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George Jessel: Dog Day Afte...
George Jessel was a longtime member of the comedians' Round Table at the exclusi...
Obstruction of Justice
After hosting a supper for several distinguished guests one evening, Sophie Arno...
Laborious Day
One night, when the director of Peter Pan dismissed the cast after a long...
Ottomaton?
One day, an English ambassador with whom Otto von Bismarck had been conversing f...
Legal Technicality
One day John Marshall and his fellow Supreme Court justices, having heard distur...
Spleen
Joseph Hyrtl once examined a particularly nervous candidate for a medical degree...
Kissing Bandit: What a Boob!
The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - was arrested at ...
Ronald Reagan: Hollywood Pr...
Secretary of State James Baker once gave Ronald Reagan a briefing book to study ...
Dana Snow: Budding Buddhist?
"I've been studying Zen Buddhism," Dana Snow once reported. "Zen teaches the val...
Dorothy Parker: Leaden Excuse
The New Yorker was launched (in 1925) by Harold Ross on a shoestring budg...
Hairy Explanation
In December 1999, The Guardian announced its winner for "Greatest PR Disa...
Blind Justice
One day Moshe Dayan, who lost an eye while fighting in the British army during W...
Smart Move
While working as an impecunious young reporter in Virginia City, Mark Twain was ...
Previous Engagement
Cher and Sonny Bono were once invited to dinner by Salvador Dali. "Dali must hav...
Determined Thief?
One day Zeno caught his slave stealing. Threatened with a good thrashing, he beg...
Debasing Comment
In his late twenties, John Maynard Keynes traveled to Africa with a friend from ...
White Lie?
In 1979, a city employee named Dan White went on a rampage and killed San Franci...
Wash Your Hands
During a speech before the British Institute of Meat one evening, Food Manufactu...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Benchley once attended the Broadway premiere of an unfortunate play. At o...
Timely Excuse
The poet Samuel Rogers once invited the Oxford scholar Richard Porson to dinner....
Wily Dalton
In 1832, John Dalton, the father of atomic theory, received a doctorate from Oxf...
Romark: Psychic Driver
On October 12th, 1977, the famed hypnotist Romark declared that, in a public dis...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Oral...
A woman was visiting the set of Eraser one day when a friend in the crew was...
12:05
Chico Marx once wrote the writer Heywood Broun a check for gambling debts, warni...
Cafe Central
Ferenc Molnar's affinity for the Cafe Central in Budapest was akin to Sartre's l...
Breach Loader
Alexandre Dumas was once involved in a duel with a young politician. As both wer...
Francois
One day while he was practicing, a woman called Arthur Rubinstein's home and ask...
Babe Ruth: Oink
When his train briefly stopped on its way to New York during pre-season training...
Classic Goldwyn
The director William Wyler - after trying in vain to explain a certain scene to ...
Classic Tartakover
The famous chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower was once asked to explain his a...
Buncha Punks
Early in their careers, Joey Ramone and his bandmates played so fast that they o...
Appointment for Therapy
After a traumatic love affair, the atheist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek be...
Vincent Gallo & the Complex...
In a memorable scene in Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny (2003), Daisy Lem...
George Hamilton: Lady's Man
George Hamilton, a legendary ladies' man, employed a variety of ruses to meet be...
Ernest Hemingway: Boum!
While courting his fourth wife, Mary, in Paris in 1944, Ernest Hemingway, accord...
Lizz Winstead: Catholic Mother
"I'm Catholic, and my mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm," L...
Alan Zweibel: Adverb Form
"Gilda [Radner] was doing Emily Litella [on 'Saturday Night Live'], who... was h...
Quick Thinking
Shortly after the publication of Elements of Criticism, Henry Kames met a...
Augustan Dismissal
Augustus once ordered that a young insubordinate soldier be dismissed from his s...
Gramaticaly Devine?
A critic once suggested that the poet laureate Alfred Austin make changes to som...
Tricky Decision
On March 25, 1933, two days after Fritz Lang's film, Testament of Dr. Mabuse, wa...
Littoral Interpretation
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was once upbraided by President Chaim We...
Smoky Logic
Congressman Jack Brady was once reproached by a young woman for smoking on an el...
