Robert Reed: Strawberry Heaven (Reed [born Reitz] anecdote) Robert Reed, a Shakespearean actor who loved the theater, hated his role (as Mik...
Special Delivery (Arliss [born Andrews] anecdote) "I was nearly mobbed by autograph hunters and other fans at Charing Cross statio...
Whonh! Whonh! Whonh! (Hagman [born Hageman] anecdote) Larry Hagman once purchased a Malibu home next to that of Burgess Meredith (whom...
Jayne Mansfield: Got Milk? (Mansfield [born Palmer] anecdote) The famously well-endowed Jayne Mansfield (whose studio chair on the set of ...
John Paul II: Children's Choir (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) "A children's choir performed for the Pope [in Azerbaijan]," 'Tonight Show' host...
Lord Somebody (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) "As he was driving back to his mansion, Pickfair, Douglas Fairbanks saw an Engli...
Kissing Bandit: What a Boob! (Morganna [born Morganna Roberts] ["The Kissing Bandit"] anecdote) The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - was arrested at ...
Phyllis Diller: Body Cast (Diller [born Driver] anecdote) Phyllis Diller was once injured and had to wear an upper-body cast for an openin...
Witchever? (Mansfield [born Palmer] anecdote) William Mansfield once presided over a case of apparent witchcraft involving an ...
Mummy Straight Up (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) The Queen Mother once attended a reception at Buckingham Palace for a number of ...
What a Bern! (Bern [born Levy] anecdote) MGM producer Paul Bern (Jean Harlow's husband) was widely rumored to be impoten...
Grace Under Pressure (Slick [born Wing] anecdote) In 1969, Jefferson Airplane joined the Rolling Stones and several other bands fo...
Sweetest Thing? (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) While working on The Joshua Tree, U2's Bono Vox once missed Ali Hewson's ...
Publicity Stunt (Drake [born Springall] anecdote) "After comedian Charlie Drake had been given his first seven-minute spot in a BB...
Miss Deeds? (Ryder [born Horowitz] anecdote) With Winona Ryder facing charges of shoplifting and vandalism, many observers fo...
Lawford & Son (Lawford [born Aylen] anecdote) One day in the 1960s, the NYPD received a call that Peter Lawford's son was stan...
Guest Spot (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) As New York socialite Cornelia Guest left the Palladium nightclub one evening, s...
Fine Art of Seduction (Polanski [born Liebling] anecdote) "The only time I ever saw people gasp in Elaine's [restaurant]," Harper's...
Pope's Fiat (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) "The Pope's new Fiat, which can withstand direct machine gun fire, was designed ...
Chaplin & Fairbanks (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) While passing a cinema in Hollywood one day, Charlie Chaplin stopped to examine ...
Snoop Dogg: Merry Muppet? (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) In 2002, Snoop Dogg's cameo appearance in NBC's "A Very Merry Muppet Christmas M...
Ray Charles: What Husband? (Charles [born Robinson] anecdote) "I was f---ing someone's old lady when Mr. Someone came home," Ray Charles once ...
Julie Bowen: Pooper Blooper (Bowen [born Luetkemeyer] anecdote) One night Julie Bowen visited a restaurant with the producer of "Ed" and some ot...
Farrakhan (Farrakhan [born Wolcott] anecdote) In 1999, rumors surfaced that the controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Far...
Losing His ____? (Tyler anecdote) Many observers may have felt slightly apprehensive when Vice President John Tyle...
Water Clock (Martial [born Marcus Valerius Martialis] anecdote) Water clocks were used in Roman courtrooms to ensure that opposing lawyers were ...
Long Silence? (Fernandel [born Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin] anecdote) Fernandel once visited a new barbershop. Having finished his handiwork, the barb...
Battle of the Sexes (Webb [born Potter] anecdote) "Much of this talk about feminism is nonsense," Beatrice Webb was told one day. ...
Timeless Joke (Colbert [born Chauchoin] anecdote) One day during the filming of Midnight (1939), Don Ameche and director Mi...
Grandstand View (Maxwell [born Latham] anecdote) "Roger Maxwell, an actor who always played generals, brigadiers, Conservative MP...
Numitorius (Gilbert [born Pringle] anecdote) "John Gilbert was once called upon at short notice to play the role of the heroi...
Central Misperception (Trotsky [born Bronstein] anecdote) Leon Trotsky, who spent much of his time during World War I playing chess in Vie...
Jefferson Air Crash (Balin [born Buchwald] anecdote) While performing at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go one evening, Jefferson Airplane frontman...
Busted (Campbell [born Tanner] anecdote) The famed English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell once attempted to smuggle her li...
For Pete's Sake (Criss [born Criscoula] anecdote) One Christmas in the early 1980s, KISS drummer Peter Criss got drunk and fired a...
What an Ass! (Van Damme [born Van Varenberg] anecdote) In 2002, Jean-Claude Van Damme appeared in a documentary on Kylie Minogue. "I go...
Walter Who? (Matthau [born Matthow] anecdote) In 1974, Walter Matthau, slated to make a cameo appearance as a drunk in the fil...
Ant Colony (Campbell [born Tanner] anecdote) While attending a dinner party one evening, Beatrice Campbell found herself seat...
Symbolic Gesture? (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) One day in January 2002, as part of the Vatican's Peace Day celebrations, Pope J...
Hairy Childbirth (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) Joan Rivers' idea of a perfect childbirth experience? "Knock me out with the fir...
Cracked Scull (Robey [born Wade] anecdote) "While playing at Swansea," the music-hall comedian George Robey once recalled, ...
Ode to Posterity (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) Jean Jacques Rousseau once sent Voltaire a copy of his "Ode to Posterity," seeki...
Certain Nobleman? (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) Voltaire attended the funeral of a certain nobleman. "He was a great patriot, a ...
MacLaine, P.I. (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) One day during the production of My Geisha (1962) in Japan, director Fran...
Ashes to Ashes (Hagman [born Hageman] anecdote) In July 2002, Larry Hagman (best known for his role as J. R. Ewing on the televi...
Richard Blurton? (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) On the set of Cleopatra, rumors swirled that Elizabeth Taylor was having ...
U1? (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) U2 frontman Bono Vox was once asked how the band made its creative decisions. "E...
Classic Bono (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) Shortly after Jacques Chirac was elected President of France in 1995, U2 frontma...
Mile High Blooper (Lawford [born Aylen] anecdote) A frequent and accomplished guest on various game shows in his later years, Pete...
The Hedgehog (Jeremy [born Hyatt] anecdote) Despite his roles in some 2,000 adult films, the legandary porn star Ron Jeremy ...
Ray Charles: Color Blind? (Charles [born Robinson] anecdote) "Born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia, in 1930, Ray Charles grew up in G...
Julia Child: Coq au Vin (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) "Mistakes [on Julia Child's television show] were summarily dealt with. An offen...
Madeline Kahn: Major Phobia (Kahn [born Wolfson] anecdote) During an appearance on "The Tonight Show" one evening, Madeline Kahn was asked ...
Charles Brrrrronson: Pure Talent (Bronson [born Buchinsky] anecdote) Charles Bronson won his first screen role in Henry Hathaway's 1951 film ...
Upstaged (Benedict [born Niewoehner] anecdote) Despite Dirk Benedict's successful roles on such hit programs as "Battlestar Gal...
Winona Ryder: Like-Minded (Ryder [born Horowitz] anecdote) During the filming of Mermaids in 1990, Winona Ryder was asked by a journ...
Frankenstein's Monster? (Shelley [born Godwin] anecdote) Percy Bysshe Shelley's blatant disregard for social convention made a lasting im...
NYTA (Sargent [born Sorgente] anecdote) Director Joseph Sargent was not entirely pleased with the assistance offered by ...
Obelisk (Pliny [born Gaius Plinius Secundus] anecdote) Pliny the Elder once told of the raising of a 99-foot obelisk. The operation, in...
