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50 Surprising Celebrity Secrets And Scandals That Got Shared In This Online Group
Social media has made it much easier for us to learn about our favorite celebrities and how they like to spend their time away from the spotlight. But no matter how many cookie recipes and photos from their vacations they share, their lives are often still shrouded in mystery. So if you’re interested in learning some fun facts about your favorite celebrities, we’ve got you covered!
We took a trip to the Today I Learned subreddit and gathered all of the juiciest facts we could find about famous people that you probably haven't heard before. So enjoy reading through your daily dose of celebrity gossip, and be sure to upvote the fun facts that make you love these stars even more!
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#1
Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
StPaul9 1 year ago
Aside from the occasional badly made movie, which is not his fault, no. He just...he's just a good person.
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Darth Kittius 1 year ago
I say this every time he's mentioned, but Keanu Reeves auctioned off a video call to support the summer camp that my family is very involved with. A truly amazing person.
Invisible Potato 1 year ago
Keanu would make a great president, humble, kind, genorous, strong, the chosen one, funny.... imagine the debate, Neo vs Felony Trump
ShyWahine 1 year ago
A genuinely good-hearted person - endearingly down-to-earth .. America's sweetheart!
JB 1 year ago (edited)
Except he’s Canadian. Doesn’t mean he isn’t America’s sweetheart. Just saying.
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#2
Singer Dionne Warwick, upset with misogyny in rap lyrics, once set up a meeting with Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight at her home, where she demanded that they call her a “b**ch” to her face. Snoop Dogg later said “I believe we got out-gangstered that day.”
DEW 1 year ago
I remember when Snoop was just coming out and a radio DJ asked what is a Snoop Dog. I always laugh when I see him today!!
Congruent Empath 1 year ago
Calvin Broadus is, and always has been, a despicable human. Raising him to a level of relevance was a big mistake.
Jacquie Carr 1 year ago
He's been no angel but he deserves credit for what he does now for youth. We're allowed to change as we grow up you know
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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
In the Agatha Christie version of reality, absolutely. I'm sure that she'd write it so that he was driving the car (and was himself injured) to establish an alibi. But in the real world? The bottom line is: cui bono (to whom the good)? Suge Knight already owned Tupac, he didn't benefit from his death. Now, Biggie... maybe. He's not up for parole for another 10 years, though, and with his medical history I'll be surprised if he makes it.
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Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
How about not repeating rumors... again RUMORS.
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Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"
fan of phish 1 year ago
Love this woman! I’m 54 so was 7 when Star Wars came out. She will always and forever be my awesome, kick-a*s princess. Miss you Carrie.
#4
When Mr Rogers heard his limo driver was going to be waiting outside while Rogers was in a meeting, he asked the driver to come in. On the way back they passed the driver's home and Rogers asked if they could stop and meet his family. Rogers kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.
Richard Graham 1 year ago
There are an unlimited number of stories about extreme acts of kindness, generosity, and humble grace by this extraordinary man.
Paulina 1 year ago
Yeah, and what he would tell you about all of them is that there's nothing extreme about being just nice :))
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DEW 1 year ago
My favorite thing about Mr. Roger's was he was ahead of time. He had a black policeman come and soak his feet in the same water he was in showing everybody is a human being no matter what their skin pigmentation. What a huge thing for kids to see at the time. God Bless him.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
The guy was gay too. Mr Rogers said he'd prefer if he wasn't out but that was because the show was still getting set up and famous, he seemed to be pretty supportive.
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DarkViolet 1 year ago
I loved the story about the time his red Cadillac got stolen. He mentioned it on a talk show; three days later, it reappeared unharmed, with a note inside that said, "We didn't know it was YOUR car!"
Jess Smith 1 year ago
According to Snopes it sadly seems to be an urban legend. They do note that the fact that they can't tell says a lot about him too though.
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AnkleByter 1 year ago
I met him at Idlewild park, right outside of the trolley that goes into the neighborhood of make-believe(which he helped build). He sat there chatting with us while we waited in line, went on the ride with us and signed a picture at the end. He wasn't even supposed to be there that day, just kinda showed up (he grew up near there). It was pretty cool. They never should've taken that down, just to put up some stupid daniel the tiger thing.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
I would really like to rename either Pittsburgh or Latrobe to Rogersburgh. I mean, what the heck, should we name it after random British guys (Pittsburgh), the founder's friend (according to Google that was Latrobe), or MR ROGERS, possibly the awesomest person to have ever awesomed?
