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Roddy Doyle Ha Ha Ha?
In July 2000, The London Observer printed the following notice: ...
Christian Herter: Church Ba...
"When Christian Herter was governor of Massachusetts, he was running hard for a ...
Kool Reception?
In 1921, Chinese ambassador Wellington Koo visited America to represent China at...
Yoshida
One day in the late 1930s, the Japanese ambassador to England (and future prime ...
Genuine Prokofiev
One of the Brussels Philharmonic's female subscribers made a habit of sketching ...
VIP
When a fire erupted in the hotel at which Vice President Teddy Roosevelt was sta...
Revolutionary Concept
At the height of the Industrial Revolution (in the nineteenth-century), child la...
Dan Quayle & the Potatoe In...
Some time after Dan Quayle's embarrassing spelling bee incident (in which he inc...
Marbles
One day the poet Robert Lowell - due to present the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize b...
Mrs. H?
Senator George Hoar was once enthusiastically greeted by a man whose face he bar...
Marked Man?
Like Hemingway, Mark Twain loved to boast of his hunting and fishing exploits. R...
Gynecology Final
During one of his final exams, Richard Gordon (famed for his series of "Doctor" ...
Lord Somebody
"As he was driving back to his mansion, Pickfair, Douglas Fairbanks saw an Engli...
No Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones once slept with a pair of groupies. "He's g...
Horace Livewrong?
Sherwood Anderson once ran into the publisher Horace Liveright, a well-known wom...
Brother Love Bone?
Upon first seeing a certain singer (with whom they would later form a band calle...
Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike ...
Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest in Monte Carlo...
Good Question?
While visiting a greenhouse in Dresden one day, Arthur Schopenhauer was approach...
Nuttall
"Thomas Nuttall was a pioneer botanist whose main field of study was the flora o...
Hollywood Mighty
"Carl Reiner took us to the Bistro restaurant which had originally been Mike Rom...
Santa Claus?
In 1916, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and a large entourage embar...
Olympic Scandal
At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Dora Ratjen competed in the women's high jump. I...
Fat Ass Johnson
"We had a colonel named Fat Ass Johnson," Buddy Hackett once recalled. "That was...
Napoleon: Just Deserts?
After his ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon, alarmed by unrest at h...
Roosevelt's Inauguration
One day in 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was amused to receive a curious invit...
Ice Breaker
While attending a fashionable but painfully boring party one evening, Ernest The...
Desert Island Broadcast
One day in the early 1970s, Roy Plomley was delighted to learn that, despite Ali...
Jan Masaryk: Mixer
While serving as Czech ambassador to the United States early in his career, Jan ...
Standing on Principle
One day during a lecture tour, Mark Twain entered a local barber shop for a shav...
Lunatic
After the great German naturalist and explorer Friedrich Humboldt expressed his ...
Lonsdale
"The only deadly sin in the eyes of the membership of the Garrick Club was to be...
Neck
At the turning point in one historic Rose Bowl game, Stanford fuckingstar Ernie ...
Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen's eclectic taste (with passions ranging from motorcycles and NASC...
Lady Pianist
One night after a rehearsal with the London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn ret...
Taxi Driver
Scheduled to address the nation one day, Winston Churchill, running unusually la...
Chaplin & Fairbanks
While passing a cinema in Hollywood one day, Charlie Chaplin stopped to examine ...
Paul Erdos: Good Friend
His incredible facility for numbers and unusual social behavior have led some to...
Christina Aguilera & the Ho...
In May 2003, Christina Aguilera visited a computer exhibition in Las Vegas. Whil...
George Brown: State Gala
"One of George Brown's drunker moments as Foreign Secretary found him staggering...
Nice Shot? (long)
Golfer Tommy Bolt, famed for his tempestuous nature, once found himself playing ...
Pearly Gates
Stephen Girard's will endowing Girard College in Philadelphia stipulated that un...
Klemperer & Mendelssohn
One day Otto Klemperer visited a music shop with a recording company executive n...
The Buttermilk of Human Kin...
During the 1960s, Andre Previn frequently experimented with LSD (acid) under the...
Scott Caan: Loving Las Vegas
"I was in a bar one night [during the production of Ocean's Eleven in Las...
Mohammed Jackson?
PM Dawn's Prince Be once attended a memorable Prince concert. "We went with Paul...
Hawthorne, Jr.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's son Julian (who was often confused with his famous father)...
Bachelor Blooper
On the way to a star-studded function in Los Angeles one day, Drew Carey found h...
Rochefort
The socialist journalist Rochefort's tumultuous life was marked by a series of d...
Catacombs
Samuel Rogers, whose bald, polished head and sunken eyes gave him a rather cadav...
