Hello? In the run-up to a possible invasion of Iraq in 2003, many critics questioned Ge... [Number of votes: 47] Ratings:10.00
Just Kaws? Though legendary graffiti artist Kaws "bombed" whole freight trains and defaced ... [Number of votes: 45] Ratings:10.00
Leicester Hemingway: New Atlantis In 1964, Leicester Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway's little brother) built an 8-by-3... [Number of votes: 41] Ratings:10.00
Princess Margaret: Impersonations "At a dinner party some years ago, having kept the company in stitches with a wh... [Number of votes: 41] Ratings:10.00
Peter Imbert: First Day Sir Peter Imbert: "I recall the day in 1985 when I arrived at New Scotland Yard ... [Number of votes: 41] Ratings:10.00
Story Uprooted "I was writing copy for the 'stop press' when [Lord Northcliffe, the founder of ... [Number of votes: 40] Ratings:10.00
Poker on the Set? One day during the filming of 1492: Conquest of Paradise, the cast was re... [Number of votes: 40] Ratings:10.00
Wonderful Timing The production of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life went swimmingly - w... [Number of votes: 40] Ratings:10.00
Keith Olbermann: Roasting Nader In October 2004, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was asked whether he thought Ralph Nade... [Number of votes: 40] Ratings:10.00
Where's Nina? The famous cartoonist Al Hirschfeld frequently hid the name of his daughter Nina... [Number of votes: 39] Ratings:10.00
Falacious Allegation Like Richard Nixon (whose legendary Checkers speech - in which he admitted that ... [Number of votes: 39] Ratings:10.00
Uncle Alf "Alfred Austin said to me in all seriousness one day," Mrs Claude Beddington onc... [Number of votes: 39] Ratings:10.00
Blake & Constable William Blake and John Constable are thought to have met on one occasion. Blake,... [Number of votes: 39] Ratings:10.00
Taciturn Patient A young woman, well aware of John Abernethy's intense dislike of prattling chit ... [Number of votes: 39] Ratings:10.00
Douro The duke of Wellington was once asked whether any of the countless caricatures w... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Prince Fillip? Prince Philip was once asked by a hostile party how he would describe the sort o... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Marginal Note Though they often disagreed on philosophical matters, Josiah Royce and William J... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
One and Threepence "A visitor was telling Gladstone about a crank school which existed in 1812 in D... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Nixt Generation? In 2002, Wil Wheaton (famed for his role as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Ne... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
William H. Wussy? Despite his role as one of Hollywood's finest character actors, ... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Streep Productions Meryl Streep was often asked whether she harbored ambitions to become a director... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Oyster Eating Record In September 2003, the official world oyster eating record was nearly doubled by... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Minute Waltz While reciting Chopin's Minute Waltz one evening, Pachmann adopted an oddly hunc... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Telephone Message One day at Kedleston, Lord Curzon was summoned by his butler to the telephone. H... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Scrappy Meadow Jamie-Lynn Sigler was once asked how she had landed her role as Meadow on "The S... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Al Sharpton & Cardinal O'Connor "[Former New York archbishop] Cardinal O'Connor once asked me how I could suppor... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Jens Lehmann: Red Card During his last season at Borussia dortmund, Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
William Haines: Epitaph William Haines once proposed his own epitaph: "Here's something I want to get of... [Number of votes: 38] Ratings:10.00
Richard Mabey: Rapt "The writer and naturalist Richard Mabey was walking through a field with a frie... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Dukakis Democratic Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis named Senator Lloyd Bentsen as... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Woodie Held Cleveland Indians pitcher Woodie Held once offered hitters a curious word of adv... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
'Lightening Speed? James "Cool Papa" Bell was renowned for his lightning speed. Indeed, it was said... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Shaky Platform "Tony Benn, a former minister whose views placed him somewhere over the edge of ... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Starling Logic Like many boxers, Marlon Starling was not noted for his mental agility. "I'll fi... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Oktoberfest On September 22, 2002, Verne Troyer, best known for his role as Mini-Me in the ... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Bichasbootleguz Because many rappers and DJs first establish their reputations through homemade ... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Dot Bomb To the great dismay of Time Warner employees, AOL's Steve Case orchestrated the ... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Prince William: Just a Bloke "[Prince William] spent his 'gap year' before college participating in some deci... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
M-My Generation The BBC has a long history of banning hit songs from its airwaves - chief among ... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Fascination of the Abomination Salma Hayek first encountered Frida Kahlo's very personal, very disturbing paint... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
LaLongevity One day in 2003, Jack LaLanne was visited at home by "Man Show" host Adam Coroll... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Ed Marinaro Director Garry Marshall was once asked why he had cast Ed Marinaro in "Laverne a... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Falun Gong At the turn of the millennium, Li Hong Zhi, the founder of the Falun Gong, was c... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Kerouac Jack Kerouac, asked about his religious background one day, replied, "I'm a Cath... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Globe-Trotter Over the course of his long career, Bob Hope traveled around the globe. "I've be... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Perfect Ending "When sculptor Auguste Rodin was reaching the end of his long and brilliant life... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Old Harrovian While riding a train one day, Stanley Baldwin was approached by an Old Harrovian... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Austerity Dressing? "Quite early in the war, Norman Hartnell was summoned to discuss the Queen's cos... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Scottie Pippen: Polynice Trade "Draft night 1987, and the Chicago Bulls persuade the Seattle Supersonics to dra... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Linda Ronstadt: Leaving Las Vegas During a performance at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas in 2004, Linda Ronstadt ... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Sir William Coldstream: Meeting Barbara "During the Fifties, the regular followers of Mick Mulligan's jazz band included... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Megan Mullally: @@ps Megan Mullally: "I was the lead in a Cole Porter musical set in 1920s Paris when... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
James Fisk: Robber Barrons In 1869, the railroad financier and speculator James Fisk joined forces with fel... [Number of votes: 37] Ratings:10.00
Berlioz & the Critics After completing the composition of his l'Enfance du Christ, Berlioz attr... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Laughta Laughter "[Charles Laughton] was the first actor I encountered," George Cukor once recall... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Dreiser's Last Words During World War I, Theodore Dreiser befriended H. L. Mencken - whom he later ap... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Goldie Hawn's Porsche "Goldie Hawn isn't Hollywood's most observant star," the ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Undiscovered? The B-52s' Fred Schneider was once asked about his favorite restaurants. "Pedro ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Havana Pride Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., an avid cigar smoker, once had lunch with a beautiful w... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Need a Light? Mervyn LeRoy's camera tricks created many lighting problems for cinematographer ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Silent Treatment Wall Street Journal editor Tunku Varadarajan looked back upon his days at... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Poco Loco? Presidential life in Jefferson's day was remarkably relaxed. Jefferson, speaking... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Shadow One day Arno Dosch-Fleurot, reporting from Russia in the years following the Rus... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Odd Consideration? Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey found musical inspiration in unlikely places. "There wa... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Dream "Did you know," Max Beerbohm once asked his biographer, "that William Archer who... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
War of Attrition In 1990, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stanley Karnow asked North Vietna... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Sharp Criticism? As a young aspiring pianist, Ansel Adams showed considerable promise. At a party... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Blass & Boudreau One day in 1995, Pittsburgh Pirates replacement pitcher Jimmy Boudreau appeared ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Rod of Chastisement Lady Astor's maiden speech in the House of Commons was - naturally - about the t... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Crazylegs Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch was a remarkable runner. "You've heard of people who zi... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Giotto One day Pope Boniface VIII, having long considered Giotto for a commission, sent... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Phallic Trip According to drummer Mick Fleetwood, throughout the 1960s Fleetwood Mac was "rea... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Wuthering Heights When Samuel Goldwyn enlisted the veteran screenwriters Charles MacArthur and Ben... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Precious Moment A reporter once apologized to Sacha Guitry for calling on him during what would ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Glen Campbell: Private Performance "Country singer Glen Campbell, 67, was arrested in Phoenix after allegedly drivi... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Campaign Manager "A revealing scene took place in a Mainz cellar some years ago when Helmut Kohl ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Love Note G. K. Chesterton relied on his wife in all practical matters. One day while on a... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Dinner for Two The composer George Frideric Handel once ordered dinner for two from a local tav... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Pintchik Oracle One day in 2003, an old-fashioned wooden box telephone appeared at the corner of... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Shrewsbury Lad? In november 2003, Shrewsbury MP Paul Marsden posted an online love poem which he... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Pardo's Parties While studying at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, Camilo Pardo (famed fo... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Jaime Pressly: Gossip "I ran into my old nemesis at a party," Jaime Pressly once recalled. "We've hate... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Glen Matlock: Ex Pistol Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious kicked bassist Glen Matlock out of the Sex Pistols... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Young Youssou N'Dour The Senegalese drummer, singer and bandleader Youssou N'Dour began his musical c... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Sam Weisman: Worst That Could Happen Sam Weisman's What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001), a heist comedy ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
John Steinbeck: When in Rome... "Frank Glass [?] brought back a small stone - a rock - from the Forum," John Ste... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Kevin Spacey: Big Star "In his hilarious book With Nails, Richard E. Grant recalled the shooting... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Burly Man Though thrilled by the success of The Matrix, directors Andy and Larry Wa... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
David Cross: Goo Goo Fan David Cross was once asked when he had last been hit on by a fan. "The other nig... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
James II: Entitleist? In 1457, King James II of Scotland banned a game which he claimed was distractin... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Virgiliu Pop: Space Lawyer On April 28, 2001, Virgiliu Pop - a space lawyer and extraterrestrial property r... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Robert Downey, Jr: Hasty Pudding Award "After surviving teasing about his less memorable films, a therapy session with ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Young Jackie Mason At 25, Jackie Mason, following the path set by three of his brothers, was ordain... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Reggie Lemelin: Time to Retire Legendary Boston Bruins goalie Reggie Lemelin was once asked when he first reali... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Teresa Heinz: Heinz Heiress "Russ Martz, a retired Pittsburgh journalist, recalls showing up at the Heinz fa... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Earl Haig: Castro's Cigars Comedian Mort Sahl once had the pleasure of meeting General Earl Haig. "I said, ... [Number of votes: 36] Ratings:10.00