War Hawks Evasion Quiz
Match the following staunch proponents of the American war in Iraq (in 2003) wit...
Ergasiophobia
"When I was at boarding school," James Humes once recalled, "I desperately neede...
Labouchere's Sister
As a student at Cambridge, Henry Labouchere was stopped one day by a university ...
French Kiss
Maurice Chevalier was once asked about the French practice of kissing friends - ...
CIA at Work (long)
In early 2001, a plan was hatched by the Air Force and the CIA to arm an unmanne...
Soulful Explanation
Erasmus was once reproached for having failed to observe the Lenten fast. His re...
Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway...
In 1992, Ernest Hemingway's sons (John, Patrick and Gregory) formed Hemingway Lt...
Unpleasant Weather
Sheridan once found himself conversing with an annoying woman who noted that the...
17.5% Moron?
In 2002, Sir Nicholas Montagu appeared on a BBC-TV quiz show ("University Challe...
Allied Comrade?
During World War II Dashiell Hammett served on Adak in the Aleutian Islands, whe...
Wine Robot
In 1980, the Kavio Restaurant in Leith, Scotland purchased a robot named Donic (...
Three-Trumpet Trumpeter
As part of a package show, Bobby Sherwood and his band once toured several state...
Old Complaint
George Burns was once asked, late in life, about his preference for younger wome...
Dizzy Foreigner
In 1937, after an apprenticeship playing in jam sessions at various clubs (often...
Gross Absurdity
During a game one day, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Kevin Gross was visited by ...
What the Dickens?
Though his turn as Micawber in George Cukor's adaptation of the Charles Dickens ...
Sympathy In E Major?
While riding in a taxi in New York one day, Sir Thomas Beecham began repeatedly ...
Round Table
For years, George Burns ate lunch every day at a corner table in the Men's Grill...
Frankly Brilliant
After the death of his wife in the early 1770s, Benjamin Franklin considered mar...
Chores
One day, Daniel Webster and his brother Ezekiel were left at home alone with spe...
Old Excuse?
The careless driving of their coachmen once led Lord Alvanley and another noblem...
Manicurious
"Aug. 3, 1987: Joe Niekro's on the mound in Anaheim, pitching for the Minnesota ...
Urine Sample
Noel Coward was once asked for a urine sample by the doctor in attendance at the...
El Gallo
In his last fight, on October 10th, 1918, famed matador Raphael "El Gallo" Gomez...
Rothschild's Father
One evening, Lord Rothschild alighted from a hansom cab, giving the driver a gen...
Tannen's Toupee
Despite a successful stage career, Julius Tannen had great difficulty finding wo...
Petition Berners
"My brother Sacheverell, my sister-in-law and I were lunching with Lord Berners ...
Chestertonnage?
G. K. Chesterton, famed for his corpulence, gave a lecture in Pittsburgh one day...
Kitchen Confidential
The mad celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain was once asked about a certain scene in ...
Einstein's Attire
Albert Einstein's wife often suggested that he dress more professionally when he...
Rush Limbaugh: Boiled Down
"We do not need General Clark or any of the rest of you liberals," rabid Republi...
Christmas in L. A.
"My father was so cheap," A. J. Jamal once recalled, "that one year he told us S...
Mick Jagger: Laughter Lines
While attending a party one evening, the jazz singer George Melly was introduced...
Britney Spears: Touring New...
While driving through New Hampshire in April 2004, Britney Spears' tour bus was ...
Oscar Goodman: Atkins Diet
During an interview on NPR one day, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman mentioned that...
Moo Cows? Cows Moo?
James Joyce was once asked to explain what was taking him so long to complete ...
Barrymore's Soliloquy
Such was John Barrymore's contempt for the film medium that he pointedly refused...
Previous Engagement
A producer's assistant once telephoned John Barrymore and explained that, speaki...
Wilde About Flowers
Oscar Wilde, staying with friends in the country, arrived for breakfast one morn...
Mitsubishi Motors: Special ...
In 2000, regulators from Japan's transport ministry - investigating a product li...
84th Cousins, Twice Removed?
While touring with the Boston Celtics, Red Auerbach, the team's coach, bumped in...
