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Fighting Words!
During the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher traveled to England in order to solicit...
Kool Reception?
In 1921, Chinese ambassador Wellington Koo visited America to represent China at...
Bonjour?
In 1974, Richard Nixon, not noted for his social graces, visited Paris to attend...
Ronald Reagan: Uncommon Cents
In Ronald Reagan's first televised budget speech as president, he used a handful...
Long Story
During his gubernatorial campaign in southern Louisiana, Huey Long was advised t...
Riot Act
Such was his ineptitude as a public speaker that David Hartley (a member of Parl...
Lincoln's Lips
In 1972, a patriotic businessman (W. M. Riesk) from Salt Lake City commissioned ...
Basket Case
Mark Twain once attended a meeting at which one of the speakers was raising mone...
O Seneca!
A speech, Seneca once declared, should evolve like the act of love. It should be...
Faith Hope & Charity
Fulton Sheen once spoke at an inter-faith rally in Baltimore. Having been welcom...
Coxey's Army
In 1893, Jacob Sechler Coxey, mayor of Massillon, Ohio, and some 20,000 men and ...
Heckler
While delivering a campaign speech one day Theodore Roosevelt was interrupted by...
Dr. Bowie
While visiting Boston's Berklee College of Music to receive an honorary degree o...
Popular Wading
While traveling in Portugal one year, Marc Connelly, on a lark, began traveling ...
Long-Winded
On June 12, 1935, Senator Huey Long began what would become his longest and most...
Carpetbagger
When John McCain first ran for election in Arizona (after living in the state fo...
Ask Not
Shortly after JFK's inaugural address, his Republican opponent Richard Nixon gen...
Waters of Truth
While giving an abolitionist speech one day, Henry Clay found himself struggling...
Great Feeling
At the 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards in 2002, Kiefer Sutherland was named best...
Roastmaster
During a large dinner party one evening, Clarence Kelland, serving as toastmaste...
Oscar Glory
As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan awarded the best picture ...
Hanoi Jane Fonda
When Jane Fonda was nominated for a best actress Oscar (for her portrayal of a c...
Pink Pajamas
"On the first morning out from Bombay my cabin-mate and I woke up early and bega...
Name-Dropper
"Norman St. John-Stevas, the British arts minister, broke off during a speech to...
Roberto Benigni: Acceptance...
Roberto Benigni's performance as Guido Orefice in La Vita è bella (Life I...
Reverse Psychology?
Although he knew that his Roman Catholicism would present political problems, Hi...
Berra Necessities?
At the inauguration of "Yogi Berra Day" in St. Louis (his home town), Berra was ...
Haley Joel Osment at the Os...
"Young Haley Joel Osment was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar [for hi...
Ghost Writers?
Comedian Garry Moore was once the recipient of a television award for spontaneit...
Greer Garson: Mrs. Palaver?
In 1943, Greer Garson clinched a best actress Oscar for her starring role in ...
Henry Clay: Clay in His Hands
While Henry Clay's oratorical prowess won him the adulation of much of the House...
Creative Destruction
When, at an official reception during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln referred to...
Purest Greek
Canadian prime minister John A. MacDonald and Hector Langevin (the former solici...
Ronald Reagan: Seasoned Pol...
Despite concern over Ronald Reagan's age (69) when he ran for the presidency in ...
GNC
One day in 1976, president Jimmy Carter met with reporters to discuss the affair...
Michael Dell Commencement A...
In 2003, Dell founder Michael Dell delivered the commencement address at the Uni...
Ulysses S. Grant: Bogus Stogie
In the 1860s, future president Ulysses S. Grant, an inveterate practical joker, ...
Sunset?
On his eightieth-birthday, Somerset Maugham spoke at a dinner held in his honor ...
Impromptu Remark
Churchill's talent for extemporaneous debate was 'apparent' to fans and critcs a...
Woody Dukakis?
While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle fired a surprisingl...
Buttonholed?
As a young student, Walter Scott became tired of playing second-fiddle to a volu...
Jimmy Carter: Hornblower
Jimmy Carter delivered a memorable oration at the funeral of former vice preside...
Brain Drain?
While criticizing Liberal policies on the campaign trail one day, Canadian Allia...
