Future journalist and Beatles' Press Officer Derek Taylor once recalled going as...

Sara
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Michael Jackson: Introducin...
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David Duchovny: Protestant Jew
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Mel Gibson: Sexiest Man Alive
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Will Rogers: Whiff of Glory
"Tommy Hitchcock, the great ten-goal [polo] player of the 1920s and '30s, had hi...

John Pinette: All You Can Eat
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Prince Philip: Noise and Smoke
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Prince William: Eligible Ba...
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Johnny Depp: Self-Deprecation
In 2001, Johnny Depp was cast to play George Jung - who helped Colombian drug ki...

Paul Newman: Acceptance Speech
Paul Newman won an Academy Award for his role (as Fast Eddie Felson) in Martin S...

John Kerry: Anesthesia
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George W. Bush: Business of...
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Rob Schneider: Movie Marketing
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Michael Shafer: 15 Minutes
In 2000, Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer joined a rese...

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George W. Bush: WMDs
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Korey Stringer: 40-Yard Dash
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Keith Olbermann: Roasting N...
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Chris Osgood: Wayne Gretzky...
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Jimmy Carter: Big Fish
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Terry Broadshaw: Trouble wi...
During an appearance on the "Tonight Show" one evening, Terry Bradshaw complaine...

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After his appearance in Blade, Ryan Reynolds was asked about the rumor th...

Robert Kilroy-Silk: Oddballs
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Lyle Lovett: Lovett's Hair
Lyle Lovett made his first national television appearance as a guest on "The Ton...

Charles Barkley: Great Shape
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Robin Williams: Box Office ...
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Emo Philips: Tragedy and Co...
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Jesse Eisenberg: Nude Scene
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James Garner: Rockford Miles
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Kathleen Robertson: Comic ...
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Kevin Spacey: Wrinkles in Time
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John Le Carre: Ironic Pseud...
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Andy Richter Controls the M...
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Artificial Sincerity?
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Treasury Minister
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Delphi was revered by the ancient Greeks as the site (at the 'omphalos' or cente...

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Feydeau's Debut
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Pelican Brief
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Though more successful than his younger brother John, the brilliant physician an...

Hurricane Hair
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Kathy Griffin: Hair Contract
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Safety Harness
"I recall Margot Asquith claiming to have invented the safety habit for women ri...

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Shirley You're Joking
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Brain Damage
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Unadulterated Rot
Art Buchwald's satirical articles caught the attention of Dwight Eisenhower's pr...

Beer Belly
New York Rangers coach Phil Watson often blamed the team's troubles on goalie Lo...

Henny Youngman: Money
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Amy Alcott: Top Female Jewi...
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Pat Hughes: The Drought
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Radiohead: Farewell Concert
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Peter Tork: Wide-Eyed and G...
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Tony Amonte: Playing Streak
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Don Adams: Hole in Nothing
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Lucky 13?
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Spanish Politics
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Liam Neeson: Harley Mishap
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Adams's Last Words
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Limousine Liberal
"When Tony Benn first took a ride in his official car, he sat on the floor; the ...

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New Grass Revival
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One day during his campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Ver...

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Roger Daltrey: Shoulder Blo...
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Rosemary Clooney was often asked to sing her classic song, "How Much Is That Dog...

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Advent of Sound
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One day on the set of The Matrix Reloaded, Hugo Weaving, whose character ...

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Mandy Moore: So Real
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Plight of the Entertainer
Hollywood actress turned musician Shawnee Smith formed a hard rock band — and ga...

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While working with Nick Nolte - a heavy drinker until 1990 - on the black comedy...

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One day Richard Nixon's youngest granddaughter, Jeannie Eisenhower, asked her gr...

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Impotent Rumor
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Frankly Speaking
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Stone Institute
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Tal's Sacrifice
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Belly Spice
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Hammerstein's Return
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Nonsense Verses
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Steve "the Crocodile Hunter" Irwin was once asked whether he had ever been propo...

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Chris McAllister: Handy Excuse
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Earl Long: Four-Hundred-Dol...
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During an appearance on "The Tonight Show" shortly after the death of Ronald Rea...

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