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Thursday, September 9, 2010
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Stories from Hollywood
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Marilyn Monroe
Notwithstanding conventional wisdom, Marilyn Monroe was a terrible actress. One scene in Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot' called for her to knock on a door, enter a room, and ask for a shot of bourbon from a bottle in a dresser drawer. Simple though it seemed, the proper wording and nuance of the line eluded her:
"On the fifty-third take," Wilder later recalled, "I told her we had put the line on pieces of paper and they were in every drawer she would open... She went to the wrong piece of furniture."
Meryl Streep
One day during the production of 'Sophie's Choice', Meryl Streep was required to shoot the pivotal scene in which her character, standing with her young son and daughter in a "selection line" in a Nazi concentration camp, is forced by a German guard to choose one of the children to be sent for extermination. As the scene came to an end Streep, who later called it the most emotionally grueling of her career, was surprised that Pakula, for whom she felt a great emotional kinship, had not called 'cut.' "I thought, 'My God, he's overwhelmed...
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Famous Anecdotes of the Great
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Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhiji gave a lecture to a select gathering of maharajahs, exhorting them to give up their money and possessions and embrace a life of poverty and simplicity. One by one his distinguished audience slid out until there was nobody left except (as Gandhiji said) "God, the chairman, and myself." After another few minutes the chairman himself melted away. "Poor fellow," observed Gandhi, "he must have been very uncomfortable in that strange company."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain loved to brag about his hunting and fishing exploits. He once spent three weeks fishing in the Maine woods, regardless of the fact that it was the state's closed season for fishing. Relaxing in the lounge car of the train on his return journey to New York, his catch iced down in the baggage car, he looked for someone to whom he could relate the story of his successful holiday.
The stranger to whom he began to boast of his sizable catch appeared at first unresponsive, then positively grim. "By the way, who are you, sir?" inquired Twain airily. "I'm the state game warden," was the unwelcome response.
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Some that happened, some that didn't and some that could have
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Mark Twain's pious remark
Once a notoriously tough businessman told Mark Twain, "Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." Disgusted, Twain replied, "I have a better idea. You could stay at home in Boston and keep them.
Napoleon's Secretary
In order to encourage his secretaty, Bourrienne, under the arduous labour that he continually imposed upon him, Bonaparte would sometimes say, " Bourrienne! we shall go down to posterity together!" The vanity of this hope was shown in the answer — "Can you tell me who was the secretary of Alexander?"
Bernard Shaw and G.K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw, tall and lanky, stood in marked contrast to his rotund rival G. K. Chesterton. "If I were as fat as you," Shaw once told Chesterton, "I'd hang myself." "And if I had it in mind to hang myself," Chesterton retorted, "I'd use you as the rope!"
Irish Anecdote 1
A switchboard operator at a small hotel in Co. Galway was making her morning alarm calls.
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