Ryan Smith 1 year ago
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has 8,000 residents, but it produced two American icons: Mr. Rogers and golfer Arnold Palmer.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Glad to see that two of the nicest human beings EVER are near the top of this list, which gives me an idea. Can I suggest that Keanu star in a remake, as in "Mister Reeves' Neighborhood"?
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
He was such a wonderful person, a neighbor anyone would love to have
Debra Newell 1 year ago
Mr. Roger’s was a beautiful, compassionate, loving and a total humanitarian of a person! Wonderful man!
#5
After being scolded by a woman who felt that his shoes were too expensive for kids, Shaq forwent a $40 million deal with Reebok & signed one with Walmart. He then brought in designers from Reebok so that his Walmart shoes would look costlier than the $20 price. Over 400 million pairs were sold.
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
He’s reformed from a quite violent start and become a better person. Don’t know that sweetheart is quite the right word for him though
Load More Replies... DEW 1 year ago
Shaq is a big teddy bear. I've heard a story that he was in a jewelry store when a young man was buying an engagement ring. Shaq paid for the ring. Now I would have said Oh you're paying? Hold on Yes can I get that $30,000 dollar ring please? LOL!! I don't know if it was just talk but what a man. I've heard some other stories but one I saw on a video. Shaq was standing on a court or something and he was in regular clothes. Well a little boy came running toward Shaq and the security grabbed him. Shaq saw it and said let him through. The little boy came running and just hugged him.
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
May be true but he has a very violent, sexist, racist history. Has choked teammates out, hung with the Bloods, harasses ex lovers, tried to get ex murdered and so forth. All documented, but not publicized because he’s wealthy. Grizzly bear might be more appropriate than teddy bear.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Not that I'm complaining, but wasn't this article supposed to be about celebrity scandals? Everything I've read so far has been incredibly positive(except for the Harvey Weinstein bit). And it's not exactly a secret that Keanu, Shaq, and Mr. Rogers are great guys. Maybe I need to read further, but not sure i want to if it's going to turn dark.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
Did Shaq also do that? Cause I know Hakeem olajuwan did but for some reason never heard about shaq doing it? If I'm wrong I'm wrong but I don't think they got this right.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shaquille-o-neal-decision-walk-160500404.html
Load More Replies... Congruent Empath 1 year ago
Geez, he should have thought of that to begin with. When one focuses only on the bottom line, and disregards the opportunity to make life better for others, it is self-serving in the most egregious way. I hope that he has learned that he can make life a little better for others and still make himself grotesquely wealthy.
#6
While Sharon was giving up, sick in bed with cancer, Ozzy asked Robin Williams to visit her. He hopped in her sick bed randomly and apparently her family went from crying to peeing themselves laughing in a second. She loved it and went from giving up to chemo the next day.
cryssH 1 year ago
While this is true, I wouldn't wish end stage LBD on anybody. He made the sane choice while he could.
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Amber White 1 year ago
That was a good read but - I wish there was a Robin Williams for Robin Williams.
DEW 1 year ago
I have loved Robin Williams since his Happy Days role to his Mork and Mindy role. There will never ever be another Robin Williams. I have never ever seen anything negative about Robin. Rest in Peace Robin!! Heaven must be rolling on the floor! I'll buy my ticket when I get there!
Eugenia 1 year ago (edited)
He even made "laugh" for the first time a very sad gorilla grieving the loss of her beloved friend. The gorilla was Koko, the one who learned sign language. From the web: Her trainer Penny Patterson said that when news broke of Williams' death and Koko heard someone crying, the gorilla signed “cry lip” and withdrew. She bowed her head and her lip quivered.
Merrill N. Munro 1 year ago
His life before he got off d***s wasn't great, but he pulled himself out of the darkness and brought a lot of radiant light to millions of people. He knew what kind of pain others felt, he was truly empathetic. His LBS diagnosis was heartbreaking, that's a torture no human should willingly endure. It might go against a lot of people's personal ethics, but I respect his decision to exit stage right on his own terms. I miss his brilliance! Glad he could share it with so many while he was here.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Such a shock when I hear how and when he died. Everything I heard about him was that he was always the nicest man.
