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  • Charles M. Schulz: Good Grief!

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    "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz's comic vision was inspired by a childhood punctuated by a series of misfortunes and failures. One day the future cartoonist went to see a movie at a theater which had promised chocolate bars to the first 1...

  • Howie Mandel - Helium voice prank

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    Howie Mandel on one of his favorite pranks: "I had one voice where it sounded like I was in a terrible helium accident and I would go to the emergency rooms of hospitals -- before I was on TV, they didn't know who I was -- and I would go to the ad...

  • Michael Moore - Young Idealist

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    After a year at the University of Michigan, Michael Moore started working on a General Motors assembly line (like his father) in Flint, Michigan. He did not stay long. Michael called in sick on his very first day and never went back. Why did Michael at...

  • Eddie Murphy: Great Song

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    One day in 1985, Eddie Murphy got a call from Stevie Wonder. "We're working on this great song," he explained. "You've got to come down to the studio." "I can't," Murphy replied. "I'm working on a song of my own."Eddie's song? "Party All the Time" (Sam...

  • Cher - West Side Story singalong

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    Young Cher once waited until she was home alone so she could sing along to "West Side Story" (reenacted on a television special). Cher recalled putting her hair in pigtails and announcing: "'I am proud to present West Side Story. I will be playing all ...

  • Howie Mandel: Amusement Park

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    Howie Mandel once worked as a ride operator at an amusement park. "Make sure the orange safety harness over your left shoulder is securely fastened," he would warn riders. "We're going upside down in five seconds!" This announcement was invariably met ...

  • Simon Cowell - first "American Idol" contestant

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    "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell was nasty from day 1. "That was terrible, I mean seriously terrible," he told the show's very first contestant, prompting fellow judge Paula Abdul to start crying and walk off the set.Paula later hired a writer to cou...

  • George Clooney - Bachelor

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    After his divorce from Talia Balsam, George Clooney vowed never to remarry or have any children. Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer once challenged Clooney to put his money where his mouth was, each betting $10,000 that the second part of his vow woul...

  • Ashton Kutcher - mile-high club

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    Ashton Kutcher once tried to join the mile-high club. Things did not work out as planned. "It was weird trying to get two people in there," he recalled, "and there was like a moron convention going on around the bathroom door. So there was no opportune...

  • Romark: Psychic Driver

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    On October 12th, 1977, the famed hypnotist Romark declared that, in a public display of his remarkable psychic powers, he would drive through Ilford... wearing a blindfold. After placing two coins, a slice of dough, and a thick band over his eyes, Roma...
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What is an Anecdote?

   
an·ec·dote Click to hear the pronunciation [an-ik-doht]
n.
1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
2. pl. an·ec·dotes or an·ec·do·ta: Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.

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Charles M. Schulz: Good Grief!

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"Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz's comic vision was inspired by a childhood punctuated by a series of misfortunes and failures. One day the future cartoonist went to see a movie at a theater which had promised chocolate bars to the first 1...

Richard Branson meets Sir James Goldsmith

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Virgin Records' founder Richard Branson was once invited to an exclusive party at the luxurious home of billionaire merchant banker Sir James Goldsmith. While admiring Goldsmith's beautiful pool, Branson -- on a whim -- crept up behind his host and pus...

Niels Bohr: Barometer Question

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During a physics exam one day, young Niels Bohr was asked to "describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer," he replied, "and lower the barometer from the roof of ...

George Clooney: Clooney's Vault

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In 2003, George Clooney bought a home on lovely Lake Como in Italy. Among the contents left by the previous owner was an empty thousand-pound safe marked "Explosives." One day, Clooney arrived home and was astonished to find that burglars had attempted...

Jessica Simpson: Pants Off

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"I'm really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot," Jessica Simpson once confessed. "And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That's happened four or five times. Every time, I pull on my mom's jeans as fast as I can, so there we are, sta...

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  • Michael Jackson - Michael's Treasure Room

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    During the construction of Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson had a secret gallery built. Among the objects on display in "Michael's Treasure Room"? 100 antique dolls, a glass case containing $1 million worth of jewels, and porcelain figures of himself w...

  • Nadia Boulanger

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    "Nadia Boulanger told me this way she has of deciding who to accept for students. Those who have no talent, and those who have no money, these are not acceptable. There are those who have talent but no money. These she accepts. Those who have little ta...

  • Looker

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    Patrick Swayze, chosen as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1991, was at best ambivalent about his leading man looks. "Good-looking people turn me off," he once explained. "Myself included."[The name of Swayze's five-acre home? Rancho Bizarro.]

  • Donald Trump: Modest Trump?

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    New Yorker scribe Mark Singer was once offered a surprise visit to Donald Trump's fifty-three-room penthouse triplex in the Trump Tower in Manhattan. He emerged from the elevator to find Trump standing in a black cashmere topcoat, navy suit, blue-and-w...

  • Ballerina

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    One evening after World War II, the legendary ballerina Margot Fonteyn attended a "Bal Negre" in Paris. "I was entranced as I watched the black dancers," she later recalled. "One of them invited me on to the floor. I thought it rude to refuse, and nerv...

  • Magic Johnson on watching Lakers games from the sidelines

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    "I'm pacing, and my wife says, 'You might as well be playing again,' because my suit is drenched." -- Magic Johnson on watching Lakers games from the sidelines after retirement

  • Fine Distinktion

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    "To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about," John Waters once declared. "If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste."[...

  • Dunce Dunst?

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    When Kirsten Dunst was in grade school in New Jersey, her classmates used to tease her mercilessly about her last name, calling her 'Dunce Dunst' or saying 'Duh' all the time when she walked by.Dunst's mother, seeking to rectify the situation, told her...

  • Young Bach

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    "Bach's first biographer, Forkel, tells that young Johann Sebastian discovered that his brother had in his music cabinet a special book of compositions by some of the more established composers of that day, such as Pachelbel, Froberger, Bohm, and Buxte...

  • Gifted Mimic

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    "One day just after the war, [Kingsley Amis] and two friends were strolling along to the Lamb and Flag when a motorcyclist, clearly with the same destination, propped his machine against the kerb nearby. When he had got some distance across the pavemen...

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