Shocking facts about celebrities

[sassie]

Not shocking but interesting:

Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest have some sort of title in England.

Chris Guest is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Saling, in Essex. Sounds very posh, but his dad was actually a dancer/choreographer with several notable ballet companies. Anthony Haden-Guest, the journalist, is Chris' older brother.

Along with Kelsey Grammer losing his sister, I remember that Patrick Duffy's parents were murdered back in the 80's, and Woody Harrelson's dad was convicted of murdering a federal judge in Houston. And, of course, Michael Jordan's dad was murdered, as well.

There's no way I could sell a celeb porno without laughing my ass off.

And, eerily, Stevie Ray Vaughan died on the same date as his father had, four years earlier.

[KELT]

Handsome HOLLYWOOD hunk actor HUGH O'BRIAN holds the distinction of being the youngest
DRILL INSTRUCTOR in U.S. MARINE CORPS history.

[madeline]

Thom Bierdz(also known as Zoey Drake), who played Phillip on The Young and the Restless:


Shortly after leaving Y&R to pursue movie roles, his youngest brother Troy, a paranoid schizophrenic, beat their mother to death with a baseball bat. He is currently serving a life sentence in a Wisconsin prison. In May 2002, his other brother Craig committed suicide.


Bierdz has largely left acting and now devotes his time to painting. He is openly gay. He has recently written a memoir entitled "Forgiving Troy".

[panda]

Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple.

So does Carrie Underwood. She may have had hers removed though. She told everybody when she tried out for American Idol..........and you would do this because???????

[Mamma]

Yep, when he was "Marky Mark", there was a photo-bio book of him going around and you can see it clearly - an extra nipple under one of them. I once knew a guy who had one too. He was embarassed by it!

I learn something new every day! I never collected pics much of Walberg, I guess I was out of my posters stage by that time. But I must admit I loved watching him lift weights in his video "Good Vibrations". 'Memba that one? FEEL IT !!! FEEL IT !!!! What a toughie ....bahahahaha!

[miamore73]

Damn now this was a great thread. MORE MORE!!!!

[Bake]

Vickie Lawrence of "Mama's Family" had a #1 hit record in 1973 with "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia." (Also, sometimes she is credited by her married name of Vickie Lawrence Schulz, which is weird)

OMG..I remember when that song came out and was being played on the radios...my sister had the 45!!

[Noelle Page]

Imagine how Led Zeppelin and the Stones must have felt about Vickie's hit!

[panda]

Imagine how Led Zeppelin and the Stones must have felt about Vickie's hit!

Big threat to them I'm sure

[miamore73]

Well we all knew Joan Crawford was a bit of a loon but......


She had a cleanliness obsession. She used to wash her hands every ten minutes and follow guests around her house wiping everything they touched, especially doorknobs and pieces from her china set.

She would never smoke a cigarette unless she opened the pack herself, and would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

Always slept in white pyjamas.

[Noelle Page]

Wasn't she fairly promiscuous tho?

[Gardner32]

Dr. Phil's sister in law was driving on a freeway somewhere when some asshole threw a bucket or large container of acid which went through her windshield and has disfigured her.
Last I heard they didn't catch the POS.

Maybe they were trying for Phil!

[joplinfrk]

When I worked at a video store in Hollywood during the late 80's, I rented gay porn to Jean Claude Van Dam. He's a small man, too.

[panda]

When I worked at a video store in Hollywood during the late 80's, I rented gay porn to Jean Claude Van Dam. He's a small man, too.

Oh MY, imagine what that would do to his career. Seems like all those karate guys are small, must be that napoleon complex thing.

[don't_axe_me]

He has the Napoleon ego to go with it

[ichabodius]

and Woody Harrelson's dad was convicted of murdering a federal judge in Houston.

That was here in San Antonio.

[Reecy]

When I worked at a video store in Hollywood during the late 80's, I rented gay porn to Jean Claude Van Dam. He's a small man, too.

I've heard about that. I heard he's in the closet.

[sassie]

That was here in San Antonio.

Oh, sorry, I got them confused.

[JimC]

Oh MY, imagine what that would do to his career. Seems like all those karate guys are small, must be that napoleon complex thing.

There again, if anyone taunted him about it; he would kick their ass.

Hopefully; he would stop with "kicking it".

I'm not too surprised about this one.

[JimC]

Eddie Money was a cop....

Vickie Lawrence of "Mama's Family" had a #1 hit record in 1973 with "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia."

Did you really have to remind us of that? I thought we were all kinda "friends".

