Legends and stories have been told about celebrities for as long as there have been celebrities. Some are true, some have a grain of truth and some are fabrications. Go ahead and share some of them.
The story goes that on the set of Marathon Man Dustin Hoffman didn’t wash or go to sleep for a prolonged period of time to get into a particular scene. When Lawrence Oliver heard that he supposedly told Hoffman, “My dear boy why don’t you just try acting?” I’ve seen this story listed as apocryphal or just plain untrue. But I have also read where Hoffman has confirmed it but blamed his state on insomnia or too much partying the night before. The first time I heard the story it was told by Oliver’s wife Joan Plowright on Letterman. I don’t know if it is possible to know for sure if it happened. I like to think it did.
Douglas Adams told this story on Letterman. I was a big Adams fan and I remember watching that episode. I believed that it did happen to him. He put a version of it in So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. I found out much later that it was an old legend/joke. Maybe something similar happened to Adams. Maybe he just knew how to tell a good joke. We will never know.
Back in the early '80s when I was a young teen, Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped for drinking an entire Coke can amount of semen. :rolleyes::dubious::smack:
There were rumors when I was a teen in the 80s that Jody Foster was a lesbian.
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There’s the very sad story about Fatty Arbuckle and the “Coke bottle rape” that essentially ruined his career. Much of what I’ve read exonerates Arbuckle.
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott are rumored to have been long-time lovers. It’s nigh impossible to separate the truth from the chaff at this point, but I’ve always hoped it was true.
They would live together whenever their wifeless periods coincided. I remember an interview with someone who was a starlet at the time who found the idea laughable. She said something along the lines of that the amount of young starlets they where both schtupping meant they were horrible at being gay. Maybe it was Dyan Cannon who he was married and fathered a child with but I don’t remember.
Ozzy DID bite the head off a dead bat that someone tossed onstage. I was not at that legendary show, but I knew a LOT of people who were. The next day, the newspaper reported that younger employees of the ER where he was taken after the show for a rabies shot “were explaining Ozzy to older staffers, who didn’t believe the story” (paraphrasing). Were something like that to happen nowadays, it would probably be the older employees who explained him to disbelieving younger workers. :o
On a related note, Motley Crue once performed the ritual sacrifice of a live baby at one of their shows. :dubious: Oh, yeah, sure, and they got away with it in front of, what, 35,000 fans? Interestingly, I first heard that story from a caller on Christian talk-show host Bob Larson’s show. He reassured the caller that the story was NOT true.
The next day, the newspaper reported that younger employees of the ER where he was taken after the show for a rabies shot “were explaining Ozzy to older staffers, who didn’t believe the story” (paraphrasing). Were something like that to happen nowadays, it would probably be the older employees who explained him to disbelieving younger workers. :o