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George Jessel: Dog Day Afte...
George Jessel was a longtime member of the comedians' Round Table at the exclusi...
Polly Want a Hooker?
The White House has seen its share of memorable pets. Nixon's dog inspired his f...
Bonjour?
In 1974, Richard Nixon, not noted for his social graces, visited Paris to attend...
J. Paul Getty: Getty & Son
When his twelve-year-old son, Timmy, died of a brain tumor, the billionaire oil ...
Vergil's Housefly
"Publius Vergilius Maro or Vergil, the Roman poet known for The Aeneid, o...
Genital Humor
Shortly after the launch of Viagra, Robin Williams, famed for his ad-libbing gen...
Hollywood Ending
When the 1957 funeral of the little-loved Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer attract...
Finite Jest?
In his later years, Daniel Auber was one day compelled to attend a funeral servi...
Priceless Jest
During Bela Lugosi's funeral, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre went to view the dec...
Bennett's Box
At a low point in Constance Bennett's career, her Hollywood agent (Sue Mengers) ...
Once More, Maurice...
As Maurice Barrymore was being laid to rest, the straps supporting the lowered c...
Black Humor
"When the Reverend Harold Davidson, the eccentric unfrocked rector of Stiffkey, ...
Jimmy Carter: Hornblower
Jimmy Carter delivered a memorable oration at the funeral of former vice preside...
Don Shula: Love of the Game
Legendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula was famed for his intensity and dedicat...
Certain Nobleman?
Voltaire attended the funeral of a certain nobleman. "He was a great patriot, a ...
Big Mischief
In 2002, the man rumored to have the largest penis in Hollywood died at the age ...
Bat Man?
Despite his advanced age and "odd-looking hair transplant," Republican Senator S...
Gabriele D'Annunzio: Sentim...
Gabriele D'Annunzio once stayed at a hotel which owned a goldfish, to which the ...
Katharine Hepburn: Pants
Katharine Hepburn almost always wore pants, even when doing so was decidedly unf...
Open Grave
While attending a funeral one day, John Barrymore noticed an elderly gentleman l...
Socialite Humor
In November 1999, Pat Steger, the San Francisco Chronicle's beloved "Soci...
Pleasures of Hope
Thomas Campbell once told a friend that he had grown tired of his association wi...
Gentleman and Scholar?
In 1916, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison (all captains of industry) ...
Ikku
Shortly before his death, Ikku handed several small packages to his disciples, o...
Bob Alper: Eulogy
"I was leaving a funeral home," Rabbi Bob Alper once recalled, "when a man appro...
Doppelganger?
"By the time he was 40, [legendary war photographer] Robert Capa had a bad back ...
Philanthropist
One day Lord Norbury was asked to contribute to a fund for the funeral an impove...
Undertaker's Assistant
"Preparing a baldheaded body for its coffin, Uncle Billy [an undertaker's assist...
Baliff's Funeral
Alexandre Dumas was once asked to make a contribution to cover the costs of a ce...
Gene Simmons: Kiss Kasket
In 2001, KISS unveiled the newest addition to a range of products which already ...
Ralph Neves
"On May 8, 1936, [jockey Ralph Neves] was thrown from his horse during a race at...
Ted Knight: Ashes to Ashes
While shooting an episode of "Too Close for Comfort," Ted Knight stumbled over o...
Ed Headrick: Spinning in hi...
When Ed Headrick, the inventor of the frisbee, died in August, 2002, his family ...
Roses (long)
While working on the steamboat Pennsylvania in 1858, Mark Twain got into a fight...
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
After the six stars of "Friends" successfully banded together (in 1998) to reneg...
The Empress's New Clothes
Lady Asquith was once asked by her stepdaughter, Violet Bonham-Carter, whether s...
Pitter-Patter Chit-Chatter
Hans Christian Andersen once commissioned a musician to compose his funeral marc...
Black Humor
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was once required to attend the funeral of a di...
Zero Tolerance?
At Dorothy Parker's funeral service, the actor Zero Mostel explained that she ha...
Warner Bros
In 1903, the Warner Brothers (Jack, Harry, Sam and Albert) opened their first th...
Fishing for a Story
"I was once faced with the problem of entertaining millions of readers," the col...
