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Hackman's Moustache
When Gene Hackman was cast to play Lex Luthor in Superman (in 1978), he a...
Kool Reception?
In 1921, Chinese ambassador Wellington Koo visited America to represent China at...
World's Worst General
No numerical or tactical advantage was so great that "Burn" (as General Burnside...
Pet Peeve?
Andre Previn and his wife, having applied to adopt a Vietnamese orphan, were vis...
Romanov's Wedding
"Like all proud fathers, Grigory Romanov, the mayor of Leningrad, wanted the ver...
Born Every Minute?
Early in his career, P. T. Barnum created an exhibit, entitled "The Happy Family...
Mrs. H?
Senator George Hoar was once enthusiastically greeted by a man whose face he bar...
Farrelly Brothers: Honey Wagon
Although the Farrelly Brothers eventually became enviably successful Hollywood d...
Dewey Morning
On election eve, 1948, Thomas Dewey (who, according to polls, was poised to defe...
Gynecology Final
During one of his final exams, Richard Gordon (famed for his series of "Doctor" ...
Furred-Up
"At a lecture in New Jersey," Christopher Morley once recalled, "I tried out the...
Tuscan Wit?
Pianist Victor Borge was once asked why the keys on his piano were so yellow. Bo...
Silver Lining?
A friend of the great comedian Phil Silvers, endeavoring to find a special gift ...
Baptism
During the baptism of King Aengus (in the middle of the fifth century), St. Patr...
James Hill
In his diary, Rene Gimpel, a French art dealer who helped many robber barons to ...
Junior Endowment?
"In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to...
British Rail
In July 1978, Sir Peter Parker set off for a meeting with Cumbria County Council...
Nixon Down Under
One day during his presidency, Richard Nixon landed in Australia for a state vis...
Odd Reading
While preparing for his first fight with Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey sent a spy to...
Impromptu Jump
One day during the production of I Wanted Wings, Ray Milland went up with...
Desert Island Broadcast
One day in the early 1970s, Roy Plomley was delighted to learn that, despite Ali...
Pinhead
"Common sense has led more than one person astray. Sir Francis Galton thought th...
World War III?
"In 1962, when working for Reuters, Frederick Forsyth was posted to East Berlin ...
Eugene Mirman: Friend in th...
After a show one night comedian Eugene Mirman was tying his shoe in a public bat...
Lunatic
After the great German naturalist and explorer Friedrich Humboldt expressed his ...
Eiffel Tower
During William Morris's last visit to Paris, he spent a great deal of time eatin...
London Bridge
One day in April 1968, Robert McCollough learned that London Bridge was slated f...
Divine Assumption
After fracturing both of his knees in a nasty fall, Richard Trench (the archbish...
Guest Spot
As New York socialite Cornelia Guest left the Palladium nightclub one evening, s...
Chris Rock: Watching C-Span
"I was watching C-Span, and this guy comes on speaking," Chris Rock once recalle...
Flashy Racer
The Italian Tazio Nuvolari, widely considered the greatest Grand Prix driver of ...
Christina Aguilera & the Ho...
In May 2003, Christina Aguilera visited a computer exhibition in Las Vegas. Whil...
Natalie Imbruglia: Mystery ...
After failed relationships with "Friends" star David Schwimmer and rocker Lenny ...
Don Shula: Maine Hero
While vacationing in a small town in Maine one year, legendary Miami Dolphins co...
Julie Bowen: Pooper Blooper
One night Julie Bowen visited a restaurant with the producer of "Ed" and some ot...
Churchill's 80th Birthday
One of the photographers present at Winston Churchill's eightieth birthday expre...
Ear of the Beholder?
One day Chris Isaak was asked by a female friend to accompany her to a plastic s...
Blind Justice
During court one day, Judge Claudia Jordan quietly passed her clerk a note: "Bli...
Second Degree Burn?
Mischa Elman was preparing to give a recital one evening when a man suddenly bur...
Frisky
"During the very early days of El Al [the Israeli airline], their station manage...
Tip Off
"Robert Wood Johnson, the former chairman of Johnson & Johnson, was known to be ...
Central Misperception
Leon Trotsky, who spent much of his time during World War I playing chess in Vie...