Motivation (Polanski [born Liebling] anecdote) One day on the set, director Roman Polanski was asked by an actress about her ch...
Modest Assumption (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) While Honeymooning in Paris in 1920, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford stayed ...
Maria Callas: Humble Pie (Callas [born Kalogeropoulos] anecdote) When Maria Callas signed a contract to perform at the 1958 Festival of Two World...
Jeri Ryan: Size Seven of Nine (Ryan [born Zimmerman] anecdote) Jeri Ryan, famed for her role as "Seven of Nine Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Ze...
Sympathy Vote (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) In 1960, in a blatant case of sympathy voting, the Academy overlooked performanc...
Playing Doctor (Preston [born Palzis] anecdote) "You learn a lot playing doctor," Kelly Preston once remarked. "I got caught pla...
Lip Readers (Pringle [born Pringle, aka Savage] anecdote) In 1924, silent star Aileen Pringle appeared as the queen (who runs off to spend...
Two Bit Critic (Lamour [born Slaton] anecdote) While dining at the Belvedere Hotel with her husband William Howard and his fami...
Deep Curtsey (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) The Queen Mother was fishing in Highland waters one afternoon and had waded some...
Ham Actor (Fontaine [born De Beauvoir De Havilland] anecdote) During a scene in Jane Eyre in which Orson Welles was to be burned to dea...
Shirley You're Joking (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) During a performance one evening, Shirley MacLaine made the following announceme...
Movie Music (Schoenberg [var Schonberg] [born Schönberg] anecdote) Irving Thalberg once sent an emissary to persuade Arnold Schoenberg to produce a...
Experience (Campbell [born Tanner] anecdote) In the early 1930s, Beatrice Campbell went to Hollywood to pursue a career in fi...
Cheryl Ladd: Lucky LaDD? (Ladd [born Stoppelmoor] anecdote) Former Charlie's Angel Cheryl Ladd once explained that she had joined the Broadw...
Coffee Lover (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) Voltaire, who drank copious amounts of coffee throughout his life, was once warn...
Irons in the Fire (Glyn [born Sutherland] anecdote) After her first manuscript was rejected by several publishing houses, Elinor Gly...
Famous Last Words? (Matthau [born Matthow] anecdote) Walter Matthau was once asked whether he resented his wife having the last word....
Richard Burton: Drunk on Shakespeare (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) "Richard Burton once drank a quart of brandy during his performance of ...
Rockin' Pope (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) In September 1999, Pope John Paul II hosted a debt relief concert in Italy featu...
Nicholas Ray: Brooklyn (Ray [born Kienzle] anecdote) Nicholas Ray (whose atmospheric films inform the work of directors from the Coen...
Grapes of Wrath (Ford [born Feeney] anecdote) Russian censors permitted John Ford's classic 1940 film ...
Gray-Blue (West [born Andrews] anecdote) At a party one evening, someone remarked of G. K. Chesterton's brother Cecil tha...
The Truth is Out There (Ryder [born Horowitz] anecdote) During the 2002 MTV Awards ceremony, the embattled Winona Ryder, facing shoplift...
Marquis (Swanson [born Svensson] anecdote) While working on Madame Sans-Gêne in Paris in 1925, Gloria Swanson fell i...
Jayne Mansfield (Mansfield [born Palmer] anecdote) Early in her career, Jayne Mansfield, vying for her first televised acting role,...
What a Boob! (Mansfield [born Palmer] anecdote) One evening in 1964, "Tonight Show" host Dick Cavett introduced his large-cheste...
Police Dog (Lawford [born Aylen] anecdote) Peter Lawford, who once had his wife smuggle several grams of cocaine into Austr...
The Real Phyllis Diller (Diller [born Driver] anecdote) "My photographs don't do me justice," Phyllis Diller once jokingly complained. "...
Marketing Macabre (Castle [born Schloss] anecdote) The B-movie director/producer William Castle was famed for his over-the-top prom...
Sweet Jaysus (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) One day in 1977, future U2 frontman Bono Vox was driving with some school chums ...
Rock Star (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) During one of the band's early gigs, U2 frontman Bono Vox spotted two young ladi...
Bonohead (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) Though notoriously absentminded U2 frontman Bono Vox usually lost nothing more i...
Sound Advice? (Pickford [born Smith] anecdote) Mary Pickford, the first international film star and the first to have her name ...
Uncle Billy (Burgess [born Wilson] anecdote) "My uncle Billy, an undertaker's assistant, came into a pub, ready to stand drin...
Undertaker's Assistant (Burgess [born Wilson] anecdote) "Preparing a baldheaded body for its coffin, Uncle Billy [an undertaker's assist...
Love Scene (Gilbert [born Pringle] anecdote) During the filming of La Boheme in 1926, John Gilbert became infatuated w...
Gish on Ice (long) (Gish [born de Guiche] anecdote) For her role in D. W. Griffith's melodrama Way Down East (1920), Lillian ...
Pliny the Curious (Pliny [born Gaius Plinius Secundus] anecdote) The great Roman scholar Pliny the Elder was in charge of the Roman home fleet, s...
Reincarnation of Shirley MacLaine (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) After developing an intense interest in paranormal phenomena, Shirley MacLaine p...
Aerosmith Frontman (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) Brittany Murphy once had a wasted brush with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. "A...
Sweet Mary Jane (Lee [born Lieber] anecdote) "I never smoked marijuana," Stan Lee - the creator of such classic Marvel Comics...
Three-Headed Alien? (Knoxville [born Clapp] anecdote) When director Barry Sonnenfeld cast 'Jackass' star Johnny Knoxville as a two-hea...
Salami Surprise (Matthau [born Matthow] anecdote) Walter Matthau was an inveterate practical joker. On the set of Donald Petrie's ...
Mama Kin (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler was once asked why he had the words "MA KIN" - a...
Joan Rivers & the Palace Gift Shop (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) While touring Buckingham Palace in 2002, Joan Rivers headed straight for the gif...
Boy George & Eminem (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) In October 2002, Boy George attended the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards in ...
Madam Francis (Francis [born Gibbs] anecdote) While visiting Hollywood one year, the distinguished Earl of Warwick asked for d...
Jeri Ryan: Star Trek Convention (Ryan [born Zimmerman] anecdote) "My first convention was difficult," Jeri Ryan, famed for her role as "Seven of ...
Martha Stewart: Living with Martha (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) Living with Martha Stewart was no picnic for her husband, Andy. One Christmas, M...
Queen Mother: Old Queens (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) The Queen Mother, a woman famed for her wry sense of humor, often exchanged witt...
Cheryl Ladd: Feminist Icon (Ladd [born Stoppelmoor] anecdote) Despite her role on "Charlie's Angels," Cheryl Ladd was a rather dubious feminis...
Kobe Bryant & Snoop Dogg (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) Shortly after Kobe Bryant was charged with rape (after an incident with a hotel ...
Michael O'Donoghue: Elvis is Dead (O`Donoghue [born Donohue] anecdote) "I've seen this attributed to John Lennon," director John Landis once recalled, ...
Ron Jeremy: Fluffer (Jeremy [born Hyatt] anecdote) As an aspiring porn star, Ron Jeremy did not get off to an auspicious start. "I ...
John Ford: 1941 Academy Awards (Ford [born Feeney] anecdote) Director Frank Capra hosted the 1941 Academy Awards. Some time after introducing...
Martha Stewart: Paper Money (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) "Martha Stewart earned $43 million today," Conan O'Brien announced one day in No...
Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop (Lewis [born Hurwitz] anecdote) "When I was doing Garry Shandling's first series, we wanted to have Shari Lewis ...
Michael O'Donoghue: SNL Shake-Up (O`Donoghue [born Donohue] anecdote) During a shake-up at "Saturday Night Live" in 1980 (following a ratings nose div...
Martha Stewart: Camp Cupcake Contest (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) During her incarceration at "Camp Cupcake" (after her trial for insider trading)...
