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Mummy Straight Up
The Queen Mother once attended a reception at Buckingham Palace for a number of ...
Groucho Marx: Chastity
Groucho Marx was descending in the elevator at the Hotel Danieli in Venice one d...
Mum's the Word
One morning while attending Timbertops School in Australia, Prince Charles atten...
Bed Man Walking
Sean Penn's bad boy image stemmed in part from his romantic involvement with a s...
Sean Astin: Hidden Treasure
After starring in the classic children's adventure movie The Goonies (198...
Darren Drozdov: Mother's Pride
Early in his wrestling career, Darren Drozdov had an interview with WWF chief Vi...
Lizz Winstead: Catholic Mother
"I'm Catholic, and my mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm," L...
Windsor Castle
Shortly after Victoria banned smoking in the royal residences, her tobacco-lovin...
Room for Improvement?
Edith Wharton first attempted a novel at the tender age of eleven: "'Oh, how do ...
Leo Durocher: Durocher's Mo...
"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run tha...
When Harry Met Sally
In a classic scene in Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally, Sally Albright (...
Gina Gershon: Showgirls
Shortly after landing her role in Showgirls, Gina Gershon called her moth...
Jack Nicholson: Secrets & Lies
In 1974, a Time magazine reporter doing research for a cover story on Jac...
Young Paul Tracy
CART racer Paul Tracy was once asked whether his father had encouraged him to pu...
Crying on Cue
One day on the set of Oliver Twist (1922), young Jackie Coogan was requir...
Fitting Response
"Mrs. Stowe was leaving for Florida one morning, and Clemens [the young Mark Twa...
Young Harry Truman
In 1894, Harry Truman contracted diphtheria and was left temporarily paralyzed. ...
Coulda Been
American vice presidents have historically held remarkably little political powe...
Awkward Question
Zsa Zsa Gabor was once asked which of the Gabor sisters was the oldest. "Well," ...
Young Quentin Tarantino
"Quentin Tarantino as a child was preoccupied with movies, and he was always wri...
Judy Gold: Jewish Mother
"My mother is one of those Jewish women who think that Jewish people are perfect...
Keenan Ivory Wayans: Respect
Keenan Ivory Wayans inherited his self-deprecating nature from his lively mother...
Godfather?
In 1965, a Putnam editor happened to stop by the magazine offices where Mario Pu...
Turkmeniac?
In 2003, Turkmenistan's authoritarian president Saparmurad Niyazov took measures...
Spanker
During a guest appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" one evening, Bob M...
Mother-in-Law
"When Paul Latham bought Hurstmonceaux Castle, his future mother-in-law eyed a n...
Allman Joy?
When Cameron Crowe set out to become a rock journalist at the age of fifteen, hi...
Natalie Portman: Jewish Granny
While attending a mock trial at her East Coast university {Harvard} one day, Nat...
Spring Break
One day in May 2003, Mike Bullard visited the bank with his mother, who was plan...
Isaac Asimov
"After my parents sold the candy store, my mother decided to go to night school ...
Expectant Mother
"My first public appearance was not a success," the reporter Leslie Mitchell onc...
Pam's Tattoos
Shortly after meeting boyfriend Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson made him change his "...
Jose Cardenal: Family Reunion
Though Jose Cardenal left Cuba legally (in 1961, at the age of 16), he did not s...
Happy Family?
One day on the set of National Velvet (1943), Elizabeth Taylor, then just...
Barry Sonnenfeld's Mother
Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld once recalled the trials of growin...
Punishment for Bigamy
British prime minister John Russell was once asked his opinion vis-a-vis the pro...
Oosik
Jeff Bridges once guested on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" shortly after an a...
Paula Trashed
In July 2003, Paula Jones, famed for her allegations (of sexual misconduct) agai...
Harry Harlow & the Monkey E...
University of Wisconsin psychologist Harry Harlow was famed for a series of expe...
Old Ruse
"Once after a performance in Boston an elderly lady met me at the
stage door," ...
Commander in Chief?
One day during the early stages of the Revolutionary War, George Washington enli...
Spitting Image?
At the age of 75, professional tobacco spitter George Craft retired after settin...
Marquis
While working on Madame Sans-Gêne in Paris in 1925, Gloria Swanson fell i...
Stage Mother
Sarah Berlinger (a former department store detective) was a quintessential stage...
Nut Cracked?
Manhattan was the perfect place for a restless child like Whoopi Goldberg to gro...
Choices, Choices
"My mother always gave me two choices for dinner," Buddy Hackett once recalled. ...
Mother's Pride
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was once celebrated as the "sm...
Stifler's Mom
Seann William Scott was once asked what his mother thought about his appearance ...
Governor's Mother
Barbara Bush was once asked whether she gave President George W. Bush advice. "I...