Thomas Beecham: Mystery Woman
One day while passing through the lobby of a Manchester hotel, Sir Thomas Beecha...
Melancholy
One day Dr. John Abernethy was visited by a patient complaining of melancholy. "...
Bump & Grind
One day during the production of MGM's The Cross of Lorraine, Sir Cedric ...
Young Hemingway
Shortly after Ernest Hemingway's birth, his mother began acting out a bizarre fa...
Harrison Ford: Presumed Inn...
Not surprisingly, Harrison Ford (whose multi-picture blockbuster roles included ...
Upmann (long)
Milton Berle was horrified by the American embargo which followed the Cuban miss...
Soviet Disunion?
In 1962, with two Oscar nominations and an Emmy in two years, the previously lit...
Wacko Designer? (long)
While working as a stagehand on Broadway, Joseph Volpe decided that he wanted to...
PSH
While playing a gay "pre-op" transsexual named Rusty in Joel Schumacher's ...
Hose Job
Allan McFee (Max Ferguson's legendary sidekick on the CBC radio show "Rawhide") ...
Golf of Misunderstanding
Pop doyenne Christina Aguilera was once introduced to famed golfer Tiger Woods. ...
Josh Harnett?
Shortly after appearing opposite Chris Klein in Here on Earth, Josh Hartn...
A.S.S. Enterprise?
Leaving the Algonquin Hotel one evening, a well-lubricated Robert Benchley found...
Keith Richards: Cornered Be...
One evening Keith Richards and his wife Patti Hanson attended a film premiere in...
Somerset Mum
"I once found myself in Petrograd and I was excessively bored," Somerset Maugham...
Vernacular
Duke Borso once sent a letter in Latin to the mayor of an outlying village order...
Laurie Lee
"Two very attractive girls who were obviously studying 'Cider With
Rosie' spott...
Simple Question?
One day during a speaking tour, Albert Einstein's driver, who often sat at the b...
Loony Tesla?
Shortly before his death in 1943, the eccentric but brilliant inventor Nikola Te...
Rebel Yell?
Billy Idol producer Keith Forsey was once approached by one of the musician's fa...
Heaven and Hell
Lord Desborough was infuriated one day to find his obituary printed in ...
Speedy Recovery
The violinist Dave Swarbrick was amused one day to find his obituary printed in ...
Big Fan
One day in 2002, Luke Wilson was asked for an autograph by his Kenyan cab driver...
Little Moustache
"During the war [World War II] my father was a meter reader," Eileen Atkins once...
Memorabullia
One day in 2000, the owner of a memorabilia store in New York was accused by a p...
Jim Morrison: Whoooopeeeee!
While out shopping one day, Doors frontman Jim Morrison spotted a friend's siste...
Bench Warmer?
Shortly before performing at a sold-out recital one evening, Arthur Rubinstein -...
Damn Fool
"I see in The Times today," George V's private secretary remarked one day...
Early Morning?
One day on the set of Michael Curtiz's This is the Army (a 1943 musical c...
Learned Professor
Max Planck was made a full professor at the University of Berlin at an unusually...
Mysterious Disappearance
Before embarking upon a political career, William Lyon Mackenzie King briefly wo...
Denis Leary: Asshole Song
"My son was taken to task at school because he taught his classmates 'The Asshol...
Wesley Snipes Pickup Line
Wesley Snipes was once asked to divulge his best pickup line. His reply? "Hi, ...
Sum 41 & Blink 182
"This fucking hot stripper came up to me and said, 'Oh, I love that video where ...
The Rock in L.A.
While driving in Los Angeles one day, the Rock found himself stopped at a light ...
John McCain: Identity Theft
In 2004, John McCain's wife was horrified to learn that a group of criminals had...
Upmann
While visiting the smoking car on a train one day, Alfred A. Knopf found himself...
Cuter Than Tyra?
Tyra Banks often wore baseball caps in a bid to evade autograph-seekers. One day...
Schmoozer
"Early in 1961, Russell Baker, then covering Capitol Hill for The New York Times...
Partridge's Almanac
On his way to a distant town one day, John Partridge, a charlatan famed for his ...
DOCTORed Response? (long)
While working with BBN early in his career, artificial intelligence pioneer Dani...
Relatively Close?
One day while traveling by train through the American Midwest, Albert
Schweitz...
Dust to Dust
Five years after D. H. Lawrence's death and burial in France, his widow Frieda L...
Peas in a Pod?
Jerry Haleva boasted an uncanny resemblance to Saddam Hussein, a mixed blessing ...
Thinner Author?
In 1984, bookstores began selling a new novel by Richard Bachman entitled ...