Nimitz 1 year ago
Lewy body is a brutal way to go, and it would have undone quite a lot of his wholesome and beautiful personality; it truly is a nemesis disease to a person as kind as Robin Williams. I hope he had peace in his final moments, and I will make sure the next generation experiences the joy of his work. In the end he was an example to us in the true beauty and sadness of how we choose to leave this world. There are no words for the sad sweetness of his final gift, but I will appreciate him for the rest of my life.
Major Harris 1 year ago
it was ten years ago today we lost him. rest in peace, robin. your legacy will never diminish. 11 aug 2014
#7
Gordon Ramsay set up a business inside a London prison that taught inmates how to bake and sold the goods on the outside. Providing the prison with financial support while giving the inmates work experience they could use to find honest work after their sentence.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago (edited)
This was a reality show. Good on ramsay (who legit seems like a great dude if you watch his British series and not the fake play an a*****e amareican versions of them) but also they still had some stupid manufactured drama loke the "omg a knife is missing this is so bad.... Oops we just miscounted them" episode.
Noel Bovae 1 year ago
This kind of stuff should be standard in every prison. Instead, the people are released, they have no skills or way to earn a living, so what do they do? They go back to what they know- a life of crime, and then end up right back in prison. This is exactly what for-profit prisons want- Repeat customers. If they actually rehabilitated people, they'd go out of business.
AnkleByter 1 year ago
Most prisons DO actually have programs to help inmates. The inmates have to want to do it though. Even some of the crappiest prisons (at least in the US) have all kinds of programs for education and vocational training. They're typically paid for through other means so not taking away from the general funding. I don't believe there is a single prison anywhere in the US that doesn't offer some type of programs, and I know for a fact there are a massive amount that offer a ton of different kinds of programs. It's not just to help them on the outside, but also on the inside. It can help reduce recidivism even within the walls of a prison to give them something to work towards. Prisons may have all kinds of other issues (they do) but this isn't usually one of them, oddly.
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i heard on one of his shows, he visited a prison and was so impressed with the skills of one inmate he told the guy when he got out he would give him a job. if i recall correctly, true to his word, he did hire the guy.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
TBH, restaurants -along with construction- are one of the most common jobs for former felons. Most kitchens don't really care about what you did, the d***s you do or your sexual orientation as long as those onion are chopped to perfection, stat.
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Raphapablap 1 year ago
It works for a prison in Italy at least, Giotto panettone is made by inmates.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
I'm calling bull$hit. British prisons aren't allowed to make money out of prisoners or prisons.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
He puts on a good show as being a d**k, but I've always liked him for some reason
#8
Prince William and Prince Harry pulled a prank on their grandmother the Queen, by changing her voicemail answering message to say, "Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne. For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three."
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
Her nickname amongst the grandchildren was Gary. This was because when a toddler, William had trouble pronouncing Granny!
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Don't want to overstep my bounds as an ignorant American here, but from what I've been told, the Queen actually had a pretty wicked sense of humor--particularly as she grew older--but didn't get to show it very often because of the obligations of her office. RIP
#9
Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.
Kat 1 year ago
Omg stop I literally thought the same thing in my head after I read it 😂😂💀
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Joshua David 1 year ago
I used to get Mr. T cereal in the 80s. And i had the ATeam action figures as well.
Kerry Wilson 1 year ago
I, in a case of "didn't know any better", started calling a coworker "boy" because we were two of the oldest in a sea of teens and twenty-somethings. Someone had to point it out to me that it sounded racist, and I'm glad they did! He never took issue with it (and believe me, I asked!) because he knew where it was coming from.
atje 1 year ago (edited)
Kerry, you can feel better about your innocent gaffe. BC here's my terrible one: I was in Alabama at Piggly Wiggly with my mom. I was 16ish. The guy bagging our groceries was really nice about asking what went where bc we were visiting relatives and separating stuff. He was my age or a little older. "Want me to carry these out for you?" "Mom! What a really nice boy!" I exclaimed. I didn't know. Wow, the s**t that went down in our car as we left. (In a small defense, I was actually adamant about calling anyone under 18 a girl or boy bc weird brain thing)
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Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
I met Mr. T as a kid. Meet and greet, bunch of kids, he comes out and starts encouraging the kids to do well in school, listen to their parents, treat others well, etc. He wanted to be a good role model. His handshake was like that of an old friend.
#10
There was a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”.
