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Young Henry Irving
Although Henry Irving's productions at London's Lyceum Theatre earned him a knig...
Junior Endowment?
"In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to...
Crick & Churchill
When his Cambridge college began the construction of a chapel in 1961, the biolo...
Highway to Hell!
During the American invasion of Panama in 1989, troops blasted AC/DC's "Highway ...
First Impressions
One day in the early 1960s, John Lennon walked into London's Indica art gallery ...
Nemesis
The Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos once commissioned Salvador Dali to p...
Up in Arms
In July 2003, a new action figure, modelled on the Seattle Public Library's own ...
Professor's Fanny
"I once knew a rather charming Oxford professor," Beverly Nichols once recalled,...
Nosy Sitter
A certain woman, having commissioned a $5,000 portrait from John Singer Sargent,...
Kingsale
As the Victorian representative of a long line of Irish peers (the premier baron...
Sick Horse
When one of her horses became ill, Elizabeth Arden called the world-famous Mayo ...
Hot Ticket?
One day Christopher Atkinson began a lecture by explaining that he would be exam...
P. Diddy in Denmark
One night while touring through Europe (in October 2002), P. Diddy played his fi...
Katharine Hepburn: Pants
Katharine Hepburn almost always wore pants, even when doing so was decidedly unf...
I. B. Singer (long)
"Somewhere in the mid-1970s, when Singer – amazingly, improbably – regularly pub...
Chef de Protocol?
One day in August 2002, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was outraged to learn t...
Blonde Jokes
Dolly Parton's appearance engendered considerable speculation - and not just on ...
Egalitarian Brahms
Johannes Brahms could be insufferably sarcastic and rude - even to his friends. ...
Absent-Minded Ampere
The famed physicist and mathematician Andre Marie Ampere was notoriously absent-...
On The Road
"Almost a year after The Town and The City was published, Jack Kerouac ar...
Lovable Brute
During the production of Sense and Sensibility, director Ang Lee was pain...
Joan Rivers & the Palace Gi...
While touring Buckingham Palace in 2002, Joan Rivers headed straight for the gif...
Richard Lewis: Actor, Write...
In the 2000 media guide for their men's basketball team, Ohio State University i...
Christ of the Andes
In March 1904, a large statue of Jesus Christ was erected in the Uspallata Pass ...
O Pygmy
Despite Richard Busby's diminutive frame, an Irish baronet of enormous stature o...
Stutterer
Erasmus Darwin was once asked by an impertinent young man whether he found his n...
Well of Loneliness
Because of its homosexual subject matter, Radclyffe Hall's classic novel ...
Diplomatic Solution
"Sir Oswyn Murray, Secretary of the Admiralty for nearly twenty years from 1917,...
Pearls and Swine
Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was once accosted by a haughty old dowager who scrut...
Menace II Society?
Shortly after the filming of From Hell (starring Johnny Depp), Albert Hug...
M-My Generation
The BBC has a long history of banning hit songs from its airwaves - chief among ...
Contrarian
Though Kondraty Ryleyev, like the other Decembrist conspirators, was condemned t...
Baboon
While hosting a formal dinner one evening, Lord Sandwich brought in a large babo...
Happy Newlywed
Much Music VJ Bill Welychka once interviewed KISS frontman Gene Simmons. "I just...
Bah!
While still in his twenties, Augustus Keppel was enlisted to appeal to the dey o...
"Beast" Butler
While serving as commander of the Union forces occupying New Orleans in 1862, Be...
Siesta Sonata
When young Johannes Brahms was introduced to Franz Liszt at a friendly gathering...
Upstaged
After Tony Kaye's antics directing American History X, a studio executive...
Snubbed
George Grossmith was engaged at a high fee by a society hostess to give his ente...
Emperor Speaks
While performing one evening, Franz Liszt was dismayed to observe his patron, Em...
Rockefeller's Suit
John D. Rockefeller showed little concern for his personal appearance. One of hi...
Otto was once examined by a re
Otto was once examined by a renowned Viennese physician. Bothered by the man's e...
Rosie O'Donnell: Not So Rosy
"In an interview with Vanity Fair, 'Rosie' employees compared their ex-bo...
Leary & Henley
Denis Leary, who once insulted several musicians in a series of spots for MTV, o...
Who Knew Baraka Was a Moron?
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, New Jersey poet laure...
Tumbling Woman
In 2002, officials at New York's Rockefeller Center unveiled a sculpture called ...
Cynthia Nixon: Gala Perform...
In April 2003, Cynthia Nixon (famed for her role as Miranda on "Sex and the City...
Ryan Adams
During a concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium one evening, Ryan Adams was dis...
Jo Brand & the Albanian Anthem
In January 2004, comedian Jo Brand and the BBC formally apologised for a comment...
George Bush: Marin County H...
While discussing John Walker Lindh one day in 2002, George Bush (Sr.) referred t...
Madonna Outraged
During a radio interview in November 2002, Madonna professed outrage over a rece...
William Shatner: Kelley's C...
William Shatner once had a falling out with Deforest Kelley (who played Doctor L...
Chevy Chase: Insult Comic?
Though widely admired for his ability, Chevy Chase made few friends on the set o...
Formal Statement
"The Marchese Caprinica del Grillo was invited to an evening reception by a prom...
Yankee Doodle
"In a demotic age, Yankee Doodle came to London in the form of [Jimmy Carter] a ...
Redd Foxx: Sincere Apology
The legendary comedian Redd Foxx was famed for his offensive humor (click ...
Brash Lawyer
As a young lawyer, F. E. Smith once defended a tram company in a case involving ...
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison &...
Though often described as a gifted interviewer, the writer Barbara Grizzuti Harr...
Mere Gentleman
"After 1700 William Congreve wrote little, preferring to lead the life of a gent...
Monumental Protest
One day in 1854, at the height of the construction of the Washington Monument, P...
Bill Richardson: Middle Eas...
"During the Gulf War, a couple of oil workers strayed across the border from Kuw...
Sheena Easton: American Accent
"She came out and did a show in Glasgow," Mogwai's Martin Bulloch once recalled ...
Il Gobbo
One day Michelangelo happened to observe a group of people admiring his ...
Cyrus & Son
Cyrus II once reprimanded his son, Cambyses, for his arrogant and insolent behav...
Young Nikola Tesla
"I had two old aunts with wrinkled faces," the inventor Nikola Tesla once recall...
Conor Oberst
On October 5, 2003, Bright Eyes played a set at the Shortlist Awards in Los Ange...
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