Artful Dodger Diaghilev, sitting with Leon Bakst at a rehearsal one day, suddenly turned to th... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Roger Bacon: Doctor Mirabilis The 13th century English scientist and philosopher Roger Bacon once contended th... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Novel Idea In 2003, Johann Christian Lotter and Reinhard Rael Wissdorf, convinced that the ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Dead Ringer? Future boxing champion Ingemar Johansson was disqualified from the heavyweight f... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Benny Carter One day George Rich learned that Club Harlem, home to Benny Carter's band, had f... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Phyllis George: Never "The list of 'never's in my life is as long as a football field," Phyllis George... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Quick Study The famed stage director Alan Schneider once had a spot of trouble with a certai... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Alan Greenspan: Enlarged Prostate In April 2003, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan underwent surgery for an ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Timely Wisdom? Having quit the Pearl Harbor project for the third time over budget battl... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Vitalij Djomocka: Gangster Life After becoming upset at the unrealistic portrayal of gangster life on Russian te... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
The Gap After countless rejections, Lauren Hutton (a former Playboy bunny) approached Fo... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Build It and...? George Balanchine once jokingly told Peter Martins "You know, dear,
we should c... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Fine Company In 1961, in a last-ditch effort to meet the cost of living in his Irish castle, ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Auction Blooper "The old joke about scratching your nose and accidentally buying a painting is a... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Half Assed Famed comedian Joey Adams was once awarded an honorary law degree by a Chinese u... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Olympic Training While training for the U.S. Olympic fencing team in 1995, Maria Bottone found he... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Bulloch's Bollocks Mogwai's Martin Bulloch once took a "dead test" on the Internet "where they ask ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Standing Firm? White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry was once asked whether President Clinto... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Disnefication In the original version of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Snow White and... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Zippelfaggotist While Johann Sebastian Bach was a brilliant composer and organist, he was ill-su... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
New Randy Travis "I was in a recording studio and someone from Randy Travis's record company walk... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Beverly Hills Charity Legendary record producer David Geffen once set up a charitable foundation. Iron... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Walnut? Alan Alda once interviewed Dr Roy L. Walford, whose research on "caloric restric... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Van Patten Serves Despite his passion for tennis, Dick Van Patten (whose sons all became accomplis... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Lights Out "In Whitehall that evening [August 3, 1914], shortly after Germany had declared ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Sigismund The emperor Sigismund was once asked his recipe for lasting happiness. "Only do ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Royal Privilege When a dispute arose during a game of billiards one day, Louis XIV asked the Com... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Prussian Envoy In 1777, Hugh Elliot was sent as British envoy to the Prussian court of Frederic... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Shop At Home The sports card dealer and NWA Wrestling announcer Don West, famed for his role ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Upstaged John Gielgud once asked Fred Terry for some acting advice. Gielgud, it seemed, w... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Mimosa "To the end of her life Nancy Mitford remained appalled at the prospect of cooki... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Wilhelm's Last Words One day during his final illness, Wilhelm I was asked whether he was tired. His ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Difficult Speech "In the theatre one of the all-time great Upmen is Wilfrid Hyde-White. When I [R... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Fernando Who? "On personal-appearance tours stars traveled with all sorts of publicity and sec... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Disconsolate Bibliophile "Thomas Gray once attended a sale of books with a friend. One lot particularly a... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Checkered History "The first major attack on Nixon's integrity came in 1952 when there were some u... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Te Deum Though often implored to do so, Jean-Baptiste Lully invariably refused to play t... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Choking the Knicks Nobody has tortured the New York Knicks as much as Indiana Pacers guard Reggie M... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Barry Sonnenfeld & Frenchy's Color Lab Among Barry Sonnenfeld's earliest jobs was a stint at Frenchy's Color Lab. "I co... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Congratulations Gooden In 1987 Dwight Gooden entered rehab after testing positive for cocaine use. He w... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Lou Reed: Fools and Drunks The Velvet Underground did not initially inspire much confidence. Legendary conc... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Ice Cube: Rape Suspect? In August 2003, rap music legend Ice Cube was not amused to learn that the Chica... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Esposito's Turtleneck While nursing a nasty cold, legendary Boston Bruins center Phil Esposito donned ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Johnny Apple & David Halberstam "What Crouse referred to as [legendary New York Times reporter Johnny App... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Slight Problem? After his retirement from boxing, Muhammad Ali became a capable magician and, ev... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Young Robert Smigel Robert Smigel, best known as the voice behind "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" (Co... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Bud Selig: Sleazeball Commissioner "These days there's nothing fishier than MLB's commissioner's office," ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
The Rock: Cookin'! The Rock once shared a lively exchange with WWF guest-hostess Gennifer Flowers. ... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Jim Moloney: Every Sperm is Sacred "I recently got married," Jim Moloney once reported, "and during the ceremony th... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Bulwer-Lytton Edward Bulwer-Lytton, arguably the worst (serious) novelist in literary history,... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Paul O'Neill: Genius Remark How did Bush administration Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill respond to the colla... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Queen Mary & the Biscuit "Queen Mary was terrified of dogs, and lived in fear of the ferocious little Wel... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Al Franken: Limo for a Lame-O "[In 1980] NBC was getting a double drubbing: terrible ratings in prime time and... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Alan Alda: Outburst During an outburst on the set one day, Alan Alda unleashed a torrent of profanit... [Number of votes: 35] Ratings:10.00
Stresemann "Gustav Stresemann's volubility made impossible a long, reasoned statement advoc... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Pitter-Patter Chit-Chatter Hans Christian Andersen once commissioned a musician to compose his funeral marc... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Honeycutt Prior to a game against the Kansas City Royals in September 1980, Seattle Marine... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Eric Rohmer Stories of Eric Rohmer's idiosyncrasies abound. An ardent environmentalist, he n... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
The Shipping News "Shooting began March 4, 2001, on a frozen plain outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. T... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Seaver New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver was widely admired, not least by New York Yanke... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Liu Jinbao: Routine Transfer "On May 28th [2003], only a day before its shareholders' meeting, the Bank of Ch... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
World Government Crusade Gilbert Young's World Government Crusade - a book outlining the policies ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Congressional Deficit Like many Republicans, Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot frequently complained... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Dannheisser Snub "A onetime trustee of the Guggenheim Museum, [the art collector Elaine Dannheiss... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Crack Musician Cameron Diaz was once asked about working with Bernie Mac on the set of ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Self-Made Man The legendary writer and wit George S. Kaufman once overheard a self-made millio... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Experimental Philosopher As a young uneducated boy of sixteen, Joseph Henry one day decided to go back to... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Incognito (long) Landon Ronald once recalled an incident concerning his mischievous fellow compos... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Duds to Diamonds Early in his career, Darryl F. Zanuck spent most of his time in the cutting room... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
No? While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle, engaged in a rathe... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Garry & Nell TV personality Garry Moore once hired four skywriting planes to draw a Valentine... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Devolution The French naturalist Georges de Buffon was among the first scientists to specul... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Old Boys' Network During the 1970s, though many British businesses fell apart in the wake of the O... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Horlicks "Ladies, however practical, can have peculiar ideas of rewards and prizes. At th... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Dan Aykroyd: Young Jesuit "Rosie Shuster's the one who coined the best line about Aykroyd. Danny had studi... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Exhibitionist "At the age of fifty-one, [Peggy Guggenheim] took up naked sunbathing on the roo... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Young Kathy Bates: Wayside After making her screen debut (as Bobo Bates), a struggling Kathy Bates tried re... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
God Save the Quxxn In 1997, Tony Banks was sworn in as Britain's newest Labour MP. Banks, a Republi... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Pitt's Last Words William Pitt died in office in 1806, overcome by the strain of work and dejected... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
British Gravy While filming one of his travel shows, Michael Palin found himself in a Chinese ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Prince Charles & the Pudding One day in May 2003, Prince Charles visited the Highdown Farm in Devon. After me... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Victor Feuger's Final Meal Shortly before his execution for kidnapping and murder, Victor Feuger requested ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
After the Fall "Noel Coward was in New York with Claudette Colbert after Arthur Miller's autobi... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Borodin's Finale One day Alexander Borodin began playing the piano in a completely novel style. "... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Piano Prodigy At the age of six, the piano prodigy Harris Wang was once asked what he most enj... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Clift's Last Words Montgomery Clift's last words reportedly came in response to a question. Clift w... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Plimpton Blooper "The public, uninterested that George Plimpton might have a serious motive for h... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Evolution of an Artist "[The abstract expressionist artist Arshile Gorky] took menial jobs and earned m... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Young Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "I don't know where I had acquired the habit of making u... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Bondevik Blooper In 2003, Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik's brand new BMW had to un... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Two Chips Chen After shooting 65-69-69 at the 1985 US Open at Oakland Hills, Taiwanese golfer T... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Ontario Inspectors Hard at Work In December 2003, Ontario's provincial auditor issued a report on that Ministry ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Dennis Quaid: Far From Heaven Shortly after his appearance in Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven (2002), Den... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
George W. Bush Press Conference "Every White House and every presidency attempts to control the message and mani... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Lauryn Hill: Vatican Visit In 2003, Lauryn Hill took part in an all-star gala Christmas concert at the Vati... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Meryl Streep: Casting Evita "Back in the mid-Eighties, Meryl had signed up for a film adaptation of Andrew L... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Marc Benioff: CLO "Salesforce.com [a software company founded by Marc Benioff] inhabits an office ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Young Joshua Bell Joshua Bell showed an affinity for music at a very early age. When he was three ... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Donald Pettit: Astronaut Training "[Future NASA astronaut Donald Pettit] filled up his garage after driving throug... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Lee Smith: Hunh? Lee Smith was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the second round of the 1975 amateu... [Number of votes: 34] Ratings:10.00
Sure Man In 1884 General Sherman received a telegram imploring him to become the Republic... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Six-Million-Dollar Man? Shortly after his resignation from the presidency Richard Nixon invited the dyna... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Sarcastomatic In the early 1960s, William Rouverol invented the original Votomatic punch-card ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
