West Wing star Bradley Whitford once hugged his mom so hard that he broke one of her ribs.

Before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan scratched his daughter's initials on the lunar surface. As TV's Alex Dunphy said: "Wow... Every time she looks in the sky, she knows there's a message
just for her."

Joy of Painting star Bob Ross spent his childhood helping ailing animals, from squirrels to snakes. His mother once found him tending to an injured gator in the family bathtub.

After Frasier star Kelsey Grammer gave future wife Kayte Walsh his number, she asked God for a sign if she should call. Then, "I looked out the bus window and saw a sign reading 'Frasier Suites'... Four minutes later, we passed an art store called 'Crane'"—Frasier's surname. They met for coffee two days later.

Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan met his wife while delivering a pie to a dorm at Central Michigan U, where she worked as a receptionist.

On their first Valentine's Day together Monaghan gave her a heart-shaped pizza.

On the first anniversary of her death, relatives opened the desk of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Inside they found hair from her dead children and a copy of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Adonaïs. One page was folded around a silk box containing his ashes—and the remains of his heart.

At a show after his marriage to Julianne Phillips, Bruce Springsteen lay on the stage and cuddled his six-string. "I always sleep with my guitar," he said. "At first my wife didn't like it, but she got used to it." They divorced four years later.

At an Aerosmith show, a girl in the audience removes her arm and holds it up to Steven Tyler... and "in the hole of the prosthetic limb is a rose."

When author John M. Ford's partner Elise Matthesen interviewed him for a convention she presented a hypo-thetical challenge: "I'm going to die," she said. "Tell me a story." "No," Ford replied. "You tell me one, and when you're gone, I'll tell it to somebody else."

Jude Law, asked to name his favorite Christmas gift, recalled a "fantastic" T-shirt wife Sadie Frost had given him with the lyrics to "Hey Jude" written on it. Ironically, Jude let her down. Two years later, they were divorced.