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Quick Tillis
"James (Quick) Tillis, the young heavyweight [the first man to last ten rounds w...
Poetic Justice
"At the end of the sixteenth century regular processions were organized around H...
Shopping Spree
"I was walking down Madison Avenue," Tony Randall once recalled, "and I saw a ve...
Spectacular Goldwyn
Before his incarnation as a successful screenwriter, Edmund North worked as a pr...
Ellington Diet
"Duke Ellington, who is always worrying about keeping his weight down, may annou...
Basket Case
Mark Twain once attended a meeting at which one of the speakers was raising mone...
What a Bern!
MGM producer Paul Bern (Jean Harlow's husband) was widely rumored to be impoten...
Snoop Dogg: Merry Muppet?
In 2002, Snoop Dogg's cameo appearance in NBC's "A Very Merry Muppet Christmas M...
Miraculous Mandarin
Bela Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin was not well received at its debut ...
His name was Rico?
Barry Manilow was once asked whether a long career necessarily entailed embarras...
Soweto Rose
In April 2003, South African boxer Dingaan Thobela (the so-called "Rose of Sowet...
Alfred Packer Grill
In 1977, the United States Department of Agriculture dedicated its Washington ca...
John D. Rockefeller: Rockef...
One day John D. Rockefeller made a call from a pay phone - and lost his quarter....
Flattery
Famed violinist Jascha Heifetz once told his enthusiastic new secretary that he ...
Limp
Lloyd George's relationship with Lord Curzon was often frought with disaffection...
New Abode
One day during World War I, Winston Churchill visited France as a volunteer to o...
Johnny Depp: Winona Forever
Soon after co-starring in Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder and Johnny De...
Two!
"Marty Springstead, fuckingvisor of American League umpires, said he will never ...
The Big One
As teammates on the Minneapolis Lakers, Rod Hundley and Bob Leonard were famed f...
Lost Weekend
Shortly after the release of The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder's screen adap...
Old Excuse?
The careless driving of their coachmen once led Lord Alvanley and another noblem...
Humanitarian Doctor
Though famed for his humanitarian work in field hospitals during the Spanish Civ...
El Gallo
In his last fight, on October 10th, 1918, famed matador Raphael "El Gallo" Gomez...
Casanova's Lover
The notorious womaniser Casanova once met a pretty 17-year-old girl named Leonil...
Gore Vidal & the WGA
"In 1987, Gore Vidal sued the W.G.A. [the Writers Guild of America, the union of...
Brief Rebuttal
During a Supreme Court hearing one day, another lawyer demonstrated that Joseph ...
New Putter
Golfer Craig Stadler was once asked why he had started using a new putter. "why ...
Dynamite King
One day in 1888, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was astonished to find ...
Drake Disappears
"Drake's most famous exploit, the 'singeing of the king of Spain's beard [in 158...
Quick Conversion
"On my second day in the army, at Fort George, they lined us up and asked us whi...
Cinque Fois?
In 1839, Joseph Cinque led a mutiny aboard the Spanish ship Amistad. The slaves ...
Pam's Tattoos
Shortly after meeting boyfriend Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson made him change his "...
Calm and Collected
One evening while he was visiting New York's legendary nightclub '21,' Robert Mo...
Voltaire of Discontent
After his expulsion from a seminary, Casanova wandered around Europe meeting lum...
Louis Armstrong
"One night in my earlier years this big, bad-ass hood crashes my dressing room i...
Running Footman
The Duke of Queensberry once interviewed several candidates for "running footman...
Unlimited Debate
Like most crackhead politicians, former Washington mayor Marion Barry was famed ...
Grapes of Wrath
Russian censors permitted John Ford's classic 1940 film ...
Big Time BS
John Leguizamo once recalled a telling anecdote about working with a certain fam...
Better Served Cold?
Early in his career, George Bernard Shaw had his request to stage a play repeate...
Westinghouse
Although Westinghouse's automatic air brake (patented in 1872) promised a dramat...
Vocational Error
Why did Matthew Perry decide to pursue an acting career when he was a nationally...
Philip the Just
Like his son (Alexander the Great), Philip II was famed for his love of drink. W...
AC/DC vs Riot Police
"A Belgian policeman took it into his head he was going to stop one of our shows...