Beckmann
"The dons once decided to hold a cocktail party for [German expressionist artist...
Caspar Weinblooper
While attending a briefing on NATO nuclear planning in Luxembourg in March 1985,...
Cloudy Day
Ring Lardner was once asked to speak at a formal banquet. He sent the chairman a...
Sean Penn: Butcher, Baker, ...
In 1987, Sean Penn served 32 days in jail for assaulting an extra who had taken ...
Brief Rebuttal
During a Supreme Court hearing one day, another lawyer demonstrated that Joseph ...
Rush Limbaugh: Rush in Rehab
"If people are violating the law by doing drugs," rabid Republican radio host Ru...
Robert Browning: Buttonhole
Robert Browning was once buttonholed at a party by a bore who riddled the poet w...
Reverend Hartke: Blue Laguna?
Reverend Hartke was a confidante of many American presidents, a national leader ...
Dirty, My Ass?
Former Coca-Cola president Robert Woodruff once visited a factory with ties to t...
Brothers Ashkenazi
A friend of Maurice Schwartz once overheard someone accusing him of monopolizing...
Sight Reader
"[While preparing for the first performance of Messiah in Dublin's Cheste...
National Hooky League
In mid-Febrary 2003, Montreal Canadiens defenseman Patrice Brisebois took a week...
Comical Explanation
In September 2003, Leefbaar Den Haag Party councillor Michel Dufresne and his co...
Fleabag Hotel
"Just after the war, when I went to Paris for Harper's Bazaar I stayed at...
Asleep at the Wheel
In 1987, Kenneth Parks employed a novel defense to explain why he had murdered h...
Twelve Hundred Thousand
At one point during the Civil War, Lincoln was asked how many men the Confederat...
Joe Torre: Blame Felix
During one remarkable game in July, 1975, the New York Mets' Joe Torre tied a Ma...
Lees on Life
Because he alone was supporting his parents, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Billy L...
Sugar Ray
"I've got the only job in the world," Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath once declared, "w...
Expert Witness
While testifying as an expert witness in a trial one day, Henry Rowland was aske...
RFK
In 1968, David Frost interviewed Robert F. Kennedy at the Benson Hotel in Portla...
Rob Lowe: Nasty
Rob Lowe was once caught by a girlfriend in a compromising position with another...
Britney Spears: Spinning Br...
Britney Spears once made a splash by posing in Rolling Stone - in her und...
Hermann Goering Apology
While shuffling along a crowded railroad platform in Rome one day, Hermann Goeri...
Phony Excuse?
Dorothy Parker was among a group of celebrated wits who regularly congregated at...
Alec Baldwin: Gillette Defense
One day in 1995, Alec Baldwin caught a celebrity photographer named Alan Zanger ...
Jack Black: Perfectionist
One day on the set, Jack Black requested 32 takes of a certain shot "for the per...
Andy Warhol: Absolut Eccentric
Andy Warhol was among a group of preeminent artists enlisted by Absolut to creat...
David Dinkins: Fine Lawyer?
New York mayor David Dinkins once faced allegations that he had failed to pay hi...
George Harrison: Conscious ...
George Harrison's song "My Sweet Lord" was so similar to Phil Spector's "He's So...
Drew Barrymore: Crazy Trip
In 1989, three months after going through rehab, Drew Barrymore (then just 14 ye...
Curve Ball
One day Harvard president Charles W. Eliot announced his plans to reduce support...
Pillar of Truth?
At the end of one of Robert Bunsen's courses, an unfamiliar student presented hi...
Six Year Itch
Marilyn Monroe chronic tardiness made her a difficult actress with whom to work....
Elizabeth Taylor: Cleopatra...
Cleopatra remains one of the most costly films in Hollywood history. Inde...
Lobsters
While dining at an expensive restaurant one evening, Georges Feydeau was served ...
Pamela Anderson: Stripper's...
Like Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Pamela Anderson once had a stripper's pole in...
Peter Buck: Whiteout?
In 2002, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck was arrested for an air-rage incident in which he a...
Usual Suspects
O. J. Simpson's vow to "find the real killers" (after his acquittal on charges o...
James Brown: Blind Justice?