Mad Dragon 1 year ago
He once threw a party that no one came to. He only let it be known after it was over that he was throwing a party…because only time travelers were invited.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
In undergrad I worked part-time on campus for guest (speaker/lecturer) accommodations & coordination and was always assigned to those coming into our institute of theoretical physics. Twice I hosted & escorted him. He was absolutely funny and really nice & down to earth. He was my second favorite guest after Allen Ginsburg, who I had a spicy good time with
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
He agreed to let The Simpsons use his likeness with one proviso- that he be the one to record the dialogue with his voice synthesizer. [btw- this image I painted is my business card: hawking-66...63-png.jpg 
#11
Eminem watched his daughter, Hailie, get crowned homecoming queen from an empty classroom in the school because he didn't want to take the attention away from her.
#12
Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
He also did that with a big portion of his earnings from the Matrix so the other staff could have decent pay.
ANTIVICTORIA 1 year ago
And I'm sure the producers repaid him after all those profits came rolling in. Just kidding. He is an amazing human.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
It may be easier to do good when one stands at the top of the mountain, yes, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t EARNED the money he DOES make, nor does it lower the intrinsic value of what he does do. Saying “oh, of course he can reduce his salary, he’s already a millionaire” feels a bit like you’ve got sour grapes syndrome.
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Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom so her guests can hold it and make acceptance speeches in the mirror without feeling self-conscious.
#14
During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator yanked a cable causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. Worried they had k*lled him, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling at his own joke. The alarm was from an office computer losing power.
Tap blast 1 year ago
I love that he appeared/voiced himself on the Big Bang Theory several times. He clearly had a good sense of humour.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My best friend's son is an engineer. He studied one semester at Cambridge. He called home, and told his mom all about his new friend Steve, who was in a wheelchair and had a great sense of humor. My friend said, "Son, I love you, but you're an idiot."
#15
Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Also pretty funny that Schwarzenegger earned a degree from the world-renowned Austrian school of Economics, married a castle-Irish Kennedy and became governor all with a hillbilly accent.
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TheLocalRedneck 1 year ago (edited)
"Hows about we mosey our way on over to that there helly-chopter"
Certainly not Dan 1 year ago
Darth Vader should have had a Bristol accent, which in the uk is considered a bit of a yokel accent. The actor was dubbed.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
The late Dave Prowse, a 6'6" former bodybuilder who was the 'superhero' known as the Green Cross Code Man in British road safety adverts for children. His first screen role was as a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
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Dave Grohl wrote and recorded an entire album by himself, singing and playing each instrument in the studio. He chose the name Foo Fighters to hide his identity. After a record label picked it up he needed to recruit members to perform the songs live. Thus the Foo Fighters were created.
ZGutr 1 year ago (edited)
I love how he gives fans the opportunity to play with them. Not just play with them, but gives them time to acclimate and then makes it their stage for the duration of the song
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Babs McGurk 1 year ago
There's a great video of him, during the pandemic, performing Copacabana. He looks like a cheesy Vegas nightclub act, and it's hilarious. He's actually singing into a curling iron, pretending it's a microphone.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
This is more common then you would think. Many bands are produced and played by one person, Mike Oldfield, Allan Parsons, Boney M. RAH band.A few off just of the top of my head.
2econdSelf 1 year ago
I don't believe he was ever trying to "hide his identity." He was just starting a new band in the wake of Nirvana, and what a fantastic band was born. I hope someday they find success! Keep your shoulder to the wheel Dave, it'll all work out.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
I didn't know this about Dave, but I know Prince would go into the studio, write, perform every instrument and sing and then produce an album quite easily.
Ron van Rijckevorsel 1 year ago
Look up "jesus don't want me for a sunbeam" from the MTV unplugged session. He's playing bass with his hands, percussion with his feet and doing back-up vocals...
#17
Actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
I keep trying to manifest Pedro Pascal in my life but it hasn’t worked yet! This won’t be my Plan B 😳😂
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#18
Billy Joel never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives them away to random people in the cheap seats so that front row isn't always just wealthy people.
Manbug Franknbeans 1 year ago
Watch the documentary Hired Gun and then tell me he’s a good guy. Billy Joel is a weapons grade prick.
kellyluff@stegbar.com.au 1 year ago
I have seen that happen at a BJ concert myself. I did notice that ALL the random people were young blonde females.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
I saw him once at a small venue where he talked about how he created his music. It was great.
#19
In 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.