It took me years to forget that horrid song. Looks like I'll be starting over. <G>

[Jack-O-Lantern]

Berinthia 'Berry' Berenson (left), sister of well-known actress Marisa Berenson ('Cabaret,' 'Barry Lyndon'), former wife of bisexual actor Anthony Perkins (and mother of two of his children)--and an actress ('Cat People'), photographer and model herself--was killed on 9/11/2001.

Berenson was returning to California after vacationing on Cape cod, and was a passenger on American Airlines flight 11, which was hijacked and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. She was 53.

[hoxharding]

Richard Simmons was in Fellinis Satyricon.

For real?
Berinthia 'Berry' Berenson (left), sister of well-known actress Marisa Berenson ('Cabaret,' 'Barry Lyndon'), former wife of bisexual actor Anthony Perkins (and mother of two of his children)--and an actress ('Cat People'), photographer and model herself--was killed on 9/11/2001.

Berenson was returning to California after vacationing on Cape cod, and was a passenger on American Airlines flight 11, which was hijacked and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. She was 53.
**** One of her BF was Dan Ackroyd's wife-they had matching rings(?) Months after the crash, they found the jewelry in the crash site and gave them to her as a momento
of Berry.

[Xtine]

Another little known Steve Buscemi fact courtesy IMDB:
Was a New York City Fireman from 1980 to 1984, with Engine Company #55 in the Little Italy section of NY.


Showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. [September 2001]

Pretty cool, eh?

I have always loved Steve Buscemi. Now I love him more!!

[sassie]

For real?
**** One of her BF was Dan Ackroyd's wife-they had matching rings(?) Months after the crash, they found the jewelry in the crash site and gave them to her as a momento
of Berry.

Donna Dixon and Berry Berenson met when DD made a film with Anthony Perkins called "A Christmas Dinner". The movie never made it to theaters, but Dixon and Berenson stayed friends. (And just friends-I don't know if Berry Berenson was bisexual, but I'm pretty sure Donna Dixon isn't.)

Weirdly, Anthony Perkins died on Sept.12 - almost exactly nine years before his wife.

[MorbidMolly]

I've heard about that. I heard he's in the closet.

He can stay there.......

[suzycreamcheese1]

Jamie Lee Curtis is Jake Ghyllenhaal's godmother.

Jake is Matillda Rose Ledger"s (daughter of Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams) godfather.

[SueWahoo]

Somebody mentioned the Bay City Rollers in another thread and it made me remember this: In 2000, Derek Longmuir, the drummer, was arrested for the possession of child pornography. Ewwie.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/689234.stm

[MorbidMolly]

Somebody mentioned the Bay City Rollers in another thread and it made me remember this: In 2000, Derek Longmuir, the drummer, was arrested for the possession of child pornography. Ewwie.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/689234.stm

Oh My.....jeezz, I really hated those guys....total bubble-gum crap....

[knothere]

poor kelsey

[hotmama]

well lets see. there is a character named ridge on a well known soap opera who was in the group "player" who sang "baby come back". "wilson" from home improvement was on the soap opera "ryan's hope" for years. i watched the original "scarfarce" which came out in the 1930's. anthony perkins' dad is in the movie. boris karloff is playing a gangster named "gaffney" the woman who played "poppy" in the 1932 version was suppose to play mrs. connelly in the movie "duplex" with drew barrymore. poopy's character is the character michelle pfiffer played in the remake. actor max julien wrote the movie "the mack" in which he starred in. he is not mentioned in the credits. marvin gaye was not gay his dad was said to be. jean claude van damm played a gay man in a movie and does not want anyone to know about it and he will not talk about it. i saw a clip and he played his part. some of the facts the death hags have posted are very interesting and also some sad as well.

[hotmama]

This may be well known...I am not sure...but jack nicholson was abandoned by his father in his childhood, he was raised believing his grandmother was his mother and his mother was his older sister. The truth was revealed to him years later when a Time magazine researcher uncovered the truth while preparing a story on the star. Jack had a 17-year relationship with actress Anjelica Huston, which ended in 1990 after Rebecca Broussard was carrying his child.

jack nicholson was from neptune nj.

[KELT]

Well we all knew Joan Crawford was a bit of a loon but......


She had a cleanliness obsession. She used to wash her hands every ten minutes and follow guests around her house wiping everything they touched, especially doorknobs and pieces from her china set.

She would never smoke a cigarette unless she opened the pack herself, and would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

Always slept in white pyjamas.

• In addition, CRAWFORD took an average of 3 showers a day, sometimes more.
• All of the upholstered furniture in her NYC was covered in vinyl slipcovers.
• All guests to CRAWFORD' apartment had to remove thier shoes.
• Any time that she travelled, she took her own cleaning products & would scrub down the hotel room' bathroom before she'd use an of the facilities.