Pink: Natural Rebel
Four months after signing with LaFace in 1996, Pink (who often hung out with str...
Ron Howard: Academy Award A...
In 2000, Ron Howard won a Best Director Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. "I'm ...
Meredith Baxter Birney: Per...
Meredith Baxter Birney, famed for her role as the perfect wife and mother on "Fa...
Young John Travolta
As an "indulged" child, John Travolta could do no wrong. "The famous story," he ...
Princess Diana: Abolishing ...
According to Andrew Morton's Diana: In Pursuit of Love, Princess Diana on...
Dame Judy Dench: Put-On Humor
"Judy Dench's love of put-on humor, the ruder the better, is legendary. Once whi...
Steve Ballmer: Mom Test
"According to an industry legend, [Microsoft CEO] Steve Ballmer conducted a mom ...
Jay Leno: Mother's Pride
In 1991, Jay Leno was chosen to replace legendary "Tonight Show" host Johnny Car...
John Patrick Shanley: Mothe...
John Patrick Shanley had some issues with his mother. "My mother wasn't comforta...
Cosell's Mother
Howard Cosell was, by his own admission, remarkably arrogant and vain. "In one y...
Queen Mother
The Queen Mother was not entirely amused when Queen Elizabeth II (her elder daug...
By Jove?
As considerable confusion surrounded Alexander's birth, many doubted that Philip...
Hooky
One day a teenaged Jay Leno convinced his mother to let him play hooky. "Ok," sh...
Greatest Moment
The concert impresario Sol Hurok once remarked that famed contralto Marian Ander...
Small World
While traveling by bus to New York one day to visit her daughter, Carson McCulle...
Himalaya Mama
Gertrude Hartley, while awaiting the birth of her child in Darjeeling, spent 15 ...
World's Greatest Drummer
After appearing as guests on "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" one day in January 20...
Crant Grant: Meeting Mother
When Cary Grant was nine years old, his mother suffered a nervous breakdown and ...
Cook Goosed?
Louis Thiers once overheard someone remark that his mother had been a cook. Eage...
Young Anthony Anderson
While appearing as a guest on "Last Call with Carson Daly" one evening, Anthony ...
Real Slim Shady
"People should know," Eminem's mother (Debbie Mathers) once declared, "that when...
Woman Hitler?
Shortly after breaking off his engagement to Anna Kournikova, Pavel Bure was ask...
Oedipus Cineplex?
Famed director Billy Wilder, having been instructed in the rudiments of existent...
School Marm?
Anne Rivers Siddons's early novel King's Oak contained a number of highly...
Momma's Boy
Clifton Webb was very close to his mother, who fought with producers and directo...
Money Back Guarantee?
As president of Princeton University, Wilson was once questioned at great length...
Baba Wawa
Barbara Walters was often teased about her speech impediment. "When my daughter ...
Spike Milligan
Prince Charles once tried to persuade Spike Milligan to take the oath of loyalty...
Mother's Day
In May, 2002, Gene Simmons's mother flew from New York to Los Angeles to spend M...
Wellman's Mother
One day during the filming of This Man's Navy (1945), director Wild Bill ...
Temptation
One day the medieval monk Caesarius of Heisterbach was amused to overhear a Cist...
Young Wellington
Like many noteworthy generals, Wellington was a mediocre student. Indeed, his mo...
Myers Boys
Incredibly, Mike Myers, the youngest of three boys, was considered the least com...
Jefferson's Mother
One day Thomas Jefferson was told by a servant that his mother's house had burne...
Girly Man
Douglas MacArthur's military success may have come as a surprise to his childhoo...
Sondheim's Mother
When Stephen Sondheim was ten, his parents divorced, and his mother, who retaine...
Little Lady
While out for a stroll one day, the Queen Mother and her small daughter Margaret...
Calm Casals
"At his Viennese debut Casals suffered from nerves. When he came to pick up his ...
Barbara Bush: Home Cooking
President George W. Bush was once asked whether he ate with his family. "Yes," h...
Scratch History
"Grand Wizzard Theodore," according to the Scratch Academy, "was a guy up in the...
Bruce Lee's Birth
Bruce Lee's obsession with martial arts and body building stemmed in part from t...
Caulbearer
The celebrity photographer Richard Avedon was born "behind the veil" with a caul...
James Baldwin & the Elevato...
One day when he was in high school, the budding poet James Baldwin visited a fri...
David Arquette: Centerfold ...
One day on the set of Stealing Sinatra, David Arquette found himself flip...
Leigh Walker: Autographed J...
After playing a fourth round FA Cup game against Chelsea in January 2004, Scarbo...
Paula Poundstone: Poundston...
"My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and t...