St. Donut? When William Randolph Hearst purchased St. Donat's Castle in Glamorgan, Wales, h... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Sage Advice "When Major Gwilym Lloyd George was looking round for men to run his plan for th... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Danny DJ "That 70s Show" star Danny Masterson frequently guest DJed in various Los Angele... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Derrick Coleman "It is unfortunate that I can't function as a normal person in today's society,"... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Plagiarist One day Bertrand Russell was approached by a writer who had recently completed a... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Mad Laughter Travel writer Eric Newby: "The driver of an electric brougham [car] sat outside,... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Bruce Belfrage "I'll never forget my first broadcast in 1924. I [Bruce Belfrage] was playing th... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Ambitious Mother As Norman Taurog was leaving for a football game one day, a pushy woman barged i... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Rubbish? On his deathbed, at age eighty-nine, Hokusai looked back on his artistic output.... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Scott Mitchell After feeling lightheaded in a game against the Minnesota Vikings in 1995, Detro... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Milestone "Alexander Woollcott was terrifically sentimental about birthdays and Christmas.... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Andy Grove & The Scrooge Memo Intel Chairman Andy Grove was not noted for his generosity. During his tenure as... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Plymouth Trek During the 1997 British general election, Patrick Stewart (noted for his role as... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Meaty Remark When Austen Chamberlain was offered the post of chancellor of the exchequer in 1... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
O 'Brother' Vespasian was approached one day by a favorite servant seeking a stewardship for... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Deadly Negotiator? James McNeill Whistler was once visited in his Paris studio by an American milli... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Garbage: Self-Titled The formation of Garbage can be traced to a historic evening in 1994, when the n... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Classic Strauss The legendary publisher Roger Strauss was famed for his frugality. After he move... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Tom Daschle: Fiscal Lament "On January 4th, 2000, Tom Daschle, Senate majority leader and Democrat-in-chief... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Dick Cheney & the Republican Governors In 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney co-hosted the Republican Governor's Associat... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Pampered Players "[Famed Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda's] standard reply when some ne... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Dr. Hepburn Katharine Hepburn's early career was marked by a series of pictures of such medi... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
True Value 500 In June 1997, rookie driver Billy Boat was celebrating his victory in the True V... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Oxford Indifference The Venerable Dr. Martin Routh was noted - as would befit the president of an Ox... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Tirade Australian prime minister William Hughes was once subjected to a vicious verbal ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Spooner One day during his tenure as Warden of New College (at Oxford), William Spooner ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Grainy Image? One day while tilling a potato field on his family's Idaho farm, Philo T. Farnsw... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Universal Bliss? In 1997, Tracy Bonham saw Beck perform at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Ange... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Fine Distinction "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginnin... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Rhythm In 1913, the novelist Carl van Vechten attended the premiere of Igor Stravinsky'... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Mile High Blooper A frequent and accomplished guest on various game shows in his later years, Pete... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Sheryl Crow Ice Cream Sheryl Crow was once asked about her favorite foods. A Sheryl Crow sandwich, she... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
War to End All War At the outbreak of World War I, with popular patriotism at its peak, the slogan ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Unto the Breach While filming Shakespeare's Henry V (1944), Laurence Olivier, in the titl... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Friends: Central Perk After filming the final episode of "Friends," the show's cast members pillaged t... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Beaton Beaten On his first day at his day-school in Hampstead, Cecil Beaton was set upon by a ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Bacall When Lauren Bacall first arrived in Hollywood, she felt uncomfortable at parties... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Trevor Kidd & Colin Campbell In a bid to boost goal scoring in 2004, the NHL announced several planned rule c... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Classic Coward Noel Coward was once asked by a reporter whether he would like to say something ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Young Arshile Gorky "Rejecting his father's expectation that he would be a factory worker, [the abst... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Di Vicenzo's Scorecard "The most famous gaffe in major championship [golf] history was registered by Ar... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Gray Davis Ripoff The state of California once awarded Larry Ellison's Oracle Corporation a $95 mi... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Olivia Goldsmith: Rejuvenating Revenge "Last month, Olivia Goldsmith, an American author, died at the age of 54," ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Del Toro: Shocker "My family was shocked when they heard I wanted to be an actor," Benicio del Tor... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Christian Klien: Diamond Heist Shortly before the Monaco Grand Prix in May 2004, a $200,000 button-sized diamon... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Lauren Hutton: Eating Termites "I was hanging out with this tribe in the interior of the Congo," Lauren Hutton ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Mark Ruffalo: Stinker Mark Ruffalo once recalled the worst of his eight hundred (yes, 800) ill-fated a... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Mike McCurry: Great Confidence Relations between the Clinton White House and F.B.I. director Louis Freeh deteri... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Rodney Dangerfield: Inpatient In August 2004, Rodney Dangerfield had heart valve replacement surgery. "If thin... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Damien Hirst: Soused Damien Hirst once allegedly became so soused on absinthe one night that he visit... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Fredric March: Oops In 1938, Fredric March and Florence Eldridge appeared in a heavily panned play e... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Eva Longoria: Prieta Fea Eva Longoria (Miss Corpus Christi USA in 1998) was an ugly duckling growing up. ... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Lord Hailsham: Shut up! "A junior Tory minister was making an impassioned speech about health services a... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
Garry Shandling: Jaywalking Ticket Garry Shandling: "I got a jaywalking ticket, which is the dumbest ticket of all.... [Number of votes: 33] Ratings:10.00
British Bravado? An English friend once mocked Maurice Barrymore's enthusiasm for his adopted Ame... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Majestic Insult Charles Kemble once received an insistent demand for an overdue income tax payme... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Lord of the Manor Fletcher Norton, famed for his obnoxious demeanor, once found himself arguing a ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
One-Eyed Toast Oliver Gogarty once encountered a friend wearing an eye patch in a local tavern.... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Chess Yawner During a chess match against Luis M.C.P. Santos, in Vigo, Spain in 1980, Francis... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Oval Like most sports announcers, Tony Crozier was not immune to verbal bloopers. "Th... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Hard Bargain Mr Selfridge told me that for years he had asked to buy a small shop that impede... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Mosaic In 1993, while working on a fuckingcomputer project as a student at the Universi... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Comet As Mazarin lay dying, the sky was lit by a comet which fuckingstitious observers... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Total Bummer In 2002, one of Woody Harrelson's closest friends (and fellow hemp activist) Joe... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Night Writer Elizabeth Cox's stories often came to her in dreams. "I'm getting up in the midd... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Jonathan Franzen: Solidly Stupid In October 2001, Oprah Winfrey selected Jonathan Franzen's National
Book Award-... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Suroosh Alvi: VICE Within a decade of its founding in 1994, VICE magazine (once dubbed "the ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Still There? Albert Lasker never bought a painting which he didn't love. His wife Mary, howev... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Early Riser? "I went early to see Beethoven [one day in 1814]," Ignaz Mosheles once recalled.... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Duke of Argyll While vacationing near Tennyson's home one year, the Duke of Argyll and his fami... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Bibliophile After years in office, Robert Walpole looked forward to a relaxing retirement at... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Relatives "One time, Maureen Stapleton received a phone call from a friend who said that s... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Sympathy in F Minor? Rossini once complained to fellow composer Giacomo Meyerbeer that he was feeling... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Sharp Criticism Backstage after a performance of his Manon one evening Jules Massenet enc... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Mysterious Punch One night in San Francisco, Wilson Mizner visited a bar with a group of friends,... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Idee Fixe "W.H. Davies developed an idee fixe that Walter De La Mare was a deady ri... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Populist De Mille Though Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epics did well at the box office, many deplo... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Film Adaptation John le Carre was at best ambivalent about film adaptations. "Having your book t... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Absent-minded Professor The famously absent-minded Irwin Edman, a close friend of book publisher Bob Haa... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Smar-r-rt R-r-reply During an audition one day Jerome Kern began to lose his patience with an actres... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Good Call? "In 1982, after a stint at The American Lawyer, [future investment guru J... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
J'ai Soif Gerard de Nerval, noted as much for his periodic bouts of madness as for his lit... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Tarzan Rights In 1931, MGM chief Irving Thalberg, bent on acquiring the film rights to Edgar R... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Stunt Man One day on the set of Swiss Family Robinson (1960), director Ken Annakin ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Ike Following World War II, Dwight Eisenhower (who had been on MacArthur's staff bef... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Surrealist Soiree The Surrealist artist Andre Breton was shocked one day when, in the middle of a ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Bedridden Bedridden in his later years, George Kaufman was annoyed one night to find a rad... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Bourreau de travail As first consul, Napoleon, who typically worked sixteen-hour days, demanded that... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
New York Restaurant Though Elaine Kaufman loved her male guests, she had little fondness for their f... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
'60s Icon One evening the humorist Roy Blount, Jr. visited Elaine's restaurant for dinner.... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Vintage Keith Richards In 1969, Keith Richards bought a vintage Nazi staff car and had it lovingly rest... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Damn In 1886, the Scottish writer Robert Bontine Conninghame Graham won a seat in the... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Garbo & Mamoulian "In the legendary final shot of Queen Christina, the Queen - Greta Garbo ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Typescript "Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed," Dylan Thomas once besee... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Shortcut to Hell James Cagney was once asked whether he had ever directed a film. "Yes, in 1957 -... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Modeling Irony The model Micaela Santos was once asked whether she got gallons of free vodka as... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Shy Yves Saint Laurent Like his mentor (Christian Dior), Yves Saint Laurent was painfully shy. Indeed, ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Snoopy's Groupies? Mariah Carey was once asked about her loopiest fans. "I have a Jack Russell who'... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Oddball Gilliam Terry Gilliam's oddball movie 12 Monkeys was inspired by another film: ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Joey Big Pants Joey "Pants" Pantoliano was once asked about the catering table on the set of "T... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Dopey School? Courtney Thorne-Smith got her first taste of acting in a production of "Snow Whi... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
