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| Displaying Competitiveness Anecdotes: 98 Found |
Comet Ferret
Charles Messier (whom Louis XV dubbed the "comet ferret") was once obliged to ab...
Conjunction
"Eddie Cantor and Georgie Jessel were on the same bill on a vaudeville unit," Jo...
Rather Crazy (long)
"The alarm bells that went off on Friday, November 22, 1963 [after JFK's assassi...
Scottish Striker?
During a tight match one day, Partick Thistle manager John Lambie was informed t...
Vinnie Cojones
Before finding fame as an actor, Vinnie Jones played professional soccer in the ...
Banker's Banker
One day the legendary banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (whose Bank of America Nation...
Chaplin & Fairbanks
While passing a cinema in Hollywood one day, Charlie Chaplin stopped to examine ...
Scrabble Scrap
Drew Barrymore's divorce from Tom Green did not come as a surprise to people who...
Franco Corelli & Birgit Nil...
"During a performance of Turandot [in 1961], the tenor Franco Corelli, af...
Debatably Cheating?
"An old school friend recalled years later that the First World War commander [S...
Three-Trumpet Trumpeter
As part of a package show, Bobby Sherwood and his band once toured several state...
Leo Durocher: Durocher's Mo...
"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run tha...
Ina Claire
Some time after her marriage to the romantic silent screen hero John Gilbert, th...
Girl's Best Friend
The London hostess Mrs. Ronald Greville was noted as much for her vanity as for ...
Out of Order
Milt Sosin was famed for scooping other reporters. One day long before the adven...
Producers
Shortly after Jeffrey Katzenberg's Dick Tracy opened (on the same day as ...
Sex Show
While shooting a film in Japan one year, Joan Collins went out on a date with a ...
Deep Bluster
In 1996, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov agreed to a best-of-seven tournament a...
Scott Wolf: Meet the Parents
Shortly after meeting his girlfriend Kelley's parents, "Party of Five" star Scot...
Patriotism
After he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Arts at University College, Londo...
Monster of the Midway
In the late 1960s, Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus - one of the "monsters o...
Whirling Dershowitz
Famed (Jewish) Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz was once asked an interesti...
Blind Determination
During the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, admiral Horatio Nelson's forces were bo...
Green Wave
In January 2001, Mike "Snips" Parsons caught and surfed a massive wave at Cortes...
Rita Rudner: Competitive Re...
Rita Rudner and her husband had a competitive relationship. "I beat my husband a...
Yasmine Bleeth: Serious Mon...
"I'm very serious about Monopoly," 'Baywatch' star Yasmine Bleeth once confessed...
Owen Nolan: No Mercy
In Fenruary 2004, the Toronto Maple Leafs faced the Ottawa Senators in a memorab...
Ozzy Osbourne & Mötley Crüe...
When Mötley Crüe opened for Ozzy Osbourne's Bark at the Moon tour in 1984...
Cheery Thought?
"60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt was painfully aware of the importance of televi...
Puzzler
"When Henry Hook was fourteen years old, living in East Rutherford, New Jersey, ...
Super Bowl
The Washington Redskins' Joe Jacobi once declared that he would run over his own...
Dean Brothers
For a time, Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul both pitched for the St. Louis Cardi...
Scene-Stealer
One day on the set of the 1963 Western comedy McLintock!, John Wayne took...
Bridge Partner
Sir Herbert Holt's competitive nature made him a formidable competitor. ("We get...
Morning Sickness
"Maria Shriver has not had it all that easy. Two people witnessed an incident at...
One-Track Barnum
Barnum's business acumen did not desert him on his deathbed. His last words? "Ho...
Bar Hopper
In addition to his talent for writing, Georges Simenon was blessed with remarkab...
Dick Butkus & Altie Taylor
While running a sweep during a game against the Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions sta...
Shoelace
"When I [Australian Olympian Rob de Castella] was about 14 or 15, and running in...
Deetermination?
Deena Drossin once competed in a memorable 8-kilometer race at a World Cross-Cou...
Heisman
Better to have played and lost than never to have played at all? Not according t...
Virginia Woolf: Rigid Princ...
Virginia Woolf did not sit down to write until she was 30 - literally. The obser...
Sore Loser
Napoleon's older brother once related a story about the school-aged Napoleon: Du...
Big Sacrifice
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon met in grade school and remained best friends thereaf...
Peanuts at the Louvre
Shortly after the opening of a "Peanuts" exhibition at the Louvre, "Peanuts" cre...
Get-Well Card
In the 1930s, hoping to keep Judy Garland's weight down, MGM chief Louis B. Maye...
Realer Dealer
When John Jacob Astor sold a lot near Wall Street for $8,000, the proud buyer re...
Hollywood Fishbowl
Arnold Moss was among a select group of actors who refused to live in Hollywood ...
False Vanity
When Humphrey Bogart arrived in Mexico to begin shooting John Huston's
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Heightened Tension
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did not immediately take to one another. "I'...
