# Weird showbiz conspiracies/theories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, movies\ **Created:** [March 11, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699 "2024-03-11T11:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/61 "2024-03-13T21:06:50Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I like to spread the story that Bjork and I made love. I’d go crazy just hearing her voice up close; I can’t imagine what _Bjørk In The Thrøes Of Passion_ would sound like. [cue wine glasses and chandeliers shattering, tiny dogs howling] ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/62 "2024-03-13T21:06:59Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I did the same! Now what I really want to know is _where did I get that information_, because I sure can’t remember, and it was very much pre-internet (for me, at least). It was talked about on tv shows-- stuff like Entertainment Tonight would do little stories “Is there a ghost in Three Men and Baby? This -so and so- thinks so!” ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/63 "2024-03-13T21:23:24Z")
I accept the following is true. It was an interview with Alice Cooper. He told how during a show, a fan threw a live chicken onto the stage. Being from the city, Cooper thought ‘it is a bird. If I toss it into the air, it will just fly away’. Instead, the bird landed in the front rows of the audience. For whatever reason, the fans tore the bird to pieces and threw the pieces at Cooper. He threw them back because nobody wants to be covered in raw, dismembered chicken. Immediately after the concert, his agent told him there was a rumor Cooper killed a chicken onstage. Cooper said “I did not do that!”. His agent said “Let everybody think you did.” ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/64 "2024-03-13T22:59:26Z")
“Mark Hamill was in a brutal car accident shortly after filming Star Wars: A New Hope which is why during the Holiday Special he’s caked in make-up and looks high on pain killers, and the in Empire Strikes Back they had to start with a wampa slashing him in the face to explain his new post-injury look” People to this day still bring up this rumor when talking Star Wars but other websites have done the research and apparently the accident was both not that major as well as the fact he did non-Star Wars films in between ANH and ESB that show him looking the exact same as in ANH. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/65 "2024-03-13T23:07:49Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Immediately after the concert, his agent told him there was a rumor Cooper killed a chicken onstage. Cooper said “I did not do that!”. His agent said “Let everybody think you did.” Reminiscent of the infamous story of Ozzy Osborne biting the head off of a live bat. It was thought that he did it on purpose, but someone threw the bat onstage and Ozzy thought it was made of rubber. He had to get a series of rabies shots because of it. > **[Ozzy Osbourne Bit the Head Off a Live Bat 40 Years Ago Today](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ozzy-osbourne-bites-head-off-bat-anniversary-1287867/)** > > Forty years ago tonight, Ozzy Osbourne inadvertently bit the head off a live bat, leading to rabies shots and countless headlines. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/66 "2024-03-13T23:10:35Z")
I read there is a theory that in Olde Country, there was an enclave of former black slaves imported for the upper crust Russians, and they lived in the same general area that Dinah Shore’s ancestors lived. A little back and forth visitation, and Ms. Shore’s black ancestry could be explained that way. Just a drop of black blood. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/67 "2024-03-13T23:17:29Z")
A friend of mine swore that if you turned the volume all the way up during the scene in _Aladdin_ when the Genie first comes out of the lamp, you could hear Robin Williams saying “HEY ALL YOU SEXY TEENAGERS, COME ON DOWN AND LET’S FUCK!” Years later, I realized he must have been repeating an extremely garbled version of this rumor: > **[Did Aladdin Ask Teenagers to Take Off Their Clothes?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/take-off-your-clothes/)** > > Does Aladdin ask teenagers to take off their clothes? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/68 "2024-03-13T23:22:00Z")
Isla Fisher and Amy Adams are the same person. The Isla identity is used when she travels out of th US, and Amy Adams at home. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/69 "2024-03-14T00:08:12Z")
Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain have a similar arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/70 "2024-03-14T01:29:31Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I recall a story (my cousin’s wife’s friend’s daughter worked in the ER, I swear it’s true) about Richard Gere and a gerbil… In 1980s South Jersey, we heard the same gerbil story about Jerry Penacoli. I always had a nostalgic chuckle when I saw on Extra all those years. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/71 "2024-03-14T01:33:56Z")
The movie Old Dogs with John Travolta and Robin Williams was originally going to be an R rated comedy about raising kids but after a series of disastrous test screenings, the movie got reshot and reeditied to be a PG family comedy from Disney which explains the massive tonal shifts in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/72 "2024-03-14T01:39:35Z")
There was the CT that Nicolas Cage was actually a man inside a life-size puppet, but that one turned out to be actually true: > **[Meet The Man Inside The Nicolas Cage Costume](https://www.theonion.com/meet-the-man-inside-the-nicolas-cage-costume-1819595164)** > > Star Fix has an exclusive interview with the man who has enchanted audiences for the last 30 years playing the delightfully wacky, oversized puppet of Nicolas Cage. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/73 "2024-03-14T01:40:13Z")
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones. To avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees (born David Thomas Jones, who was very famous), he changed his name to David Bowie. They have different eye colors, but it’s complicated. I can’t believe how many people I meet that swear-ON A STACK OF BIBLES-that Bowie and Jones are the same person, ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/74 "2024-03-14T02:59:38Z")
David Bowie has different eye colours. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/75 "2024-03-14T03:16:27Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I remember a rumor that Mr. Rogers was a Vietnam sniper He wasn’t, but Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a trained sniper, although she never saw combat. Her words: “When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.” ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/76 "2024-03-15T01:40:33Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > David Bowie has different eye colours. No, one of his pupils is blown out and permanently dilated. > **[The Story Behind David Bowie’s Unusual Eyes](https://www.thecut.com/2016/01/story-behind-david-bowies-unusual-eyes.html)** > > It's a condition called anisocoria. > [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > Oh my God, I remember this one too, it was said of Billy Idol (of all people) when I was in high school. It’s a pretty preposterous idea, isn’t it? That one was Rod Stewart, not Billy Idol. > **[11 Best Bits from Rod Stewart’s New Autobiography](https://www.thedailybeast.com/11-best-bits-from-rod-stewarts-new-autobiography)** > > The rock ’n’ roll hall of famer writes about his life with self-deprecating wit in his new memoir, from how he seduced women with Ronnie Wood to snorting cocaine with Elton John. We speed read it for 11 great revelations. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/77 "2024-03-15T02:41:31Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Marisa Tomei only won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for _My Cousin Vinny_ because the presenter, Jack Palance, was drunk and misread the card. That sounded more plausible before 2017 when we all saw what happened if the wrong name was read off. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/78 "2024-03-15T02:44:00Z")
Not a conspiracy theory, but there was a legend that the producers of _Designing Women_ were devising a long story arc that would end up with Suzanne and Anthony running off and getting married. The whole idea blew up when Delta Burke left the show after Season 5 (along with Jean Smart) and the producers and writers had to retool the show. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/79 "2024-03-15T02:48:27Z")
I haven’t read the entire thread, but there was that whole Satanic-message backwards-masking thing. It wasn’t true, either. Most of the time. The Christian rock band Petra deliberately put a backwards message in one of their songs that said, “Why are you looking for the devil, when you should be looking for the Lord?” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699/80 "2024-03-15T02:54:59Z")
This was most commonly rumored about Rod Stewart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-showbiz-conspiracies-theories/998699.md?page=5)