Pieta Phantuccio, on the other hand, provided gallons of vinegar for sale from the wine that Cleopatra dissolved pearls in and offered to Marc Antony.
Star Trek The Motion Picture’s original reveal was supposed to be that V-Gar was actually a giant, sentient bottle of vinegar. This was quickly nixed when Gene Roddenberry came to after a furious night of rewrites, saw the script and said “What the frack was I thinking?”
Star Trek-The Motion Picture was not actually Roddenberry’s first proposal. It was preceded by Star Trek-The Opera, Star Trek-The Roller Disco and Star Wrek Demolition Derby.
The original Star Trek could have gone for a fourth season if Roddenberry had given in to sponsors’ demands to revamp the show. Suggestions included a rock’n’roll score, a funny robot, a kid genius, and casting Jonathan Harris as a persnickety Starfleet bureaucrat whose blunders Kirk would constantly have to clean up.
Roddenberry is a tart, outrageous yet oddly feminine and often fruity wine produced by Dennis Rodman in his backyard. Invitations to his famous poolside cabana wine tastings are coveted among stars on the Hollywood A, B and F lists.
F-lister Ray J. “You don’t have to call me Ray” Johnson is currently planning a comeback. It will be his 227th attempt to regain his 15 minutes of fame.
Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and Spiro Agnew were charter members of the We Used To Be Vice President Club. According to a May 6, 2014 article in The Washington Post, the club still exists. Its initiation ritual reportedly involves a duck, 73 paper clips, a quarter-ton of raw oysters and a recording of “One Night in Bangkok” sung in falsetto by Walter Mondale.
The setting for the second half of the musical Chess was originally going to be in a borough of New York City. The song One Night in Brooklyn required surprisingly few changes.
Billy Joel and David Carradine had been signed to play the lead roles in the original Chess musical. Joel bowed out when the setting was changed, and as to Carradine…well, he had his One Night in Bangkok
Billy Joel’s father is Moe Howard, and Billy wore a bowl haircut until he was 18 and could legally refuse. “I Love You Just the Way You Are” was written after Joel found it in his heart to forgive his father.
Isabella Phartuccio never forgave her father for boarding her up in her room and feeding her through a slot in the door for all the years from when she was 12 until she turned 27. Most disheartening to her was when her brother Phil pointed out that her window wasn’t locked and she had a room on the ground floor.
Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber, younger daughter of Andrew, was originally named Joseph Superstar Jeeves Evita Cats Song Starlight Phantom Aspects Sunset Whistle after all her father’s musicals.
NOTE: Isabella is an actual nod to Grizabella from CATS
Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a musical that will play only after the event of his death. It is titled Webber!, and it will star Hugh Jackman in London, Josh Brolin on Broadway, and Joey Travolta on the touring company.
The play Webber! tells the story of Howard the Plain Duck who overcame a bleak, loveless childhood to find fame and fortune in the 70s as Howard the Disco Duck.
Hugh Jackman has agreed to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Wolverine: The Musical, if that Brit ever gets around to writing it.
Hugh Jackman’s first wife was Mary-Elizabeth Antidisestablishmentarianism Phartuccio, whom he married while still a struggling young actor in Tokyo. The couple divorced when Jackman became resentful of Phartuccio’s frequent absences while traveling on Vatican business.
The next Pope will be named St. JohnPaulGeorgeRingoSupercalifragilisticexpialidociousFred.
The Beatles once recorded a cover of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and sent it to a few friends. I found a copy in a thrift store and bought it for 50 cents.
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is the longest word that can be typed with one hand on a metric typewriter.
I once bought a metric typewriter for 50 Cents. However, he didn’t need it so he exchanged it for a microphone.