George Martin's Knighthood "One day six years ago," legendary former Beatles producer George Martin recalle... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Sinister Brothel "The most disagreeable memories of my life," Gabriel Garcia Marquez once recalle... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Lieberman & Howard Dean "Former vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said today that if the Democra... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Fellatio Music Neptunes co-founder and rap producer Pharrell Williams once called Stereolab's m... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Oceanic Moment "I got so depressed in Vietnam," the molecular biologist Craig Venter later reca... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Close Election "Julian Amery, who contested Preston North as a Tory at the last election, knows... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Handy Steve Harwell "My favorite piece of equipment is my drill," Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell once t... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Bob Baffert: Winner's Circle Before turning his hand to Thoroughbreds, the legendary horse trainer Bob Baffer... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Gary Barnett: Doing a Favor In February 2004, University of Colorado football coach Gary Barnett responded t... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Kid Rock: Cocky Producers "Kid Rock's Cocky got off to what could politely be termed a slow start u... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Sam Spiegel As the writer Irwin Shaw quickly learned, Sam Spiegel, the prototypical cigar-ch... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Marguerite Ayala: Wigging Out "In Atlanta, Marguerite Ayala, a circus performer, suffered head and neck injuri... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Paul Andreu: Savoir-Faire In 2003, a new terminal (2E) was unveiled at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Thomas Cranmer: Pretty Nobsey Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, concealed his second ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Peter Dinklage: Actor's Actor "On his way to meet me [GQ writer Peter Rubin] at his favorite Brooklyn d... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Buddy Hackett: Producer's Promise "Buddy Hackett told me a story one time," David Brenner later recalled. "One of ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Rita Rudner: White Car Rita Rudner ("I only like cars because they take me to clothes") was once asked ... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Evangeline Lilly: Caterpillars Evangeline Lilly: "One of my biggest hobbies was covering myself in insects... I... [Number of votes: 32] Ratings:10.00
Barrow & Rochester One day at the court of Charles II, Isaac Barrow (then serving as the king's cha... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Buck Shot (long) One day on the set of one of his classic Westerns, the director W. S. Van Dyke r... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
House of Lords "Did you get any reactions in the House of Lords to your Buggers' [Homosexuals']... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Swedish Broad George Raft was once offered the role of Rick in Casablanca. He turned it... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Somnoplasty Shortly after the attacks on September 11th, 2001, Jerry Seinfeld hosted a benef... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Aptly Named? Robyn Hitchcock was once asked whether he had ever had any homosexual encounters... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Jester Prince England's fun-loving Prince of Wales (who later became King Edward
VII) was fon... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Loco Sta While leading a mission to England one day, Saint Gregory was inspired by a sign... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Speed Waxing In July 2003, Australian beauty therapist Lareesa Guttery entered the record boo... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Mastectomy In her later years, Alice Longworth suffered from breast cancer and by the age o... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Trashy Sequel When a Gone with the Wind sequel (entitled Scarlett) sparked a bid... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Shopping Spree J. P. Morgan was once asked to donate money for new buildings at an Ivy League m... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Jump the Shark Jumptheshark.com once made a curious observation about actor Ted McGinley (famed... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Iowa Politician In 1998, Tom Vilsack became Iowa's first Democratic Governor-elect in 30 years. ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Unacknowledged Legislators Why, Hugh Cudlipp asked his old friend Sydney Jacobson, Editorial Director of IP... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Starkey Biography The critic Simon Hurley once reviewed David Starkey's biography of Henry VIII ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
USCrewed? Why did the most commercially successful director in the history of cinema atten... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
The Kwan (long) Writer-director Cameron Crowe once described the origins of Cuba Gooding Jr's cl... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Horse Sense "I was complaining to Balanchine one day about the scarcity of documentary mater... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Apt Reply Hector Elizondo was once asked why he excelled at voice-over work. His apt reply... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Wanger Method "Producer Walter Wanger had two writers under contract for $2,500 a week named T... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Wood Burn? In the 1950s, Jackie Gleason had a fantastic round home of his own design built ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Fly in Amber Sydney Smith once wryly likened George Canning's stint as Tory prime minister to... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Ueckered Over his six year career (1962-1967), Bob Uecker managed just 14 home runs, 74 R... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Dedicated Yvollower When, on January 7th 2002, famed fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent announced t... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Canute's Conversion According to a twelfth-century chronicle, King Canute, tiring of the excessive f... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Artless Insult? Frederic Leighton, an artist noted for his meticulous execution, once remarked t... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Stompin' Effort During the Rwandan genocide in May 1994, with Hutus on the rampage butchering th... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Third Way Czech President Václav Klaus was once asked about the so called "third way" betw... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Stevenson Wit Some time after his second loss to Dwight Eisenhower (in the 1956 presidential e... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Taste and Reticence "At a party soon after Marquand was released from the hospital, John was back in... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Giant Bribe "Charles Byrne was born in 1761 in Littlebridge, a town in Ireland. He grew to o... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Dead Poet In 1948, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and John Huston's ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Portrait Pun Legendary London hostess Mrs. Ronald Greville, the daughter of Scottish beer bar... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Chi Elvis Presley, a very spiritual person, always wore a Christian cross, a Star of... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Voice of Snow White Deanna Durbin auditioned for the voice of Snow White in Walt Disney's 1937 anima... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Bonar Law "The glamour went out of politics," John Buchan remarked when Bonar Law succeede... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Royal Royalties On her fifth birthday Princess Margaret entertained Peter Pan author Jame... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Clintus Interruptus One day during a debate in the 2000 presidential election race, George W. Bush f... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
City Lights During the Los Angeles premiere of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights in 1931,... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Underdog "I engaged Leonie Rysanek to make her debut at the Metropolitan in ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Portrait of Crippen "A portrait of Crippen was on demand for illustration of an article on crime. Th... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Elephant Dante Gabriel Rossetti once declared an interest in procuring an elephant. Many ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Fredonia When the Marx Brothers made their satirical comedy Duck Soup in 1933, the... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Down to Earth Before entering Parliament in 1892, James Hardie was a coal miner and trade unio... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Symphony for Axe & Bludgeon In 1925, Walter Damrosch had the pleasure of conducting Aaron Copland's ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Loopy Theory? William Harvey lost most of his patients and was generally ridiculed for his the... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Rather Unlikely In April 2001, Dan Rather was forced to apologize after speaking at a Democratic... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Jefferson in Paris Shortly after succeeding Benjamin Franklin as America's ambassador in France, Th... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Environmental Perks In 2002, Hypercar, Inc. chairman Amory Lovins un veiled an affordable five-seat ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Leoni & Duchovny Tea Leoni and David Duchovny first met - briefly - during a "barbaric" pre-inter... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Cradle Robber In August 2002, Billy Bob Thornton was spotted with Danielle Dotzenrod, a beatif... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Dick Gephardt: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs "Dick Gephardt is so white that even under fluorescent lights he looks stage lit... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye When Toni Morrison was young, she recalled, "another little black girl and I wer... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Ozzy Osbourne & Carson Daly "Total Request Live" host Carson Daly once had the pleasure of meeting Ozzy Osbo... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Corrine Brown: Racist Accusation "After a briefing on the coup in Haiti [in 2004], U.S. Representative Corrine Br... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Chris Chelios: Stick Rack The name "Chris Chelios" appears on many lists of the NHL's dirtiest players. Wh... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Christopher Lee: Bloodline "One day [Christopher Lee] was lunching at the Italian Embassy with his cousin N... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Leni Riefenstahl: Young at Heart In 1973, famed director Leni Riefensthal, having taken up photography, went deep... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Sigourney Weaver: Dedicated Mother When Sigourney Weaver finally had a child (after five years spent trying to conc... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
John Manley & the SEC With American companies beset by scandal at the turn of the millennium, regulato... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Marc Benioff: JRK? "The IPO of Salesforce.com, a pioneer in the $7 billion market for so-called cus... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Bohdan Ulihrach & the ATP In March 2003, Czech tennis player Bohdan Ulihrach tested positive for the banne... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Jeb Bush: Mr. Tough-on-Drugs In 2002, Noelle Bush was caught with crack in a rehab clinic. "The President's n... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Stephen Hawking: Preskill's Prize In 1997, Stephen Hawking and John Preskill (of the California Institute of Techn... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Jack Ferreira: Goofy Situation? Anaheim Mighty Ducks general manager Jack Ferreira took some time to adjust to h... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
John Travolta: Vagabond As a young boy, John Travolta often packed up his things like a vagabond and ran... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Stellan Skarsgård: Good Question Paul Bettany named his first son (with Jennifer Connelly) after his best friend ... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Quentin Crewe: Bedouin Logic "The remarkable journey made by Quentin Crewe in his wheelchair across the deser... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Susan Braudy: Family Circle "What if the veil of anonymity suddenly lifted and Amazon.com shoppers discovere... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
James Caan & Don Adams: Winter Rules Don Adams was among a group of comedian-golfers who gambled on their games toget... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Edwin Booth: Evening at the Improv While performing a duel scene in a play one day, Edwin Booth, whose character wa... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Dorothy Parker: Wedded to the Theater Dorothy Parker once found herself conversing with a talkative actress who had no... [Number of votes: 31] Ratings:10.00