Ted Allbeury: After-Dinner ...
"Only once in the last five or six years have I indulged reluctantly in an after...
Harold Macmillan & Khrushch...
One day in September 1960, the famously unflappable British prime minister Harol...
Certain Nobleman?
Voltaire attended the funeral of a certain nobleman. "He was a great patriot, a ...
Harold Macmillan: Fathers a...
Among Harold Macmillan's fiercest critics was his own son, Maurice, who once sen...
Ray Milland: Nod to the Aca...
In 1946, Ray Milland won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as the heroinic Don Bir...
Chestertonnage?
G. K. Chesterton, famed for his corpulence, gave a lecture in Pittsburgh one day...
David McNee: Hospital Speech
"When I was Commissioner for Police," Sir David McNee once recalled, "I was invi...
Jeff Taylor: We Rock!
Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com (the world's biggest online job-search site)...
Kimberly Williams-Paisley: ...
While visiting the White House with her husband (country music star Brad Paisley...
George W. Bush: Iraq Blooper
"In his own acceptance speech [following the 2004 presidential election], George...
Eating Crow?
In the middle of one of Henry Ward Beecher's most potent political speeches, a m...
The Old Complaint
"I really don't deserve this," Jack Benny once remarked, accepting an award. "Bu...
Abraham Lincoln: Tough Act ...
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln attended the dedication of the n...
Public Service Announcement
When, in 1783, George Washington resigned, at the height of his power, as comman...
About Schmidt
At the 2003 Golden Globe Awards, Jack Nicholson was named Best Actor in a Drama ...
Apt Students?
Friedrich Schleiermacher was once complimented on the apparent popularity of his...
Curb Your Enthusiasm
At the 2003 Golden Globes, Larry David won an award for best comedy series for h...
Rubbish
While speaking at a rally in the mid-1960s, Edmund Wilson was interrupted by a h...
Strom Thurmond: Bladder Bus...
South Carolina's legendary Republican Senator Strom Thurmond holds a dubious dis...
Maiden Speech
In 1689, the famed physicist Sir Isaac Newton served as Cambridge University's r...
Julie Andrews: Last Laugh
Though she had played the original Eliza Dolittle in the successful Broadway mus...
Space Cadet
One day Vice President Dan Quayle, famed for his verbal bloopers, delivered a sp...
Alec Guinness: Mudlark
The high point of Jean Negulesco's The Mudlark (1950), was a rousing parl...
Lincoln's Hat
At his presidential inauguration, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the rostrum holding...
Pointed Remark?
The portly Edmund Burke once delivered a passionate oration before the House of ...
Twinning Ceremony
In 1985 the English town of Godalming in Surrey officially became the sister cit...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt &...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was once accused by Republicans of using taxpayer mone...
Fanfair
In 1944, King Haakon - leader of the exiled Norwegian government in London durin...
Two G-G-Georges
The war correspondent George Kingswell, famed for his stutter, once had occasion...
Heckler
Irked by the constant interruptions of a noisome heckler one day, A. E. Smith pa...
Plymouth Trek
During the 1997 British general election, Patrick Stewart (noted for his role as...
Harold Wilson: Coitus Inter...
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was once harangued in parliament by Willie ...
George Burns: Sunshine Boy
In 1976, George Burns played the role of Al Lewis, one of two cranky ex-vaudevil...
Drinkin' Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln's political nemesis, Stephen Douglas, attempting to discredit hi...
Persistent Suitor
Days after her divorce was finalized, Sinclair Lewis met with the journalist Dor...
Inaugural Yapper
Following his election in 1841, President William Henry Harrison delivered the l...
Michael Jackson: Artist of ...
At one point during the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (broadcast live from New Yor...
Uplifting Address
Ohio Congressman Jim Traficant once delivered an 'uplifting address' before the ...
Lincoln's Day Address
In 1943, the Arab scholar (and noted eccentric) Arthur Pope was invited to deliv...
Baited Breath?
President Calvin Coolidge was famed for his taciturnity. On one memorable occasi...
Little Voice
In January 1999, Michael Caine won a Golden Globe award for best actor in a musi...
Odd Timing
Rather ironically, Tony Randall won a long overdue Emmy for his classic portraya...
