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While she was growing up,
actress Glenn Close’s father operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo. She
lived in Africa and attended boarding schools in Switzerland.
Tom Cruise took up acting after losing his place on a high school
wrestling team.
Ronald Reagan's first
screen credits was the starring role in the 1937 movie Love Is On the
Air.
Brad Pitt is banned from
entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.
Julia Roberts lies on her
back to have her make-up applied before going onto a film set. She
insists it gives her a relaxed look.
 1,400
actresses were interviewed for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with
the Wind.
Spade Cooley, a wildly
successful country music band leader during the 1940’s and ‘50’s, shocked
Hollywood
with brutal murder of his wife. In 1961, Spade attacked his
estranged wife, beating her to death while their 14-year-old daughter
watched. Spade was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in
prison, where he died of a heart attack at age 59.
In 1997,
Tom Cruise
and other big time
Hollywood
entertainers took out an international newspaper ad denouncing Germany
for resorting to the same totalitarian tactics against Scientologists that
the country used against the Jews under Hitler during the 1930's.
Actress Demi Moore
is totally blind in her left eye after undergoing an operation to correct
a squint when she was a child.
Who in the heck is Kevin Federline?
Before he married
Britney Spears and fathered her
baby, no one knew who he was. Having no fame and no money, he was a
small time dancer in Britney’s opening act. That man has really come
up in the world. Allegedly, he spends Spears’ money like it’s going
out of style. Most celebrity watchers predict a quick demise of the
marriage, as well as Britney’s potential for one day overtaking the title
as the most married celebrity.
The original
captain of Star Trek's starship Enterprise was Jeffrey Hunter, and
not William Shatner in the pilot episode The Cage which aired in
1964. The cast was quite different from the pilot with the exception
of Leonard Nimoy as Spock.
 Johnny
Depp has a tattoo that reads "Winona Forever."
Actress Sissy Spacek
got so into the part of Carrie that she slept with fake pig's blood
all over her to ensure continuity.
Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan,
and George Takei have all appeared at one time or another on The
Twilight Zone.
Actor Greg Kennear worked
on the advertising campaign for the movie Space Sluts in the Slammer.
The Beatles have sold
more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide.
Denise Richards'
first kiss was with a boy who’d had his front teeth taken out the day
before.
Zsa Zsa Gabor is the great aunt of
Paris
Hilton.
Actor Denzel Washington
graduated from Fordham University with a BA in journalism.
Angelina Jolie has a
tattoo on her stomach that spells out the Latin words meaning "What
Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me."
 The
airplane Buddy Holly died in was called the "American Pie." Thus the name
of the Don McLean song.
The Beatles' first song to hit the UK charts
was Love me Do on October 11, 1962.
The first song played on
the armed forces radio during Operation Desert Storm was Rock the Casba
by The Clash.
Christina Ricci was turned down for two roles opposite Leonardo DiCaprio
including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Rose in Titanic.
Before allowing actress Annette Funicello to
appear in all those beach party movies, Walt Disney insisted that she
could not be involved in any "suggestive" scenes, nor uncover her navel.
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Comedian
Buddy Hackett was asked to become one of the Three Stooges after Curly
Howard suffered a stroke in 1946. He declined, pursuing his own style
of comedy.
Sheryl
Crow's front two teeth are fake -- she had them knocked out when she
tripped on the stage earlier in her career.