In 1998, James Brown was arrested for possession of marijuana. "I have bad eyes,...
Invitation
While Edward VII was Prince of Wales, he once invited Lord Charles Beresford - o...
Stood Up
While visiting Havana one year, George Gershwin was stood up by a young woman fo...
Neat Freak
Howard Hughes was once dismayed to learn that one of his starlets was abandoning...
Party Trick
"Maurice Baring used to be well known (and liked to be well known) for his abili...
Imaginary Friend
"Most of my childhood games were played with an imaginary girl friend named Jean...
Pants on Fire?
During the 1960s Jane Fonda, dubbed "Hanoi Jane," traveled around America with a...
Jesse "The Jackass" Ventura
One day during his term as Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura declared that he wa...
Reagan Wit
"Mr. President," Ronald Reagan was asked during a press conference one day, "in ...
Salute to Von Laue
After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, thousands of Jewish scientists were dismis...
Vanilla Ice: Singular Absur...
In the early '90s, Robert Van Winkle {aka Vanilla Ice} was accused of stealing t...
Slutty Britney
"Britney Spears has been practically naked on several magazine covers as her new...
Angelina Jolie: Gone in 60 ...
In August 2000, The London Times reported that Angelina Jolie, visiting W...
Palmer Blooper
At the L.A. Open at Rancho Park one year, Arnold Palmer reached the 18th tee in ...
Wimpy Wilson
"I did a movie called Anaconda," Owen Wilson once recalled, "and I missed...
Ontario Inspectors Hard at ...
In December 2003, Ontario's provincial auditor issued a report on that Ministry ...
Mars Mission Boondoggle
In January 2004, U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans sought to justify the Bush...
Owen Nolan: No Mercy
In Fenruary 2004, the Toronto Maple Leafs faced the Ottawa Senators in a memorab...
Loopy Dick Cheney
In 2004, former anti-terrorism czar Richard Clarke famously accused the Bush adm...
Abraham Lincoln: Federal Ju...
Abraham Lincoln was once pestered by a man seeking an appointment to a federal j...
Simon Cowell: Cowell's Finger
After Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell's co-host on "American Idol," gave him the cold ...
Thomas Wainewright: Aesthete
"When a friend reproached [Thomas Wainewright] with the murder of Helen Abercrom...
Howard Dean: Dodger Dean
During the primaries in 2004, GQ magazine's James O'Brien interviewed wit...
Latrell Sprewell: Money Hun...
In 2004, Minnesota Timberwolves forward Latrell Sprewell complained that his $7 ...
Rita Rudner: Dating Advice
Rita Rudner once offered a word of dating advice to young women. "You know how I...
Airport Disturbance
The novelist Irwin Shaw once found himself waiting for a flight to Europe in an ...
Graceful Explanation
In the 1950s, Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and the owners of several ...
Bad Protocall?
Caninius Revilus had the distinction of serving as consul for a single day. When...
Typical Beatty
One day during the production of Robert Rosen's psychological drama ...
Al Gore: Away on Business
In August 2002, many Democratic eyebrows were raised when Al Gore (passing up th...
The Empress's New Clothes
Lady Asquith was once asked by her stepdaughter, Violet Bonham-Carter, whether s...
A Critic At Large
Dr. Samuel Johnson was once asked to share his opinion of Laurence Sterne's ...
Cross Examiner?
At the Friars Club memorial tribute following Milton Berle's death, Dick Capri t...
Hamburger
After a lecture in Hamburg one day, Felix Dahn was invited to serve as the guest...
Tom... Waits
Tom Waits frequently annoyed reporters with his tall tales, inaudible responses ...
Diva
One evening Whitney Houston arrived at the White House for a dinner honoring Sou...
Twiggs Defense
One night in the 1970s, the Allman Brothers arrived at a club in Buffalo, New Yo...
Tennis Elbow
John Youens, former archdeacon and chaplin to Queen Elizabeth II, was once broug...
Saved by the Bell
According to Kenneth Branagh, whenever anyone was annoying Woody Allen on the se...
Oral Arguments
In early 2001, tennis star Boris Becker became embroiled in an unusual paternity...
Pedigree Pals?
When Linda Blair flew to Florida to attend a funeral service for former members ...