Young Stephen Valentine: Li...
"Stephen was a live wire," the architect Stephen Valentine's mother once recalle...
Peter Singer: Nice, in Theory?
"Professor [Peter] Singer's endorsement of the principle that each person counts...
Young Julianne Moore: Sleep...
"In her early school years, Julianne Moore, the oldest of three children, was sk...
Sigourney Weaver: Dedicated...
When Sigourney Weaver finally had a child (after five years spent trying to conc...
Joy Adamson: Family Dysfunc...
Many biographers have traced Joy Adamson's fraught relationships to her difficul...
Young Kenneth Branagh: Shop...
"In 1969 while I was living in Belfast, I stole a big box of suds from a fucking...
Haley Joel Osment: Sweepsta...
Haley Joel Osment got his start as an actor in a Pizza Hut commercial. (He was d...
Kevin Smith: Clerks
Shortly after finishing Clerks, director Kevin Smith watched the film wit...
Tony Danza: Meet the Parents
When Tony was fourteen years old, he brought a girlfriend home to meet his paren...
Susan Sarandon: Clip Show
In 2003, Susan Sarandon was honored with a special ceremony at the Lincoln Cente...
Picasso
"When I was a child," Picasso once recalled, "my mother said to me, if you becom...
Ambitious Mother
As Norman Taurog was leaving for a football game one day, a pushy woman barged i...
Tori Amos: Metaphorically S...
Tori Amos once called her mother in the middle of a date. "How long," she wanted...
Hip Sculptor?
When Henry Moore's mother developed a painful case of sciatica, her dutiful son ...
Mommie Dearest
Joan Crawford was the prototypical demented mother, forcing her adopted children...
Cocktail Party
While touring the United States in 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were...
Pratt's Prom
For her high school prom, Susan May Pratt tried to make her own dress. When her ...
Angie Dickinson's Mother
Angie Dickinson's mother was dead set against her daughter pursuing a career as ...
Jon Favreau: Gift Surprise
"I gave my mother-in-law a DVD player that I received as a thank-you from a movi...
Pat Hughes: The Drought
Edmonton Oilers winger Pat Hughes once went two months without scoring a goal. "...
John Boorman: Hope and Glory
John Boorman's mother once went to see his acclaimed film Hope and Glory,...
Young Ingmar Bergman: Talen...
"[Young Ingmar Bergman] was frequently punished. When he wet his bed, which he d...
Queen Latifah: Skipping School
Queen Latifah once attended a school at which her mother was a teacher: "It was ...
Augusten Burroughs: Trade-In
In 2002, Augusten Burroughs was delighted to learn that Julianne Moore had been ...
Kings of Leon: Hookers and ...
Shortly after signing a fat contract with RCA Records - and buying a three-bedro...
Gray Hair
Cary Grant's mother, having seen her famous son on a television broadcast one da...
Girly Man
Rainer Maria Rilke's success as a lyric poet may have been predicted by his chil...
Deep Purple
"In India, while I was on tour with Ensa during the war," Joyce Grenfell once re...
Gypsy Gita
Actress Louise Ashby once visited the famed masseuse Gypsy Gita (who once toured...
Jay Leno: Damn!
"I once used the Lord's name in vain," Jay Leno recalled of his early years. "An...
DeShannon & Son
Noah DeShannon, whose mother, Jackie, won a Grammy Award for co-writing the hit ...
Drea de Matteo: Cursing
"It's hard for me to be sitting here right now and not curse," Drea de Matteo co...
Beach Music
The death of Pat Conroy's mother Frances, a gracious Southern lady was called "P...
Consolation
After returning from Sind, Richard Burton developed an interest in a vivacious y...
Leah Remini: E! Celebrity P...
One day Leah Remini settled in to watch her own E! Celebrity Profile. She was no...
Ma Roosevelt
One day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once remarked that he had never - in...
Spielberg's Mother
Despite his direction of such classic films as Jaws, E.T., ...
V-Chip
"Nowadays they say you need to get a special chip to put in the TV so the kids c...
Young Buck
In 1970, future R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck attended his first concert - ...
Eric Balfour: Balfour's Mother
Eric Balfour (who once caused a minor scandal by dating a former babysitter eigh...
Martha Stewart: Model Mother
One day Martha Stewart, a former model and stock broker, announced that she was ...
Velvet Gloves
Hoping to spark her interest in playing Sandy in Blue Velvet, David Lynch...
Sixteen Children
"Lady Louise Moncrieff was a remarkable woman. She kept her high spirits and sen...
Nicolson's Mother
In February 1948, Harold Nicolson stood (unsuccessfully) in the Croydon by-elect...
Julie Walters
"From an early age, [Julie Walters] wanted to be an actress, but was persuaded b...
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