Greta Garbo: a. collected cherry pits. b. played hopscotch with Will Rogers. c. generally wore roller skates to bed. d. preferred to be blindfolded much of the time. e. ran guns to Cuba using the alias ‘Albuquerque Al’. f. could leap tall buildings and bend steel with her bare hands.
Arturo Toscanini once: a. sparred with Jack Dempsey. b. got his hand stuck in the bell of a french horn. c. did a headstand on a speeding motorcycle. d. killed a falcon with his slingshot. e. ate an entire turkey, feathers and all, at one sitting. f. did all of the above and more on […]
Queen Victoria knew: a. that Disraeli wrote sonnets to his rooster. b. how to make Belgian waffles. c. two radically different ways to skin an otter. d. the difference between snow and parliament. e. an awful lot about peaches.
Laurel and Hardy were: a. a microcosm of despair. b. a macrocosm of despair. c. a microcosm of a macrocosm. d. despair. e. funny.
Herman Melville: a. had a farm, e i e i o. b. No, he didn’t.
At least one, and possibly all, of the following statements are true. Circle those you believe to be factual. Emily Dickinson: a. collected scalps. b. drank herself senseless every Thursday. c. was quite an accomplished baseball player. d. dipped snuff. e. had a pet turkey named Stan. f. could fly.
During rehearsal for ‘My Fair Lady’, Julie Andrews: a. always showed up drunk. b. slept on a bed of nails. c. called Rex Harrison ‘Mister Wrinkle’. d. dallied in the black arts. e. had to be talked out of shaving her head for the role.
During the making of ‘The Wizard of Oz’, Judy Garland: a. knifed Margaret Hamilton b. fed a lizard to Toto c. hid Bert Lahr’s ‘medicine’ d. dated the Munchkin coroner e. dropped two grand to one of the flying monkeys in an all night poker game f. other* *rammed clumps of straw down the scarecrow’s […]
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