AnkleByter 1 year ago
While I am really glad he made this choice, and it's a nice step in the right direction, he didn't do this of his own volition. It was suggested to him at a time when, at least some, people were starting to figure out their own role in how people of color and women are generally treated in the industry. It got him a lot of press at the time too. Also he has no qualms with playing a black woman, at all, he spent ten years on snl doing so and has done so since as well in multiple capacities. He just said they needed to hire black women for the cast, not that he won't play them at all. He's a good person, and great actor, but he never actually stopped doing it, lol.
#20
Even though he received surgery to correct his nearsightedness, Horace Grant continued to wear his trademark goggles on the court during his NBA career after hearing from parents that he was a inspiration to children who wore glasses.
Sleepy Panda 1 year ago
I’ve taken a liking to Stephen Nedoroscik, the pommel horse guy from the US men’s Olympic gymnastics team for much the same reason; he makes wearing glasses cool, and he’s really cute to boot! 😊 (He also wears goggles sometimes to compete!)
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
So, we chose a non-glasses photo to highlight this inspiration?! Weird flex. Here's the red version of his many colourful glasses. You're welcome. Horace-Gra...90-png.jpg 
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Harry Potter isn’t real, nor a “celebrity”. Horace Grant IS real.
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#21
George Miller had his wife Margaret Sixel edit Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller said that she had never cut an action movie before, and he said if was edited by "the usual kind of guys, it would look like every other action movie we see." She went on to win a Oscar for her editing work in the film.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
It’s a tricky game to play though. Sometimes “different for the sake of being different” just comes out “crâp”.
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Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago (edited)
Margaret Sixel has 40 years of editing films under her belt. He didnt "have his wife" edit his film, shes a professional and they collaborate. This is neither a secret nor a scandal.
#22
After studios refused, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was instead financed by the rock stars Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull and Elton John who all saw it as simply 'a good tax write-off".
El Cucuy 1 year ago
No, they did it because they had all been charged by God with a sacred quest
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
That´s not true. They were all big fans of Monty Python and knew that the studios had turned them down because they considered it offensive to religion. Listen to some of Pink Floyds lyrics and add 2 and 2.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Harrison, the only beatle I had time for, funded "Life Of Brian" and motorcycle racers. [ https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/the-lasting-love-affair-between-a-beatle-and-the-racing-world/ ]
Tammy Kirks 1 year ago
We have George Harrison to thank for The Life of Brian. He financed it and was good friends with most of the Monty Python gang.
#23
Carrie Fisher told her fans: "No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
For the love of Lucas, you need context! Nutshell: George Lucas, her director on "Star Wars", told her to ditch her bra, "...there's no underwear in space!" He figured your body would expand in space, but your underwear would not. Thus, you would be strangled by your own bra. Man, I miss her: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/627235-anyway-george-comes-up-to-me-the-first-day-of
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
If I'm remembering correctly several newspapers went with that as a headline for her obituary.
Merrill N. Munro 1 year ago
She was the child of Hollywood legends and while her parents may have thought they had everything covered raising her, she went days without seeing them. Not a place a star should try to raise a family, it's brutal.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
If you haven't seen her HBO special Wishful Drinking then do so ASAP. It's one of the best standup specials I've ever seen.
Load More Replies... Major Harris 1 year ago
sadly, her cocaine habit was bad. when JOHN BELUSHI ( on the set of the blues brothers) says that YOU have a problem, one should listen. damn, she is missed.
#24
Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full year’s salary for Christmas in 1956 so that she’d be able to take a year off from work to write. Lee used that time to write “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which has since sold over 30 million copies.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
Makes me wonder how much creativity is being stifled today because creators cannot afford to take a time out from life’s busyness.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Judging from some of the books published these days, not enough.
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Grant Johnson 1 year ago
It's a frequent target of those who want to ban books, so you know it must be good!
Jess Smith 1 year ago
If I owned a TV I'd have watched the movies the banners are up in arms about but I don't and will need to be satisfied with reading the books.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Scout connecting with Boo Ridley, and knowing how to put him at ease just made my heart sing.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
And a certain element of America wants it removed from libraries because it might make kids feel bad about racism. You know, the book's ENTIRE point.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
I didn't read it until I had been an adult for a loooong time. It was amazing.
#25
Comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? has been a frequent fund raiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economy crash of 2008.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
The least he could do is help Colin Mochrie recover from burns.
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
If you've never seen Stiles and Colin Mochrie work together, check them out on youtube and elsewhere. You won't regret it.