Cuba Gooding, Yapper
For his role as football player Rod "Show Me the Money" Tidwell in Cameron Crowe...
Convention Speech
"George W. Bush spoke for 58 minutes at the Republican Convention," Craig Kilbor...
Booby Spice
When the Spice Girls met the queen, Sexy Spice (Geri Halliwell) refused to follo...
Bush-Cheney Speech
"This is President Bush and Vice President Cheney giving a speech at his ranch i...
Vaughn-Man
Vince Vaughn had severe academic problems from kindergarten to high school and s...
Crackhead Mayor
Like every crackhead politician, former D.C. mayor Marion Barry was prone to ver...
Clinton Blooper
Even Bill Clinton, famed for his ability as a public speaker, was not immune to ...
Presidential Message
On January 8, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a brief Presidential message. Th...
Bush Roast
In March 2001, George W. Bush made his first appearance as president at the Grid...
Sally Field Acceptance Speech
When Sally Field won her second Oscar for her role as Edna Spalding in Robert Be...
Daniel Webster: Harrison's ...
In 1841, President-elect William Henry Harrison wrote an inaugural address (larg...
Drunkard Macdonald
"A common story, resting upon no adequate authority, is that a short-hand writer...
Medical Superman?
After breaking his neck at an equestrian competition in 1995, Christopher Reeve,...
Historic Speeches
"Later this month in Arkansas," Conan O'Brien reported in March 2003, "former Pr...
Great Opportunity
One day during the 1912 presidential election, the Progressive Party campaign ma...
Everybody Loves Raymond
At the 2000 Golden Globes, Ray Romano was named best actor in a comedy for his r...
Ron Howard: Academy Award A...
In 2000, Ron Howard won a Best Director Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. "I'm ...
Jack Nicholson: Oscar Speech
"Jack Nicholson's movies have taken over $1.25 billion at the box-office, but th...
Geoffrey Rush: Shine
"Geoffrey Rush's big break came with Shine, based on the tale of disturbe...
George Bush: Church and State
"The difference between the Bushes [George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bus...
George W. Bush: Bad Speech
Laura Bush was once warned by Barbara Bush (George W. Bush's mother) not to crit...
Edmund Gwenn: Oscar Speech
In 1947, Edmund Gwenn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Kris Kri...
Jack Palance: Oscar Speech
In 1991, Jack Palance (the son of a coal miner) won a Best Supporting Actor Osca...
Jessica Yu: New Territory
In 1997, Jessica Yu won a "Best Documentary Short" Oscar for her film ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones: Welsh...
In 2003, Sean Connery presented Catherine Zeta-Jones with an Oscar for her perfo...
Bono: Doctor of Law
In 2004, U2 frontman Bono received an honorary doctor of law degree from the Uni...
John Kerry: Something Nice ...
"I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush," John Kerry decl...
Al Gore: Global Warming?
In January 2004, Al Gore delivered a speech on global warming. "Al," House Major...
Gary Cooper: Oscar Speech
In 1942, Gary Cooper won a Best Actor Oscar for his title role in Howard Hawks' ...
Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl
At the 41st Academy Awards ceremony in 1969, Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepb...
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmal...
In 1939, George Bernard Shaw won an Academy Award for his screenplay for ...
John Ford: 1941 Academy Awards
Director Frank Capra hosted the 1941 Academy Awards. Some time after introducing...
Yasser Arafat: Talking Peace
"In 1988 Mr Arafat made the move that transformed him from resistance leader to ...
Vladimir Putin: Pox on Russia
In 2004, with an AIDS crisis looming in Russia (where, despite estimates that by...
Ronald Reagan: American Aid
Ronald Reagan once delivered a memorable speech on American aid to developing co...
Ian Fleming: Likely Story
James Bond creator Ian Fleming was once invited to speak at a lunchtime function...
Tony Blair: Dial a Cliche
"[British Prime Minister Tony Blair] sometimes seems to have no sense at all of ...
Earl Warren: Audience of One
While campaigning for a minor county office, young Earl Warren (a future Chief J...
Hugh Laurie: Golden Globe A...
In 2006, Hugh Laurie won a Golden Globe award for his role in the television ser...
