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Gift From Heaven
"When I was a struggling musical student," the famed heroic tenor Lauritz Melchi...
J. Paul Getty: Getty & Son
When his twelve-year-old son, Timmy, died of a brain tumor, the billionaire oil ...
Chubby McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan, discussing her favorite films, once professed a curious admirat...
Freudian Quip
In his capacity as a comedian on "You Bet Your Life" Groucho Marx interviewed ma...
Charming Introduction
One night at an evening reception, Eugene d'Albert introduced a friend to his ne...
20 / 20 Vision?
At a state banquet one day, Mrs. Sargent Shriver, the wife of the US ambassador ...
Punch Drunk Love
While he was a college student, Garth Brooks briefly worked as a nightclub bounc...
Round Table
For years, George Burns ate lunch every day at a corner table in the Men's Grill...
Whistle
After Humphrey Bogart's death, his wife, actress Lauren Bacall, placed his ashes...
Gabriele D'Annunzio: Sentim...
Gabriele D'Annunzio once stayed at a hotel which owned a goldfish, to which the ...
Bridges to Babylon
Even as a toddler, Angelica Bridges had a curious eye for the boy next door. "I ...
Gossip
The famed theater manager Lilian Baylis vehemently discouraged romances between ...
Lovely Advice
General Mark Wayne Clark was once asked what he considered the best advice he ha...
Harry Truman: Historic Moment
One day during the Christmas holiday in 1955, President Harry Truman was dismaye...
Lees on Life
Because he alone was supporting his parents, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Billy L...
ETSL (long)
In the autumn of 2002, Spanish actor Javier Camara, an ardent young man from Mad...
Maddalena's Ghost (long)
As a student at the Conservatory in Naples, Vincenzo Bellini gave singing lesson...
Language of Love
A few months before his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning,...
Love at First Slight
Actor James Brolin once revealed the precise instant when he had fallen in love ...
Brotherly Love?
While attending the annual Gridiron dinner in Washington one year during Harry T...
Harry Harlow & the Monkey E...
University of Wisconsin psychologist Harry Harlow was famed for a series of expe...
Conditional Love
John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism, believed that human personality is c...
Love Scene
During the filming of La Boheme in 1926, John Gilbert became infatuated w...
Hi-Infidelity
Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, got married on an impulse. "On ...
Werner Herzog: One-Man March
In 1974, German director Werner Herzog hatched a plan to prevent a close friend ...
Silent Romance
One day in July 2002, Patricia Arquette and her boyfriend, actor Thomas Jane, sa...
Ben Affleck: Big Spender
In 2003, Ben Affleck bought Jennifer Lopez (his fiance at the time) a special gi...
Jude Law & Sadie Frost: Bla...
In February 2003, actress Sadie Frost (then Jude Law's wife) checked herself int...
Werner Boehm: Harmless Fun?
While filming a music video one day in February 2004, German pop star Werner Boe...
Young John Travolta
As an "indulged" child, John Travolta could do no wrong. "The famous story," he ...
David Bowie: Heart of Gold
Iman was once asked to recall the most romantic thing her husband (David Bowie) ...
Soulmates
Drew Barrymore was once asked whether her relationship with Tom Green surprised ...
White Heat?
In 1629, the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan's favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died while ...
Conjugal Bliss
One day in 1974, Paul Newman was complimented upon the success of his collaborat...
All for Love
In 1839, Benjamin Disraeli married the widow Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis (a woman tw...
Say it with Flowers
One day Paul Meurisse entered a flower shop whose signs encouraged customers to ...
Myles Standish: Marriage Pr...
"As military leader of the pilgrims, Capt. Standish Myles Standish was fearless....
True Love
On the morning after Jack Benny's death, his widow, Mary, received a single long...
Art of Seduction?
Abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky once plagiarized the work of anothe...
Tongue in Cheek?
After Freddy Prinze, Jr won an award at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, he turned to ...
Lever in Love
A small-scale soap wholesaler who expanded his father's business into a multinat...
Summer Romance
While picnicing on a small island one summer day in 1906, Ole Evinrude sped acro...
Fateful Contrivance? (long)
On an expedition to Jerusalem, Mark Twain made the acquaintance of Charles J. La...
C'est L'Amour
Louis L'Amour met his future wife Kathy on a double date in 1952. But the woman ...
Romantic Comedy
In 1984, Victoria Tennant appeared opposite Steve Martin in Carl Reiner's romant...