Police Dog
Peter Lawford, who once had his wife smuggle several grams of cocaine into Austr...
Confidence Game
The famous chess player Savielly Tartakower had a weakness for experimenting wit...
Thirst For Adventure
In 1992, Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, seeking to quench his th...
Free Turkeys
In 1995, despite Tupac Shakur's legal troubles (for various gun-related offenses...
Nutty Hughes
"One of Howard Hughes' short-lived attachments was to Baskin and
Robbins banana...
Top Note
Near the end of a performance at Albert Hall one evening, the famed soprano Luis...
Norm Macdonald: Tight Security
While crossing the border into Canada one day Norm Macdonald was stopped for a r...
Impulsive Shopper
While filming The Big Bounce in 2003, Owen Wilson fell in love with Hawai...
Barry Sonnenfeld: Get Shorty
One day during the production of Get Shorty (1995), director Barry Sonnen...
Unconventional Barry Sonnen...
One day during the production of Men in Black (1997), director Barry Sonn...
Jimi Hendrix: Peerless Passion
Jeff Beck once recalled the first time he saw Jimi Hendrix play guitar. Indeed, ...
Sharon Osbourne & MTV
During an interview in November 2002, Sharon Osbourne complained about the compl...
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tours
In 1992, Ozzy Osbourne announced that he planned to spend more time with his fam...
Duke of Monmouth: Portrait
"The Duke of Monmouth was beheaded in 1685 in one of history's messiest executio...
George Bush: Church and State
"The difference between the Bushes [George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bus...
Gloria Steinem: New Bicycle
"A woman without a man," Gloria Steinem once famously remarked, "is like a fish ...
George Parker: Monopoly
"Monopoly was not invented by [Parker Brothers co-founder] George Parker. When h...
Squibb in Iran
Harper's editor Lewis H. Lapham once recalled a cautionary tale told by T...
William Easterly: World Ban...
"William Easterly, a senior World Bank economist, tested the limits of tolerance...
Johnny Carson, Animal Trainer
Johnny Carson once invited animal trainer Joan Embery to appear as a guest on "T...
Rita Rudner: Birthday Massage
Rita Rudner: "I thought I had the best idea for my husband [for his birthday] la...
Clint Eastwood: Never Say N...
In 1985, Rolling Stone magazine asked Clint Eastwood if he would ever run...
Jack All? (long)
"'Books do furnish a room' - Anthony Powell, adapting an interior-design thought...
Reyer & Massenet
After generously singing the praises of Ernest Reyer at a dinner party one eveni...
On the Ball?
San Diego Padres radio announcer Jerry Coleman was famed for his verbal bloopers...
Nagurski
Even among NFL players, Bronko Nagurski was considered a tank. During a game bet...
Mexican War
After the Mexican War, General Sherman was enlisted by President Zachary Taylor ...
Crocodile Tears
Whitney Houston once made a special appearance for a group of AIDS-afflicted chi...
Come Together
One day in the mid-1960s, legendary LSD pioneer Timothy Leary decided to run for...
Say it with Flowers
One day Paul Meurisse entered a flower shop whose signs encouraged customers to ...
Impulsive Pevere & Planet o...
Shortly after the summer release of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes (in 2...
Planck's Principle
In his autobiography, Max Planck elucidated what has come to be known as Planck'...
Fonda Fonda
Though Henry Fonda's father disapproved of his son's decision to pursue an actin...
N.B.C. Training
In March 2003, Hampton Sides 'embedded' as a journalist with the United States M...
Pointed Letter
Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, was once bluntly accused of f...
Maurice Chevalier (long)
Innocents of Paris (1929) was Paramount's first big musical, so the entir...
Colleen McCullough
In 1963 Colleen McCullough left Australia, intent on pursuing a career in medici...
Saint Swithun
Swithun, a bishop of Winchester who died in 862, was famed for his great modesty...
Father Tom?
At the age of 14, Tom Cruise enrolled in a seminary school, intent on becoming a...
Renaissance Man?
The Renaissance scholar Nevill Coghill, walking in the grounds of Oxford's Magda...
Card
Some time around New Year's day in 2003, Robert Redford lost a credit card. Some...
Family Honor
"When Davy Burnaby chose the stage as a profession, his father thought that perh...