Clean Sweep?
"Most of the time Faulkner couldn't pay his grocery bill, and the grocer, among ...
One Night In Bangkok
When Murray Head's "One Night In Bangkok" ("One night in Bangkok makes a hard ma...
Ballerina
One evening after World War II, the legendary ballerina Margot Fonteyn attended ...
Not Standing
"I was conducting a wastedr round the Bencher's rooms at the Middle
Temple Hall...
Noble Transport
Joseph Choate, visiting at a certain duke's residence one day, found himself sta...
Justice Avory
"When practising at the bar the tables were once turned on Mr Justice Avory. 'Le...
Down In It
One day during the production of the video for "Down In It," the apparently life...
Madeline Albright in Rambou...
When US-brokered negotiations between Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and th...
Picasso & Braque
One day a painter named Roland Penrose dropped in on Pablo Picasso, who was in t...
Happy Mondays
The Happy Mondays' once opened for Carlos Santana. Shortly before the concert, f...
Abracadabra
A woman, under the mistaken impression that Isaac Newton was an astrologer, once...
Sidelong Glances
"Once, when watching a play, the actor Walter Hudd found himself sitting next to...
Egg Face?
Following his retirement, John Dewey amused himself by selling eggs and vegetabl...
Jayaprakash Narayan: Elder ...
"India was swept with grief on 22 March 1979 when the Indian Prime Minister, Mr ...
Deep Curtsey
The Queen Mother was fishing in Highland waters one afternoon and had waded some...
Amazing Grace
"Father Dennis Ackroyd of Ewhurst, England, doing his duty as a conscientious vi...
Harvard Type
Donal Logue once auditioned for a role on the hit television series "Melrose Pla...
Lecture
"One snowy, stormy night Lord Balfour and his brother Gerald struggled forth on ...
Charlotte Church: Being in ...
During a concert in December 2002, Charlotte Church kindly told her audience tha...
Mariah Carey: Royal Airness
In 1999, during a massive press conference held to promote a new single, Mariah ...
Dirty Farmer?
While serving as America's vice president, Thomas Jefferson, dressed in soiled w...
Are You John Erskine?
One day the president of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga went to the ...
Stanley "H" Kaplan
"In [SAT/LSAT prep company founder Stanley H. Kaplan] Stanley Kaplan's sophomore...
Just Dreadful
MGM publicity chief Howard Dietz once offered $250 to any studio publicist who c...
Chinese Cinematographer
When James Wong Howe opened his cafe in Hollywood, the local press sent a photog...
Mrs. Giles
While traveling abroad, Frank Giles and his wife, Lady Katharine Sackville (who,...
Commander in Chief?
One day during the early stages of the Revolutionary War, George Washington enli...
Little Breeches
Though its author was in fact John Hay, Bret Harte was often given credit for th...
Corporal Punishment?
One day during the American Revolution an officer on horseback wearing civilian ...
Davy Crockett
While visiting a menagerie exhibition in Washington one day, Davy Crockett amuse...
The Just
Under the Athenian system of ostracism, each citizen could vote to have a man ba...
Berned?
"A snooty woman of Lord Berners's acquaintance once complained when a head waite...
Nice Shot
Luke Wilson was often confused with other actors. One day he found himself playi...
Bob Hoskins: Feather Plucker
Bob Hoskins began life as an accountant. "I was sitting in the bar of the Unity ...
Rattlesnake
During the production of The Virginian in 1914, Cecil B. De Mille acquire...
Police Dog
Peter Lawford, who once had his wife smuggle several grams of cocaine into Austr...
Stra-vin-sky
A year after settling in America (at the age of fifty-seven), Igor Stravinsky ap...
Old Fool
"After breakfast King George V would telephone his sister, Princess Victoria. Th...
Boys' Brigade
While staying at a house near Glyndebourne, the legendary Sir Thomas Beecham (fo...
Babe Ruth
Enrico Caruso was once asked by a group of reporters what he thought of Babe Rut...
Sleepwalker
"Ellington is a hard man to get to bed and a harder man to get out of it," Duke ...
The Commish
"Back when I was doing 'The Commish,'" Michael Chiklis recalled, "there was a ki...
Brentano's
"A stately old gentleman walked into Brentano's, the New York bookstore, and ask...
Sienna Miller: Spacey
Shortly after the release of The Usual Suspects, the model and actress Si...
Compositional Trance
"William Butler Yeats, when he was riding the bus, would occasionally go into a ...
Franz Kline Groupie
"The artist Franz Kline in his salad season was once approached by a wide-eyed y...
Young Tom Daschle
In 1978, after several years in Washington as a senator's aide, Tom Daschle retu...