David 1 year ago
Ryan is a local for me. I don't know him personally but I've seen him on stage and he seems nice. Obviously stage presence =/= personal life. He started an improv club locally that trains local people to do improv and then other people pay to come watch the shows / buy snacks/drinks. I saw him there around the time of the grand opening several years back. Hopefully it is turning a profit but also it is his way of promoting an art form he likes.
#26
Nirvana played a concert in Beunos Aires where the crowd threw mud and trash at the all-girl opening act. Kurt Cobain was so upset that he sabotaged the show by playing mostly lesser known songs and teasing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' without ever playing it.
PFD 1 year ago
My favourite thing I learned (relatively) recently about Cobain is that he refused to let Nirvana do a tour with Guns n' Roses because of the latter's homophobia, sexism and general toxic masculinity. All those people who go on about the "woke mind virus" and so on as though inclusiveness was an invention of blue-haired Gen-Z? Possibly the most influential rock band of the 1990s was fighting that fight 30 years ago. It shouldn't be a surprise given Grohl's reputation for kindness today but that type always paint it as though he sold out on the grunge spirit and went soft or something. But it was the core ethos of the band from the beginning.
Kat 1 year ago
And yet ... Axel did sing a bohemian rhapsody duet with Elton John (even holding hands I think) in a Freddy Mercury tribute against hiv
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 1 year ago
Did they get what Nirvana was doing? It would have had more impact if Cobain had spoken to the crowd and expressed the band's disappointment in their behavior.
#27
When Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
Major Harris 1 year ago
"word crimes", "craigslist" ( a "doors" parody"), "driving my truck" "smells like nirvana" 'bedrock anthem" and sooooo many more!
Load More Replies... G A 1 year ago
Then he rescued Madonna by killing Pablo Escobar, but she went bad and tragedy ensued....
Dorothea Stovall 1 year ago
Dat next to Weird Al on a mostly empty flight from Albuquerque to Houston 35 years ago. He was a really nice down-to-earth guy who gave me the best advice that I didn't follow (but should have).
The explanation 1 year ago
He was probably thinking that he should write a song about that place. Also, what was the advice?
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oblong mongoose (they/them) 1 year ago
my brother is a huge weird al fan. when we walked on the Hollywood walk of fame, he lost his c**p when he saw the weird al star. i didn't even know weird al had one!
Grace Knowlton 1 year ago
Is I just me or does anyone else think it's weird lol 🤔😆 no pun intended his career was drying up so the PRINCE OF POP marries the KING OF ROCK AND ROLLS daughter and hes back in the spotlight also she had GRACELAND so he builds NEVERLAND RANCH?? Lisa Marie and Priscilla actually talked about that in an interview with Oprah
Major Harris 1 year ago
he later apologized to al and remarked, "that s--t is funny as hell!"
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Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One/star of the Ip Man films) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Hahahahaha. Just shows you be careful who you meds with. You never know what they can do to you. Years ago I had my kids in Taekwondo and there was a girl that we watched her black belt test. A few mos later she was at a lake with a friends family and went to the bathroom. She screamed and people came running, before anybody got there she beat the s**t out of a convicted sex offender that had followed a petite 16 year old girl. She put him in the hospital with several broken bones. After calling her parents she called the Taekwondo instructor terrified that she was going to be charged. It was clearly self defense and she only had to give her statement for him to go back to prison.
WickedSwicket 1 year ago
Donnie Yen is definitely one of the best martial artist there is. He's up there with Jet Li. Jacky Chan if more actor than martial artist while Bruce Lee was quite the show off when the world was only discovering Kung Fu
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Lol it amazes me that anyone was dumb enough to try to f**k with one of the most well known wing chun masters 😆 Donnie is awesome. My brother studies kung fu and is a huge fan of his!
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Mr. Donnie Yen ROCKS. I love that he went and did Chirrut Imwe for his kids... he's a great role model for other Asian dads - like, hey, look - you CAN be a good, brave, sweet, loving father... it actually makes you a BETTER father... being a d**k isn't "the way".
WickedSwicket 1 year ago
A real battle would be between Donnie & Jet Li i'd say
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A fan drove three hours to deliver rapper, Boozie Badazz, a much needed dosage of insulin. She refused to accept payment and instead asked for just a photo. On her way home she stopped at a store, bought a scratch off ticket, and won $10,000.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I'd like to believe in karma, but that's just random probability.