Spirited Discussion One day a visitor surprised William Blake while he was working alone on a pictur... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Sonny Walkman? One day in 1946, Akio Morita sat down with his business partner Masaru Ibuka in ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Majestic Flattery While serving as England's Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon was once visited by Qu... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Damnable Evening Though he often threw parties in the dome of his theatre, Sir Herbert Beerbohm T... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Mein Herr While starring in the musical Cabaret, Joely Fisher was required to wear ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Model Romance Fra Filippo Lippi, one of the master painters of the Renaissance, was as famed f... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Alec Guinness: Little Green Thing Alec Guinness, a classically trained Shakespearean actor, so despised working on... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Muddle Edward VII once recalled a visit he had made to the home of Colonel James Biddle... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Whiz Kid? In 2001, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld put Andrew Marshall in charge of an a... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Tourniquet "I was involved in a bad train smash in America," Dr. William Aughinbaugh once r... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Corked? Before a game in Munich one day, Cork City football (soccer) manager Noel O'Maho... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Broad Extravagance Such was the passion of Zhang Yue (the founder of Broad, a maker of "green" air ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Absent-Minded Pianist At a concert one evening, as Josef Hofmann settled himself at the piano, a look ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
God's Wounds! In 1629, when the English Parliament produced a document censuring the policies ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Spalding Gray: Boundary Problem "Something that led me to [Buddhism] was the idea of interconnection," Spalding ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Monkee See Monkee Do Whenever the Monkees toured England, masses of screaming girls would fill the st... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Same Old Story? Darryl McDaniels was once asked about the future of Run-D.M.C. "I want to go out... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Duchampion? John Lennon once expressed disappointment with his formal art education. "All I ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Jackass One day Rowland Hill received an anonymous letter attacking him for driving to t... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Zen, Dude? Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh was once asked what she brought to the beach. "I l... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Leviathan Telescope In 1845 the amateur astronomer, the Earl of Rosse, built a telescope with a lens... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Frank Update During the early days of friendship between the United States and the Soviet Uni... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Bridge Partner Sir Herbert Holt's competitive nature made him a formidable competitor. ("We get... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Wolf & Brahms Hugo Wolf so detested his fellow Viennese composer Johannes Brahms that he refus... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Terry Forgetful "During the war I took Ellen Terry, whose memory was then beginning to fail, to ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Blockbuster Producer Blockbuster producers Joel Silver and Jerry Bruckheimer almost single-handedly r... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Photographer's Ruse "During King George V's Jubilee a photographer named Ferguson had permission to ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Bedhead Like every pimply adolescent, Jason Schwartzman was painfully self-conscious. Af... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Slight Irony At the turn of the millennium, Newcastle courted, and were apparently snubbed by... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Tommm... During the production of Minority Report, rumors circulated in the tabloi... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Little Confidence? In 1998, shortly after their live LP Rock Spectacle (a compilation of per... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Vatican Elevator "After climbing the long flight of stairs to the Vatican audience chamber and th... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Daryl Hannah: Drunk Driver? At the LA premiere of Kill Bill: Vol 2 in 2004, agoraphobic actress Daryl... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Moët In 1967, an underrated American driver named Dan Gurney piloted his Ford racecar... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Hannibal "It's the morning after Halloween. Taped to the door of an editing room is a red... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Renard Jules Renard was once asked where he derived his inspiration. "The story I am wr... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Fat Chance? When he announced his plans to become an actor, Kenneth Branagh's parents were h... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Bogart's Nod When filming began on the set of Casablanca (1943), the script was far fr... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Eye Tooth Lorenzo the Magnificent, observing a young apprentice sculptor carving the face ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Lemmon Juiced? In 1953 Jack Lemmon arrived in Hollywood to make his first feature film, ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Wild Bill "'Wild Bill' Wellman had a reputation for being tough. In the last scene of ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Good Customer! In 2002, Winona Ryder was found guilty of theft and vandalism following a shopli... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Jazz Mimer? In the eyes of many Hollywood observers, the success of the 'talkies' was hardly... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Karsh & Armstrong While having lunch with the famed photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife after a... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Hilary Swank: Method Actress Hilary Swank auditioned for the lead role of Teena Brandon in Kimberly Peirce's ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Lombardi Henry Jordan, who played right defensive tackle with Vince Lombardi's Green Bay ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Peccadillo? In August 1842, Charles Napier, having annexed the province of Sind (giving the ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Gravy Sydney Smith once found himself seated at a dinner party beside a woman who decl... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Summer Rental Mark Twain had an uncommon fondness for cats. Summering in New Hampshire one yea... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Run-of-De Mille In 1949, after World War II had killed interest in the spectacle film for a time... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Handel: Dubourg George Frideric Handel once attended a concert in Dublin at which the English vi... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Cruikshank's Farmer "Homer Watson's home at Doon in the heart of the beautiful pastoral country of W... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Future of Television? "My niece, who lives in London, was visiting us ['Simpsons' writer Richard Appel... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Bummer Michael Jackson "used to keep his weight down with loads of self-administered en... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Schoenberg Smeared Arnold Schoenberg, famed for his controversial twelve-tone (atonal) system, was ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
MacLaine, P.I. One day during the production of My Geisha (1962) in Japan, director Fran... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Biscuits In March 2003, Pennsylvania State Senator Gerald LaValle was astonished to find ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Optimal Death Ashley Montagu once found himself embroiled in a discussion of the optimal death... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
'N Space Cadet? In 2002, 'N Sync's Lance Bass signed an "initial deal" with the Russian Space Ag... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Eraserhead According to director David Lynch, five years elapsed between the start and comp... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Thinker "Bernard Shaw was sitting to Rodin, in his studio, and proceeded to criticise Ro... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Beaverbrook Honeymoon Beaverbrook was once urged by Dr Charles Wilson (later Lord Moran) to provide a ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Brodsky & Lenin In 1924, the Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of th... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Heretics of Ireland (long) "Although he later reverted to Catholicism, under Henry VIII and Edward VI, Harr... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Cohn Production Given the animosity with which Columbia studio chief Harry Cohn was regarded by ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Bad Omen "Lobengula granted land and mineral rights in his kingdom (now part of Zimbabwe)... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Steven Spielberg: Spielberg Method During the production of Saving Private Ryan (2002), Steven Spielberg ins... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Hecht Hoax "Another of my stories was flashed on the city in a seven-column front page head... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Vain Heston "Charlton Heston wears a hairpiece," Dustin Hoffman once remarked. "His characte... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Classic Chaplin "Joseph M. Schenck, the producer, tells the story of how Dad [Charlie Chaplin] r... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Groper Meryl Streep once recalled her introduction to Dustin Hoffman. "He came up to me... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Old Friends Castruccio Castracani once fell into a nasty quarrel with the Quatigianis of Luc... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Tom Petty While driving one day, Tom Petty mistook a weather balloon for an alien spaceshi... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Double Whammy? One evening the lesbian Russian pop duo Tatu appeared on "The Tonight Show with ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Dry Clean Show In November 2003, Austrian designer Lisa D staged a memorable "Dry Clean Show" -... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Johnson & Tennyson Tennyson was no great fan of Ben Johnson's work. "Reading him," he once declared... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Booger Red Willie Nelson, whose fondness for tequila, bourbon and gin earned him the nickna... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
No Doubt "No doubt" was an expression commonly used by the band's original singer John Sp... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Sather's Rule "In training camp, most coaches give players binders full of rules," Wayne Gretz... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Vietnam War Correspondent Though life as a war correspondent was particularly trying in the pre-digital ag... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Nelson's Caddie Byron Nelson was winning the 1946 US Open at Canterbury - until his caddie accid... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Caged Lion Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage often engaged in fearsome rows. One argument... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
P. Diddy and Ben Affleck In October 2002, P. Diddy criticized Jennifer Lopez (his former girlfriend) and ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
O! My God Despite being very athletic and playing football and baseball in high school, Jo... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Adam Sandler Audition "Adam Sandler, in his meeting with Lorne ['Saturday Night Live' producer Lorne M... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Wu-Tang Klepto In January 2002, the Wu-Tang Clan's Wu appeared as a guest on "Last Call with Ca... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Mike Harmon: Dropping In After a collision in Montgomery, Alabama one day NASCAR driver Mike Harmon vault... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Kristina Rostad: Hard Worker Model Kristina Rostad - who was president of her high school debate team and sco... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Bob Foster: Weighing In "Bob Foster could wipe out a salad bar and a pork-chop buffet and somehow lose w... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Weezer: Blue Album After completing their debut Blue Album, Weezer, one of a thousand indie ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Chicken Soup for Suge Knight's Soul "Chicken Soup" series co-creator Jack Canfield was once asked to suggest some th... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
David Carradine: Special Effect David Carradine was once asked to recall his worst on-set injury. "I once had my... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Timothy Dexter: Coal to Newcastle The eccentric merchant Timothy Dexter (famed for publishing a twenty-four page p... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Rich Little: Richard Nixon Impersonation At a star-studded party at Richard Nixon's home in 1970, Debbie Reynolds announc... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Robert Glenn Ketchum: Museum Politics "I did an exhibit on the [politically sensitive] Tongass rain forest through the... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Charles Schumer: Determination New York Senator Charles Schumer was once sternly warned by John McCain to avoid... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
DEA: War on Hemp "The Bush Administration has lost another battle in its War on Drugs," ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Justin Hawkins: The Dorkness While touring with Def Leppard one year, Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins tried ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
John Paul II: Popemobile "The Pope's new Fiat, which can withstand direct machine-gun fire, was actually ... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Philip Roth: Sit-Down Comic "Philip Roth was once asked whether, in writing 'Portnoy,' [Portnoy's Complaint]... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Red Fisher: Initiation "I was once a rookie player," the legendary hockey reporter Red Fisher once reca... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Edward Payson Weston: Pedestrian Edward Payson Weston is often called the father of modern pedestrianism (walking... [Number of votes: 30] Ratings:10.00