Al Gore: Webby Award
In 2005, Al Gore was honored with a lifetime achievement Webby Award. Told that ...
Horizon
During the course of a speech one day, Walther Ulbricht, extolling the glories o...
Sousman Hosed?
In an after-dinner speech at Trinity College, Cambridge, A. E. Housman once muse...
Zzzzzzz?
Among the speakers at the Democratic Leadership Council's meeting in August 2002...
Kevin Spacey: Oscar Speech
Kevin Spacey was not expecting to win his first Oscar for his portrayal of Keyse...
Bismarck
An American woman visiting Berlin - intent on hearing Bismarck speak - obtained ...
Depew
One evening Senator Chauncey Depew and Mark Twain were both billed to speak at t...
United Nations
Paul Spaak, presiding over the United Nations' first historic General Assembly m...
Acceptance Speech
For her remarkably subdued performance as Lynn Bracken (a prostitute who resembl...
Brezhnev Blooper
Many anecdotes attest to the stupidity of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His spe...
Debs, Undaunted
In 1918, the noted pacifist Eugene Debs made a speech condemning World War I and...
No Worries?
While addressing the House of Representatives one day, Illinois Senator William ...
Rear of the Year
Named the "Rear of the Year" in 1985, Lynsey De Paul graciously accepted her awa...
Pep Talk
After finding themselves down to the Colorado Avalanche three games to one in th...
Thomas Jefferson: Persuasion
As Thomas Jefferson (founder of the University of Virginia) perhaps naively trus...
House of Bollocks
"Jack Jones, the Labour member for Silvertown always has something to say, and s...
Timeless Advice
Hubert Humphrey was once given a word of writerly advice by his wife, Muriel. "H...
Dwight Eisenhower: Commence...
General Dwight Eisenhower was once called upon to address a graduating class at ...
Gipp's Ghost
Shortly before he died of pneumonia at the height of his career (in December 192...
Hal Roach: Oscar Speech
At the 64th Academy Awards in 1992, 100-year-old the legendary producer Hal Roac...
Sage Advice
"When Major Gwilym Lloyd George was looking round for men to run his plan for th...
Radical Words
FDR once delivered a radio address in which he identified four distinct politica...
Like a Spurgeon?
Charles Spurgeon was once approached by an admirer after one of his sermons. "Oh...
AEF
On July 4th, 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), having arrived in Eu...
Alice Brady: In Old Chicago
In 1938, Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Henry K...
Standing Room Only
A female fan once burst into Calvin Coolidge's office to congratulate him on a s...
Jennifer Ehle: Best Actress
In 1996, Jennifer Ehle won a BAFTA Award for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the...
Fitting Response
In 1954, famed costume designer Edith Head was delighted to be awarded an Oscar ...
Golden Globes?
At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, Ving Rhames was named Best Actor in a TV movie....
James Madison: Lightning Bug
One of the most active speakers at the Constitutional Convention was the learned...
Sunscreen
"Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 1997... Wear sunscreen. Be kind to your kn...
Histrionics
"Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwic...
Misconception
Despite his central position within Jonathan Swift's literary circle, Joseph Add...
Best Actress in a Predicament
Where was Renee Zellweger when she won her award for Best Actress in a Musical o...
Deft Hand? (long)
Among the most enthusiastically received speeches at The Democratic Leadership C...
Home Rule
One day early in his political career, Lloyd George delivered an address at a ra...
Dangers of Communism
In December 1959 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met with the leaders of...
Freddy Fingered
In 2002, Tom Green personally accepted the 'Golden Raspberry' award for the year...
James 1:6
One day, a preacher famed for his fearless social criticism was invited to speak...
Popularity Counts
In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his famous "Great Society" speech calling f...
High Sweepstakes?
When President George W. Bush delivered a prime-time address about homeland secu...
Modest Degas
On his deathbed, Edgar Degas called his friend Jean-Louis Forain to his side to ...
Just Say... Hope?
Shortly after his election to the oval office, George Bush (Sr), famed for his '...
Theodore Roosevelt: Teddy, ...
Though a sickly child, Teddy Roosevelt grew into a remarkably resilient man. An ...
Frankly Frank Oliver
"[The Alberta journalist and politician Frank Oliver] who had carried his little...