[KELT]

Actress ANNE BAXTER'S maternal grandfather was
famous architect FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[KELT]

Berinthia 'Berry' Berenson (left), sister of well-known actress Marisa Berenson ('Cabaret,' 'Barry Lyndon'), former wife of bisexual actor Anthony Perkins (and mother of two of his children)--and an actress ('Cat People'), photographer and model herself--was killed on 9/11/2001.

Berenson was returning to California after vacationing on Cape cod, and was a passenger on American Airlines flight 11, which was hijacked and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. She was 53.

Yep, and they're also the granddaughters of famed designer ELSA SCHIAPARELLI . . . .

[knothere]

when angelica s dad died he asked jack to take care of her n left him money to do so

[leevancleef]

• In addition, CRAWFORD took an average of 3 showers a day, sometimes more.
• All of the upholstered furniture in her NYC was covered in vinyl slipcovers.
• All guests to CRAWFORD' apartment had to remove thier shoes.
• Any time that she travelled, she took her own cleaning products & would scrub down the hotel room' bathroom before she'd use an of the facilities.

it sounds like she would have been the perfect mate for Frank Sinatra, who was a clean freak also.

[leevancleef]

Berry Berenson's death was a shock to me. ive always liked Tony Perkins and by all accounts Berry was a great person. What a terrible way to die.

[leevancleef]

Wasn't she fairly promiscuous tho?

you mean Crawford?? oh yes, she was. I guess thats why she took 3 showers a day

[leevancleef]

when angelica s dad died he asked jack to take care of her n left him money to do so

Jack must have misunderstood old Huston, because what he did next was impregnate another woman and leave Angelica.

[leevancleef]

im sure that most of you know about this, but for those who dont, Ronald Reagan Jr and his sister Pattie didnt vote for his father when he ran for president and hes an atheist.

Desi Arnaz Jr likes older woman (than him)

Joel Grey (CABARET) is the father of Jennifer Grey (DIRTY DANCING)

[panda]

There again, if anyone taunted him about it; he would kick their ass.

Hopefully; he would stop with "kicking it".

I'm not too surprised about this one.

That's true, who's going to say anything to him about it?

[JimC]

Why thanky, but that's only because I find Keanu sooooo deliciously handsome. I was surprised to find out he's had it so bad .

I never would have suspected at the time that one of the stars of "Bill and Ted's Big Adventure" would become Neo of "Matrix" fame.

Quite a change for the cool.

Who was that other guy; what happened to him? No, I don't keep up with celebrities; in case that is a stupid question.

[Mamma]

Did you really have to remind us of that? I thought we were all kinda "friends".

It took me years to forget that horrid song. Looks like I'll be starting over. <G>

What did it for ya man, the hair? The checkered shirt? Or her fine, robust tan? Surely it couldn't have been the lyrics .

[hotmama]

we all know that dominick dunne's daughter is dominique dunne, who was in poltergeist and later murdered by her boyfriend. his son was in "an american werewolf in london" he's murdered by the werewolf and his friend becomes a werewolf.

[Noelle Page]

What did it for ya man, the hair? The checkered shirt? Or her fine, robust tan? Surely it couldn't have been the lyrics .

wow, I remembered that album cover EXACTLY!

PS Vickie had to marry her (current) husband back in the day because she was knocked up. Tee-hee.

[stinkythejokedog]

Nancy Grace has horse nostrils...it's a fact

[Kersten]

Desi Arnaz Jr likes older woman (than him)

Am I missing something? I'm sad if this is considered shocking.

[leevancleef]

Am I missing something? I'm sad if this is considered shocking.

Well, its not shocking, its an interesting fact to know...

[NOVSTORM]

Chris Guest is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Saling, in Essex. Sounds very posh, but his dad was actually a dancer/choreographer with several notable ballet companies. Anthony Haden-Guest, the journalist, is Chris' older brother.

Along with Kelsey Grammer losing his sister, I remember that Patrick Duffy's parents were murdered back in the 80's, and Woody Harrelson's dad was convicted of murdering a federal judge in Houston. And, of course, Michael Jordan's dad was murdered, as well.

There's no way I could sell a celeb porno without laughing my ass off.

And, eerily, Stevie Ray Vaughan died on the same date as his father had, four years earlier.

Woodys Dad has also stated he was the gun on the knoll when JFK was killed. Woody has tried for years to get his father out of prison. Also Woody knew nothing about his Dad until someone printed the info. His mother had tried to hideit from him.

[NOVSTORM]

when angelica s dad died he asked jack to take care of her n left him money to do so

I saw her on a talk show after she and Jack broke up. They had been together for soooo many years and when he had that child by that woman it was more than she could take. She said he was the love of her life.
I felt bad for her.