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Sitting Pretty
Oliver Herford was traveling on a crowded streetcar one day with his young nephe...
Brother Love Bone?
Upon first seeing a certain singer (with whom they would later form a band calle...
Gallup Poll
As an editor of the student paper at the University of Iowa in the early 1920s, ...
Bridge To Paradise?
In 2002, Ian Brown attended a fashion show called 'Viva Italia' in Toronto. "Sop...
Bait And Switch?
One day Alexandre Dumas and a few of his friends found themselves discussing the...
Luciano Pavarotti: Kiss of God
Luciano Pavarotti, famed for his flirtatiousness, was once interviewed on televi...
No Justice!
One day in his eighty-seventh year, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. passed a b...
Frosty Reply?
While attending a dinner party one evening, Poet Laureate Robert Frost and his f...
Dietrich Close Up
One day Marlene Dietrich railed at her photographer for producing a series of un...
Niece vs Nurse
As he lay dying, Henry Arthur Jones was asked whether he would prefer his niece ...
Death Bed Confession
Toward the end of his life, a hospitalized John Barrymore - aware that he was dy...
Kylie Minogue: Bottoms Up
In July 2002, Madame Tussaud's (London's famous wax museum) unveiled a new ...
Debbie Reynolds: No Such Th...
Debbie Reynolds' film career began at MGM when she won a beauty contest at age 1...
Battle of the Sexes
"Much of this talk about feminism is nonsense," Beatrice Webb was told one day. ...
Rock And A Hard Place?
Mme de Stael and the beautiful Mme Recamier once found themselves seated at an e...
What an Ass!
In 2002, Jean-Claude Van Damme appeared in a documentary on Kylie Minogue. "I go...
Loony Poet
How did Li Po, generally considered China's finest poet, die? While attempting t...
The Pitts
Shortly after Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were married, Jay Leno posed an int...
The Real Dali
"Salvador Dali and Lorraine Bracco, aka Dr. Melfi [on 'The Sopranos'], had a bit...
Brain vs Brawn
The celebrated dancer Isadora Duncan once wrote to George Bernard Shaw declaring...
Discriminating Taste
Thomas Beecham was once asked whether it was true that he preferred not to have ...
Pearly Gates
Harrison Ford was once asked: If heaven exists, what would you want God to say t...
Leprechaun
In 2003, Dylan McDermott, best known for his role on "The Practice," made a gues...
Charmer
Henry Clay once found himself conversing with a woman of his remote acquaintance...
E-Yow!
Tommy Lee was once asked how he had fallen in "love at first sight" with Pamela ...
Groucho Marx: Good Looks
"She got her good looks from her father," Groucho Marx once remarked of an acqua...
Sting Like a Bee?
Thomas Beecham was once asked why he always chose such generously-proportioned l...
Omar Sharif: Lady-Killer
Omar Sharif was famed for his womanizing ways. "Tell me, Mr. Sharif," a journali...
Beauty and the Beast
One day Shirley Temple told her young daughter Lorax (who later became a bass pl...
Broken Nose
"I once slammed the door behind me, not knowing that my wife, Gladys Cooper, was...
Royal Reception
"At a reception in Vancouver during the visit of the royal family to celebrate B...
Miss Israel: Universal Soldier
In May 2002, Puerto Rico hosted the 51st annual Miss Universe competition. Thoug...
Metaphorsythia
Having come into a sizable inheritance, Santayana decided to leave his post at H...
Real Women
"Betsy Johnson was applauded for designing clothes for 'real women, cellulite an...
Miss Pentagon?
Despite the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Miss America pageant we...
Molto Nudo!
Sophia Loren was once asked why she had stopped doing nude scenes. "When Sophia ...
Taj Mahal
In 1629, the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan's favorite wife (Mumtaz Mahal) died while ...
Self-Regard?
Brad Pitt was once asked whether he considered himself to be attractive. Pitt's ...
Golden Memory
Though John Glenn, like all astronauts, found the experience of looking back at ...
Sexpot?
At their wedding, Dick Haymes (Rita Hayworth's fourth husband) was asked whether...
Vivica A. Fox?
Vivica A. Fox was once told that her name was a question. The answer? "You bet y...
Davis & Lorring
Joan Lorring was just a teenager When she arrived at Warner Bros. to play opposi...
Miss UNC
In November 2003, Aja Locklear, the reigning Miss University of North Carolina, ...
Fostering Annoyance
In December 1999, Jodie Foster found herself in a dispute with CBS over her appe...
Garbage State?
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe once took issue with stereotypes about her home state (New Jers...
Lovely Compensation?
Ava Gardner's first screen test did not go well - or did it? "The director clapp...
Feminist Education?
Joan Rivers once appeared as a guest on Mike Bullard's talk show "Open Mike". Ha...
Batchmaker?
Pat Wexler, the famed New York "dermatologist to the stars," often dispensed acn...
Stendhal Syndrome
One day in 1817, the famed French writer Stendhal became overwhelmed while visit...
Worth 1000 Words?
Garcelle Beauvais was once asked whether she would ever appear nude on film. "If...
Playful Pun
Junius Booth, who had once suffered a badly broken nose, was once approached by ...
Grose Point Blank
One day comedian Andrew Grose asked his wife what she thought about incorporatin...
Watery Wonder
Though trained as a portrait artist, a trip in the 1750s to Italy - with its nat...
20 Year Difference
Maurice Chevalier and comedian Phil Silvers were chatting backstage one evening,...
Betty Grable
One day Betty Grable's five-year-old niece asked her whether she might join her ...