Young McG & Anthony Michael...
Charlie's Angels director McG was a scrawny kid. At graduation, he stood ...
Madam Francis
While visiting Hollywood one year, the distinguished Earl of Warwick asked for d...
Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Da...
After being fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, Ozzy Osbourne lived for several mo...
Harry Wismer: Quick Thinking
Legendary radio announcer Harry "Hairbreadth" Wismer once covered an Army game d...
Norm Macdonald: The Norm Show
"I was walking to the lot right before taping an episode [of 'The Norm Show'], a...
Justin Hawkins: Seriously
While playing a gig one night, Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins identified a you...
Ernie Fletcher: Terror in t...
During the funeral of former president Ronald Reagan in Washington, DC, on June ...
Mike Myers: Mistaken identity
Mike Myers was often mistaken for Halloween's psychopathic murderer, Mich...
Brad Pitt & George Clooney:...
While jogging in Italy one day during the production of Ocean's Twelve, B...
Daryl Hannah: Hollywood Hop...
As a struggling actress, Daryl Hannah once dressed up and wandered the streets o...
Tony Blair: Since You Asked...
In November 2003, a British hairdresser named Ronnie Campbell was surprised to f...
The Darkness: Little Hottie
At a concert in August 2004, Darkness bass player Frankie Poullain chanced to sp...
Simon Cowell: American Idyll?
One stormy evening in 2005, Simon Cowell was approached by a couple outside the ...
Cheech & Chong: Private School
"We were in England one time," Tommy Chong once recalled of Cheech & Chong, "and...
Michael Rosenbaum: Meeting ...
While attending the Golden Globe Awards in 2004, "Smallville" star Michael Rosen...
Ian McKellen: London Premiere
Shortly after the completion of Lord of the Rings, Ian McKellen (Gandalf ...
Edward VII: Duke of Lancaster
"On the Continent, pursuing his numerous amours, Edward VII always travelled und...
Meeting Ved Mehta
"Ved Mehta is revered for the courage with which, handicapped by blindness, he m...
Joan Wolfenden: Chicken Noodle
"A large party was lunching at Peacock Vane, the Isle of Wight hotel founded by ...
Teresa Heinz: Heinz Heiress
"Russ Martz, a retired Pittsburgh journalist, recalls showing up at the Heinz fa...
Reckless Incompetent?
In February 2005, BBC News reported that British graphologists (handwriting expe...
Mark Ruffalo: Googled
One day Mark Ruffalo googled himself. At first he was flattered. "I thought, Wow...
George Clooney: Playing Doctor
While George Clooney, who dropped out of the University of Kentucky, was never d...
Drew Barrymore: Chubby
One night, Drew Barrymore was approached by a woman in a restaurant on the Sunse...
PMS
Roseanne, famed for her bitchy/butchy demeanor, once found herself discussing PM...
Princess Anne
One afternoon, while watching the annual show-jumping event at Hickstead, Prince...
¿Broma Práctica?
When Humphrey Bogart took Verita Peterson, his hair dresser and mistress, to Rom...
Weseruebungle?
On February 21st, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered General Mikolaus von Falkenhorst to...
William Rehnquist: American...
In 1989, a disturbing survey revealed that only nine percent of Americans polled...
Golden Bed
One day on the set of The Greatest Show on Earth (in 1951), Cecil B. De M...
Marathoner Loses by a Mustache
"'Marathoner Loses by a Mustache.' So read the headline of a recent Associated P...
¿qué el infierno?
Tallulah Bankhead once dropped a fifty-dollar bill into a Salvation Army player'...
Mace Windup?
Shortly after joining the cast of The Phantom Menace, Samuel L. Jackson w...
Shakespeare's Ghost?
While browsing in a bookshop one day, Aaron Copland was delighted to see a woman...
Royal Pain?
Slated for a performance in Zurich, Slezak left his home in Vienna one day havin...
Rodzinski
While vacationing one day, Artur Rodzinski chanced upon a radio broadcast of an ...
Paderewski
While attending the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as Poland's new leader, Paderews...
Small Talk
One evening the bon vivant (and famously squinty-eyed) raconteur Gilbert Gottfri...
Lassie!
At George Meredith's funeral in 1909, Max Beerbohm was mistaken for fellow scrib...
Pleasant Lady
In 1979, Lady Diana Cooper (then 86 years old) attended a special event to honor...
Rimes with Gay?
Caroline Rhea was once approached by a gay Japanese couple. "Omigod! Can we have...
Marvellous Insult?
Tallulah Bankhead's father, William Brockman Bankhead, was once elected Speaker ...
Grant of Modesty?