Snoop Dogg: School for the Gifted (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) Snoop Dogg once attended a school for the gifted. "They kicked me out second yea...
Martha Stewart: Perfectly Martha (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) In June 2003, Martha Stewart addressed the court during a hearing examining her ...
Saucy Kennedy (Kennedy [born Lisa Montgomery Kennedy] anecdote) While New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was being interviewed by a colleague durin...
Lana & Lawford (Lawford [born Aylen] anecdote) "Peter Lawford was working as an usher in a Los Angeles movie theater. He was st...
Assassination of Burton? (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) While shooting a pivotal scene in The Assassination of Trotsky, Richard B...
Bowen Boner? (Bowen [born Luetkemeyer] anecdote) In January 2002, Julie Bowen appeared as a guest on "Last Call with Carson Daly....
Aerosmith: Backstage Tantrum (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) On the opening night of Aerosmith's first Japanese tour, frontman Steven Tyler a...
Roscoe Born (Born anecdote) "For the last several shows in my first stint on 'One Life To Live,' Mitch was t...
Feminist Education? (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) Joan Rivers once appeared as a guest on Mike Bullard's talk show "Open Mike". Ha...
E Pluribus Unum (Virgil [born Publius Vergilius Maro] anecdote) The Latin phrase 'E pluribus unum' (one from many), adopted by Benjamin Franklin...
Queen Mother (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) The Queen Mother was not entirely amused when Queen Elizabeth II (her elder daug...
Parlor Game (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) At Ferney (Voltaire's model village near Geneva) one evening, someone proposed a...
Chainsaw Tour (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) Steven Tyler and his Aerosmith bandmates often took a chainsaw with them on tour...
Environ-mental (Denver [born Deutschendorf, Jr] anecdote) One day John Denver, a staunch environmentalist, was dismayed to learn that his ...
Indefatigable (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) In 1962, Shirley MacLaine traveled to Russia as a good will ambassador and spent...
Voltaire: Slow Poison (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) Voltaire, who reportedly consumed 50 cups of coffee every day, was once told tha...
Omaha (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) Joan Rivers was no fan of Omaha. "Omaha is a little like Newark," she once decla...
Guess Who? (Alexander VI [born Rodrigo Borgia] anecdote) Lucrezia Borgia was married for a third time in 1502. Her new husband, Alfonso d...
Ray Charles: Hooooooooah! (Charles [born Robinson] anecdote) Even at an early age Ray Charles knew his home town well - so well in fact that ...
Lacking Perspective? (Uccello [born di Dono] anecdote) Such was Uccello's fascination with perspective and foreshortening that he staye...
Vespasienne (Vespasian [born Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus] anecdote) Endeavoring to restore the Roman state to solvency, Vespasian imposed taxes on m...
Wake Up Call (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) During the reading of a lengthy speech at a rehearsal of Voltaire's latest play ...
Voltaire: Skeptic's Church (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) Many visitors to Voltaire's model village at Ferney near Geneva were surprised t...
King of Promiscuity (Sennett [born Michael Sinnott] anecdote) For years, Keystone Studios founder Mack Sennett ("The King of Comedy") was Holl...
Babyface (Babyface [born Kenneth Edmonds] anecdote) Unsurprisingly, Babyface once professed to being an incurable romantic. "I was i...
Louise Redknapp: Sexy Wife (Redknapp [born Nurding] anecdote) Though she was named the sexiest woman of the decade by FHM magazine, pop...
Shall We Dance (Pan [born Panagiotopoulos] anecdote) One day on the set of the 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film ...
Political Ambition (Fontaine [born De Beauvoir De Havilland] anecdote) Adlai Stevenson once told Joan Fontaine that, because he entertained political a...
Exhibit A (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) During a state visit to Australia, The Queen Mother found herself at a garden pa...
Poffo's Horse (Savage [born Poffo] anecdote) "Many of today's professional wrestlers were once athletes in college and pro sp...
Burton's Women (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) Richard Burton was a notorious womanizer. Raymond Massey was once asked by a fel...
Kissing Bandit (Morganna [born Morganna Roberts] ["The Kissing Bandit"] anecdote) The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - was arrested no ...
Arquette & Cage (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) Nicolas Cage met Patricia Arquette for the first time one night in a New York di...
Renaissance Silencer (Tintoretto ["The Little Dyer"] [born Jacopo Robusti] anecdote) When Tintoretto began to win commissions which might have been Titian's, the wri...
F---in' Busted (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) During a concert in 1975 in Memphis, Tennessee, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler ...
Summer of '69 (long) (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) In the summer of '69, future Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and his "William Pr...
Early Subtitles (Gish [born de Guiche] anecdote) Even the best silent films used title cards to convey dialogue and move the stor...
Recording Blitz (Lynn [born Welch] anecdote) "There were holes in the road the morning I had to get to the Decca studios in W...
Bono: Clarence Hotel (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) In June 2004, shortly after Ireland's passage of strict anti-smoking laws bannin...
Lillian Gish: Women in Hollywood (Gish [born de Guiche] anecdote) Over the course of her 75 year career, Lillian Gish was dismayed to learn that, ...
License to Cook? (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) One day during World War II, a woman joined the OSS (Office of Strategic Service...
Tamiris (Tamiris [born Becker] anecdote) Lincoln Kirstein, the energetic leader of the WPA dance project, once convened a...
Herbert Bonaparte (Lom [born Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru] anecdote) One day on the Italian set of King Vidor's screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ...
Pump-Action Israelites (Tintoretto ["The Little Dyer"] [born Jacopo Robusti] anecdote) In his famed oil painting, "Israelites Gathering Manna in the Wilderness," Tinto...
Style Point? (Copperfield [born Kotkin] anecdote) In 2000, answering rumors that he was gay, magician David Copperfield replied th...
Spinal Tap Sphinx (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) Inspired by a visit to Egypt, Boy George decided to begin entering the stage dur...
Close Shave (Slater [born Hawkins] anecdote) Many have remarked upon Christian Slater's unusual 'look'... A serious Star Trek...
Serendipitoast? (Melba [born Mitchell] anecdote) According to the traditional account, the invention of Melba toast was a serendi...
World Apart? (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth once attended a Noel Coward-Gertrude Lawrence...
Stand-up Comedian? (Roper [born Furnival] anecdote) According to fellow comedian Bernard Manning, George Roper "looked like a comic....
East Enders (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) During the Blitz, Buckingham Palace received nine direct hits, including one fro...
Terminal Question (Morecambe [born Bartholomew] anecdote) "When I had a heart attack in Leeds," Eric Morecambe recalled, "I was helpless i...
Bald Annoyance (Campbell [born Tanner] anecdote) One day during an American tour, Beatrice Campbell was introduced to a certain d...
Room and Board (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) In 1717 Voltaire - having produced a tract satirizing the regent, Philippe d'Orl...
Richard Burton: Bibliophile (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) In 1960, [Richard Burton] returned to Broadway to play King Arthur in the musica...
Good Customer! (Ryder [born Horowitz] anecdote) In 2002, Winona Ryder was found guilty of theft and vandalism following a shopli...
Word on Burton (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) During the production of Cleopatra, Richard Burton had a torrid affair wi...
Drink or Think? (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) Actor Richard Burton, famed for his drinking, indulged himself at every opportun...
Blackbeard: Demonic Genius (Blackbeard [born Edward Teach] anecdote) Before going into battle one day, the legendary pirate Blackbeard placed slow-bu...
Rivers Crossed (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) While guest-hosting "The Tonight Show" one evening, Joan Rivers and actress Vict...
Botox Birthday (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) Joan Rivers once attended a 'Botox Birthday party' at which several Beverly Hill...
Nosy Parents? (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) Shortly after she had become a grandmother, Joan Rivers was told by the pround n...
Men's Club (Diller [born Driver] anecdote) Among the unlikely guests at the stag Friars Club roast for Sid Caesar in 1983 w...
