Top Items About Retorts
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Quotes | 008? | In Jaunary 2001, Catherine Zeta-Jones scoffed at rumors that she would play a Bond girl in the next James Bond film.... | Anonymous | 99 | |
| Anecdotes | ITT CEO Harold Geneen vs Congressman Emanuel Celler | And another elephant story: a Congressional subcommittee under Emanuel Celler in 1969 investigated the dangers conglomerates... | root | 64 | |
| Anecdotes | Dorothy Parker: Guest Book | Though William Randolph Hearst frequently invited prominent Hollywood personalities to visit his spectacular castle... | Anonymous | 62 | |
| Anecdotes | The World of Darryl Zanuck | Herman J. Mankiewicz, having agreed to assume the helm (as director) of the troubled film | Anonymous | 62 | |
| Anecdotes | Guggenheim | Though many marveled at Frank Gehry`s curvaceous titanium-clad Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, many critics deemed... | Anonymous | 60 | |
| Anecdotes | Doctor`s Orders | One day Otto Hartleben fell ill and consulted a doctor. After a thorough examination, he was ordered to abstain from... | Anonymous | 52 | |
| Anecdotes | Black Humor | An enthusiastic tennis player, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was dismayed one day to have his doctor tell him that... | Anonymous | 48 | |
| Anecdotes | Snatch Adams? | Robin Williams was not pleased when, shortly after the appearance of the 2002 film | Anonymous | 47 | |
| Anecdotes | Screenwriting Guru | After delivering a lecture one day in 2003, the famously forthright screenwriting guru Robert McKee invited two... | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | Franklin Delano Roosevelt & the Fala Incident | Franklin Delano Roosevelt was once accused by Republicans of using taxpayer money to rescue his pet dog, Fala. He... | Anonymous | 44 |