Team Blazer
As the captain of the Los Angeles Lakers, Elgin Baylor agreed to allow players t...
Only Who?
Tristan Bernard once uttered a particularly witty remark - to which a friend adm...
GBS Anthology
A young editor once wrote to Shaw seeking permission to include one of his short...
Quiz Show
In the 1970s, famed editor Norris McWhirter (the first editor of the ...
Photographic Memory?
Shortly after the publication of his acclaimed photo book, Inferno, James...
Neil Bush: Honestly...
During a divorce hearing in 2003, George W. Bush's brother Neil admitted that he...
Tiger
Mao Zedong, like many of his countrymen, refused to brush his teeth, choosing in...
Young Greg Kinnear
Though he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona (at Tucson) ...
Familiarity
"Before the Battle of El Alamein, he [Winston Churchill] summoned General Montgo...
Golfer's Excuse
"There is a story of [legendary Punch editor] Owen Seaman, as a golfer, m...
Madeline Cain: Eminent Domain
"60 Minutes" co-host Mike Wallace once confronted Lakewood, Ohio Mayor Madeline ...
Poker Face
Ira Gershwin's enthusiasm for poker was matched only by his bad luck. After a pa...
Mary Benny: Diamond Jockey
Jack Benny's wife Mary once lost a beautiful diamond ring during a robbery in a ...
Niemoller
In the 1930s, Martin Niemoller was a Protestant pastor and head of the anti-Nazi...
Euro & Dollar
One day in September 2003, Russian magazine publisher Igor Maltsev was surprised...
Monkee See Monkee Do
Whenever the Monkees toured England, masses of screaming girls would fill the st...
Matthew McConaughey: Bongo Boy
In October 1999, police responded to a disturbance call at Matthew McConaughey's...
Thousand Word Excuse?
New York Mets pitcher Jeff Innis was not always satisifed with the photographs o...
Sneaky Rodman?
Dennis Rodman missed a game one day and offered a rather dubious excuse: Accordi...
Chord
One day Carl Ruggles was visited in his studio by Henry Cowell, who found the co...
Francis Gary Powers
On May 1, 1960, a CIA spy plane piloted by Captain Francis Gary Powers was shot ...
Pentagon Papers
On August 5th, 1964, the front page of the New York Times reported: "Pres...
Cloakroom
"When we were in St Louis they gave a splendid party for me and there were a lot...
Law's Delay
"Isaac Foot possesses an astounding repertory of quotations and a political oppo...
Popular Opinion
"At a private view at the academy, Lord Frederic Leighton happened to be standin...
Dirty Pitcher
After two rough innings in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in May 1999, ...
Spazzie Grubman
On July 8th, 2001, the publicist Lizzie Grubman visited the Conscience Point Inn...
Common Cold
XTC's Andy Partridge once had a job (his last) painting posters in a department ...
Calista Flockhart: Ally McB...
Calista Flockhart, noted for her slender figure, often battled rumors that she w...
Chairman Moe?
Chairman Mao, a chain-smoker of fine English cigarettes, was once advised by his...
Too Late for Barham?
When - as a student at Oxford - Richard Barham regularly missed his morning chap...
Early Persuasion?
Dizzy Gillespie found the studio recording environment claustrophobic. ("When I ...
Johnny Come Lately
"Even his own wife, his beloved Abigail, he [President John Adams] excoriated pu...
Unspeakable Insult?
While studying at West Point, it came to light in the course of an examination t...
Richard Nixon: Tricky Dick
Shortly after the Watergate story broke, Richard Nixon was asked by British tele...
Bad Excuse?
"Rejecting harsh Calvinism, [Henry Ward Beecher] concocted a 'feminized, romanti...
Pragmatist Philosopher
At Radcliffe, Gertrude Stein numbered among William James' favorite pupils. Conf...
Tunnage?
After holding the world heavyweight boxing title for seven years, Jack Dempsey f...
Conspiracy Theory
Hillary Clinton once famously blamed the many scandals which had beset her husba...
Loeser?
Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Billy Loes fumbled an easy grounder in a game one day. ...
Casey Stengel: Mexico City
New York Mets manager Casey Stengel was not impressed with his team's performanc...