Russian Roulette
American rock musician Terry Kath was killed in 1978 playing Russian roulette. H...
Leoparosy?
While attending a meeting of the Oxford Poetry Club as a guest of honor one even...
Keith Richards: Cornered Be...
One evening Keith Richards and his wife Patti Hanson attended a film premiere in...
Manufacturing Mistakes
"If you think supply-chain management is a boring topic, listen to one of Hau Le...
Lincoln Bedroom
One night in 1952, Adlai Stevenson, having been persuaded by Harry Truman to cam...
Arthur Conan Doyle: Automat...
Arthur Conan Doyle was obsessed with the occult from an early age. He attended h...
Laurie Lee
"Two very attractive girls who were obviously studying 'Cider With
Rosie' spott...
Certain Nobleman?
Voltaire attended the funeral of a certain nobleman. "He was a great patriot, a ...
Jerkus Maximus?
The sports writer John Kieran was once invited to address a Latin class at an ex...
Winona Ryder & Johnny Depp:...
Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp once took a series of explicit photographs and brou...
Writer's Life
The wife of novelist and critic William Dean Howells once enlisted the aid of a ...
Frank Capra: Lady for a Day
Frank Capra's successful, sentimental comedy Lady for a Day catapulted hi...
Busta Blooper
During a concert in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2003, rapper Busta Rhymes no...
Joseph Bell: Cheeky Diagnosis
One day Dr. Joseph Bell (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school mentor and the ...
Elementary Question
After a school in his home town (Waukegan, Illinois) was named after him, famed ...
You'll Love This One
Shortly after Jim Cramer's Confessions of a Street Addict appeared in boo...
OOP$
One night, Bernard Baruch received a telephone call in the middle of a dinner pa...
DOCTORed Response? (long)
While working with BBN early in his career, artificial intelligence pioneer Dani...
QOTSA: Songs For The Deaf?
In 2002, Josh Homme and his fellow "Queens Of The Stone Age" bandmates planned a...
Boy Scout
The famed brain surgeon Bronson Ray was out for a stroll one day when he saw a b...
Beauty and the Beast
One day Shirley Temple told her young daughter Lorax (who later became a bass pl...
Modest Assumption
While Honeymooning in Paris in 1920, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford stayed ...
Sailor
When Lady Astor was canvassing for her first parliamentary seat in Plymouth, a s...
One Night In Bangkok
When Murray Head's "One Night In Bangkok" ("One night in Bangkok makes a hard ma...
Doctor at Large
"Athene Seyler was appearing with me in the film ...
Udder Skeptic?
Herbert Hoover, a former engineer of Quaker origins, was noted for his impeccabl...
Rich Reply
Wary of invading the Persian empire, king Croesus one day consulted the oracle a...
DMVP?
In 1985, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett was issued a driver's lic...
Stiff Competition
James Eggink was among the players selected by the Montreal Alouettes in the 199...
Harvard Type
Donal Logue once auditioned for a role on the hit television series "Melrose Pla...
Two G-G-Georges
The war correspondent George Kingswell, famed for his stutter, once had occasion...
Tibbles's Briefcase (long)
"At Palm Springs Municipal Airport, a writer named George Tibbles passed unchall...
Oops in Rio
One day in 2001, Britney Spears found herself standing backstage at the "Rock in...
Krenek
"The newly exiled composer Ernst Krenek was applauded politely when he played th...
Dirty Farmer?
While serving as America's vice president, Thomas Jefferson, dressed in soiled w...
Trouble in the Air?
One day while walking with Beethoven, Goethe expressed his annoyance at the ince...
Fish Dish
"Invited - with wife, Rachel - to join friends for dinner, I duly arrived, dined...
Full Deck?
Napoleon's small talk was almost completely predictable: having asked one's name...
Captain Schoenberg?
A visitor strolling with Arnold Schoenberg around his home town one day was amaz...
Zaha Hadid: Bridge Erection?
In her fourth year of study at London's Architectural Association, Iraqi-born ar...
Nuclear Family?
At a social function one evening Lord North found himself conversing with a cert...
Mrs. Giles
While traveling abroad, Frank Giles and his wife, Lady Katharine Sackville (who,...