On his way to a reception in his honor one day, Ulysses S. Grant offered to shar...
Rail Pass
Although the special rail passes which Henry Watterson and other American journa...
Schnabel
In 1940, Artur Schnabel's son Stefan, an aspiring actor, met with a publicity ag...
William the Conqueror
William Shakespeare's friend and fellow actor Richard Burbage, while playing the...
Copacabana, Peru?
In 1986, the Bolivian Ministry of Information found that over 50% of young peopl...
Hurrah for Stonewall
"Jackson had strictly forbidden his men to ride into the fields alongside the ro...
Customer Care
Scott Wolf once called AT&T to add some minutes to his calling card. The custome...
50 Cent Attitude
After the MTV Movie Awards in New York in June 2003, rapper 50 Cent, whose first...
Brownie Points
During a cricket tour of the West Indies in 1995, Australian cricket coach Bobby...
KGB?
Samuel Goldwyn, famous for his verbal bloopers, once announced that he had had a...
Kevin Bacon & Lawrence Fish...
One night shortly after the release of The Matrix, Kevin Bacon visited a ...
Shall We Dance
One day on the set of the 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film ...
Typical Goldwyn
One day in 1947, Samuel Goldwyn invited the director Henry Koster to take over o...
Don't Leave Home...
Russian novelist Gary Shteyngart was once threatened by a gang of skinheads, who...
Bubble Boy?
One day a nosy old widow was visited by a Fellow of the Royal Society, to whom s...
Peterborough
One day in 1710, Peterborough was attacked by a London mob which had mistaken hi...
Food Critic (long)
One evening, Dan Barber spotted the famed New York Times food critic Will...
Soul Asylum?
While touring Western Canada one day, Dan Murphy and his Soul Asylum bandmates p...
David Bowie & The Velvet Un...
Among David Bowie's favorite stories was "a very funny story about the Velvets [...
Charles Ives
The American composer Charles Ives, whose works anticipated those of later music...
Family Circle?
During the production of The Lord Of The Rings Peter Jackson, the film's ...
Doctor Who?
Tom Baker, the fourth "Doctor Who," was once mistaken by a taxicab driver for Jo...
King of Kings
The set of Cecil B. De Mille's Biblical epic The King of Kings (1927) was...
Tonic Water
While vacationing in the Highlands one year, Denis Healey, then vice chancellor ...
Death of General Stonewall ...
"If it weren't for Major John Barry, you might be whistling Dixie instead of sal...
Emperor of Austria
While the Austrian emperor Francis Joseph and two companions, dressed in hunting...
Arthur Miller
"Arthur Miller, sitting alone in a bar, was approached by a well-tailored, sligh...
Circus Manager
Shortly after his appearance as the circus manager in Cecil B. De Mille's ...
Wooden Thinking?
In 1981, Ronald Reagan discovered that House Speaker Tip O'Neill's desk had once...
Incognito (long)
Landon Ronald once recalled an incident concerning his mischievous fellow compos...
Peeping Ludwig?
One evening an unshaven man in a tattered coat was spotted peeking into the wind...
Baleful Rumors
After his role in Empire of the Sun, Christian Bale returned home to Bour...
Cutella
Allan Gurganus once visited a school and spoke to some eight year old students. ...
Wrong Door Raid
Convinced that Marilyn Monroe was having an affair, Joe DiMaggio hired some priv...
Bar Hopper
In addition to his talent for writing, Georges Simenon was blessed with remarkab...
Old Refrain
One day while waiting for a boat to depart for London (where he was scheduled to...
Red Letters?
Talleyrand once discovered - too late - that in his haste to mail two correspond...
Keeping the Dream Alive?
In 2002, actor James Earl Jones was pleased to learn that the people of Lauderhi...
Good Customer!
In 2002, Winona Ryder was found guilty of theft and vandalism following a shopli...
Rick Rubin: Johnny's Producer
"In one instance, the Cashes [Johnny Cash and his wife] decamped from their main...
Doh!
The following item appeared in The New York Times during the Gulf War in ...
Spectacles
In Rome one day, Henrik Ibsen noticed a crowd of people gathered around a large ...
Melba Perfume
Dame Nellie Melba: "Though I have no objection to Peche Melba, I have the...
Brittany Snow & the Olsen T...
"Brittany Snow suffered her most embarrassing moment when an overzealous mom, mi...
Rupert Brooked (long)
"Sir George [Sitwell], having begun the conversation with a spirited attack on m...
William Whitelaw: British H...
William Whitelaw (chairman of the British Conservative party between 1974 and 19...
Absent-minded Professor
Late one evening the famously absent-minded Gotthold Lessing arrived at home an...