Girdle Golfer (Zaharias [born Didrikson] anecdote) Famed Olympian and golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias was once asked how she managed...
Flavor of the Week (Nichols [born Peschkowsky] anecdote) While taking drama lessons in the early 1950s, future comedian and director Mike...
Melba Perfume (Melba [born Mitchell] anecdote) Dame Nellie Melba: "Though I have no objection to Peche Melba, I have the...
Film Adaptation (le Carre [born Cornwell] anecdote) John le Carre was at best ambivalent about film adaptations. "Having your book t...
Costly Savings? (le Carre [born Cornwell] anecdote) Graham Greene once likened childhood to a novelist's bank balance. By the time h...
Prajadhipok (Rama VII [born Prajadhipok] anecdote) What did the late King Prajadhipok, the last absolute ruler of Siam (now Thailan...
Sex Talk (Matthau [born Matthow] anecdote) Walter Matthau once attributed his self-professed preoccupation with sex to his ...
Battle of the Sexes (Campbell [born Tanner] anecdote) Mrs. Patrick Campbell was once asked why women were so utterly devoid of a sense...
Voltaire (Voltaire [born Francois-Marie Arouet] anecdote) In 1725, Voltaire quarreled with the Chevalier de Rohan-Chabot, a short-tempered...
Unisex (Karan [born Faske] anecdote) For Donna Karan, fashion design became much simpler at the turn of the millenniu...
Mum's the Word (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) "In 1905, King Edward VII's grandson, 'Bertie,' went to a children's birthday pa...
Queen Mother: Crank Calls (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) "Not once in [the Queen Mother's] 101 years did she have to draw her own curtain...
Damme Lucky (Van Damme [born Van Varenberg] anecdote) Jean-Claude Van Damme was once sued by martial arts legend Frank Dux, who allege...
Damme Determined (Van Damme [born Van Varenberg] anecdote) Jean-Claude Van Damme - who once called himself "the Fred Astaire of karate" - b...
Leningrad Hotel (Burgess [born Wilson] anecdote) While taking a bath in a Leningrad hotel one day, Anthony Burgess was interrupte...
Nicolas Cage: Cockroach (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) Nicolas Cage, a fearless actor who won Jim Carrey's admiration for his "elephant...
Young Winona Ryder: Kenilworthy? (Ryder [born Horowitz] anecdote) After living on a commune for several years (with no electricity), 12-year-old W...
Hell Fire (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) After his first sexual encounter, Richard Burton and his girlfriend fell asleep ...
Stand-up Comic (Garrett [born Gerstenfeld] anecdote) Comedian Dom Irrera: "Brad Garrett, from 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' told me he o...
Cliff-Hanging Catholic (Sheen [born Estevez] anecdote) Martin Sheen was once asked about his Catholic background. "I'm one of those cli...
Hell Fire (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) One day on the set of Sea Wife in Jamaica, Richard Burton attempted to se...
TV Critic (Lawford [born Aylen] anecdote) Peter Lawford had as many as five televisions in his Los Angeles home. On occasi...
Aerosmith: Dusty Attic (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) Following a five-year hiatus, Steven Tyler and his Aerosmith bandmates had a reu...
Oh Boy (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) Boy George once explained why he had such a big mouth: "I never flew before I wa...
Oh Boy (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) Though Boy George's romantic interests ranged from Lenny ("snogged him at a part...
Concentration (Callas [born Kalogeropoulos] anecdote) "So total was the absorption of Gobbi and Maria Callas in their roles that when,...
Gift Horse? (Rachel [born Elisa Felix] anecdote) Rachel was notorious for shamelessly persuading others to give her gifts. Dining...
Hunger Project (Denver [born Deutschendorf, Jr] anecdote) In the 1970s, John Denver joined a team led by EST founder Werner Erhard to laun...
Ticket to Ride (Denver [born Deutschendorf, Jr] anecdote) John Denver, an amateur pilot with a passion for space flight, lobbied hard to f...
Bedmates (Slash [born Saul Hudson] anecdote) When Guns 'N' Roses was discovered in 1986, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin and Slash we...
Slick Plot (Slick [born Wing] anecdote) Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick was once invited by Tricia and Pat Nixon t...
Jews (Hobson [born Zametkin] anecdote) Before the outbreak of World War II, while Hitler's Nazis were just beginning th...
Queen Mum (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) One day during a royal tour of South Africa (in 1947), King George VI and Queen ...
Kim Il Sung Institute (Kim Il Sung [born Kim Sung Chu] anecdote) "When a leader is held to be divine, his sudden death poses practical problems, ...
Grace Slick: Graceless Performance (Slick [born Wing] anecdote) "Lead singer Grace Slick kicked off Jefferson Starship's 1978 European Tour by g...
America's Sweetheart (Pickford [born Smith] anecdote) Stage producer David Belasco gave Mary Pickford her stage name in 1908. Her real...
Gilbert's Demise (Gilbert [born Pringle] anecdote) Like every hero from the Golden Age of film, John Gilbert was acutely aware that...
Wonderful Statue (Arliss [born Andrews] anecdote) George Arliss was once amused to hear the story of a young American woman visiti...
Light Cooking (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) Julia Childs was not immune to verbal bloopers. "Then," Childs once directed vie...
Million Man March (Farrakhan [born Wolcott] anecdote) In 1995, controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan organized the lege...
Comic Surprise (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) During a segment of "If They Mated" on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" one eveni...
Little Lady (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) While out for a stroll one day, the Queen Mother and her small daughter Margaret...
Retouching Moment (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) One day Cecil Beaton met with the Queen Mother while she perused a number of pho...
Oscar Conspiracies? (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) With seven Oscar nominations without a win, Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole joi...
Snake Charmer (Colbert [born Chauchoin] anecdote) During the filming of Cleopatra, Claudette Colbert told director Cecil B....
Campbell & Co. (Campbell [born Tanner] anecdote) In the early 1930s, the celebrated British actress Beatrice Campbell went to Hol...
Stunt Double (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) For his classic screen adaptation of Robin Hood (1922), Douglas Fairbanks...
Martha Stewart: Inside Job (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) One day in August 2003, Jay Leno announced that Martha Stewart was convinced tha...
Greatest Living Actor (Arliss [born Andrews] anecdote) While testifying in a trial one day, George Arliss described himself as "the wor...
America's Sweetheart (Pickford [born Smith] anecdote) "Silent-movie fuckingstar Mary Pickford was known as 'America's Sweetheart,' but...
Carlene Carter (Carter [born Smith] anecdote) Carlene Carter (Roseanne's sister) once remarked that she hoped to be remembered...
Melatonin? (Marcil [born Ortiz] anecdote) During a guest appearance on "Last Call with Carson Daly" one evening, "Vegas" s...
Mr. Fantastic! (Lee [born Lieber] anecdote) Stan Lee - the creator of such classic Marvel Comics characters as the Fantastic...
Zeus' Butthole (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) Among producer Jerry Bruckheimer's favorite movie moments was a scene in Michael...
Martha Stewart & ImClone (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) Shortly after being charged with insider trading of ImClone stock, Martha Stewar...
Kim Il Dung (Kim Il Sung [born Kim Sung Chu] anecdote) North Korean historians still claim that it was Kim Il Sung and his fighters - r...
Lint (Payne [born Papadopoulos] anecdote) "I can't stand that something must be made more beautiful to be worthy of being ...
High School Prank (Payne [born Papadopoulos] anecdote) "We had a senior prank," Election director Alexander Payne once recalled,...
Pre-Aerosmith (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) "After playing a show in New Hampshire on July 4, 1966, with the Strangeurs — on...
Steven Tyler: Tyler's Pencil (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) "They had record hops in the lunchroom of our high school on Friday afternoons,"...
Hailing Steven Tyler (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) "When I was in high school, I'd smoke a joint in my closet in Yonkers, New York,...
Double Surprise (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) While vacationing in the Caribbean (on St. Martin) in 1979, Aerosmith frontman S...
