What is a “stag” film?
I remember reading part of the book and then tossing it aside in disgust. Supposedly, the kids had to give away all their Christmas presents to charity, or something like that.
Whatever…
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary
Main Entry: [sup]3[/sup]stag
Function: adjective
Date: 1843
1 a : restricted to men <a stag party> b : intended or suitable for a gathering of men only; especially : PORNOGRAPHIC <stag movies>
2 : unaccompanied by someone of the opposite sex <stag women>
- stag adverb
Woo hoo! Reinforcements!
It’s also in the IMDB. They couldn’t make any mistakes like that, could they? 
This kind of thread is one of the reasons I so love the SDMB. You have folks like Eve, who I adore because there’s absolutely nothing that’s ever happened in Hollywood that she doesn’t know about and is willing to educate us with.
jayjay (waiting for the next Fatty Arbuckle thread)
Did he use a Champagne bottle, or Coca-Cola?
(waits for Eve’s muffled scream)
– Ukulele Ike, who feels that these classic entertainers, who devoted their lives to our pleasure and enjoyment, would appreciate that, even in death, they are continuing to provide amusement to thousands through a variety of supremely goofy urban legends
The IMDb has the Lupe Velez terlet story?! Oy. “Information Superhighway,” my eye.
“(waits for Eve’s muffled scream)”
—“Urrrphhpgh!” How was TGAT?
Totally prurient and irrelevant tangent.
Is it true that when he and Lupe were married the make-up people had to apply copious amounts to Johnny Weissmuller’s clawed back and (new word I just made up) hickeyfied neck?
Come to think of it, that may have been in Anger’s book which I read years ago. Is it a totally discredited tome?
Sir Rhosis
Guin: that was my reaction too. The most memorable illustration of the sheer pettiness of that book, to me, was how she wasn’t allowed into the formal dining room, she had to eat her meals in the breakfast nook, the poor thing…
Arnold
“For reasons which are well known to her.”
Eve
Oh come now, surely one so canny in the ways of the Hollywood press corps isn’t citing Hollywood press reports as authoritative?
Sir Rhosis
Now this HAS to be true…I saw it on E!'s “Mysteries and Scandals,” and A.J. Benza would never be party to spreading misinformation about Hollywood legends.
Crawford was a completely worthless waste of a human being. She should have been executed for the torture she put her children through, as should all other child abusing scum.
I do not believe in capital punishment for anything other than child abuse and other domestic violence.
Hey in my world, giving away all my presents to little orphans constitutes child abuse. 
I remember seeing part of the movie, where Joan is telling Christina about giving away all the gifts, but there are two she wants to keep, so Joan relents. I just thought it was creepy, showing a kid all these great things and then taking them away for a power trip. Just sort of spiteful. Maybe it wasn’t that bad IRL, but whatever…
"Crawford was a completely worthless waste of a human being. She should have been executed for the torture she put her children through, as should all other child abusing scum. "
—Ah. Christina will be so happy that at least ONE of her readers was gullible enough to believe all the discredited lies in her book, and ignore all the testimony to the contrary.
So, Lupe and Johnny Weismuller are in her bathroom and he’s telling her about how strong he is, champion swimmer, swings from trees, blah, blah, blah, and she tell him. “You think you’re so hot, I can do handstand on the rim of that toilet.” Well, Johnny, being no fool, makes her a bet. “Lup,” says Johnny, "I’ll bet you $100 that you can’t do one handstand on the rim of that toilet.: Lupe, ever the trooper, proceeded to press herself into a handstand over the open toilet, thereby allowing her skirt to fall down over her face and exposing her hoo-haa. Weismuller, aroused by this display of both female strength and body parts, reached out to grab Lupe’s ankles. Startled by this, Lupe’s hands slipped from the rim of the toilet and she plunged headfirst into the commode. Coroner’s ruling: Death by misadventure.
I thought that was common knowledge.
Plnnr . . . If I weren’t already planning to kill Ukulele Ike’s wife and marry him, I’d kill your wife and marry YOU.
Hee hee hee…nicely done, plnnr. The cassette of the May 4, 1977, Garcia Band show is in the mail.
Now, as to whether Lionel Atwell was REALLY wearing ladies underwear when he died, and whether Clifton Webb had his mother’s mummified body in his basement…