Il Trovatore In 2000, Argentine tenor Jose Cura outraged Spanish opera buffs during a perform... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Marshall Pipes Up Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall once found himself embroiled in a Senate de... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Governor's Advice When Ronald Reagan succeeded Edmund G. Brown as Governor of California in 1967, ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Old Complaint An elderly offender was once severely reprimanded by Landis and sentenced to fiv... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Leading the Revolution The publication of Tom Peters's In Search of Excellence (in 1982) kicked ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Jungle Terrace While entertaining Laurence Olivier in Jamaica one year, Noel Coward took him to... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Attention-Seeker Theodore Roosevelt certainly never shunned the limelight. "When Theodore attends... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Hotel Triest While visiting Vienna for a concert in July 2003, Robbie Williams and his entour... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Garfunkel Art Garfunkel (whose name, someone here once remarked, sounds like a piece of Am... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Environmental Affairs Commission In 1993, the actor Ed Begley, Jr. - a vegetarian who lives in a solar-powered ho... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Diplomatic Racket In March 1972, Richard Nixon made headlines (and history) with a visit to the Co... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Jack Daniels Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth once spent thousands of dollars designing enor... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Thoreau's Last Words Toward the end of his life Henry David Thoreau was urged to make his peace with ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Herbert Bonaparte One day on the Italian set of King Vidor's screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Hillel The famed Jewish sage Hillel is said to have been challenged one day to provide ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Mensch One day during the Crimean War, a young British army officer was captured near S... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Axles of Evil Grand Prix racing legend Sir Stirling Moss once won an unusual 12-hour endurance... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Lusty Johnson During his tour of the Hebrides, Dr. Johnson attended a party held in his honor.... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Mayer & Thalberg In 1936, Louis B. Mayer and several of his MGM executives attended the funeral o... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Wuthering Performance (long) One day on the set of William Wyler's Wuthering Heights (1939), David Niv... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Greater Prize One day toward the end of his life, Graham Greene was asked whether he was disap... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Clarification Alfred Hitchcock once sought to dispel a nasty rumor. "I didn't say actors are c... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Looking Up Noted cartoonist Don Herold, a golf enthusiast and writer, once offered some use... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Tony's Theme? During a game one day in 1999, New York Yankees outfielder Tony Tarasco came to ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Ugly Breakup In 1997, after a messy break-up with Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke wrote an unaut... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
New Yorker In 1965 Tom Wolfe, planning a profile of the The New Yorker and its famed... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Nice Shot Luke Wilson was often confused with other actors. One day he found himself playi... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Sly Maneuver Sylvester Stallone once dumped model Angie Everhart - by sending a rejection sli... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Carnal Knowledge Hedda Hopper once asked Mae West how she came to know so much about men. "Baby,"... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Moss Around a Flame Shortly after her arrival in Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich appeared in Josef von S... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Handel's "Thought" One day after receiving a dozen bottles of fine champagne, the composer George F... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Siesta Sonata When young Johannes Brahms was introduced to Franz Liszt at a friendly gathering... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Shakespeare Festival In 1796, David Garrick organized a festival at Stratford to commemorate the bice... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Branded Communist The power struggles under Stalin and his successors were once compared with thos... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Anti-Semite Sir Moses Montefiore once found himself at a dinner party seated next to an anti... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Princely Sums While sitting for the painting of Edward VII's coronation in 1901, the Prince of... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Devout Muslim? On April 11th, 1979, Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin was ousted from power by a force of... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
President Greeley In 1872, Horace Greeley (the founder of the New York Tribune) ran for Pre... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Contagion Abraham Lincoln was often pestered by supplicants seeking various offices and ot... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Poison Ivy League "In the spring semester of my senior year of high school, my father got a call f... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
George Carlin: Carlin Guarantee In the early 1970s, George Carlin was arrested for possession and cultivation of... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Loyal Servant "The Astors knew how to keep their servants. Edwin Lee, their butler, was with t... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Tempting Fate "Not content with being called anaemic, Sarah Bernhardt painted her face chalk w... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Cheryl Tiegs: Model Dieter Cheryl Tiegs once offered some curious advice to would-be dieters. "Before you g... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Fine Distinction Herbert Spencer once found himself playing billiards with a certain subaltern wh... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Tearaway Tongue "Poor Steven Norris; once you've got a reputation for a tearaway tongue, it's ha... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Schloss Rammelfeste Notwithstanding his mother's fears, Helmut Newton did not become a homosexual. F... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Once Upon a Time "Delius returned to England from France in 1918 with a new orchestral work for t... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Bargain Portrait "An American called on chance at Sir William Orpen's studio last summer and want... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Carnations "On the occasion of an important debate ambassadors packed the Distinguished Vis... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Primroses "During an unsuccessful attempt to win a Sheffield seat, Tim Renton, Minister of... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
The Vamp Like most screenwriters, Nunnally Johnson was often peeved by the liberties whic... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Humdinger While attending the performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera one evening, Art... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Samson and Delilah Though Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epics did well at the box office, many criti... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Shopping with Kunitz The poet Stanley Kunitz was famed for his sly sense of humor and courtly manner.... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Lucky Clemens Roger Clemens, the winner of six Cy Young Awards, struck out his 4,000th batter ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Hoffman & Hackman One day during the production of Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury, Jeremy Piven... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Vagabond Halfback When Johnny "Blood" McNally, the so-called "Vagabond Halfback," began his NFL ca... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Abysmal Performance At one point in the 1995 season, the Minnesota Twins had the worst record in maj... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Snoop Doggy Bagg Snoop Doggy Dogg was fired from his first job as a grocery bagger. "I was better... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
War Film The director Samuel Fuller knew that nothing he presented on the screen could ap... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Midriff Nazi "Girls weren't allowed to wear midriffs [midriff-bearing shirts] at my high scho... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Schulberg Method Budd Schulberg was once asked about his writing process. "First I clean my typew... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Guenther Kaufmann Murder Weapon In November 2002, German actor Guenther Kaufmann was found guilty of murdering h... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Cheryl Miller "She got game," Stuff magazine once said of former WNBA star Cheryl Mille... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Al Green & the Damn Music After Al Green stopped recording secular music to devote his life to the church ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Mysterious Robert Rich At the Academy Awards in 1957, a writer named Robert Rich won Best Motion Pictur... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Gargantuan Insult The famed French caricaturist Honoré Daumier was once sentenced to six months in... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Redstone & Co. After divocing his wife Phyllis in 2002, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone married... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Sarah Polley & the Walt Disney Company One day during the Gulf War, Sarah Polley attended a children's awards show in W... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
William McGonagall: Oblivious Though widely hailed as the world's worst poet, William McGonagall was apparentl... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Ali-Lujah! Ali Larter was once asked to name the nicest surprise she had ever received from... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Mike Vogel: Grinder Though Mike Vogel was a regular skateboarder in high school, many of his friends... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Jacques Mbembo, African acrobat "A burning rope and a grass skirt may be a dangerous combination for the average... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Burning Spear: Rasta Man Roots reggae legend Burning Spear converted to Rastafarianism after allegedly se... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Ray Scampinella: Clearing Attempt Shortly before his retirement in 2004, veteran NHL linesman Ray Scampinella offi... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Christopher Logue: Poetical Celebration "Christopher Logue and the painter Derek Boshier were on their way to see the pu... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Cate Blanchett: Beautiful Modesty "[Cate Blanchett] refuses outright to play the star game. When told she'd been v... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Brendan Fraser: Wedding Proposal While vacationing in Paris, Brendan Fraser resolved to propose to his long-time ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Balzac: Trencherman "A physically unappealing man given to loud dress and coarse ways, Balzac was as... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
David Schwimmer: Pallbearer David Schwimmer, famously selective about his roles, was keen to appear in Matt ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Sigmund Freud: Interpretation of Dreams "Sigmund Freud, drawing largely from his own memories and dreams,
published wh... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Young Robert Mitchum: Player's Guild "[Robert Mitchum] unwillingly got his first taste of acting. His sister [Annette... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Neal Pollack: Promotional Tour "After Neal Pollack published his 'The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Litera... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Julia Child: Perfectionist "As a scientist, [Julia Child] was obsessed with discovering how to make perfect... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Ralph Nader: Dirty Linen Following Howard Dean's endorsement of John Kerry during the 2004 presidential e... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Tom Coughlin: Tom the Tyrant In 2004, three New York Giants filed grievances against head coach Tom "The Tyra... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Raoul Felder: Star of David "[Celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder] is full of unlikely stories, such as th... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Michael Shafer: 15 Minutes In 2000, Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer joined a rese... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Al Sharpton & Howard Dean "During the final debate before the caucuses [in early 2004], Howard Dean faced ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Chris Osgood: Wayne Gretzky Breakaway Goaltender Chris Osgood was once asked what he thought about when he saw Wayne G... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Bill Clinton: Clinton On the Stump In 2002, former president Bill Clinton continued to campaign for Democratic cand... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Cranberries Bounce "Cranberries bounce. According to folklore, this discovery was made by John Webb... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Groucho Marx: Holy Matrimony "When [Groucho Marx] stood before the alter with his first wife he had mischief ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Elayne Boosler: Down by the River Elayne Boosler: "Men and women perceive crime differently. Once when I was walki... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Roy Rogers: Trigger Happy? "An American cowboy star [Roy Rogers?], famous for his sanctimonious good influe... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Carol Vorderman: Ziegfeld Folly "One day we were recording 'Countdown' in the Yorkshire Television studios in Le... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Bob Shaye: Pork and Beans Lord of the Rings producer Bob Shaye once worked with his father, a wholesal... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Roseanne Barr: Bare Roseanne Barr regularly made tabloid headlines in 1988 and 1989. Among the most ... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Meryl Streep: Mizrahi Gown In June 2004, Meryl Streep attended a gala in her honor at the American Film Ins... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
Ariana Huffington: More Hypocrisy Ed Rollins, who managed Michael Huffington's campaign in the 2003 California gub... [Number of votes: 29] Ratings:10.00
