To curb Judy Garland's appetite while making The Wizard of Oz, MGM's Louis B. Mayer limited her to black coffee and chicken soup + pills and 80 cigarettes a day.
Seeing the Beatles on "Ed Sullivan," Sonny Liston said, "Are these m*therf*ckers what all the people are screaming about? My dog plays drums better than that kid with the big nose!"
At a shoot with the Beatles, Muhammad Ali said, "You're not as dumb as you look." "No," John Lennon said, smiling, "but you are." When they left, Ali asked his manager: "Who were those little sissies?"
"You're simply darling," an older woman in a ballgown told John Lennon at a function one night. "Can't say the same for you, love," Lennon said before walking away.
During a Rolling Stones concert in the early '60s, a man in the audience yelled: "Get your hair cut!" "What," Mick Jagger replied, "and look like you?"
"A man in Idaho won the lottery for the 6th time, which sounds kind of suspicious honestly," Late Night host Seth Meyers reported in February 2021. "I mean, you win the lottery once, you leave Idaho!"