Train Kept a-Rollin'? (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler was once asked about the rumor that during a gig...
John Stamos: 'D'oofus? (Stamos [born Stamopolous] anecdote) In November 2000, John Stamos bid $30,700 for an unusual item ebay item: a secti...
Julia Child Cooking (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) Julia Child once offered fans a handy bit of cooking advice. "Always remember," ...
Drama Queen (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) "Drama is very important in life," Julia Child "You have to come on with a bang...
Matthau & Steisand (Matthau [born Matthow] anecdote) Walter Matthau was no fan of Barbra Steisand's work. "I have more talent in my s...
Beckham Bl@@per (Beckham [born Adams] anecdote) During a Spice Girls concert for 60,000 in August 2000, Victoria Beckham's fans ...
Celebrity Hockey (Thicke [born Jeffrey] anecdote) Alan Thicke, a hard-core hockey fan, once participated in a celebrity tournament...
Young Johnny Knoxville (Knoxville [born Clapp] anecdote) "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville learned the fine art of practical joking from hi...
Grace Jones & Russell Harty (Jones [born Mendoza] anecdote) While interviewing Grace Jones on his talk show one evening, Russell Harty made ...
Damme Cheapskate? (Van Damme [born Van Varenberg] anecdote) "Is Jean-Claude Van Damme a cheapskate?" the Examiner asked in June 2002....
Joan Rivers & the Hilton Sisters (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) One day in August 2002, Joan Rivers lead a busload of tourists on a sightseeing ...
Good Example (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien once asked "Saturday Night Live" star Jimmy Fall...
Nicolas Cage: Leaving Las Vegas (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) While preparing for his role in Mike Figgis's Leaving Las Vegas (the tale...
Nicolas Cage: Elvis Fanatic (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) After playing the role of Elvis fanatic Sailor Ripley in Wild At Heart, N...
Keystone Stuntmen (Sennett [born Michael Sinnott] anecdote) Keystone Studios founder Mack Sennett employed a variety of gags in his films an...
Toni Morrison & the Nobel Prize (Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford] anecdote) When Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 (a year in...
Swimming in Money (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) According to Bauer-Griffin founder Frank Griffin, a paparazzo once got a photogr...
Joan Rivers: First Porno (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) "I saw my first porno film the other day," Joan Rivers once confessed. "It was a...
Martha Stewart: Martha Stewart Lying (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) Among the critical incidents in the Martha Stewart case (involving alleged insid...
Jack White: Fell In Love With Renee (White [born Gillis] anecdote) As rumors swirled of a romance between White Stripes frontman Jack White and act...
Jason Alexander: Fan Base (Alexander [born Greenspan] anecdote) Jason Alexander (famed for his 'George Costanza' character on "Seinfeld") was on...
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Martha Stewart: Ask Martha (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) "It has been reported that Martha Stewart's advice column no longer goes by the ...
Martha Stewart: Shocker (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) "Earlier today, a federal judge in the Martha Stewart case shocked the court by ...
Young Nicolas Cage: Slick Nic (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) "[Nicolas Cage] had not always aimed to be an actor, but he could always act. On...
Stan Lee: No Bruces (Lee [born Lieber] anecdote) "His name was Bruce Banner," legendary cartoonist Stan Lee once recalled of the ...
Martha Stewart: The Nerve! (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) During the trial of Martha Stewart, prosecutors introduced a series of e-mails s...
Martha Stewart: F---ing Liar (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) "One of the most frequently raised questions about the trial [of Martha Stewart]...
Ray Charles: Set Apart (Charles [born Robinson] anecdote) James Brown was once asked what had set Ray Charles apart from his peers. "What ...
Grace Slick: good god (Slick [born Wing] anecdote) Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick once had a baby girl with Paul Kantner. "W...
Walter Matthau: Oscar Speech (Matthau [born Matthow] anecdote) At the Academy Awards show in 1967, Walter Matthau made history when he collecte...
Martha Stewart: Merry Christmas (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) At a pivotal moment in Martha Stewart's trial (for insider trading in Imclone st...
John Paul II: Popemobile (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) "The Pope's new Fiat, which can withstand direct machine-gun fire, was actually ...
Ray Charles: Blind Man's Bluff (Charles [born Robinson] anecdote) "One night [blind musician Ray Charles] invited me over to dinner," Quincy Jones...
Snoop Dogg: Kicking the Habit (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) One evening in 2004, Snoop Doggy Dogg appeared as a guest on "The Late Show with...
Charles Bronson: Meeting Bergman (Bronson [born Buchinsky] anecdote) Charles Bronson, who was not noted for his sophistication, once had occasion to ...
John Stamos & Bob Saget (Stamos [born Stamopolous] anecdote) "This [Asian] woman got into a really terrible accident [in front of 20th Centur...
Pope John Paul II: Limited English (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) "When the Prince and Princess of Wales met the Pope [John Paul II] in 1984, thin...
Alexander Payne: Frass Canyon (Payne [born Papadopoulos] anecdote) Thomas Haden Church: "We used the actual wineries [while shooting ...
Jeri Ryan: The Kiss (Ryan [born Zimmerman] anecdote) For one episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," Jeri Ryan had to kiss another actor. Od...
James Garner: Rockford Miles (Garner [born Bumgarner] anecdote) "It was hard work," James Garner once recalled of his work on "The Rockford File...
Boy George: Ironic & Glamorous (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) In 1999, '80s cross-dressing icon Boy George was treated for shock and severe br...
Bono: Telephone Blooper (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) During a concert in April 2005, Bono asked 18,000 fans in Vancouver to call Cana...
Sheen of Failure (Sheen [born Estevez] anecdote) So adamantly did Martin Sheen's father disapprove of his son's desire to become ...
Ouch (Slash [born Saul Hudson] anecdote) Former Guns 'N' Roses guitarist 'Slash' sent many British television viewers int...
Egon Friedell's Famous Last Words (Friedell [born Friedmann] anecdote) Following the Nazi annexation of Austria, the famed Viennese author, critic, and...
John Le Carre: Ironic Pseudonym (le Carre [born Cornwell] anecdote) Because of his diplomatic position, David John Moore Cornwell, whose work as an ...
Twitty (Twitty [born Jenkins] anecdote) Conway Twitty once opened his own theme park in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Its n...
Low Profession (El Greco [born Domenikos Theotokiopoulos] anecdote) "Active intellectually, [El Greco] pressed for official recognition of painting ...
Look, Look! (Colette [born Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine] anecdote) Of all of Colette's love affairs, the deepest and most passionate was with natur...
Young Melba (Melba [born Mitchell] anecdote) Famed opera singer Nellie Melba gave her first public recital at the age of six,...
Mystery House (long) (Winchester [born Pardee] anecdote) Shortly before the beginning of the Civil War, Sarah Lockwood Pardee met a man b...
Gift-Wrapped? (Mansfield [born Palmer] anecdote) Jayne Mansfield, who appeared as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in Febru...
Phiber Optik (Optik [born Mark Abene] anecdote) In July 1992, famed hacker Mark Abene (aka "Phiber Optik") and four of his fello...
Ou? Quand? Combien? (Rachel [born Elisa Felix] anecdote) One of Rachel's numerous lovers was Francois d'Orleans, Prince de Joinville (and...
Young Stephen Furst (Furst [born Fuerstein] anecdote) While delivering pizzas in Hollywood, young Stephen Furst began putting his pict...
Femme Fatales (Capp [born Caplin] anecdote) Albert Broccoli's James Bond films were famed for introducing such aptly-named f...
Princess Vera (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) "[Hollywood's] first organized social system came with Mary Pickford and Douglas...
Wild West (Calamity Jane [born Martha Jane Burk] anecdote) The legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane was reputed to be a crack shot and an...
Animal Lover (Appleseed [born Chapman] anecdote) A barefoot Johnny Appleseed once entered a home in Ohio's Washington Territory a...