Goon Squad
While Ben Hecht was working on the script for Scarface (1932), word got a...
Battle with the Bottle
One day after a month on the wagon, Don Marquis, famed for his lengthy battle wi...
Royal Devotion?
Mme d'Esparbes, one of Louis's many mistresses, was noted for her promiscuity: "...
Spike Milligan
Prince Charles once tried to persuade Spike Milligan to take the oath of loyalty...
Half Truth
During World War II, George Orwell began contributing a "London Letter" to the <...
Handy Excuse
Rod Stewart once declared that he was "a fairly loyal person - although there's ...
Memphis Censors
Lloyd T. Binford, chairman of the Memphis board of censors in the 1940s, was not...
Running Dog
Madame Mao (Mao Zedong's wife) regularly retired to a private screening room to ...
Expense Accounting 101
Between 1949 and 1956, William Stevenson (famed for such books as ...
French Academy
One day, at the behest of a friend, Tristan Bernard submitted a hastily-assemble...
Dietrich & Pasternak
Producer Joe Pasternak was so infatuated with Marlene Dietrich that he frequentl...
Practiced Politician
Winston Churchill was once asked to name the chief qualifications of a politicia...
Improviser
One day early in her career, Jennifer Esposito found herself performing in an ar...
Interview
In 1920, after falling seriously ill in China, Bertrand Russell elected to retur...
Luncheon
"Later in life I had a beautiful object-lesson in behaviour to the unpunctual. T...
Wedge of Light
The architect Daniel Libeskind's proposal for the reconstruction of the World Tr...
Fine Distinction
Herbert Spencer once found himself playing billiards with a certain subaltern wh...
$travinsky
When Igor Stravinsky declined an offer of $4,000 to compose the music for a Holl...
Von Neumann's Corner
Like many brilliant mathematicians, John von Neumann was a terrible driver. Inde...
Greatest Living Actor
While testifying in a trial one day, George Arliss described himself as "the wor...
Diana Ross DWI
On December 23, 2003, Diana Ross was charged with drunk driving after she was sp...
Rejection Slip
"The best," Iain Banks recalled of his many rejection slips, "was back in the 19...
Jocelyn Wildenstein
"Jocelyn Wildenstein, famous for her badly done plastic surgery, stunned the wor...
Ivan Lendl
"Not since JFK has anyone had more reason to hate grass than Ivan Lendl. Despite...
Looking for Trouble
In May 1956, Sonny Liston beat up a man in St. Louis and stole his gun. He was l...
Alien Landing
In mid-November 2003, Elcio Berti, the eccentric Brazilian mayor of Bocaiuva do ...
Whale
In 2002, the horror film producer Roy Lee began negotiating with Dimension Films...
General Gordon & The Prince...
[General Gordon] refused to be lionized. He declined an invitation to dine with ...
Berlusconi on Ice
After being placed under criminal investigation (on charges of bribery, fraud, a...
Steven Adler
In 2003, some 13 years after he was kicked out of Guns n' Roses for drug use, St...
Madonna: Lie Another Day
Following the production of the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), M...
Pierre Rinfret: Taxing Honesty
During a New York gubernatorial election one year, Pierre Rinfret was accused of...
Aggie Pate: Onward Christia...
Aggie Pate once found himself in hot water over the performance of 'Onward Chris...
Martha Stewart: Martha Stew...
Among the critical incidents in the Martha Stewart case (involving alleged insid...
Lionel Richie: Clay Head
Lionel Richie was once asked about the clay head in the video for his hit song, ...
Dionne Warwick: Dopey Defense
In 2002, Dionne Warwick was busted after baggage screeners at the Miami Internat...
Eddie Murphy: Pull Out
"At 4.45 one morning in May, 1997, Eddie Murphy - who couldn't sleep and was on ...
Times Scandal
Following the shocking revelation that the New York Times had printed sto...
Lou Novikoff: Loaded Explan...
"As a Cub, Lou Novikoff would chase deep fly balls only so far in Wrigley Field,...
Edward Hyde: Queen's Queen
"[Edward Hyde, Governor of New York and New Jersey (1702-1708)] was a clever man...