Spooner
One day during his tenure as Warden of New College (at Oxford), William Spooner ...
Yogi
One day Yogi Berra was approached by a baseball fan: "You look like Yogi Berra,"...
Linda Ronstadt Rocks
In 2001, a study revealed that twelve of the most popular science textbooks used...
Famous Retort
A newly inaugurated member of London's Garrick Club, anxious to impress the grea...
Classic DeMille
One day on the set, Cecil B. De Mille found himself directing a scene in which a...
I. Berlin
"Irving Berlin's World War II musical This Is the Army toured Great Brita...
Mick Lennon?
When Mick Jagger visited his son's new school for the first time, the teachers w...
Prominent Leftist
In the 1960s and 1970s Rip Torn was branded a dangerous leftist for his civil-ri...
Leonardo DiCaprio: Movie Star
While strolling along a beach north of Malibu one day, Leonardo DiCaprio was app...
Anti-Semite
Sir Moses Montefiore once found himself at a dinner party seated next to an anti...
Berry Blooper
"Since 1957, Chuck Berry has always toured solo, demanding that promoters supply...
Kiss Kiss
While flying in first class one day, Avril Lavigne was approached by a flight at...
Doorknob
One night after some heavy drinking, Jim Morrison had a pal drop him off at anot...
King's Congratulations
"Soon after George V came to the throne No. 10 [Downing Street] telephoned the P...
Wonderful Statue
George Arliss was once amused to hear the story of a young American woman visiti...
The Great Sydney Smith
One day Sydney Smith encountered the lawyer and philosopher Sir James Mackintosh...
Civil Response
"I was coming down the elevator of the Stock Exchange building," the actor Josep...
Uncle Nick
Though Neils Bohr stayed in Denmark and battled the Nazis through much of the wa...
Humdinger
While attending the performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera one evening, Art...
Samuel L. Fishburne
"People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all the time," Samuel L. Jackson once ...
Campbell & Co.
In the early 1930s, the celebrated British actress Beatrice Campbell went to Hol...
Catherine Zeta-Jones: Name ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones was once asked what pissed her off about life in Los Angele...
Bing & Callas
When Bing cancelled Maria Callas's contract with the Metropolitan Opera (in 1958...
Zbigniew Rybczynski: Oscar ...
In 1983, Polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski won an Oscar for Best Animated Shor...
Dwight Eisenhower: Columbia...
"Dwight Eisenhower led the Allied forces to victory in 1945 and then became pres...
Ryan Adams
During a concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium one evening, Ryan Adams was dis...
Ross Kemp: Crooked Man?
In 2003, Ross Kemp was cast to play an MI5 photographer-spy who witnesses a prom...
Duran Duran Look-Alike Contest
"We'd hire a little working men's club in Birmingham," Duran Duran's Simon Le Bo...
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Hä...
American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson once volunteered for the part of ...
David Bowie & Ronnie Ross
David Bowie's first instrument was the saxophone. "Ronnie Ross - who was feature...
Badly Drawn Boy: Mistaken I...
The Fall's Mark E. Smith once mistook Damon Gough (the singer better known as Ba...
David Bowie: Mistaken Identity
"Sometime in the '80s," David Bowie later recalled, "an old lady approached me a...
Jay Walking: Friends or Str...
In April 2004, "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno ventured onto the streets of Los Ang...
Paul Hubert
"In 1863, Paul Hubert, of Bordeaux, France, was convicted of murder and sentence...
Lou Ferrigno & Son
The first time Lou Ferrigno's son saw his father as the Incredible Hulk, he beli...
Mickey Spillane: Chateau Ma...
During the production of the film adaptation of Mickey Spillane's ...
Tom Daschle: Butcher of the...
On November 18, 2003, the Cleveland Plain Dealer printed the following co...
Old Acquaintance
Ralph Richardson once spotted an old acquaintance in a railway station. "My dear...
Viggo Mortensen: Vanity Fai...
During an interview with Vanity Fair's Alex Kuczynski in a restaurant sho...
Benjamin Bratt: Surprise Ap...
Benjamin Bratt once agreed to surprise a fan who had recently appeared on Oprah'...
Kevin Bacon: Odd Man Out
"Every story Kevin Bacon tells has the same basic point: He's the odd man out, t...
Mistress
In 1675, Nell Gwyn accompanied Charles II on a visit to Oxford. The crowd, think...
Dominick Dunne: Fan Encounter
"As I was walking on East 57th Street next to Tiffany's one day," Dominick Dunne...
Robert Frost: Inaugural Add...
On Friday, January 20, 1961, Poet Laureate Robert Frost spoke at the inauguratio...