Young Churchill
One day Winston Churchill's father paid a "formal visit" to inspect his son's co...
Tanning History
"The popularity of tanning can be traced to a single moment in 1923. After cruis...
Frankly Spoken
One day Al Franken and his daughter (then a senior at Harvard) were approached b...
Profound Moment?
"President Coolidge had a group of guests on the presidential yacht cruising the...
Garfield's Death (long)
Just two hundred days into his presidency, James Garfield was shot by a lawyer n...
Open Sesame?
"On one of his European tours, the master magician and locksmith Harry Houdini f...
Ego Feeder?
While performing at a university one evening, Robert Merrill was given a science...
William Anders
A member of the crew of the famous Apollo 8 voyage, William Anders circumnavigat...
Greatest Violinist
Jascha Heifetz and Mischa Elman were dining together one night when their waiter...
World's Worst General
Such was General Burnside's ineptitude that no numerical or tactical advantage w...
Hospital Visit
Frank Sinatra, noted for his unwavering loyalty, thought nothing of traveling se...
So Soiree
One evening Benjamin Franklin attended a meeting of a literary society in Paris....
By Jeeves!
"The Germans, in their literal way, took P. G. Wodehouse's works as a guide to E...
Babe Ruth
Enrico Caruso was once asked by a group of reporters what he thought of Babe Rut...
Alarming Assumption
"[One day During World War II] George VI and his queen decided to test the Bucki...
Geri Who?
In April 2003, Geri Halliwell hired a team of bodyguards to protect her from the...
The Commish
"Back when I was doing 'The Commish,'" Michael Chiklis recalled, "there was a ki...
Cheerleading Blooper
The actress Sarah Shahi began her entertainment career as a Dallas Cowboys cheer...
Missing Person
Shortly after departing on a hunting trip with his brother in 1991, Alice in Cha...
Himbo?
Like a "blonde with great tits and a great ass," Arnold Schwarzenegger once expl...
Jean Baptiste de Chateaubru...
The French playwright Jean Baptiste de Chateaubrun spent 40 years of his life po...
Justin Hawkins: Seriously
While playing a gig one night, Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins identified a you...
Jay Leno: Refrigerator Inci...
"One day, I came out of my apartment and saw a refrigerator sitting on the curb,...
All That Sparkles... (long)
"A notorious tiepin was once flaunted by Barney Barnato, the cockney 'card' who ...
Baker Street Irregular?
Mystery writer Rex Stout, an ardent fan of Arthur Conan Doyle and his legendary ...
Robert Millikan: Gigantic B...
"In 1930, the American physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Robert Millikan (1868-19...
Ambition
One day Louis XIV, apprised of the great ambition of a certain courtier, summone...
Morgan Loan
J. P. Morgan was once asked by a friend to lend him some money. Morgan took the ...
Famous Last Words
When filming wrapped on Giant, James Dean and a stuntman jumped into his ...
America's Cup
After winning the America's Cup, Bart Conner, euphoric after days at sea, began ...
Don't Leave Home...
Russian novelist Gary Shteyngart was once threatened by a gang of skinheads, who...
Edmund Grainger: Smoke Signals
During the production of The Fabulous Texan (1947), director Edmund Grain...
Dempsey & Firpo
"On the evening of September 14, 1923," Vancouver Sun publisher Stuart Ke...
Dooley Wilson
The black musician Dooley Wilson became an instant celebrity after appearing in ...
C-c-court Martial
"My OC was a charming Irishman named Cusack," Roland Pertwee once recalled, "who...
Pacific Ocean?
In 1520, while trying to find a western route to the Moluccas, Ferdinand Magella...
Menace II Society?
Shortly after the filming of From Hell (starring Johnny Depp), Albert Hug...
Strictly Ballroom
When it was released in France, Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, a sleep...
String Theorist
The physicist Carlo Rovelli once found himself embroiled in an argument with a s...
Ship of Fools?
The famed building engineer Thomas Telford was noted for his convivial nature. L...
Incognito (long)
Landon Ronald once recalled an incident concerning his mischievous fellow compos...
Mavor Blooper
The great political economist James Mavor once recalled a faux pas which he comm...