Jude Law: Milking It
After being cast in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jude Law shamelessly milked ...
Antonio Tarver & Roy Jones ...
On November 8, 2003, Antonio Tarver lost his heavyweight title to Roy Jones Jr. ...
Paul McCartney and Heather ...
Shortly before their wedding, several newspapers reported that Sir Paul McCartne...
Ronald Reagan
"At around ten o'clock on November 19, 1985, President Reagan welcomed Mikhail G...
Earl Haig: Castro's Cigars
Comedian Mort Sahl once had the pleasure of meeting General Earl Haig. "I said, ...
Jerry Lewis: Little Old Liars?
Jerry Lewis: "I go to the deli and I feel good, just having a sandwich, and I no...
Clint Eastwood: Hair Transp...
In the mid-'80s, Clint Eastwood underwent a hair transplant. Shortly after the p...
Kelly Clarkson: Sweet Jesus
Kelly Clarkson once defended her drinking with an appeal to the Bible: "Jesus dr...
Off Key?
Eubie Blake, a son of former slaves, was once asked why he played so many compos...
Chopin Broccoli?
Frederic Chopin was often invited to dinner by Parisian hostesses who then impos...
What a Boob!
In May 2002, an amateur photographer named Frank Ramaesiri appeared in Manhattan...
Dardanelles
"At Hurstmonceaux friends brought an American woman to lunch," Peter Coats once ...
Yellow Cap
At Paisley one day, Thomas Campbell bet John Wilson fifty pounds that a certain ...
Drop Out
Jared Leto dropped out of high school. "Public school," he explained, ...
Exaggeruggerio
In 1998, celebrity chef David Ruggerio - the owner of the famed Manhattan restau...
Classic Gleason
Jackie Gleason, famed for his love of wine, women, work and song, indulged in a ...
Celebrity Disease
Oliver Wendell Holmes was often pestered by devoted admirers, some of whom would...
Saving Face
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown (whose turbulent relationship was marked by scre...
Chain-Smoker
One day a doctor suggested that Mao Zedong (who, ironically, enjoyed chain-smoki...
Italian Politics
When Silvio Berlusconi became Prime Minister of Italy in 2001, he continued to r...
Tender Whisper?
Chico Marx was once caught by his wife in the act of kissing a chorus girl. "I w...
Donald Brashear: Tough Talk
"We hate each other," Edmonton Oilers right winger Georges Laraque once remarked...
Budd Schulberg: Head Writer
Budd Schulberg honed his fine procrastination skills while writing for Joseph Pu...
Young Kay Thompson
"Around 1947, Kay Thompson [famed for her creation of the Eloise series o...
Harold Ramis: Draft Dodger
"After college, Harold Ramis avoided service in Vietnam by checking every box on...
John Edward: Amazing Excuse
"Crossing Over" host John Edward was often accused of employing ruses to create ...
DMX at JFK
In August 2004, DMX was arrested in a parking lot at John F. Kennedy Internation...
Jason Priestley: Deer Defense
After crashing his car into a pole one day in 1999, Jason Priestley was arrested...
Ledge
Before finding fame as an actor, Ralph Richardson found work as an office boy fo...
Lazy Thinking?
In his later years, Sebastiano, having quit painting, was often criticized for h...
Handel & Bononcini
George Frideric Handel was once asked why he had borrowed music from the composi...
Fear of Flying
"When Caspar John was in his twenties he became a passionate aviator.
Augustus ...
Scott Stapp: Broken Creed
During a Chicago concert in December 2002, Creed frontman Scott Stapp shocked fa...
Suicide Bomber?
Following the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001,...
Lucky 13?
Baseball-playing brothers Hammerin' Hank and Tommy Aaron hit a total of 768 home...
Walter Parkes: Milking It
In 2003, despite obvious complications, producer Walter Parkes expressed hope th...
Shawcross Principle
At the Nuremberg trial in 1945, Hartley Shawcross presented the prosecution case...
Great Escape
The largest number of convicts ever to escape from a maximum security prison is ...
Plain Lazy?
The French mathematician and astronomer Pierre Laplace frequently used the phras...
Wily Tactician
Shortly after the Russo-Japanese War, Admiral Togo, the brilliant tactician resp...