Benoit Vuitton: Accessories...
After spending two months as a shop assistant at New York's flagship Vuitton sto...
Princess Margaret: Imperson...
"At a dinner party some years ago, having kept the company in stitches with a wh...
Peter Imbert: First Day
Sir Peter Imbert: "I recall the day in 1985 when I arrived at New Scotland Yard ...
Winston Churchill: Brother ...
"Sir Winston Churchill was a member of Trinity House. He went to France for a sp...
Jeremy Paxman: Bewildered
"One day I was interviewing a trade union leader about an industrial dispute," B...
Wayne Newton & Frank Sinatra
"When [Frank Sinatra] called me the first time to have dinner with him I thought...
Anil Kapoor: Terror Alert
Two weeks after 9/11, 16 of India's biggest Bollywood stars - among them Anil Ka...
Billy Crystal: Meeting Kiss...
In 2006, Billy Crystal went to a baseball game with Henry Kissinger and several ...
Patricia Heaton: Jury Duty
Patricia Heaton was among the people called for jury duty for the Robert Blake t...
Richard Branson: Branding
Virgin CEO Richard Branson: "Branding is important. If you get your face and you...
Matthew Fox: Star in Hawaii
For its September 2005 issue, Details magazine's Joel Stein interviewed "...
Phony Character
For many years, New Yorker editor Harold Ross had Eustace Tilley (the em...
Jacobi & Jacobi
Karl Jacobi's brother, M. H. Jacobi, was equally famed - as the founder of the f...
What a Boob!
In May 2002, an amateur photographer named Frank Ramaesiri appeared in Manhattan...
Winston Who?
"At school it was always, 'Take that for being a sonofabitch, and that for being...
Kiss of Death
After his unforgettable screen debut Kiss of Death (1947) - as Tommy Udo,...
Surprise Attack
After attending lectures on Napoleon as a young man, Santa Anna modelled himself...
Woolworth
Retailers have always had difficulty finding and retaining reliable employees. I...
Princess Vera
"[Hollywood's] first organized social system came with Mary Pickford and Douglas...
Check Out Howard?
Even as Treasurer, future Australian Prime Minister John Howard had a high publi...
Greg Lawrence in Toronto
While visiting Toronto one day, Greg Lawrence (famed for his creation of the ani...
Badly Drawn Boy
One day in February 2003, Damon Gough (the singer better known as ...
Treasury Minister
"One afternoon not long after my arrival in the Treasury," Jock Bruce-Gardyne re...
Daniel Bernoulli
While traveling across Europe one day, Daniel Bernoulli found himself conversing...
Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver was often mistaken for... Minnie Driver. "People go 'You look a lo...
Joan Crawford
During World War II many film stars periodically worked at the Hollywood Canteen...
Dustin Hoffman
One day during the production of Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982), Dustin ...
Liszt & Chopin
At a gathering one day, Franz Liszt asked Frederic Chopin to play in complete da...
Michael Clarke Duncan
While appearing as a guest on "The Tonight Show with" one evening, Michael Clark...
Andy Roddick: Someone Famous
"I was at Starbucks the other morning," Andy Roddick once recalled, "and this gu...
Ellie Greenwich: Saturday M...
Legendary songwriter Ellie Greenwich: "Right next door there's a tailor, and I h...
Harry Truman: Haberdasher
"A story of mistaken identity concerns a national shirt manufacturer
who used t...
Who's Who
In 1967, it was suggested to Richard Nixon that he choose Maryland governor Spir...
Telia
In April 2001, Telia (a Swedish Telecoms company) cut off Anders Igel's cell pho...
Homesick Amidala
Though she later called her experience working with George Lucas on ...
Joey Levitch and his Hollyw...
Jerry Lewis early stage show, "Joey Levitch and his Hollywood Friends," was not ...
Fiona Armstrong: Fan Encounter
"I was in a shop," former "BBC World News" presenter Fiona Armstrong once recall...
Hellish Moment
After Swinburne's death in 1909, the critic and translator Edmund Gosse began co...
Fading Light
During the American Civil War General Stonewall Jackson, in a brilliant military...
Stellar Student?
At a dinner party one evening, Albert Einstein found himself conversing with a n...
Classic Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick, who once went ten years without making a film or giving an inte...
Jude Law: Best-Dressed?
During the filming of Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003) in Romania...
Turnaround
One day at the height of her career (shortly after the release of ...
Penn Fan
After having his driver's license suspended one year, Sean Penn was forced to us...
Flustered
During a performance of The Act one evening, Liza Minnelli spotted Marlen...
Sheriff of Bannack
Though Henry Plummer, the Sheriff of Bannack (in the Idaho Territory, now Montan...
