# Legendary, apocryphal or just plain untrue stories of celebrities **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270 "2016-10-21T19:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/21 "2016-10-22T01:35:25Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > No, Mikey was a Soviet sleeper-cell agent who the government ‘disappeared’. Same thing happened to the little kid on the Waltons. I actually live in the same town as the guy who, as a kid, played Mikey. His kids go to school with mine. No, we don’t discuss pop rocks on the sidelines of soccer games. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/22 "2016-10-22T01:49:33Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I never heard that rumor about anyone except Rod Stewart. :rolleyes: > > It wouldn’t have surprised me about Hendrix or Morrison, who both come across to me as having been the ultimate pansexuals. Rod himself acknowledges the rumors, and just laughs at them. He asks. “What am I supposed to have done, sucked off an entire football team?” Rod isn’t gay but has had so many gay friends and band mates (starting with Long John Baldry) that he doesn’t bat an eyelash at such talk. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/23 "2016-10-22T02:21:44Z")
Lucille Ball claimed to have intercepted a spy ring’s radio transmission on her fillings… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/24 "2016-10-22T02:36:03Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > Lucille Ball claimed to have intercepted a spy ring’s radio transmission on her fillings… Quoth Snopes: [Undetermined.](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/fillings.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/25 "2016-10-22T02:42:25Z")
wow Snopes [drops the ball](https://vimeo.com/72473069). She most certainly spread the story herself. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/26 "2016-10-22T02:48:53Z")
Alice Cooper is Eddie Haskell from _Leave it to Beaver_. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/27 "2016-10-22T02:55:24Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Quoth Snopes: [Undetermined.](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/fillings.asp) > [@Unpronounceable](#): > > wow Snopes [drops the ball](https://vimeo.com/72473069). > > She most certainly spread the story herself. The _undetermined_ part is whether it happened for real. From the Snopes link. > [@](#): > > Did Lucy really invent and spread this legend? According to Lucy in the Afternoon author Jim Brochu, Lucy mentioned the story to Ethel Merman back in 1942, and Merman had it worked into the Cole Porter musical she starred in several months later, 1943’s Something for the Boys. Lucy’s relatives claimed that Brochu made up the tale to spice up his 1990 memoirs of afternoons spent in the company of the famous redhead, but the story had already been published a year earlier in the book Flappers, Bootleggers, ‘Typhoid Mary’ and the Bomb. \*\*Whether this account was an invention of Lucille Ball’s or something attributed to her by someone else remains undetermined. > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/28 "2016-10-22T02:55:29Z")
A 19-year old Elizabeth Taylor fixed up men with co-star Montgomery Clift while they were making _A Place in the Sun._ ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/29 "2016-10-22T03:04:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The _undetermined_ part is whether it happened for real. Then they need to fire their editor. > [@Snopes](#): > > Claim: Television comedienne Lucille Ball claimed radio transmissions picked up on her fillings led to the capture of Japanese spies. > > Status: Undetermined. I linked a video of, amazingly enough, Television comedienne Lucille Ball claiming radio transmissions picked up on her fillings led to the capture of Japanese spies. So, the claim, as written, is unarguable. If they meant “Claim: Television comedienne Lucile Ball picked up radio transmissions on her fillings which led to the capture of Japanese spies. Status: Undetermined.” then they need to fix that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/30 "2016-10-22T03:39:58Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > I linked a video of, amazingly enough, Television comedienne Lucille Ball claiming radio transmissions picked up on her fillings led to the capture of Japanese spies. So, the claim, as written, is unarguable. You might want to check the thread title. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/31 "2016-10-22T03:40:05Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > No Marilyn Mason was [Josh Saviano](http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marilyn.asp) from the Wonder Years. I never heard that about Mikey. I had a friend in high school who _insisted_ that this would true and would not be convinced otherwise. The odd thing about this is that this friend’s vision had been seriously impaired her entire life and she was almost completely blind by the time Marilyn Manson became famous. So while she may have remembered what Josh Saviano looked like during his _Wonder Years_ days, she was really in no position to judge whether Marilyn Manson bore much resemblance to him. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/32 "2016-10-22T03:51:11Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > You might want to check the thread title. 🙂 So…you’re saying she _wasn’t_ bullshitting? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/33 "2016-10-22T04:58:40Z")
Eddie Haskell became porn star Johnny Wadd. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/34 "2016-10-22T06:27:26Z")
There’s a rumor that Keith Richards has had all of his blood replaced in order to kick a heroin addiction. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/35 "2016-10-22T07:06:13Z")
I was never quite sure about Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and the Mars bar. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/36 "2016-10-22T14:42:28Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Mama Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich. There was also a story that she couldn’t hit the high notes until she was hit in the head by a falling object when the group was bumming around on St. Thomas, USVI. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/37 "2016-10-22T15:24:25Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > I was never quite sure about Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and the Mars bar. Not true. (it was a three musketeers) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/38 "2016-10-22T17:56:04Z")
That author Ann Rule got the contract to write a book about Ted Bundy because she knew him. Not true. She got the contract BEFORE anyone (including Bundy) was a suspect. That Hillary Clinton is a lesbian who has had many abortions! ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/39 "2016-10-22T18:02:19Z")
Gene Simmons had a (part of) cow’s tongue grafted to his own. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/40 "2016-10-22T18:19:56Z")
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