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The reason is that he's lazy and didn't want to go get it himself. He ran out because he wasn't taking it properly (his own admission) and didn't want to go out and get it. So he asked his fans if anyone was local and had the med and would come to him rather than going out and getting his (affordable to him) prescription filled like a normal human being.
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marianne eliza 1 year ago
Ummm. If it was a much needed dose how did Boozie survive the 3 hours it took to receive it?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
“Boosie has eight children with six women. He has said that he did not believe marriage was a good choice for him, because he didn't want to lose half of his fortune to his spouse in the event that he committed adultery, and has praised women who stay in a relationship with an unfaithful partner, saying he respects those women.” Wow, what a class act. /s
AnkleByter 1 year ago
That's just the tip of the iceberg with this pos. There is nothing at all classy about him or the way he views women, even his own children.
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This dude is a complete POS, this is not a feel good story, at all. He's even admitted to trying to "get his boys laid" (yes, you read that right, he paid women to SA his male CHILDREN-feel free to find the details yourself). He's a POS to every single woman he has children with, and his kids. He's abusive and thinks women are beneath him in all aspects-no matter who you are. A lot of people overlook his dark c**p(and it gets DARK) because "he gives presents to children"-which just peeves me considering everything else he's done, does, and says. He literally asked his fans to bring him insulin because he couldn't be assed to go get it himself and wasn't taking it properly in the first place (he's said this many, many times). He turned it into a press op for himself, though.
WickedSwicket 1 year ago
How's this a celebrity secret? That's nothing down to the celebrity this one. He didn't do jack.
Dorothea Stovall 1 year ago
A single dose? Wouldn't it be more prudent to get at least a full bottle?
Milton’s Assistant 1 year ago
Lemme get this straight - he waited for HOURS for someone to bring it to him rather than getting it himself or sending an employee or friend??
#30
Stan Lee, co-creator of Daredevil, worried that blind people would be offended at how far he exaggerated the way a blind person's other senses are enhanced, until he started receiving letters telling him that blind people greatly enjoyed having Daredevil comics read to them.
"Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
Stan Lee was always my favorite celebrity, he's greatly missed.
David 1 year ago
I kind of loved that he played a pretty nutty version of himself in several Robot Chicken episodes. Similar idea for "Mayor" Adam West. They both (apparently) set ego aside to just have fun with the craziness of the show.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Stan Lee also had a hysterical cameo as himself (albeit animated) in the "Teen Titans Go To The Movies" film. He pops up on the Warner Brothers lot, and when Cyborg points out that he's actually in a DC movie, his response is something along the lines of, "I don't care; I'm Stan Lee--this is what I do now!"
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When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of "Game of Thrones" she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because there is a law disallowing her from sitting on a foreign throne.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
She proclaimed the bathroom temporary UK land, of course. No other way around that. 😉
Load More Replies... S. Maxudov 1 year ago
She could have just conquered Westeros and added it to the British Empire so it wouldn't be foreign anymore.
Mark Stewart 1 year ago
Her saying "Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me." instead of Diana Rigg would have been epic 😂.
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Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago
This isnt true, theres no law about it. And a tv show prop is not a foreign throne, the Queen wasnt a moron. Its a story that one of the (American) producers told on Seth Meyers to explain why she didnt do it, probably to be funny.
#32
John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set.
Catpawsarethebest 1 year ago
Im dyslexic and just now did I get what it says! I have read this many times on the internet. But somehow my brain has always made me beleive that John Krasinski was fighting AGAINST the deaf actress so he could do fake sign language. I never understood why he would do that, so always thought the text about this was a joke😂
Dariusz M. D. 1 year ago
Some of these stories would benefit from more details. How exactly did he fight? Did he throw a tantrum, or refused to accept the role, called executives and yelled at them? What exactly did he do?
#33
After Columbine, Marilyn Manson wrote an article condemning the media’s coverage of the event. In it he writes, “the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. They just created two new ones... Don’t be surprised if every kid who gets pushed around has two new idols.”
Jacquie Carr 1 year ago
Making one obvious statement doesn't delete everything else about this monster
The Doom Song 1 year ago
I used that article for a school project and my teacher was blown away at Mansons article. Oh I also got an A
Bidango Smith 1 year ago
"If it bleeds, it leads." is North Americas' greatest sin against the world. We should be celebrating kindness, then more people would be kind. When horrible is celebrated, more people just get darker.