Plaster Matrix? (Ping [born Yeun] anecdote) Woo-ping Yuen, famed for his choreography of the remarkable fight scenes in ...
Like a Thesis (Madonna [born Louise Veronica Ciccone] anecdote) In 1990, a Florida State University graduate student named Chip Wells made headl...
Dithmarschen (Dithmarschen [born Patzig] anecdote) Christian Dithmarschen was once challenged by the renowned showman Kurt Felix to...
Prohibition Era (Pickford [born Smith] anecdote) What did Mary Pickford use to christen the first Hollywood-to-San Francisco bus ...
Ron Jeremy, Jr (Jeremy [born Hyatt] anecdote) Ron Jeremy, famed for his impressive natural endowment, was once asked how large...
El Greco (El Greco [born Domenikos Theotokiopoulos] anecdote) The artist now known as El Greco signed his paintings "El Greco" (The Greek) les...
Young Mary Pickford (Pickford [born Smith] anecdote) Ethel Clegg (one of Mary Pickford's childhood friends) once recalled entering th...
Ouida (Ouida [born Marie Louise de la Ramée] anecdote) Ouida, not known for her modesty, was once asked by Oscar Wilde to disclose the ...
O 'Brother' (Vespasian [born Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus] anecdote) Vespasian was approached one day by a favorite servant seeking a stewardship for...
Scoop on the Snoop (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) In 2001, Snoop Doggy Dogg announced that he was getting into women's underwear -...
Flying Palace (Fahd [born Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud] anecdote) King Fahd once installed special dials in the ceilings of every room aboard his ...
Death List (West [born Andrews] anecdote) In 1945, a certain Nazi death list was discovered to have included the names of ...
John Stamos Pickup Line (Stamos [born Stamopolous] anecdote) After his split with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in April 2004, John Stamos was asked ...
William Beedle? (Holden [born Beedle] anecdote) One day in 1938 a Hollywood executive was introduced to an aspiring actor named ...
Royal Defiance (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) After Buckingham Palace received nine direct hits during the Blitz, the Queen Mo...
Lean Cinematography (Polanski [born Liebling] anecdote) One day during the filming of Rosemary's Baby, director Roman Polanski an...
Honey (Phoenix [born Bottom] anecdote) A dedicated animal rights activist and environmentalist, River Phoenix was a str...
Screen Chest (Mansfield [born Palmer] anecdote) Jayne Mansfield once tried to convince producer Darryl F. Zanuck to cast her for...
Chess Pun (Alekhine [born Aljechin] anecdote) The great chess grandmaster Alexander Alekhine was once asked by a playful inter...
Toni Morrison: Beloved Fans (Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford] anecdote) With the release of the film adaptation of Beloved (Toni Morrison's 1987 ...
Damme Fool (Van Damme [born Van Varenberg] anecdote) "Jean-Claude Van Damme destroyed a $3,000-a-night hotel suite, shocking Hollywoo...
Snoop Dogg: Who's My Nigga? (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) One day in June 2003, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared as gue...
Classic Gracie (Fields [born Stansfield] anecdote) "After a charity show at Alexandra Palace the Duke of Kent (then Prince George) ...
Lionel Barrymore (Barrymore [born Blythe] anecdote) When Lionel Barrymore first saw Friends (one of his first films) on the b...
Grace Jones: Vamp (Jones [born Mendoza] anecdote) According to gossiplist.com, Grace Jones was interrupted one day during the prod...
Fairbanks Will (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) "The late Douglas Fairbanks senior, famed among his friends as a practical joker...
'80s Icons (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) In April 2002, Madonna wrote a note to former Culture Club frontman Boy George d...
Eternal Optimist? (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) Douglas Fairbanks' final words? "I've never felt better!"...
Jane Pauley & Margaret Trudeau (Trudeau [born Sinclair] anecdote) While promoting her book Consequences (shortly after divorcing Canadian P...
Shirley You're Joking (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) "I had a video made of my recent knee operation," Shirley MacLaine once remarked...
Thicke Wallet? (Thicke [born Jeffrey] anecdote) Kelly Hu, whose first acting job was on a special Hawaiian-vacation episode of "...
Bad Betty Thomas (Thomas [born Nienhauser] anecdote) Owen Wilson grew close to director Betty Thomas on the set of I Spy. "I t...
Caged Lion (Cage [born Coppola] anecdote) Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage often engaged in fearsome rows. One argument...
Boy George (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) Ultra-flamboyant 1980s pop icon Boy George was not without his critics. "Boy Geo...
Toni Morrison: The Black Book (Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford] anecdote) In 1974, Toni Morrison put together The Black Book, an influential compen...
Toni Morrison & Corregidora (Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford] anecdote) By 1975, Toni Morrison had become the black editor at Random House (where...
Martha Stewart Living Behind Bars (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) One day in 2002, David Letterman reported that Lizzie Grubman, the publicist who...
Shirley MacLaine: Knee Operation (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) "I had a video made of my recent knee operation," Shirley MacLaine
once remarke...
Jeri Ryan: Who's the Boss? (Ryan [born Zimmerman] anecdote) Jeri Ryan, famed for her role as "Seven of Nine Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Ze...
Wilfred Lawson: Unscripted Line (Lawson [born Worsnop] anecdote) "Wilfred Lawson... was allegedly the originator of a famous, unscripted line in ...
Julia Child: Perfectionist (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) "As a scientist, [Julia Child] was obsessed with discovering how to make perfect...
Linda Thorson: Miss Tara King (Thorson [born Linda Robinson] anecdote) After replacing Diana Rigg on the popular British series "The Avengers" in 1968,...
Young Garry Trudeau: Grim (Trudeau [born Sinclair] anecdote) "Howard Dean I knew quite well from boyhood," famed political cartoonist Garry T...
Scoop on the Snoop (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) In 2001, Snoop Doggy Dogg announced that he was getting into women's underwear -...
Martin Sheen: Christmas Gift (Sheen [born Estevez] anecdote) Charlie Sheen once explained why he had trouble buying gifts for his father, Mar...
Director in Training (Ford [born Feeney] anecdote) Legendary director John Ford was initially ambivalent about his decision to foll...
Divine Comedy (Virgil [born Publius Vergilius Maro] anecdote) In his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, Dante chose another poet to serve ...
Bum Actor? (Garner [born Bumgarner] anecdote) James Bumgarner, determined to become a serious actor, cut the first syllable fr...
Titian (Titian [born Tiziano Vecellio] anecdote) One day toward the end of his long life, Titian, having finished another masterp...
Summer of '69 (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) In the legendary summer of '69 Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and his band William Pro...
Chest Pains (Denver [born Deutschendorf, Jr] anecdote) While having sex with her husband one night, John Denver's wife Annie began to c...
Queen Mum (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) Vincent Korda, having staged a private pantomime in which Princess Elizabeth, Pr...
Martha Stewart Living (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) In 2003, Martha Stewart unveiled a new product called The Snoballer, a plastic t...
Hope and Crosby (Lamour [born Slaton] anecdote) Dorothy Lamour, who once called herself "the happiest and highest-paid straight ...
Elephant's Trunk? (Kennedy [born Lisa Montgomery Kennedy] anecdote) MTV VJ Kennedy, famed for her love of the Republican party, once had a likeness ...
Inventing Liv Tyler (Tyler anecdote) Within three years of Liv Tyler's 1994 debut (in the smart domestic thriller ...
Ophuls (Ophuls [born Oppenheimer] anecdote) "The films of Max Ophuls are renowned for their formal brilliance, especially th...
Bad Actor? (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) Actor Richard Burton once wrote a remarkable article about his experience playin...
Next Millennium (Nichols [born Peschkowsky] anecdote) Famed fellow comedians Mike Nichols and Elaine May were once invited to join sev...
Asses' Milk (Colbert [born Chauchoin] anecdote) "In The Sign of the Cross, Cecil B. De Mille saw to it that Claudette Col...