Puccini & Toscanini: The Cake
Giacomo Puccini was in the habit, every Christmas, of sending a cake to each of ...
High Stakes
Thomas Cranmer, having supported Henry VIII in his divorce from Catherine of Ara...
Fish Out of Water?
"[Dr. Seuss] attended Dartmouth, then went to Oxford, but he dropped out after l...
Pillow Fight
Among the photographs for which Harry Benson became famous was a series of memor...
Luck
George Carlin... almost wasn't: "I was in my mother's belly as she sat in the wa...
Ode to Joy?
In 1818, London's Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned Beethoven to produce (...
Happiness?
While window-shopping in the south of France one day, noted psychologist Andrew ...
Goldwyn & Milestone
Like many pragmatic directors, Lewis Milestone had several memorable arguments w...
Cruikshank's Farmer
"Homer Watson's home at Doon in the heart of the beautiful pastoral country of W...
French Academy
One day, at the behest of a friend, Tristan Bernard submitted a hastily-assemble...
Royal Marriage
Shortly after his marriage to Queen Victoria, Albert, embroiled in a quarrel wit...
Klemperer
Klemperer demanded perfection from his musicians and was correspondingly miserly...
Lovely Sensation
"I tried to commit suicide by gas," Nancy Mitford once reported. "It is a lovely...
Depeche Sortie
One day in 1990, Depeche Mode made an appearance at a Los Angeles record store t...
Eminem Wedding?
In June 2002, with rumors swirling of a budding romance with Mariah Carey, Emine...
Marble Staircase
Andrew Carnegie spared no expense on his Scottish home. Marble was imported from...
Rank and File
"As a member of the Rank organisation," Donald Sinden once recalled, "I began re...
Bargain Portrait
"An American called on chance at Sir William Orpen's studio last summer and want...
My Dear Curzon...
One day in 1919, the 17th Earl of Derby wrote a letter to the Foreign Secretary....
George Bernard Shaw: Last L...
"Nancy Astor sat with George Bernard Shaw at his death-bed. The old boy woke up ...
Angelina Jolie: Jolie Mad
Angelina Jolie, famed for her obsession with knives, tattoos, and blood, might t...
Med School Dropout
Hector Berlioz once had plans to attend medical school. His plans quickly change...
Cartoon Elvis
Julia Gnuse, the most tattooed woman in history, was once asked whether she had ...
Organ Contest
"Hard as it may be to believe today, Bach in his time was known more as a master...
Evolution of an Artist
"[The abstract expressionist artist Arshile Gorky] took menial jobs and earned m...
Kennedy Camping Trip
"There were nine Kennedys," Senator Ted Kennedy once remarked. "32 in the next g...
Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin's abuse of assistants has become a thing of legend. "Like the tale o...
Cold Turkey?
Screenwriter and director Anthony Minghella once vowed to stop making film adapt...
Good Example
"Late Night" host Conan O'Brien once asked "Saturday Night Live" star Jimmy Fall...
Reznor in the Desert
"We were doing the 'Starfuckers' video with Marilyn Manson in the desert outside...
Martine McCutcheon & Hugh G...
Martine McCutcheon was delighted to be cast opposite Hugh Grant in Richard Curti...
Vivian Leigh: Fog-Bound
Terrence Rattigan's script for Anthony Asquith's The V.I.P.s (1963) was i...
Jordan's Bosoms
In 2003, Jordan (a popular British model) appeared as a contestant on "I'm A Cel...
Young Larry David
Though Larry David managed to put together an act which would "kill" on a Saturd...
Lyle Lovett: Penguins
"Lyle Lovett was briefly married to the actress Julia Roberts. Their marriage is...
Schrodinger's Cat
"Schrodinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory o...
Roger Daltrey: Growing Old
"Why can't rock music be about growing old?" 61-year-old rocker Roger Daltrey wo...
Girl's Best Friend?
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs once professed to practice a surprising credo: "Make God f...
Bleating Goat
Gandhi was once persuaded by a young friend who had abandoned his people's custo...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Twittg...
The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, a former engineering student, atte...
Poems
In 1862, just two years after their marriage, Rossetti's lovely wife, Elizabeth ...
