Unfortunately, this little gem is one of the scenes cut when the episode was stripped for syndication. Most of the time it is a worthless scene, but this one was the funniest joke of the whole episode.
And THAT was one funny episode!
As for guys who leave their pregnant sig/others, add Tom Brady to the list.
Opera singer Kathleen Battle is quite a diva. The story goes that she was once riding in a limo on her way to a concert. She didn’t like what was playing on the car radio, so she called her agent on her cellphone to have him call the limo agency, to have them tell the limo driver to change the station.
LBJ hoisted his puppies up by the ears and then said their yelps were from joy and not from pain. He also showed off his scar to the press after gallbladder surgery. And insisted that aides follow him into the bathroom and keep talking to him while he was pinching off a loaf.
Richard Wagner’s vicious anti-Semitism and Michael Jackson’s pedophilia don’t keep me from enjoying some of their music, but they do squick me out a bit.
According to Kitty Kelley, Frank Sinatra once ate scrambled eggs off a Vegas showgirl’s belly on a dare. Bada bing!
Heh…the word diva has been murdered so badly by modern usage (Beyonce? Please.) that it’s a bit jarring to see it used in its original context. 
I worked their party (at the Bull & Finch in Boston) that night, and yes, they were smashed beyond all belief. I thought it was hilarious watching them on the live special, knowing how much they had been drinking. They didn’t even try to hide it. What the hell, it was the end of a long run for them.
They were all super nice though. Extremely friendly and kind to the staff, and many of the actors/producers/crew tried to tip us even though we had been told not to accept any money from them, to the point where some of them were throwing twenties on the bar and dashing off before we could give them back.
Danny DeVito appeared on The View after spending a night with George Clooney drinking Lemoncello (an Italian after-dinner drink that I can personally attest will put you on your ass with a blinding punch. It also has the quality, like tequilla, of turning women into raving nymphomaniacs if my experience is true to form).
I think Tom Brady gets a pass as they broke up before he knew she was pregnant and there was a news story just this week about him rushing to the hospital as soon as he heard she went into labor.
I read an interview with her in some guy mag where she came off as an insufferable bitch. I hope Eli
Roth didn’t stint on the realism in Hostel 2.
I’ll also offer an example of a non-creepy anecdotes despite its author’s intention. I was once reading a biography of Hugh Hefner by this guy who supposedly was his former friend and business associate (this guy was trying to claim that Playboy’s success was due as much to him as Hefner). At one point he was trying to establish how eccentric Hefner was and told a story about how Hefner was giving his chef very specific instructions about how he wants his gravy made. But I was thinking “hey, the guy’s a millionaire and he hired a chef and he likes his gravy made in a certain way - what’s so crazy about that?”
Along the same lines, this thread seems to have migrated from “reports of creepy celebrity behavior” to “anecdotes of celebrities either being total assholes or being surprisingly nice.”
I am enjoying both types of stories, so I hope no one objects to the pleasant anecdotes.
So am I. This thread is one of the better I’ve seen in a while, and I am enjoying it thoroughly.
The author I read seemed to feel his gravy story would make me think Hefner was a total asshole. It didn’t. But it didn’t make me think Hefner was surprisingly nice either. I’m pretty much unmoved by Hugh Hefner’s preferences in gravy.
It just looks to me like Dave Barry prefers to keep his private life private; according to Wikipedia, his first marriage ended in divorce in 1993, a year before the Lillehammer Olympics.
That name sounds so familiar. Where might I remember him from?
Anyhoo, these aren’t minor, but Paul Newman and Tom Hanks cheating on their first wives with their current wives. It bugs me when they are held up as icons of long faithful marriages.
Also iconized is Hollywood’s most famous adulterous couple, Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn. (She never met Mrs. Tracy until the evening Spencer died, though I’ve no doubt Mrs. T knew of the decades old affair [she was Catholic and didn’t want a divorce].)
Louise Tracy was not Catholic, and they were not married in the Catholic Church. Those two facts being so, divorce and remarriage were possible for Spencer Tracy without violation of church law.
“It is also certain that the dissolubility here in question is not limited to the marriages of pagans, but to all marriages of unbaptized persons, even though they should belong to some non-Catholic Christian denomination.” — Acta Sanctae Sedis, XXXIII, 550 (1901).
I thought Tracy and Hepburn lived together for years. Maybe adultery, but hardly an affair. Just my humble opinion. I also believe he wanted to get divorced, even before he met Hepburn, but his wife refused.
The Simpsons. He used to be voiced by the late great Phil Hartman. I hope I didn’t just get whooshed.
Well, since his first line is always: “I’m Troy McClure and you might remember me from such films as _____ and ______”…