Sing Sing
New York Governor Al Smith once addressed a group of inmates at Sing Sing prison...
Eamonic Obsession?
After the Easter rebellion of 1916, Eamon De Valera was arrested while deliverin...
Flap and Doodle
Warren Harding was well-advised to hire a speech writer. "His speeches left the ...
Ronald Reagan: Political Th...
When television cameras first moved into the Senate (in 1986) Ronald Reagan offe...
Moonstruck
Cher was naturally delighted to win the best actress Oscar for her role in the 1...
Public Speaker
FDR once gave his son, James, some helpful 'hints in speech-making': "Be sincere...
Sermon
On Easter Tuesday in 1800, Parr delivered a famous sermon before the Lord Mayor ...
Conviction
In 1794, at the corruption trial of Warren Hastings (the former colonial adminis...
Tirade
Australian prime minister William Hughes was once subjected to a vicious verbal ...
Dove
"During the first days of the Revolution, in the 1960s, Fidel Castro once stood ...
Robin Williams / Grammy Awards
At the 2003 Grammy Awards, Rod Stewart, Harvey Fierstein in drag, and a small, h...
Captain Jack
In February 2000, First Lady Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the U.S...
Rod of Chastisement
Lady Astor's maiden speech in the House of Commons was - naturally - about the t...
Blockhead?
During the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony in 1998, Robin Williams won a Best Suppo...
Julia Roberts: America's Sw...
At the 27th Annual People's Choice Awards in January 2001, Oscar hopeful Julia R...
Boy Toy
In 2001, Robert Downey Jr. won a Golden Globe (for best supporting actor on a te...
Yawn
The Duke of Devonshire once impressed Bejamin Disraeli with a well-placed yawn -...
George Harris & Amherst Stu...
Every year, George Harris welcomed Amherst students at the beginning of the new ...
Vice President Calhoun
In the course of a speech one day, Henry Clay (an unsuccessful candidate for the...
Fateful Address
In 2002, Tom Wolfe delivered a commencement address at Duke University. Shunning...
Dead Poet
In 1948, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and John Huston's ...
k.d. lang
In 1992, k.d. lang won a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance. She was...
Classic Churchill
Oswald Mosley was thought by many of his colleagues in the House of Commons to r...
Difficult Speech
"In the theatre one of the all-time great Upmen is Wilfrid Hyde-White. When I [R...
Titanic Remembrance
After winning the Oscar for Titanic, director James "King of the World" C...
Guest of Honor
British Liberal politician Joseph Chamberlain once served as the guest of honor ...
Rutherford's Transformation
One day in 1908 the famed physicist Ernest Rutherford was delighted to learn tha...
Charles & the Bishop
Edward Stillingfleet, the bishop of Worcester and a popular preacher, was once a...
Yapper
In 1965, Alfred Hitchcock was given the Milestone Award by the Screen Producers ...
Screen Legend
On April 9, 1979, screen legend John Wayne, stricken with cancer, appeared at hi...
Steven Spielberg: Acceptanc...
"Oscar played coy with director Steven Spielberg, a paragon in cinema who was no...
Whistle Stop
During the 1924 presidential election, Calvin Coolidge embarked upon a whistle s...
Sixth Sense?
At a live rehearsal of "In-Laws" one day in 2002, Kelsey Grammer, the show's pro...
Transvestite Potter Grayson...
In December 2003, Britain's prestigious Turner Prize (for excellence in the visu...
Zbigniew Rybczynski: Oscar ...
In 1983, Polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski won an Oscar for Best Animated Shor...
Dick Gephardt: Jobs, Jobs, ...
"Dick Gephardt is so white that even under fluorescent lights he looks stage lit...
Rick Santorum: Republican B...
Even as a first-term House member, Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum raised ...
Bob Baffert: Winner's Circle
Before turning his hand to Thoroughbreds, the legendary horse trainer Bob Baffer...
Justin Timberlake: Career T...
Justin Timberlake won both the International Album award (for Justified) ...
Mark Fuhrman: Honorary Jour...
After leaving the LAPD (after being denounced as a racist during the O. J. Simps...
Clark Gable: Thank You
Clark Gable delivered the shortest speech in Oscar history when he won a Best Ac...