American Animal "If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States," H. L. ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Sweet Distraction In 2001, fuckingmodel Elle MacPherson played Kate Capshaw's lesbian lover in a t... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Drunken Malcolm Lowry "It was in North Vancouver that [Malcolm Lowry] completed his masterpiece, ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Young Thomas Arne Thomas Arne's father, an upholsterer and undertaker, expected his son to become ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Caviar Crisis Overfishing in the Caspian Sea after the demise of the Soviet Union resulted in ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Class Act Sports announcer David Coleman was famous for his verbal bloopers. "There goes J... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Ensemble Performance (long) "The Edinburgh Festival fringe was set alight in 1983 by an outstanding producti... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Times Blooper? One day in August 2003, "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno came across a curious bloop... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Good Copier The famous art collector Elaine Dannheisser (who once donated 75 contemporary wo... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Superb Showman "Miles Thomas, chairman of BOAC [British Overseas Airways Corporation], was a fu... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Rupal? RuPaul was once asked about his favorite actors. "Porn star Daryl Brock is incre... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Candlestick Park 1961's 10-inning Major Leauge All-Star game in Candlestick Park was notable for ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
DP Trouble? Although the Farrelly Brothers eventually became successful Hollywood directors,... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
DMBare? In June 2000, the Dave Matthews Band played at Chicago's Soldier Field Stadium. ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
R.A.L.P.H. Jackie Gleason once gave Ralph Kramden's bus driver's uniform to R.A.L.P.H. (the... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Precept An admiring student once asked Martin Routh to supply a precept which might serv... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Perfect Hostess (long) "The Thalbergs and the Fairbankses were next-door neighbors in Santa Monica and ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Burried? In 1954, William S. Burroughs sold his typewriter to buy heroin. Though he kept ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Kiana Tom Fitness guru and "Flex Appeal" host Kiana Tom (whose name means "calm water" in ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Magnum, A.I.A.? Tom Selleck discovered acting - and the meaning of serendipity - at the Universi... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Bucephalus One day a Thessalian visited the Macedonian court, offering to sell the King (Ph... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
WAC Logo In July 2003, Sombat Tanprasertsuk, chief of the country's diseases control depa... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Benjamin Bratt: Edgy Performance At one point during the production of Piñero (based on the life of the po... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Sea Lord Leak "J. L. Garvin, editor of the Observer was repeatedly given secret informa... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Minor Correction Some time after Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, Richard Russo w... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Hill's Last Words Joe Hill, an itinerant laborer, hobo, and songwriter, joined the International W... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Ham "Among the friends who stood with Dottie [Dorothy Parker] on those California st... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Shoddy Coleridge While riding with a friend near his home in the Lake District one day, Samuel Ta... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Hail Marye During the fighting in Fredericksburg in 1862, Confederate troops under General ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Artful Observation One day a guest in Sir Godfrey Kneller's home remarked upon a full-length portra... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Beef Stew? Mae West followed a strict daily regimen. "I take two colonics every day and I'm... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Parity? Not surprisingly, Al Gore was widely criticised for hiring famed feminist author... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Shajar-al-Durr When the Egyptian Sultan died during the siege of Cairo, his wife, Shajar-al-Dur... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Sporting Wisdom Tom Glavine was once asked why he had chosen to play baseball rather than hockey... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Rickety Advice Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey once offered a word of advice to an aspir... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Unfrocked? The former rabbi Lewis Browne was once asked by a colleague about his early care... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Pocketbook At the tender age of seventeen, Carson McCullers arrived in New York City to att... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Pauline Kael: Deep Throat Critic David Denby was once an acolyte of legendary New Yorker film critic Pauli... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Blank Canvas One day James Whistler was dismayed to learn that his recent order of blank canv... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Cardboard Candidate? Alice Longworth, famed for her acerbic political commentary, was particularly in... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Maxwell Anderson In 1930, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote Elizabeth the Queen for Al... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Wages of War Thomas Carlyle, famed for his view that justice and progress were best secured, ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
F or F sharp During the rehearsal of one of Anton Bruckner's symphonies one day, the conducto... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Phony Goodbye? On September 28th, 1992, George Bush visited Dallas to take credit for an anti-c... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Dietrich & Pasternak Producer Joe Pasternak was so infatuated with Marlene Dietrich that he frequentl... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
No Matter! In 1797, Madame de Stael, a great admirer of Napoleon's, pursued and flattered h... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Famous Last Words "...when sitting in the car waiting for my sister, who was buying apples in an o... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Introducing Goldwyn "After Groucho Marx introduced Sam Goldwyn [at a Friars Club roast], Goldwyn mad... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Falsetto Despite his considerable bulk, G. K. Chesterton had a surprisingly mild falsetto... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Queen of the Occult Queen Victoria - a noted believer in things occult - once paid Benjamin Disraeli... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Pioneering Director "When I was 19 at NYU, I got caught by the school security smoking pot in my roo... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Jingoistica After recording such war anthems as "Don't Tread on Me" and "One" (a song about ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Young Margaret Laurence While browsing through Margaret Laurence's library one day, a visitor
happened ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Nutty Pop Iggy Pop (whose absurd stage antics included smearing himself with peanut butter... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Toupee In one of his columns, Ed Sullivan happened to mention that George Burns wore a ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Que? At a press conference during the 2003 California gubernatorial election, Arnold ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
ZZero G In 1980, ZZ Top wrote to NASA and formally requested that the band be booked as ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Expiry Date? Shortly before his death, British actor Robert Morley made a curious request: he... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Doctor Who "Harold Macmillan's famous unflappable style was evident at a party at the Waldo... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Queen of Wit As a stunt to publicize the debut of a play in which Lady Diana Cooper was set t... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Cybill Disobedience "In her new book [Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, El... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Donabate Sunset "George Moore, when he and I were crossing the railway viaduct at Donabate, was ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Innocent Criticism "There is no reason... innocence should not be a valid theme for music," Colin W... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Laughton & Breen During the production of They Knew What They Wanted (1940), the tale of a... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
World's Greatest Lover? Though his first wife (the actress Jean Acker) was a notorious lesbian, Rudolph ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Viscountess Cooper? When Duff Cooper was made a viscount in 1951 (after the return of the Conservati... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Elegy "It is said, with what truth I know not, that Liszt got Verdi to give him a lett... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Soft-Bodied Sensualist The American composer Charles Ives was also a successful insurance magnate. Not ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Close Encounter On his second day on the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steve... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Talleyrand & Charles X One day in 1815, Charles X, unaware that his brother had recently fled (on March... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Campaign Stop While standing beside a political opponent on a balcony at a rally one day, Thom... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Green in Graceland Tom Green, an inveterate practical joker, once went on a tour of Graceland - wea... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Ailes & Matalin Fox News CEO Roger Ailes once referred to Mary Matalin and Jane Wallace, then co... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Paul Maurice: NHL Referees During a game one night, Carolina Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice was peeved by a ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Matthau & Steisand Walter Matthau was no fan of Barbra Steisand's work. "I have more talent in my s... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
13th Hole Japanese golfer Tsuneyuki Nakajima set something of a record at the 1978 Masters... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Sarah Wynter & the Fake Boob Incident Early in her career Sarah Wynter auditioned for a host of saucy roles. To up the... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Cultural Ambassador In his capacity as a semi-official "cultural ambassador" for Slovenia, the philo... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
On With The Show? "Knowing how fuckingstitious theatre people are, Mr Lawrence Wright announced th... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
William McGonagall: Whale of a Poet William McGonagall, widely acclaimed as the world's worst poet, did not begin wr... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Byron Leftwich on Showboating "I don't think you should spike the ball in a guy's face or try to show a guy up... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Thanksgiving Moron "I met someone [famous] whose birthday was November 22nd," Bill Murray once reca... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Howard Dean: Please... Howard Dean took an early lead in the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination ra... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Elliot Abrams "In the second Bush Presidency [Elliot Abrams] was offered a job with the Nation... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Norm Macdonald: Boyish Appearance While guesting on "The Late Show with David Letterman" one evening, Norm Macdona... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Tricia Heifer? "I was painfully skinny," Tricia Helfer once recalled of her adolescence. "I had... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Introducing Wes Craven Wes Craven's first commercial feature was a grisly horror film about some young ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Yves Mirande: Gourmand "In the restaurant on the Rue Saint-Augustin," A. J. Liebling once recalled, "M.... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Jamie Farr: Casting "M*A*S*H" In 1972, Jamie Farr was cast to play Cpl./Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger on the classic... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
James Baker: Tax Cuts & Politics "In 1981, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, invited the financial... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Ken Livingstone & the London Tube In January 2001, London mayor Ken "Red Ken" Livingstone hired Bob Kiley - a form... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
John Edwards: Two Americas "The Super Tuesday Primaries were today," Conan O'Brien reported in early March ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Christopher Lee: Lights! "1948 brought Christopher Lee's first roles. It also brought his first crushing ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Langley Collyer: Booby Trap "[Eccentric collector and recluse] Langley Collyer was crushed to death in his o... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Studio Execs: Dumb & Dumber? In a classic scene in Dumb & Dumber, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels obliviou... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Sammy Sosa: Clubhouse Chat In May 2004, Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa missed a game against the San Diego... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Elizabeth Asquith: Edgeways In a letter to her daughter Elizabeth's husband, Prince Antoine Bibesco, Margot ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Introducing Georgia O’Keeffe "It was New Year's Day, 1916, and pioneering photographer and art impresario Alf... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Aneurin Bevan: Wartime Censorship During World War II, British politician Aneurin Bevan observed that censorship w... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Karl Lagerfeld: Arabic Blooper "In 1994, a dress that Karl Lagerfeld designed for Chanel was pulled from the se... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Zach Braff: Stuffy Suburbanite While shooting a scene on location one day, someone on the set of ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Graham Taylor: Bonfire Blooper While moving house in 2004, children's author Graham Taylor was surprised to fin... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Telly Savalas: Who Loves Ya, Baby? Before embarking on a writing career, James Ellroy caddied for various celebriti... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Carson Kressly: Queer Eye for Dodge Ball "I knew I had fuckinghuman styling powers when I was on the playground," "Queer ... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Ted Leonsis: Capital Comment At the time of his purchase of the Washington Capitals (in May 2000), AOL Vice C... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
