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Robert Reed: Strawberry Heaven
Robert Reed, a Shakespearean actor who loved the theater, hated his role (as Mik...
Curt Response
While filming an action-packed scene one day, famed director Michael Curtiz, a s...
Pancho Villa, Inc.
"In 1914, a Hollywood motion picture company signed a contract with Mexican revo...
Fast Learner
The legendary conductor, composer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein was once asked ...
Cruel Intentions?
Among Reese Witherspoon's most challenging performances was the pivotal breakup ...
Tromatic Experience
In 1974 Yale students Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz founded an independent New ...
Pablo Picasso: Fake Picassos
The production of forged Picassos naturally grew apace with the artist's acclaim...
Clap of Thunder
"During a rehearsal for Macbeth at Her Majesty's, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tr...
Imperceptibly Ajar
"The door is imperceptibly ajar." Thus reads a stage direction in one of Samuel ...
Vincent Gallo & the Complex...
In a memorable scene in Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny (2003), Daisy Lem...
Von Stoheim's Extravagance
Erich von Stroheim's films are noted for the richness of their characterization ...
Jawbone of an Ass
Though Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epics were welcomed by audiences, many criti...
Happy Ending?
During the production of his classic Oscar-winning 1930 film ...
Kevin Costner: Perfectionist
Even in his early days as a struggling actor, Kevin Costner always marched to th...
Cimino Roulette
In a harrowing scene in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, Christopher Wal...
Billy Bob Thornton: Special...
For his role as a sex-crazed, foul-mouthed department store Santa in Terry Zwigo...
Andy Warhol: Saving Face
"I once had lunch with a select group of Warhol regulars, including Fred Hughes ...
The Powers That Be (long)
Director Andy Tennant anticipated having difficulty obtaining permission to film...
Critical Point
After the first world war, the authenticity of George Wesley Bellows's painting ...
Sharp Observation
Before he was deposed in 1909, Abdul Hamid II, the ruthless sultan of Turkey, co...
Peeping Tom?
Though he wanted to serve in Vietnam, Tom Clancy's poor eyesight prevented him f...
Mafioso Monkey
One day during the production of Marked Woman (1937), producer Hal B. Wal...
Statue of Ariel
"A figure of Ariel sculpted by Eric Gill in the late 1920s for the facade of the...
Coping with Death
Arnold Bennett, a stickler for detail, once boasted that Darius Clayhanger's dea...
Jack Nicholson's Stinger
One day on the set of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Jack Nicholson soug...
Robert Ballard: Titanic in ...
"I was here [in Las Vegas] with Robin Williams," Billy Crystal once recalled. "W...
Dermot Mulroney: Raw Dedica...
During the production of The Wedding Day, Dermot Mulroney shot a nude sce...
Redd Foxx: Qualifications
"Sanford and Son" star Redd Foxx, a stickler for perfection, often challenged th...
Sean Penn: Propman
New York Post Page Six reporter George Rush: "Sean Penn... had been on th...
Tobacco Stickler
Actor Robert Davi was a stickler for accuracy. During the shooting of an early s...
Screw Turner?
James Whistler was once invited to offer his opinion of whether a certain painti...
Erich von Stoheim: Obsessiv...
Director Erich von Stroheim was famed for his obsession with detail. During the ...
Assassination of Burton?
While shooting a pivotal scene in The Assassination of Trotsky, Richard B...
Only Who?
Tristan Bernard once uttered a particularly witty remark - to which a friend adm...
Lonesome Pine
In 1916, the legendary director Cecil B. De Mille produced a film adaptation of ...
Edmund Grainger: Smoke Signals
During the production of The Fabulous Texan (1947), director Edmund Grain...
Zerlinaaa!
At the final rehearsal of Don Giovanni in Prague, Mozart was greatly disa...
Herbert Bonaparte
One day on the Italian set of King Vidor's screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ...
Watercolour
"The essence of watercolour, say aficionados, is a highly personal, immediate re...
Authoress?
His comprehensive study of Homer's work convinced Samuel Butler that the ...
Wellington's Grunt?
Commissioned to produce the colossal equestrian statue of Wellington in Edinburg...
Orwell Enigma
"[George Orwell's] insistence on living in uncomfortable conditions, his refusal...
Nicolas Cage: Cockroach
Nicolas Cage, a fearless actor who won Jim Carrey's admiration for his "elephant...
Exodus
During the filming of Exodus, Otto Preminger had difficulty eliciting tea...
Gluck's Last Judgment
Near the end of his life, Christoph Gluck was asked by Salieri whether a bass or...
Romijn-Stamos Mystique
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos was once asked how fans had reacted to her casting as Myst...
Susanna Clarke: Strange Com...
Susanna Clarke spent ten years writing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, la...
Robert Flaherty: Nanook of ...
While shooting his acclaimed documentary Nanook of the North (in northern...
Tom Welling: Tanning Ban
"Smallville" star Tom Welling was once asked about rumors that the show's produc...
Lawrence of Arabia
Lowell Thomas once took issue with the depiction of T. E. Lawrence in David Lean...
Portholes
A naval officer once complained to Joseph Turner that the ships in his view of P...
Sharp Onservation
Erich von Stroheim, famed for his obsession with detail, often lavished inordina...
Slanguage
William Gibson is now praised for a writing style which critics once called wast...
Song of Love
In 1947, Katharine Hepburn played Clara Schumann in Clarence Brown's ...
Witness for the Execution?
The critic Frank Harris once reviewed Arnold Bennett's "The Old Wives' Tale," co...
Wimpy Heston
Charlton Heston was cast as Moses in Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epic ...
Small Sacrifice?
Director Otto Preminger was famed for his tyranical rule on the set. One day dur...
Property Birds
"Irving was intending to use, for a new production, a cage of 'property' birds w...
Romaine Brooks
Romaine Brooks's inherited wealth freed her from the need to please her sitters:...
Captain Oates' Left Sock
In 2004, "EastEnders" star June Brown (Dot Cotton) was amused to learn that Dudl...
Master Painter
Many of the scenes in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) were filmed ...
Manic Street Preachers: For...
"In 1991, before a gig in Norwich, [Manic Street Preachers] had a row with music...
Vitalij Djomocka: Gangster ...
After becoming upset at the unrealistic portrayal of gangster life on Russian te...
Adrian Young's Pub
Such was Adrian Young's fondness for having a drink down at the pub that the No ...
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