George W. Bush: Saving Face?
"Mr Bush," The Economist reported in May 2004, "is sufficiently worried a...
Michael Moore: Trademark Cap
"Michael Moore, the fat man, is the big guy in his baseball cap, the way Charlie...
Sarah Jessica Parker: Minor...
In 2002, Sarah Jessica Parker won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her role as Ca...
Paul Newman: Acceptance Speech
Paul Newman won an Academy Award for his role (as Fast Eddie Felson) in Martin S...
Jack Nicholson: Oscars Insa...
In 1975, Jack Nicholson won a Best Actor Oscar for his role (as the nutty Randle...
Roger Avary: Gotta Go
In 1996, Roger Avary won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Pulp Fiction." Ho...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sovi...
At the Republican National Convention in 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a...
Frederic March & Wallace Be...
"As the [1932 Academy Awards] show began, votes were still being counted in a ba...
Audrey Hepburn: Tricoastal ...
The 1954 Academy Awards show incorporated a number of remote broadcasts. The Bes...
James Slacker: Practice Spe...
In 2004, James Spader won an Emmy for his role on "The Practice." He was, he lat...
Walter Matthau: Oscar Speech
At the Academy Awards show in 1967, Walter Matthau made history when he collecte...
In 1977, hard-nosed "French Co
In 1977, hard-nosed "French Connection" director William Friedkin was tapped to ...
Laurence Olivier: And the w...
In 1985, 77-year-old Laurence Olivier had the honor of presenting the Best Pictu...
Robert Frost: Inaugural Add...
On Friday, January 20, 1961, Poet Laureate Robert Frost spoke at the inauguratio...
Lord Hailsham: Shut up!
"A junior Tory minister was making an impassioned speech about health services a...
Hilary Swank: Minor Oversight
In 2000, Hilary Swank won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in...
David Niven: Opening Words
David Niven once delivered a speech after several other speakers had exhausted h...
Clint Eastwood: Young at Heart
In 2005, 74-year-old Clint Eastwood won a Best Director Oscar for ...
Amy Adams: Jury Prize
At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Amy Adams was honored with a special jury pr...
Gulon Bluford: Hot Lighting
In June 1984, astronaut Gulon Bluford, Jr. delivered a commencement address at T...
Bob Hope: Bar Association
Bob Hope once accepted an invitation to address the American Bar Association. "M...
Bill Clinton: In Conclusion...
"Bill Clinton had the job of introducing the 1988 Democratic presidential nomine...
Dull Debate
James Stuart, the Secretary of State for Scotland, was a man of strong
characte...
Jimmy Htomas
"Jimmy Thomas, the railwayman's leader, had several comicalities of which one co...
Stark Choices
On August 16th, 1777, John Stark marched his New Hampshire militia across Vermon...
Toil, Tears, and Sweat?
Following the British defeat at Dunkirk in June 1940, Winston Churchill's famous...
Preemptive Mike?
Arriving to deliver a lecture on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Resear...
Understatement of the Day
In 1999, Kevin Spacey won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Sam Mendes's...
Dash of Spice
American Secretary of State William Evarts, a popular after-dinner speaker, once...
Introducing Goldwyn
"After Groucho Marx introduced Sam Goldwyn [at a Friars Club roast], Goldwyn mad...
Real Estate
In July 2002, Susan Sarandon attended the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood...
Oprah Blooper
At the 2002 Emmy Awards, Oprah Winfrey was honored with the Bob Hope Humanitaria...
Renee Zellweger's Black-Tie...
"Renee Zellweger was all set to introduce a black-tie conference attended by gen...
Randy Newman Acceptance Speech
At the 2002 Academy Awards, Randy Newman received an Oscar for his song "If I Di...
Harold Ramis: Graveside Eulogy
"After John Belushi died, of an overdose, in 1982, he was buried on Martha's Vin...
John Kerry: Campaign 2004
“I will be a Commander-in-Chief who will never mislead us into war [like George ...
Charlie Chaplin: Oscar Moment
Though he was given a special Oscar for his "versatility and genius" at the very...
Introducting Will Rogers
In December, 1924, Will Rogers delivered a speech at a formal dinner at Columbia...