Hot Tip
One day in August 1797, police detective G. Walsh received a hot tip from an inf...
Boult from the Blue
While riding a bus one day, the famous conductor Sir Adrian Boult was addressed ...
Match Thief
"I understudied Sir George Alexander in The Admirable Crichton in 1914," ...
Riches to Rags?
James Harries was a prodigy. At the age of ten, he began running his own antique...
Fermi's Driver
Enrico Fermi was once awarded a title by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini: "Ecc...
Burns & Bacon
Edward Burns was once asked whether he was ever mistaken for other actors. "In m...
DavidCross.com
David Cross was once asked why his website, DavidCross.com, sucked. "It's some g...
Australian Diplomacy
On her way to the Middle East to visit troops in November 2003, New Zealand Prim...
Meg Ryan & Mike Tyson
After playing boxing manager Jackie Kallen in Against the Ropes (2004), M...
Robert Stack: Meeting Sam G...
Robert Stack, famed for his portrayal of Eliot Ness in the popular TV series "Th...
Djibril Cisse: Halloween Mask
While sitting in their car one day, Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse and a friend...
Selina Scott: Young Celebrity
"As a young 'celebrity' on a local TV station in Aberdeen, I was stopped by a wo...
Doggie in the Window
Rosemary Clooney was often asked to sing her classic song, "How Much Is That Dog...
Douro
The duke of Wellington was once asked whether any of the countless caricatures w...
Pedestrian Crossing
British pedestrian crossings, marked by orange globes atop black and white poles...
Lipton's Notes
"Sir Thomas Lipton told me the story of Lipton's Bulk Notes - almost the best pi...
Long Flight
During a long flight shortly after her appearance in Showgirls (in 1995),...
Alexandra Adi Interview
Alexandra Adi once sat down for an interview with Stuff magazine's Dan Bo...
Il Gobbo
One day Michelangelo happened to observe a group of people admiring his ...
Filmthreat?
"Ron Wells, from filmthreat.com, wrote this review for Dogma," Director K...
'60s Icon
One evening the humorist Roy Blount, Jr. visited Elaine's restaurant for dinner....
Express Checkout
During a break in the shooting of a film in Alabama in 2003, Ewan McGregor saw h...
Beaverbrook Honeymoon
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Boxing Referee
"One day, some time in the 1930s, Shine Forbes was acting as a second to a young...
Feynman's Van
"Richard Feynman and I would sometimes go camping together," Al Seckel once reca...
Sassy Aguilera
"Sometimes I'll be checking out a guy and he totally knows who I am," Christina ...
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh was once asked whether the nasty characters in such books ...
Pierre Trudeau
One day in the early 1980s, an opinionated Toronto taxi driver harshly criticize...
R.E.M. Fan
"I had one girl show up on my front porch," R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills once recal...
Charles Barkley & Dennis Ku...
While attending an NBA game in February 2004, Charles Barkley spotted a man wear...
Lenny Kravitz: Second Career?
In 2001, Lenny Kravitz was wrongfully apprehended for a bank robbery in Miami. "...
Ninon de Lenclos: Gentleman...
So renowned was Ninon de Lenclos's sexual expertise that daughters of the aristo...
Wrong Russell
After a successful career in Hollywood, Rosalind Russell returned to the stage a...
Strange Customer
One morning a gentleman visited Howell's shop looking for pianoforte music. When...
Sticky Wicket
One evening the cricket writer E. T. Smith found himself at a party in New York'...
Lester D. Pearson?
"In January 1965, Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson was to meet with Pre...
Gaudaur Family
"My cousin Jake Gaudaur Jr.," John Gaudaur Savage once recalled, "the former com...
Kindly Astor
"During World War I, Nancy Astor set up a Red Cross hospital at Cliveden. A very...
S. T. Coleridge
Shortly after Samuel Taylor Coleridge's tragedy Remorse appeared, its aut...
Harrison Ford
One day at the turn of the millennium, Harrison Ford visited the Hollywood Walk ...
Tough Girl Prepon
"I love being the tough girl!" Laura Prepon once declared. "And if people want t...
John Bull
John Bull once visited a famous American musician at St. Omer's, pretending to b...
Gorky at the Met
While visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art one day, the abstract expressionis...
General Stanley Mathenge: H...
"A stooped 72-year-old man arrived at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airp...
Robert Plant Meets Jimmy Page
"It was at the last Obstweedle gig," former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant o...
Eddie Vedder: Looking Normal?
In November 2001, as a "small political protest" against the bombing of Afghanis...
Clash Producer
"When our producer Sandy Pearlman came to meet us at a gig, a friend of Mick Jon...
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