Chesterfield's Carriage Ride
In the last weeks of his life, Lord Chesterfield became so infirm that his carri...
Mouth of Hell
Shortly after the funeral of New Mexico-based bar owner Ben Martinez in 2002, ni...
Loud Suit
"There is a story of Dylan Thomas's friend in the funeral parlour, who looked do...
RIP SOB?
Shortly after his death, Dorothy Parker visited F. Scott Fitzgerald's body in a ...
Mayer & Thalberg
In 1936, Louis B. Mayer and several of his MGM executives attended the funeral o...
Modest Degas
On his deathbed, Edgar Degas called his friend Jean-Louis Forain to his side to ...
Classic Capone
The funeral of famed Chicago gangster Dion "Deany" O'Banion in 1926 was attended...
Costly Savings?
Graham Greene once likened childhood to a novelist's bank balance. By the time h...
Marble Staircase
Andrew Carnegie spared no expense on his Scottish home. Marble was imported from...
Dirt Merchant
"Hilaire Belloc failed to turn up when his friend G. K. Chesterton was received ...
Lardner & Trumbo II
The famed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was a complicated and sometimes difficult m...
Telephone Game
James Agate's memorial service was arranged by two old friends, one of whom call...
Classic Yogi
Yogi Berra was famed for his verbal bloopers. "Always go to other people's funer...
Tim Conway & Harvey Korman
Nearly every episode of the classic variety series "The Carol Burnett Show" feat...
No More Lubitsch
The talented German director Ernst Lubitsch was not without his critics. He died...
Dead Wrong
Legendary porn star Herschel Savage was often approached by other men hoping he ...
George Clooney: The Boys
"George Clooney [has] a legendary loyalty to his friends... And their bonding ex...
Justin Hawkins: Funeral Song
Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins was once asked what song he would like to have ...
Bill Murray: Memorial Ceremony
After the death of "Saturday Night Live" producer Audrey Dickman on May 21, 2002...
Young Allison DuBois
When she was six years old, Allison DuBois attended her great-grandfather's fune...
Great Escape?
Among the pallbearers at Harry Houdini's funeral were the noted Broadway produce...
Ethan Allen's Wife
When Ethan Allen's notoriously ill-tempered first wife passed away, a local man ...
Classic Keillor
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals," Garrison Keillor onc...
Ayn Rand: Die Hard Capitalist
Among Ayn Rand's favorite literary works was Kipling's verse "
Woody Allen: Interesting Qu...
"Love is the answer," Woody Allen once declared, "but while you're waiting for t...
Harold Ramis: Graveside Eulogy
"After John Belushi died, of an overdose, in 1982, he was buried on Martha's Vin...
Sondheim's Company
"At the interval of Stephen Sondheim's Company at Her Majesty's, a Knight...
Henry Who?
In his later years, as his faculties began to fail, Ralph Waldo Emerson often re...
Small Consolation?
Among the distinguished pallbearers at Thomas Hardy's funeral were J. M. Barrie ...
Al Gore: Funeral Moment
"Al Gore attended music legend Johhny Cash's funeral," Conan O'Brien announced i...
Glenn Hughes: Village Peopl...
On March 4, 2002, Glenn Hughes died (at 50) of lung cancer. Hughes, the original...
Jim Carrey: LA Portrait
"[After his first starring role in Once Bitten], Jim Carrey took the oppo...
Freddy Heineken: Funeral In...
Shortly after suffering a stroke in 2001, famed brewer Freddy Heineken was asked...
Candy Casket
Following Frank Sinatra's death in 1999, his daughter (Nancy Sinatra) spent six ...
Brahms' Requiem
Johannes Brahms' Requiem was not without its critics. "It is so execrably...
Cohn Production
Given the animosity with which Columbia studio chief Harry Cohn was regarded by ...
Aaliyah's Funeral
"When Aaliyah's dangerously overloaded and unbalanced Cessna 402B crashed as it ...
Church around the Corner
When George Holland died (in 1870), his family intended to hold the funeral at a...
Sorrowful Visit
After the funeral of their only child, General Ertmann and his wife visited Beet...
Duke of Newcastle
Among those who attended the funeral of George II in November 1760 was the snive...
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