Allison Janney: Emmy Speech
In 2004, Allison Janney won an Emmy for her role as Claudia Jean "C. J." Cregg o...
Nicole Kidman: Walk of Fame
In January 2003, Nicole Kidman was honored with the 2,211th star on the Hollywoo...
Trumpington of Sandwich
During a debate on a proposed amendment to the Social Security Bill in July 1986...
Backbencher
"Sir Waldron Smithers, who sat for Chislehurst, was an extreme Tory out of a van...
Presentation Boner
While giving a presentation for a cancer charity one day in October 2003, Mexica...
Falacious Allegation
Like Richard Nixon (whose legendary Checkers speech - in which he admitted that ...
Lifetime Achievement
"For a time, Stanley Donen epitomized Hollywood style. He directed Grant and Aud...
Bam!
While crime is, admittedly, always a key election issue, Dan Quayle drew an unus...
Juliette Binoche: Oscar Speech
In 1996, Juliette Binoche won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Ha...
Peace in our Time
Noel Coward and Ivor Novello were watching a newsreel together in the Tivoli cin...
Straight to Video
In February 2003, Quentin Tarantino attended the DVD Premiere Awards, a non-tele...
Empty Words
Clarence Darrow was once pestered by a reporter to provide him with a copy of a ...
Joseph Choate: Dinner Speaker
Chauncey Depew once introduced his rival lawyer Joseph Choate at a formal dinner...
Damn
In 1886, the Scottish writer Robert Bontine Conninghame Graham won a seat in the...
Ford & Nixon
President Gerald Ford was no fan of Richard "I Am Not a Crook" Nixon. Among Ford...
Checkered History
"The first major attack on Nixon's integrity came in 1952 when there were some u...
New Deal
In 1932, with the nation in the throes of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano ...
Mysterious Robert Rich
At the Academy Awards in 1957, a writer named Robert Rich won Best Motion Pictur...
Fellows Well Met?
Despite having clinched a guest role on television's "Ally McBeal" after his rel...
Shirley MacLaine: Modest Too
After winning a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Aurora Greenway in ...
George Burns: Hilarious Line
One evening George Burns and his lifelong friend Jack Benny were honored at a Fr...
Optimist
"Recently I heard two men at the National Theatre discussing a forthcoming play ...
Chariots of Fire
In 1982, Colin Welland won an Academy Award for his script for Hugh Hudson's ...
Swiftly Speaking
Jonathan Swift, as dean of St. Patrick's, was once called upon to deliver a char...
Apt Speech (long)
One day in the autumn of 2002, with America gearing up for war in Iraq, ...
Goodfella
Upon winning an Academy Award for his role as Tom DeVito in Martin Scorsese's cl...
Beware the Singer
During a Democratic Party fundraiser in October 2002, Barbra Streisand performed...
Houellebecq
In 1998, Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules Élémentaires won the prestig...
Finnegan Bl@@per
Judy Finnegan made headlines in October 2000, when her dress fell open to reveal...
1953
During the first televised Academy Awards ceremony in 1953, Bob Hope, the progra...
Frankly Speaking
Bill Clinton once recalled delivering a State of the Union address without the c...
Jennifer Aniston: Blitherin...
In October 2002, Jennifer Aniston won the Hollywood Film Award for actress of th...
Star Director
In October 2002, Jackie Chan attended the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood...
Brougham's Speech
During the second reading of the Reform Bill in 1830, Lord Brougham delivered a ...
Vague Speech
Winston Churchill, famed for his facility with English (and for his disdain for ...
Wise Move
After accepting an invitation to address an anti-Nazi rally in Brooklyn one year...
Polanski's Oscar
"Roman Polanski won the best director Oscar for his film 'the Pianist' although ...
Beautiful Speech
After being nominated for an Oscar for her role as Alicia in Ron Howard's ...
Denzel Washington & Sidney ...
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John Patrick Shanley: Punch...
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Maiden Speech
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Ron Howard Acceptance Speech
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Cotton Mouth
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Oh, Behave!
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Man of the World
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BBC
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Dylan's Daddy
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Cambridge Speech
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Shameful Speaker
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Olivier & Ustinov
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Daniel Day-Lewis: Acceptanc...
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Alice Cooper. Ph.D
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