Betty Ford Clinic (Lawford [born Aylen] anecdote) With his drug habit spiraling out of control, Peter Lawford was finally driven t...
Year of Living Dangerously (Preston [born Palzis] anecdote) For 15 months (from the age of five), Kelly Preston lived in Iraq, where her fat...
Road Manager (Slash [born Saul Hudson] anecdote) While drinking in a bar in his Chicago hotel one evening, Guns 'N' Roses frontma...
Necker's Notes (Necker [born Curchod] anecdote) The Marquis de Chastellux was once invited to one of Suzanne Necker's famous din...
Gish (Gish [born de Guiche] anecdote) "Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films," Lillian Gish once r...
Sturges & the Censors (Sturges [born Biden] anecdote) One day the director Preston Sturges consulted a censor named Geoffrey Shurlock ...
Walk This Way (Fields [born Stansfield] anecdote) "In one of the scenes in Walk This Way, Gracie Fields was a maid waiting ...
Thought That Counts (Callas [born Kalogeropoulos] anecdote) One day Maria Callas was interviewed by an American reporter. "Madame Callas, yo...
Romaine Brooks (Brooks [born Goddard] anecdote) Romaine Brooks's inherited wealth freed her from the need to please her sitters:...
Deaf-Mute (Wyman [born Mayfield] anecdote) In the 1948 film Johnny Belinda, Jane Wyman played a deaf-mute, a role fo...
Snoop Doggy Bagg (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) Snoop Doggy Dogg was fired from his first job as a grocery bagger. "I was better...
Too Gross for TV (Knoxville [born Clapp] anecdote) "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville once recalled the scariest moment of his life. "...
Knoxville's Daughter (Knoxville [born Clapp] anecdote) Johnny Knoxville's daughter Madison (named after a Wonderbra model which he and ...
Graham Norton: Last Request (Norton [born Walker] anecdote) While filming an ad spot for Britain's Channel 4 called "Twenty Questions" in 20...
Mooney Suzuki & the White Look (Tyler anecdote) Mooney Suzuki guitarist Graham Tyler and his bandmates once briefly adopted the ...
Mary Carey: Erection Race (Jeremy [born Hyatt] anecdote) Following Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in the circus-like California gubernat...
Winona Ryder: Walking Pharmacy (Ryder [born Horowitz] anecdote) According to the L.A. deputy district attorney who prosecuted Winona Ryder for s...
Fieldy: Second-Rate Vandal (Fieldy [born Reginald Arvizu, Jr] anecdote) During the production of Korn's fifth album, Untouchables, rent, food, cr...
Doris Day: Dog Lover (Day [born Von Kappelhoff] anecdote) Doris Day, horrified by the treatment of camels, goats and other "animal extras"...
Richard Burton: Famous Last Words (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) Richard Burton died on August 5, 1984, following a cerebral hemorrhage. His wife...
Shirley MacLaine: Modest Too (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) After winning a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Aurora Greenway in ...
Joan Molinsky (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) Early in her career, Joan Molinsky was advised by her agent to change her name. ...
Josh Lucas (Lucas [born Maurer] anecdote) "I worked with a voice coach for years to take certain sounds out of my accent,"...
Rock Quarry (Bronson [born Buchinsky] anecdote) Charles Bronson, famed for his craggy, unconventional features and taciturn mann...
Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll (Tyler [born Tallarico] anecdote) Aerosmith's Steven Tyler lived by the "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" creed - in...
Chariots of Fire (Welland [born Williams] anecdote) In 1982, Colin Welland won an Academy Award for his script for Hugh Hudson's ...
Big Deal? (RuPaul [born Andre Charles] anecdote) RuPaul once saw male fuckingmodel Jason Lewis ("this big, hot f---ing blond guy"...
Kissing Rule (Swanson [born Svensson] anecdote) Thanks to the Hays Office, Sam Wood's Beyond the Rocks (1922), starring G...
Leo X (Leo X [born Giovanni de Medici] anecdote) "As Leo was a smiling sybarite infected with the popular neopagan culture of his...
Va-Va-Vanessa! (Marcil [born Ortiz] anecdote) "Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at chang...
Young Gracie (Fields [born Stansfield] anecdote) "Towards the end of Gracie Fields' first year at school in Rochdale came the big...
Oh G (Beck [born Beck Hansen] anecdote) Beck and his bandmates once devised a curious 'musical endurance test'. "On tour...
Private Life of Merle Oberon (Oberon [born Thompson] anecdote) Merle Oberon retained her beauty well into her later years. "She's still so beau...
Method Actor (Phoenix [born Bottom] anecdote) One day during the production of The Thing Called Love, River Phoenix ask...
Rival Actress (Rachel [born Elisa Felix] anecdote) After one particularly successful opening night, Rachel exclaimed, "Mon dieu! Wh...
Perfectionist (Tempest [born Etherington] anecdote) One day shortly before her death, James Agate met Dame Marie Tempest returning f...
Narcissistic Advice? (Ovid [born Publius Ovidius Naso] anecdote) Who wrote the first known book on cosmetics, recommending face packs of barley-b...
Fairy Tale Romance (Longford [born Pakenham] anecdote) "Lady Longford first met her husband, then Frank Longford, at a party at Oxford....
Marriage (Jason [born White] anecdote) David Jason, who became a father for the first time at age 61 with his partner o...
Wanger Method (Wanger [born Feuchtwanger] anecdote) "Producer Walter Wanger had two writers under contract for $2,500 a week named T...
Boy George (George [born O`Dowd] anecdote) One day in June 2002, Conan O'Brien announced that Boy George had been kicked ou...
Enter Vanity (Colbert [born Chauchoin] anecdote) Though generally a genial person to work with, Claudette Colbert was not without...
Sherry Lansing & the Woman's Touch (Lansing [born Heimann] anecdote) In 1980, Sherry Lansing became the first woman in history to run a major studio ...
Sheena Easton: American Accent (Easton [born Orr] anecdote) "She came out and did a show in Glasgow," Mogwai's Martin Bulloch once recalled ...
Callas Act (Callas [born Kalogeropoulos] anecdote) When the star of the Athens opera company's production of Tosca fell ill ...
Eric Bana: Violent Roles (Bana [born Banadinovich] anecdote) After appearing in Black Hawk Down, The Hulk, and Troy in q...
Christian Slater: Deadly Weapon (Slater [born Hawkins] anecdote) In December 1989, Christian Slater was arrested in West Hollywoood after leading...
Richard Blurton (Burton [born Jenkins] anecdote) One day shortly after starting an affair with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton a...
Julia Childs (Child [born McWilliams] anecdote) Julia Childs was once asked what she would have done with her life if she hadn't...
Idaho Privates? (Phoenix [born Bottom] anecdote) At the beginning of an interview one day shortly after the appearance of ...
Ingrate (Rachel [born Elisa Felix] anecdote) One day Rachel, a woman notorious for her shameless greed, honored Alexandre Dum...
Bono (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) Though considered a style maven through much of his career, U2 frontman Bono Vox...
Porn Irony (Jeremy [born Hyatt] anecdote) By the turn of the millennium, legandary porn star Ron Jeremy had contributed to...
Cable Guy (RuPaul [born Andre Charles] anecdote) In the early 1990s, RuPaul worked as a "reporter" for a British TV series called...
Mum's the Word (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) "Accompanied by Sir Pierson Dixon, then British ambassador in France, the Queen ...
Kissing Bandit (Morganna [born Morganna Roberts] ["The Kissing Bandit"] anecdote) The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - became a celebri...
Ba-zoom! (Morganna [born Morganna Roberts] ["The Kissing Bandit"] anecdote) The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - became a celebri...
Vespasian's Last Words (Vespasian [born Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus] anecdote) "Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god," Vespasian declared at the end. "An emp...
Barrymore's Epitaph (Barrymore [born Blythe] anecdote) The great actor Lionel Barrymore was once asked what he would like engraved on h...