Angelic Voice
Franz Haydn visited Sir Joshua Reynolds in his studio one day shortly after the ...
Thousand Words?
Invitations to Hugh Hefner's legendary parties at the Playboy mansion were large...
Looker
Patrick Swayze, chosen as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1991, wa...
No Worries?
When Lady Astor won election to the British House of Commons in 1929, Winston Ch...
Himalaya Mama
Gertrude Hartley, while awaiting the birth of her child in Darjeeling, spent 15 ...
Brainy Reply
The model Padma Lakshmi often met compliments on her physical appearance with a ...
Dubious Compliment
Colin Farrell, famed for his uninhibited tongue, met Tom Cruise for the first ti...
Bit Nasty
Longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was not beloved by all of he...
hotornot.com
In 2000, a practical joker submitted a picture of Britney Spears to hotornot.com...
Body Blow
While crossing the Atlantic by ship one year, the famed portrait artist Joszi Ko...
Beard Liberation Front
In February 2003, the Beard Liberation Front (founded to fight "beardism" - an i...
Prom Queen
Halle Berry spent a charmed childhood competing in, and winning, beauty pageants...
Burlesque Berlusconi?
In March 2003, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attended the opening of ...
About a Boy
George Clooney once turned down the lead in About a Boy. His explanation?...
Hepburn's Cheekbones
Katharine Hepburn's stardom stemmed more from her strong character and dramatic ...
Beautiful Response
In May 2002, Sharon Osbourne (wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne) appeared on Peo...
Donald Rumsfeld: Sex Symbol
Rumsfeld biograher Midge Decter observed that, by 2002, U.S. Secretary of Defens...
Caprice: Teen Pageant
Caprice once entered a Miss Teen California beauty pageant. "It was a load of cr...
Daniel Day-Lewis: Day-Lewis...
At Bedales (his private school), 17-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis had his very own f...
Sophia Loren: Queen of the Sea
"[In 1949] although she was technically too young to enter, [Sophia Loren's moth...
Bono: White Knight
U2 frontman Bono once found himself aboard a plane on which the legendary beauty...
Barbra Streisand: Meeting S...
Barbra Streisand once had the pleasure of meeting Sophia Loren. "I would give an...
Kevin Spacey: Wrinkles in Time
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kevin Spacey was fascinated with the study of character....
Charles Atlas: Coney Island...
In his early days with the Coney Island Circus Side Show, Charles Atlas would de...
Lawrence of Arabia?
In 1962, after years on the stage at the Bristol Old Vic, Peter O'Toole finally ...
Frank Admission
Contrary to popular perception, Anne Frank's famous diary was not exclusively de...
Miss World
Halle Berry first found fame in 1985 when, at the tender age of seventeen, she w...
Miss Nasty USA
Kelly Hu started her career as a beauty pageant contestant. "Women will do anyth...
Naomi Campbell: Superbiatch
At the 2002 Miss Universe pageant, leggy fuckingmodel Naomi Campbell was asked b...
Artful Dodger
Diaghilev, sitting with Leon Bakst at a rehearsal one day, suddenly turned to th...
Bit Unfortunate
Early in her career, Lana Turner had her eyebrows shaved off and replaced with f...
Madonna: Hung Jury?
Upon first meeting Madonna, the Swedish director of the video for "Ray of Light"...
Mrs. Hyde
Lady Hyde retained her astonishing beauty well into her seventies. Her friend Ho...
Chastity
"It must be tough having a beautiful mother like Cher and being named Chastity,"...
Elementary Attraction
Sir Humphrey Davy's lectures on science during the Napoleonic Wars were extremel...
Young Oprah
One day in 1971, when she was 17 years old, Oprah Winfrey visited a radio statio...
Will Yun Lee: Aesthetic Sig...
Shortly after his appearance (as the villainous Colonel Moon) in
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John Kerry & Jon Bon Jovi
In June 2004, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a fundraiser h...
Tony Curtis: And Modest Too
Tony Curtis was once asked to name the most attractive person with whom he had e...
Francis Galton: Beauty Map
"In the eighteen-eighties, residents of cities across Britain might have noticed...
Yukio Mishima's Death
In 1970, the right-wing Japanese novelist and playwright Yukio Mishima proved th...
Dubious Compliment
In George Moore's Ulick and Soracha, Tadgh dies while gazing at the beaut...
Elegant Response
A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) once asked Buckmins...
Artichoke Queen
In 1947, Marilyn Monroe, then a little known Hollywood starlet, won a curious co...
Bette Davis Eyes
Bette Davis once taught Marilyn Monroe how to "act" pretty. Her method? Tilting ...
Peter King: Oscar Speech
In 2004, Peter King and Richard Taylor won Academy Awards for makeup for their c...
Virtuoso
Yehudi Menuhin surely numbers among the greatest virtuosos of all time. Indeed, ...
Calvin Klein Model
In December 2002, a giant shot of Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel was removed f...
Skin Deep?
Although Christina Ricci began acting at an early age and was typically cast as ...
Miss Germany
In January 2003, a red-headed dental assistant from Schleswig Holstein named Bab...
Airbrush
Supermodel Cindy Crawford was well acquainted with the illusory nature of physic...
Susan B. Anthony Dollar
"Frank Gasparro's daughter said it was Grecian design that influenced his first ...
Head-Turner
One afternoon Georges Simenon and the playwright Marcel Pagnol went for a stroll...
Lynda Carter: T&A
"This modeling agency I'd gone to was putting on the Miss USA contest," ...
Cate Blanchett: Beautiful M...
"[Cate Blanchett] refuses outright to play the star game. When told she'd been v...
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