Lavar Arrington: Quarterbac...
Maxim sportswriter Diane Hill once interviewed Washington Redskins lineba...
Curly Culp
Legendary Houston Oilers nose guard Curly Culp was a fierce competitor. He once ...
British Airways: Dirty Tricks
In January 1993, Virgin Atlantic chief Richard Branson won a libel suit against ...
Haim Saban: Political Donation
The Hollywood producer Haim Saban once estimated that he had donated some $20 mi...
Young Jarome Iginla
"When he played junior hockey in Western Canada, in perhaps the toughest teenage...
Jessica Simpson & Paris Hilton
Uber-bimbo Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey (her ex-husband and former 'Newlyweds...
The Rock Says
During an appearance on CBS News Sunday Morning one day the Rock was aske...
Pat Quinn: Game One
Though the Philadelphia Flyers were favored to win the first game of their quart...
David Schwimmer: Competitive
From an early age, David Schwimmer earned a reputation for competitiveness. "Whe...
Alan King: Name-Dropper
"Alan knew everybody," Billy Crystal once recalled of the great comedian Alan Ki...
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos: Goin...
"When we were working on this movie [Godsend] there was this little boy n...
Mel Brooks & Burt Reynolds
By the end of 1976, Mel Brooks was ranked fifth at the box office, just above Bu...
Butch May: Friendly Game
Professional beach volleyball player Misty May inherited her competitive nature ...
Satchel Paige & Pepper Martin
Legendary Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Satchel Paige had heard of Pepper Martin ...
Bob Weinstein: Miramax Soft...
"[Miramax co-founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein] fielded a softball team, which p...
Balloon Lagoon
While designing Balloon Lagoon (a non-competitive game which allows kindergarten...
Bob Woodward: One Step Ahead
While working on the Watergate story (for the Washington bureau of the Times), S...
Panic Decision? (long)
BMW chief Bernd Pischetsrieder's penchant for planning was matched, perhaps, onl...
Ted Hendricks
Legendary Oakland Raiders linebacker Ted Hendricks earned a fearsome reputation ...
Gator Tears?
In the closing moments of the closely-fought 1978 Gator Bowl, a Clemson player c...
Athenian Pride
Themistocles was once upbraided by a politician from the small city state of Lar...
Tennis Rivalry
Robert Evans's relationship with Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone went back to th...
Bear Market?
In 1966, after the draft board had classified him 1-Y (on account of his flat fe...
Miss Nasty USA
Kelly Hu started her career as a beauty pageant contestant. "Women will do anyth...
Fine Distinction
Though Vince Lombardi was a stern disciplinarian, he was able to inspire a winni...
Dollar Short
Although Bill Russell's teams won eleven titles in the 1960s (nine more than Wil...
Classic Durocher
After a game against the New York Giants one day in the 1940s, legendary Brookly...
Tobacco Habit
One day at Colombey, Charles de Gaulle and Andre Malraux - both heavy smokers - ...
Aussie Rules?
Shortly after her marriage to New Caledonian soccer star Christian Karembeu, Slo...
Steve Heinze: Stitch Me Up
During a game against the Phoenix Coyotes in November 2000, Columbus Bluejackets...
Jenny Adams: Competitive St...
Olympic hurdler Jenny Adams once remarked that she had probably inherited her co...
Redenbacher
To improve hand-eye co-ordination, many baseball players have a batting coach or...
Youngblood
Los Angeles Rams defensive end Jack Youngblood was one tough customer. He played...
Arsenio & Madonna
During an appearance on "Arsenio" one evening, Madonna was asked by her host, "W...
Pincay's Diet
"The tremendous pressure to be thin has caused jockeys to take diet pills, laxat...
Apelles
Apelles once called upon the talented but little-known painter Protogenes at his...
Legion of Honour
Lord Boothby dined with Winston Churchill for the last time at the Council of Eu...
Ruthless Sarnoff
Famed for his pioneering role in the development of both radio and television, N...
Faustian Bargain?
Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet cultivated a first-rate musical rivalry. "I've...
Gretzky & Skalbania
Though Vancouver-based entrepreneur Nelson Skalbania had never seen a live hocke...
LL Cool J & Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J clashed on the set of Any Given Sunday. "He has ...
Meryl Streep: Casting Evita
"Back in the mid-Eighties, Meryl had signed up for a film adaptation of Andrew L...
Sylvester Stallone: Dancing...
While posing for photos at the Golden Globes one year, Sylvester Stallone and Ar...
Driven
Sony co-founder and chairman Akio Morita was a legendary workaholic. "The best w...
Healthy Competition?
Early in her career, Frances McDormand moved to New York, got a job waiting tabl...
Fighter
"I have dreams that I'm fighting people," Jennifer Love Hewitt once confessed. "...
Pawn & Finger
"About 40 players were watching an online broadcast of a major match. One of the...
Curt Clausen: Speed Walker
"I walked a marathon once," Olympic speed walker Curt Clausen recalled, "where t...
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