Lady in Ermine (Fairbanks [born Ulman] anecdote) One afternoon during the production of That Lady in Ermine (1948), direct...
Sturges' Rules (Sturges [born Biden] anecdote) The screenwriter and director Preston Sturges once produced a list of golden rul...
Jamaican Guinness (Bono Vox [born Paul Hewson] anecdote) While visiting Jamaica one year, Bono Vox and his U2 bandmates found themselves ...
William Holden: Stunt Fee (Holden [born Beedle] anecdote) In 1955, William Holden landed the role of Hal Carter in Picnic. "His mai...
Pierre Trudeau (Trudeau [born Sinclair] anecdote) One day in the early 1980s, an opinionated Toronto taxi driver harshly criticize...
V-Chip (Charles [born Robinson] anecdote) "Nowadays they say you need to get a special chip to put in the TV so the kids c...
Stick Around for Frank (Garrett [born Gerstenfeld] anecdote) "Brad Garrett, from 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' told me he opened for Sinatra one...
Polanski's Oscar (Polanski [born Liebling] anecdote) "Roman Polanski won the best director Oscar for his film 'the Pianist' although ...
Victoria Beckham: Vain Victoria (Beckham [born Adams] anecdote) Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham sent music critics into hysterics while remin...
Toni Morrison's Father (Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford] anecdote) Toni Morrison's father was something of a perfectionist. "I remember my daddy ta...
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford] anecdote) When Toni Morrison was young, she recalled, "another little black girl and I wer...
Victoria Beckham: Not so Posh (Beckham [born Adams] anecdote) "Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, has decided to allow British soccer team the ...
Joan Rivers: Stupid Bitch? (Rivers [born Molinsky] anecdote) "Don't mess with Joan Rivers," the San Francisco Examiner advised in 2003...
Young Selma Blair (Blair [born Beitner] anecdote) After graduating with a fine-arts degree from the University of Michigan, Selma ...
Martha Stewart: Model Mother (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) One day Martha Stewart, a former model and stock broker, announced that she was ...
Jason Alexander: Birthday Surprise (Alexander [born Greenspan] anecdote) For his birthday one year, Jason Alexander, a hardcore "Star Trek" fan, was take...
Jason Alexander: Middle East Dialogue (Alexander [born Greenspan] anecdote) "Yesterday, Jason Alexander from Seinfeld flew to the Middle East to try to open...
Amos Oz: Self-Loathing Jews? (Oz [born Klausner] anecdote) "European Zionist writing maintained that the moment the Jews set foot on Biblic...
Victoria Beckham: Famous Pout (Beckham [born Adams] anecdote) "She may have the most famous pout in the world," Michelle Stevenson remarked of...
Julie Bowen: Halloween Costume (Bowen [born Luetkemeyer] anecdote) Julie Bowen once "inadvertently" dressed for a Halloween party. "I was on set do...
Michael O'Donoghue: Reference Letter (O`Donoghue [born Donohue] anecdote) "My first official job was working for [former 'Saturday Night Live' head writer...
Jason Alexander: Wedding Proposal (Alexander [born Greenspan] anecdote) Jason Alexander was once asked how he had proposed to his wife. "In Times Square...
Christian Slater: Touching Explanation (Slater [born Hawkins] anecdote) In September 2005, Christian Slater saw a "forcible touching" charge dismissed. ...
John Paul II: Albacete & the Pope (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete: "The last conversation we [Albacete & the Pope] had ...
Swelled Head (Henner [born Pudlowski] anecdote) Marilu Henner was the first to admit that she had occasionally suffered from a s...
Alice Delysia (Delysia [born Lapize] anecdote) "The last thing an author in his senses does is to go near his leading lady just...
Hudson & Wyman (Wyman [born Mayfield] anecdote) During the production of Magnificent Obsession (1954), young Rock Hudson ...
Yankee Doodle Thanksgiving (McCartney [born Eastman] anecdote) Linda McCartney vocalized her vegetarian views in a number of songs with husband...
Pure as Snow? (Chambers [born Briggs] anecdote) "Besides porn queen of the 70s, Marilyn Chambers was also which two of the follo...
Model Quip (Denver [born Deutschendorf, Jr] anecdote) While wandering around New York one day in 1965, John Denver approached a beauti...
Carlos Santana: Spirituality and Sex (Santana [born Satana] anecdote) "Two things will never go out of style," Carlos Santana once declared. "Spiritua...
Fieldy: Here's the Rub (Fieldy [born Reginald Arvizu, Jr] anecdote) During a photo shoot for Spin's November 1998 cover, Korn bassist Fieldy ...
High Note (Callas [born Kalogeropoulos] anecdote) "Once when I heard Maria Callas singing Norma in Paris, she broke on a hi...
New Randy Travis (Travis [born Traywick] anecdote) "I was in a recording studio and someone from Randy Travis's record company walk...
Aisha Tyler: Home Movie (Tyler anecdote) The comedian and actress Aisha Tyler once tried to shoot a homemade porn tape wi...
Martha Stewart: Catnaps (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) Martha Stewart, who typically slept with the lights on and forced herself out of...
Church Leader (John Paul II [born Karol Wojtyla] anecdote) Pope John Paul II was once asked whether he planned to retire because of the dif...
Brooklyn Bonfire (Bow [born Bowtinelli] anecdote) The original flapper, Clara Bow was nicknamed the Brooklyn Bonfire for good reas...
Gin Rummy (MacLaine [born MacLean Beaty] anecdote) While playing gin with Sam Giancana one day, Shirley MacLaine caught the notorio...
Cotton Mouth (Grahame [born Hallward] anecdote) Unhappy with the tilt of her upper lip, Gloria Grahame often stuffed cotton alon...
Cotton Mouth (Grahame [born Hallward] anecdote) In 1953, Gloria Grahame won a best supporting actress Academy Award for her role...
"It" Girl (Bow [born Bowtinelli] anecdote) Clara Bow, the original flapper who found fame as the "It" girl, was once asked ...
Austerity Dressing? (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) "Quite early in the war, Norman Hartnell was summoned to discuss the Queen's cos...
Grace Jones at Disney World (Jones [born Mendoza] anecdote) In 1998, Grace Jones was banned from Disney World. Why? She exposed h...
Yasmin Le Bon (Le Bon [born Parvaneh] anecdote) Model Yasmin Le Bon "quit modeling to retain her self respect and keep her moral...
Lyautey & Elizabeth (Queen Mother [born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon] anecdote) Elizabeth once visited Marshal Lyautey's Colonial Exhibition at Vincennes (as th...
Phyllis Diller (Diller [born Driver] anecdote) "I work clean but I don't talk clean at home," Phyllis Diller once confessed. "I...
Murder Weapon (Novarro [born Samaniego] anecdote) In 1968, the actor Ramon Novarro was murdered by male hustlers in his Laurel Can...
Chris De Burgh (De Burgh [born Davidson] anecdote) According to gossiplist.com, Chris De Burgh, famed for the hit song "The Lady in...
Elia Kazan (Kazan [born Kazanjoglou] anecdote) Elia Kazan was not noted for his sartorial sense. "Gadge," actress Vivien Leigh ...
Steve Tyler: Lord of the Rings (Tyler anecdote) In December 2003, Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler attended a private screening of...
Martha Stewart: Chopsticks (Stewart [born Kostyra] anecdote) "You know," Martha Stewart remarked during an interview one day, "in China they ...
James Garner & Audrey Hepburn (Garner [born Bumgarner] anecdote) "I've been kissing Audrey Hepburn all day," James Garner once declared, "...
Snoop Doggy Style (Snoop Doggy Dogg [born Calvin Broadus] anecdote) Snoop Doggy Dogg accepted a role in the big-screen adaptation of the classic '70...
Book Value (Polanski [born Liebling] anecdote) One day in 2001, Roman Polanski called Robert Evans complaining that he had been...
Modest Assumption (Pickford [born Smith] anecdote) While Honeymooning in Paris in 1920, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford stayed ...