John Thune: Off-Budget In 2004, future Republican South Dakota Senator John Thune was asked by George S... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Paul Giamatti: Embarrassing Role Paul Giamatti's most embarrassing role? "They did a remake of 'Planet of the Ape... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
U.S. Army & Civilian Contracts In 2004, the U.S. Army Small Business Office hosted a conference at Caesar's Pal... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Chris Farley: Toilet Humor As friends and colleagues would later attest, there was almost nothing Chris Far... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Ben Affleck: Natural Buoyancy During the production of Armageddon (1998), Ben became the first civilian... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Zack de la Rocha: AATA In 2001, Zack de la Rocha quit Rage Against the Machine. "He's toning it down in... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Freddy Heineken: Cat Lover? One day famed brewer Freddy Heineken showed a female journalist around his Amste... [Number of votes: 28] Ratings:10.00
Impulsive Pevere & Planet of the Apes Shortly after the summer release of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes (in 2... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Rail Pass Although the special rail passes which Henry Watterson and other American journa... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Lights Out? In 1878, Sir Eramus Wilson made a curious prediction: "When the Paris Exhibition... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Ballsy Princess Catherine I ruled that no gentleman should be drunk before 9 pm and no lady shou... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Via Galactica "After a career packed with theatrical triumphs Sir Peter Hall, the British dire... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Manute Though his father was only 5'10," future Houston Rockets star forward Manute Bol... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Morning Critic In June 2003, "This Morning" TV critic Jaci Stephen wrote a glowing review of Ch... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Epic Moment During the production of The Covered Wagon (1923), an ambitious film abou... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Three Strikes Famed Brooklyn (and later Los Angeles) Dodgers manager Walter Alston once played... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Black Prince In 29th September 2003, the prize-winning Clydesdale colt Black Prince was deeme... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
New Statesman "When Gerald Gardiner's father visited him at Harrow he noticed a copy of the [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Crappy Playwright? In 1887, Anton Chekhov wrote a letter to Maria Kiselyova suggesting that writers... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Snubs Beau Brummell once famously engaged in a nasty row with his former friend, the p... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Dempsey & Firpo "On the evening of September 14, 1923," Vancouver Sun publisher Stuart Ke... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Gena Lee Nolin: Grumpy Rhino Gena Lee Nolin found negotiating the set of Sheena rather tricky. "The li... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Philip VI: Crecy Fool The historian Arthur Bloch once named Philip VI of France one of the worst gener... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Food Fight "It's a safe bet that since it was New Year's Eve the band was pretty well stone... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Million Dollar Idea "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous," famed science fiction writer L. Ron ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Cloakroom "When we were in St Louis they gave a splendid party for me and there were a lot... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Plight of the Entertainer Hollywood actress turned musician Shawnee Smith formed a hard rock band — and ga... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Artificial Sincerity? Maurice Ravel was frequently criticized for composing "artificial" music. Igor S... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Sleep Alone "The lyrics for the song Moby would eventually call 'Sleep Alone' began with an ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Toys in the Attic What led Mighty Mighty Bosstones frontman Dicky Barrett to pursue a musical care... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
The French Touch The French Touch, starring Arlene Francis and Brian Aherne, had its memor... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Nevermore? Cleveland Browns broadcaster Doug Dieken, who played fourteen seasons with the t... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Healthy Competition? Early in her career, Frances McDormand moved to New York, got a job waiting tabl... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Love at First Sight Despite her magnetic stage presence, Lotte Lenya was not renowned for her physic... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Damn Yankees July 1983: With two outs in the top of the ninth inning of a close game between ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Constitutional Lawyer? While out campaigning one day, President Bill Clinton answered some of his criti... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Woody: Keepin' it Real Despite having received a dozen Oscar nominations, Woody Allen did not make an a... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Stranger Music Avante garde composer Nicolas Varchausky once bugged an elevator in the Colon Th... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
The Negotiator "All these arguments I hear year after year about how 'Oh, there's no writers' a... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
James Lawrence's Last Words James Lawrence died commanding the frigate Chesapeake during a naval batt... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Richmond Though suffering from a terrible headache one day, Bret Harte attended a lecture... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Magic Effect "Since the middle of the 1930s, the city's best sleight-of-hand men have been ge... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Boots When the ship on which Wellington was traveling one evening was buffeted by a vi... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Daniel Deluwis? Daniel Day-Lewis once professed to find acting surprisingly easy, for a surprisi... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Splendor in the Grass? One autumn day in October 1984, Todd McFarlane proposed to his high school sweet... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Limelight Monkees frontman Davy Jones was famed for his love of the limelight. "My wife sa... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Dueling Pianists One day Merit Rosenthal was informed that rival pianist Artur Schnabel had been ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Radio Visionary In the 1920s, David Sarnoff sought investment capital for the development of the... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Fra Filippo Such was Fra Filippo Lippi's love of women that his concentration often wavered.... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Are You Ned Rorem? The writer and composer Ned Rorem was once approached by a wastedr, who asked, "... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Mum's the Word The legendary gangster Arnold Rothstein upheld the Mob's code of secrecy to the ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Recognition "I almost think that if I'd gotten the Nobel Prize when ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Snoop Sir John Willes (Britain's lord chief justice) was once approached by a nosy cle... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Opa! After a dinner in Greece one day, Barbra Streisand, following the local custom, ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Black Blooper Don Rickles once made a memorable guest appearance on the "Tonight Show With Joh... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Good Excuse "You'd like a little whiskey?" R. A. Butler once offered a visiting newspaper wr... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Ruby Cross In October 2002, David Gest celebrated his seven-month wedding anniversary with ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Cheeky Fans After unveiling a model of Brad Pitt in 1999, staffers at Madame Tussaud's (the ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Purple POTUS Eater? In addition to his stint as President of the United States, Jimmy Carter worked ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
L'Amour Catherine Martin was a designer at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art (... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Father of his People The Duke of Buckingham once attended a formal event at which Charles II was addr... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Violin Stunt Jascha Heifetz once attended a vaudeville show during which a performer demonstr... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Postwar Politics "When my brother Alec was Foreign Secretary," Henry Douglas-Home once recalled, ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Bartok's Nose "In New York, Bela Bartok longed for Hungary and its countryside. Walking in Man... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Quickie Question "Montgomery enjoyed recounting a story which dated from pre-war days when he was... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Gielbad? "John Gielgud's first production was the Oxford University Dramatic Society's ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Midsummer's Nice Dream "We opened in Auckland, New Zealand, with Hamlet," Ronald Pertwee recalle... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Cohn When Harry Cohn informed his staff one day that he was leaving for New York, the... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Delicieux Although French prime minister Georges Clemenceau was in his seventies during Wo... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Anti-God Battery "When summer came, it was taken for granted that we should meet at the cricket g... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Noose? Samuel Goldwyn was famed for his "unique" verbal constructions. "If I entered in... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Yapper In 1965, Alfred Hitchcock was given the Milestone Award by the Screen Producers ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Screen Legend On April 9, 1979, screen legend John Wayne, stricken with cancer, appeared at hi... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
What the Foch? Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Commander in Chief of the Allied armies at the end of Wo... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Alien Landing In mid-November 2003, Elcio Berti, the eccentric Brazilian mayor of Bocaiuva do ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy was famed for his enthusiasm. While serving as musical director o... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Sisto & Son Jeremy Sisto's jazz musician father was delighted when Sisto landed the role of ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Young Curt Gowdy (long) "I was at home," Curt Gowdy recalled, "down in the dumps [and recently discharge... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Unadulterated Rot Art Buchwald's satirical articles caught the attention of Dwight Eisenhower's pr... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Pelvic Noise In 2003, Thurston Moore made a memorable appearance at the annual Bang on a Can ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Wily Balanchine "[George Balanchine] had all the pedigree of Russian ballet but a really forward... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
John Mellencamp & Bob Dylan John Mellencamp was once asked to name the perfect song. "Dylan's 'Like a Rollin... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Wilhelm Stekel: Kreutzer Sonata "Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata' [for violin and piano] was notorious for its erot... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Kruked Logic Though admired by many, John Kruk's modesty occasionally offended his profession... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Young Erin Rocha One day in 2003, a 16-year-old British schoolgirl named Erin Rocha visited a rec... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Gogol / Nozdrya! Gogol was obliged to omit the disdainful exclamation "Nozdrya!" from his novel ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Lincoln Insult Abraham Lincoln had little regard for undisciplined speakers. "He can compress t... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Clippers Headline The Los Angeles Clippers once expressed interest in acquiring the Dallas Maveric... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow In 2000, Jonathan Wyatt, W.M. Tullett, and G.W. McNaughton were awarded an Ig No... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
George Clooney: Dangerous Moustache In 2002, George Clooney directed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He also... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Colin Farrell: Farrell's Sister While working on a Colin Farrell profile one day, Details magazine's Bart... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Charles Barkley & Dennis Kucinich While attending an NBA game in February 2004, Charles Barkley spotted a man wear... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Claus Sorenson: feast of writing "With hundreds of people at their keyboards, collaboration on a work of literatu... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
Steve Augieri: Long Journey When his three-song demo found its way into the hands of Journey guitarist Neal ... [Number of votes: 27] Ratings:10.00