Artificial Compliment
"During a visit to Marienbad," Lord Ormathwaite once recalled, "I accompanied Ki...
Wife-Beater?
In April 2002, Billy Baldwin came to brother Alec Baldwin's defense over allegat...
Demi Moore: Higher Good
In 1997, Demi Moore insisted on traveling with an entourage (including a makeup ...
Handel's "Thought"
One day after receiving a dozen bottles of fine champagne, the composer George F...
Half-Assed Excuse
In 1795, with the death of Louis XVII, Louis XVIII became nominal king but was p...
Book Blooper
"After Kingsley Amis sold his house in Hampstead for £250,000, the story goes, o...
Rather Unlikely
In April 2001, Dan Rather was forced to apologize after speaking at a Democratic...
Powell Preempted
In August 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell was pleased to learn that Chines...
Looney Lucia Pamela
Lucia Pamela, who claimed to be a time travelling space alien, also claimed that...
Pardon!?
"The biggest and most difficult decision in my life was the Nixon pardon," Geral...
Sgt. Slaughtered
During the Gulf War, Legendary WWF Wrestler Sgt. Slaughter played the role of an...
Donald Rumsfeld: Church and...
"In October, the Los Angeles Times reported that [Lieutenant General Will...
Busted: Extremely Irrespons...
While staying at Birmingham's swanky Marriott Hotel during the Arena Tour in 200...
David Gest: Too Sick to Travel
In early January 2003, David Gest missed the first court hearing in his divorce ...
Ugly Lie?
In the summer of 2000, LeAnn Rimes cancelled an entire tour, blaming throat prob...
Old Standard
One day in the mid 1990s Alex Rodriguez met a beautiful woman at his Miami gym. ...
Joshing Around
In August 2002, "Ed" star Josh Randall was arrested for smoking crack with a hom...
Monosyllables
Leonhard Euler was once invited by Frederick the Great to join his Academy in Be...
False Note
Many anecdotes concern Arturo Toscanini's famous temper. During one rehearsal of...
Westmoreland Confused
U.S. General William Westmoreland once hopped to the defense of censorship. "Wit...
Young Conrad Black
As a young student at Upper Canada College (a private school often referred to a...
Good Excuse
"You'd like a little whiskey?" R. A. Butler once offered a visiting newspaper wr...
Cyrus & Son
Cyrus II once reprimanded his son, Cambyses, for his arrogant and insolent behav...
Express Checkout
During a break in the shooting of a film in Alabama in 2003, Ewan McGregor saw h...
Virchow vs Pasteur
"Rudolf Virchow, the German scientist who was the first to engage in cancer rese...
Typical Coward
"During his daily visits back stage, Sir Charles Cochran noticed a certain cooln...
Noel Coward: Swiss Junket
"The Daily Express was hounding Noel Coward," Eric Ambler once recalled. ...
Midriff Nazi
"Girls weren't allowed to wear midriffs [midriff-bearing shirts] at my high scho...
American Pensions & the Per...
In September 2003, Steve Kandarian, chief of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpor...
Chris McAllister: Handy Excuse
Though Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Chris McAllister was named Rookie of the Y...
Jack Adams: Engineering Exc...
In March 1971, the Who assembled at the Record Plant in New York to record part ...
Anna Nicole Smith: American...
Anna Nicole Smith was given the honor of introducing rapper Kanye West at the 20...
Christian Slater: Touching ...
In September 2005, Christian Slater saw a "forcible touching" charge dismissed. ...
Kyle Gass: Love Poem
"My girlfriend was out of town, and I met this singer-songwriter chick," Tenacio...
Human Problems
Albert Einstein was once offered the presidency of Israel. He declined. He had n...
Anne Heche: Spaced Out
In August 2000, shortly after her split with Ellen DeGeneres, Anne Heche wandere...
Reluctant Modernist
In 1917, the forty-three-year-old Arnold Schoenberg was conscripted into the Aus...
Moroccan Moron
In November 2002, Morocco's jet-setting king, Mohammed VI, caused a minor scanda...
Britney Spears: Cultural Mi...
In January 2003, Britney Spears sought a restraining order against Masahiko Shiz...
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