Jolie Weird
In 1996, Angelina Jolie married her Hackers co-star Jonny Lee Miller. Wha...
The Stranger
Balzac once received an unusual letter from the Ukraine signed "The Stranger." T...
Jennifer Connelly & Billy C...
The romantic sparks began to fly shortly after Jennifer Connelly and Billy Campb...
Garry & Nell
TV personality Garry Moore once hired four skywriting planes to draw a Valentine...
Michael Caine: Love at Firs...
Convinced that Shakira Baksh was the love of his life, Michael Caine pursued and...
Sweetest Thing
Christina Applegate got a surprise during the filming of Roger Kumble's ...
Footnote
A new edition of Goethe's autobiography once appeared with annotations by a note...
L'Amour
Catherine Martin was a designer at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art (...
Morse Romance
One day Thomas Edison, whose hearing declined at early age, suggested that his f...
Rod Stewart: Maggie Who?
Rod Stewart once revealed that his hit song "Maggie May" had been inspired by "o...
Oxford Romance
"Shortly before he became a Bristol MP, Tony Benn proposed to his beloved while ...
Sinatra & Redford
Frank Sinatra was no fan of Robert Redford. "Well at least he has finally found ...
Electric Moment
The physicist and Columbia University professor Janet Conrad met her husband (ph...
Young Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay once explained why, by the age of 19, she had mastered the xylophon...
Maria Manakova: Sweet Surre...
Serbian chess grandmaster Maria Manakova fell in love with her ex-husband, Yugos...
Johnny Cash: Unchained
In 1997, Johnny Cash lapsed into a coma and contracted pneumonia. Though doctors...
Kiefer Sutherland: Kiefer's...
In 2005, Kiefer Sutherland shot a film in Hawaii. "My daughters [Sarah Jude and ...
Johnson-Masters?
When William Masters and Virginia Johnson divorced after 21 years of marriage - ...
Wedding Proposal
On November 28th, 1986, Ahmad Rashad proposed to Phylicia Allen Ayers (famed for...
Long Goodbye
When Pedro I became King of Portugal in the 14th century, he had his dead mistre...
Best Friend
During the production of Ocean's 11, producer Jerry Weintraub was amused ...
Almost Famous
While crossing the Atlantic together one year, Somerset Maugham and Lily Langtry...
Solitude
Edith Sitwell once reluctantly informed her parents that she was leaving the fam...
Love Letter
The Duc de Broglie was the recipient of a variety of memorable letters. "The one...
Artful Analogy
The New Yorker's noted critic Peter Schjeldahl was once asked whether, up...
Tracy and Hepburn
Spencer Tracy hadn't worked in four years when producer-director Stanley Kramer ...
Bell's Last Words
As professor of vocal physiology at Boston University, Alexander Graham Bell tau...
High Maintenance
British prime minister Arthur Balfour was once asked whether rumors of his inten...
Fairy Tale Romance
"Lady Longford first met her husband, then Frank Longford, at a party at Oxford....
Catherine's Last Words
When Catherine of Aragon bore Henry VIII a daughter (Mary, later Mary I) but no ...
Eurythmics
Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox met in the early-1970s and lived together happily ...
Future Poet
One day when he was four years old, Robert Graves casually asked his mother whet...
Method Actress (long)
"We were shooting the sequence where Abby, my character, runs into the bathroom ...
Mourning
When Georges Boulanger's mistress, Marguerite de Bonnemain, died of tuberculosis...
Puppy Love
When he was eleven years old, Mike Myers appeared in a television commercial (fo...
Romantic Story
"On You Bet Your Life, Groucho Marx's popular television show, he created...
Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
June Carter first met Johnny Cash while performing with her mother and sisters a...
Even Pudding?
In December 2003, an erotic letter penned by Horatio Nelson to his mistress Lady...
Extreme Table Tennis
"This year is an Olympic year," Chinese national table tennis coach Cai Zhenhua ...
Andrew Stanton: Love Note
After winning an Oscar in 2004, Finding Nemo co-director Andrew Stanton d...
Jamie Lee Curtis: Love at F...
After dating English rocker Adam Ant for nine months in 1983, Jamie Lee Curtis s...
Pete Sampras: Love Stinks?
One day Pete Sampras went to see the cheeseball comedy Love Stinks (1999,...
Awkward Moment
One day in 1997, James Brown proposed to talk show host Rolonda Watts - live on ...
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