November 16, 2011
Victor Buono ate: a. a house. b. sandwiches prepared for him by Bette Davis every day on the set of ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ c. sandwiches prepared for him by Joan Crawford every day on the set of ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ d. sparingly between his 14 meals a day. e. in his […]
November 3, 2011
Amazingly enough, ‘f’ is the correct answer. “How can this be?” you wail. It’s quite simple. She tripped and fell into Timothy Spall’s prototype teleporter and, not knowing how to operate it, flung herself thither and thather for a week before accidentally launching herself back to Mr. Spall’s parlor.
November 2, 2011
Jane Horrocks, while conducting research for the role of Bubble in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, accidentally: a. set herself on fire. b. swam from Miami to Havana. c. piloted a zeppelin. d. sang to a phalanx of Scandinavian archers. e. scaled Mt. Everest. f. did all of the above.
October 27, 2011
The unfortunate undead Alice was a fairly pleasant vampire when first she began to roam the Earth as an immortal in 1980. For you see, the Pittsburgh Pirates had recently completely a pleasantly competitive decade. Alice restricted her diet to badgers in those days. But oh, oh, oh, look at her now. Doomed to be […]
October 26, 2011
This particular ghoul bat vampire is angry because: a. someone sat in her chair, ate her porridge, and slept in her bed. b. of princesses. Yeah, just princesses. c. she roots for the Pittsburgh Pirates. d. she’s heard one too many owls hooting in the night. e. her health insurance policy was suddenly, and for […]
October 20, 2011
The answer is ‘c’. On countless occasions Fred, as Jekyll, was forced to sprint and leap over an iron fence to escape a pursuing pack of mongrels. When Fred was Hyde, however, I draw the veil over what he had to experience.
October 19, 2011
While engaged in research for his dual roles in ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, Fredric March discovered: a. a new element. b. a bag of golf clubs he thought he’d lost forever. c. that dogs attacked him viciously as Henry Jekyll, amorously as Edward Hyde. d. a different way to enter a submarine. e. how, […]
October 6, 2011
It’s ‘d’. Her card games were the stuff of legend, mythic, I tell you. Just to give you the general idea, nearby hospitals scheduled extra staff in advance. And brother, I ain’t kidding.
October 5, 2011
To supplement her income during the Great Depression, Sylvia Sidney: a. charged doctors for the use of her X-ray vision. b. built art deco chicken coops. c. punched cows on an Oklahoma cattle ranch between pictures. d. invited Alfred Hitchcock, a notoriously bad card player, to her weekly all night poker games. e. raised and […]
September 29, 2011
The answer is ‘b’. Between takes, Maurice chatted amiably, displaying his normal mild French accent. Let the cameras roll, though, and oh my god, the accent blossomed to an overbearing gaudiness with lower lip thrust enough to put an eye out.