Annie Hall
While editing a murder mystery in 1977, Woody Allen realized that all of the bes...
Early Retirement
"There was one time in 1987 when I wanted to say, 'Done,'" Marty Stuart once rec...
Liposuction
Susan Dominus once found herself discussing plastic surgery with Pat Wexler, New...
Harold Ross & Rockefeller C...
Though Rockefeller Centre, begun in earnest in the winter of 1929-30, was initia...
Introducing Goldwyn
"After Groucho Marx introduced Sam Goldwyn [at a Friars Club roast], Goldwyn mad...
Career Change
One "Amateur Night" at the Harlem Opera House, a skinny, awkward-looking teenage...
This Note's For You
The video for Neil Young's song "This Note's For You" lampooned commercial rock ...
Dulles Wrong?
CIA director John Foster Dulles was once asked whether he had ever been wrong. "...
Angie Dickinson's Mother
Angie Dickinson's mother was dead set against her daughter pursuing a career as ...
Go-Gos: Hotel Vandals
Former Go-Gos frontwoman Belinda Carlisle was once asked to recall the band's fi...
Thoughts
The author of an inane book entitled "Thoughts" asked Samuel Foote one day wheth...
Artful Analogy
The New Yorker's noted critic Peter Schjeldahl was once asked whether, up...
Khon Man
A wild party erupted in an exclusive Dallas restaurant one evening when Pakistan...
Beethoven Plastered
Beethoven once sat for a German sculptor named Danhauser while he attempted to m...
Madonna: Hung Jury?
Upon first meeting Madonna, the Swedish director of the video for "Ray of Light"...
Wimpy Heston
Charlton Heston was cast as Moses in Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epic ...
Sixth Sense
"In Sofia, I was asked by the politician Dimitrov to go with him to his country ...
Godelureau
"Occasionally the calm of the Elysee Palace is shattered as when an exasperated ...
Variations in C Minor
One day years after its completion, Beethoven chanced to hear his own Variations...
Afterthought
Larry David's boyhood pal Richard Lewis once persuaded his fellow comedian to se...
Second Thought
Rene Descartes once began work on a book about the universe in which he endorsed...
English Reserve
On May 29th, 1953, Edmund Hillary and his sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, made the first...
Classic Cameron
In March 2002, Cameron Diaz explained that she had stopped snacking on bacon aft...
Powell Preempted
In August 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell was pleased to learn that Chines...
Prolix Keynes
Ask five economists a question and, it is said, you will receive six different a...
Richard Avedon / Svengali
The journalist Owen Edwards (who occasionally called photographer Richard Avedon...
Clara Barton: Clara & the C...
One day during the Civil War, Clara Barton visited the office of a colonel in th...
Larry David: Quitting
Larry David briefly worked as a writer on "Saturday Night Live." "One Saturday n...
Soft Hair
Such was the appeal of John Wesley's message of repentance and faith that one ho...
Second Coming
During the production of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss was of...
Howard Dean: JC Penney Suit
While campaigning for the 2004 presidential election, Democratic candidate Howar...
Rubinstein
"Dine with Sibyl Colefax," Harold Nicholson recorded in his diary one day in 193...
Bob Geldof's List
Bob Geldof was so upset when his ex-wife Paula Yates left him (for former INXS f...
Punch-Drunk Revision
One day on the set of Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler expressed reservatio...
Rook Move
"Whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available," the famous...
Draw
"I have always been a sworn enemy of draws and ruined many games by playing shar...
Pasteur
Like many innovators, Louis Pasteur found that his work engendered considerable ...
Liberal Czar?
Russian czar Alexander II, famed for his emancipation of the serfs in 1861, inst...
Nice Story
Shortly after his arrival in Rome (on a scholarship), Hector Berlioz was dismaye...
Roger Moore: Casting the Die
Roger Moore was once given a role on televsion show which he did not really want...
Free Again
Morgan Freeman was delighted to land the role of Alex Cross (a character twenty ...
Ding Dong
In 1972, Chuck Berry's label recorded one of his concerts in London. Berry was l...
Aerosmith Philosophy
"We climbed out of the ashes of all our isms," Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler o...
Oceanic Moment
"I got so depressed in Vietnam," the molecular biologist Craig Venter later reca...
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