Street-Interview
"On one of the first occasions when I went 'street-interviewing,'" Wynford Vaugh...
Old School
In February 2003, Conan O'Brien and some of his staff were shown a private scree...
Dean Swift Ob
An editor at an Australian newspaper once received a cryptic telegram from one o...
Efficiency Expert?
Henry Ford once enlisted an efficiency expert to examine the operation of his co...
Doh!
The following item appeared in The New York Times during the Gulf War in ...
Heidi Game
On November 17, 1968, the New York Jets faced the Oakland Raiders in a crucial l...
Orchard
Emerson took immense pride in the orchard at his home in Concord. He spent an ho...
Lady Doctor (long)
Nineteenth Century conventional wisdom held that intimate knowledge of anatomy a...
Future of Television? (long)
In 2002, "King of the Hill" writer John Collier and his wife watched the Oscars ...
Ladies' Man
One night when Adam Sandler was in the sixth grade, the telephone rang while the...
Hairy Moment
The model and actress Sienna Miller once stripped off her clothes in front of he...
Rocket Science
In 1921, a curious editorial appeared in the New York Times critiquing th...
Leonardo DiCaprio: Movie Star
While strolling along a beach north of Malibu one day, Leonardo DiCaprio was app...
Medicine Man
During the production of Fort Apache, director John Ford was given daily ...
Galli-Curci
While relaxing in her dressing room after a concert one evening, the legendary s...
Rockefeller's Suit
John D. Rockefeller showed little concern for his personal appearance. One of hi...
Down to Earth
Before entering Parliament in 1892, James Hardie was a coal miner and trade unio...
Chuck Barris & The Gong Show
"When I chose to do 'The Gong Show,'" Chuck Barris once recalled of the wacky '7...
Conan O'Brien at the Emmy A...
During his first visit to the Emmy Awards, "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien was g...
Elvis Costello & Lou Adler
Elvis Costello: "I remember sitting at a table watching 'Rockpile' in '78 and [l...
Jacobi & Jacobi
Karl Jacobi's brother, M. H. Jacobi, was equally famed - as the founder of the f...
School Reunion:
After a performance one evening, John Gielgud was visited in his dressing room b...
Field Latrine
"Life following the Allies into Germany as a Red Cross nurse [during World War I...
Generous Interpretation?
Although he was the highest paid star of the 1960's, Steve McQueen had a reputat...
Greg Lawrence in Toronto
While visiting Toronto one day, Greg Lawrence (famed for his creation of the ani...
Nichole Robinson
"I was just in L.A. for a job," fuckingmodel Nichole Robinson recalled one day i...
Aspire to the Heavens
Mary Higgins Clark's first book, a biography of George Washington entitled ...
Birthday Surprise
Irving Berlin, assuming that the song was in the public domain, used "Happy Birt...
Walk of Fame?
When Al Jolson was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame outside Grauman'...
Poet Laureate
Prime Minister Salisbury's appointment of Alfred Austin to Britain's Poet Laurea...
Subtle Comparison?
Gelon (the tyrant of Syracuse) suffered from severe halitosis (bad breath), but ...
Nine Lives
Mark Twain once observed that it was possible to learn too much from one's exper...
Naughtilus?
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your m...
Legal Sage
Concerned about a legal issue one day, Russell Sage consulted his lawyer. "It's ...
Jewish Movie
While meeting with a number of producers one day in 1970, legendary director Nor...
Tripos
As an undergraduate at Cambridge, William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) thought he...
Jamie Foxx: Welcome to Sout...
Several of the scenes in Michael Mann's Ali were filmed in Africa. "It wa...
Carlos Mencia
"In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican," Carlos Mencia once remarke...
Ingrate
One day Rachel, a woman notorious for her shameless greed, honored Alexandre Dum...
Bidder's Bluff
"I bought my first oil lot by bluff," the oil magnate J. Paul Getty once recalle...
Hollywood Producer
"Sitting next to a drama critic in New York, Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM and Ane...
Beautiful Speech
After being nominated for an Oscar for her role as Alicia in Ron Howard's ...
History
One day in 1835, famed historian Thomas Carlyle was dismayed to learn that his m...
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