Sue User 1 year ago
I want goodnewsnetwork. I would watch the c**p out of that. Dog rescues family from fire. Woman quietly been working in food kitchen for 15 years.
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whineygingercat 1 year ago
Every time one school sh○○ting hit the news, we all knew that the next one would be exponentially worse.
Tracy Sellars 1 year ago
But it is not just the news and tv but also how we report history. Genghis Khan killed millions upon millions yet he is revered in history books. Which I always find concerning how others who have done the same recently will end up being remembered.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
See also mother theresa whose story is really only coming out these days. Not quite the little saint she wanted the people to think she was.
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#34
The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Amazing what collective negotiations can achieve. shhh don´t call it unionising. Call it freedom association. I just got an extra 5 days PTO to make grand total of 30 days a year. I can take any time (within reason) plus 17 fixed days including Xmas, new years day, Easter. national, autonomical and local. Plus 3 days for persona use.
Tony Chambers 1 year ago
Thank goodness they all got enough money to subsidize extreme living habits!
MyName'sLisaMontoyaYouKiltMyPa 1 year ago
Wow and there are teachers, police officers, fire fighters, first responders, doctors, nurses who are not liars (aka actors) who deserve that money more than the liars.
MisterE 1 year ago
You are pissed they made money and continue to make money from their work?
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#35
In 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was presumed dead almost 24 hours later until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Yep. The ghost of Hemingway himself could appear and deny this, but I'd just assume he'd been too drunk to remember it.
Load More Replies... Laura 1 year ago
Why can I see Pedro Pascal making a Hemingway biopic? Do they look a bit alike,don't they?
CT 1 year ago
When I saw this photo, I immediately thought the same thing.
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
"Always do, sober, what you promised when you were drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Since he had to ration the gin, the bananas were useful for measuring out drinks.
#36
Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
"I won't talk about how many goals I've scored, but I'll tell you about all of my assists "...or something along those lines.....- Wayne Gretzy
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure if you just count his assists he's still the highest scorer.
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#37
Samuel L. Jackson heard someone repeating his Ezekiel 25:17 speech to him, he turned to discover it was Marlon Brando who gave him his number. When Jackson called, it was a Chinese restaurant. But when he asked for Brando, he picked up. It was Brando's way of screening calls.
Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
Is this saying Marlon Brando was behind him one day, quoting a film line at him. He subsequently gave Jackson his number so he could call him. Then when Jackson finally did call him, Brando pretends it’s a Chinese restaurant in case it’s a wrong number?
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Dariusz M. D. 1 year ago
Why was it important to this story to mention Jackson's quote from Pulp Fiction? Am I missing something?
#38
Jim Carey used to get to do stand up in his 7th grade class. He used humor to fit in and his teacher made a deal with him - if he was quiet all day he would get 15 minutes at the end of class where he did stand up using material from life, the class, or doing impressions of faculty members.
#39
A majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
WickedSwicket 1 year ago
Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe & Crispin Glover are among the best actors in Hollywood but were eclipsed by good actors with better looks.
Major Harris 1 year ago
i want a movie scene where shatner and walken are talking together. 5 minutes of dialogue will stretch into an hour!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
That statement, with its ellipses, feels like you’re mocking people with aphasia. It’s not funny. It’s a real disorder and often occurs after a stroke or a traumatic brain injury.
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ANTIVICTORIA 1 year ago
You can take the boy out of Queens, but you can't take Queens out of the boy.
#40
Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks have regular ‘colonoscopy parties’ where they prep together overnight and share one car on the ride to get their colonoscopies the next day.
Jessica Bertram 1 year ago
I actually didn't hate it, it was simply annoying due to timing the pills (my prep was pills and water). After a while pooping out water is just routine. Then you get a nap. I wish people wouldn't drag a life-saving procedure so hard. The stigma around butt stuff and the fear of the prep keeps people from timely identification of colorectal cancers. My friend Amy died at 46, three months ago, after battling it for almost a decade. Get your colonscopy, kids. Earlier is better. Doctors agree.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I didn't have anyone to take me home so I didn't get to take a nap. Try that sometime and let me know how that worked out for you awake.
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
Ok, I want to know but I also don't want to know, how do you prep for a colonoscopy, and why does it take 12+ hours?
Kzincat 1 year ago
To be polite, you are basically taking enough laxatives, so that everything runs out clear. It takes a while.
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
It's called diarrhea in a bottle and hopefully you have more than 1 bathroom in your house. The instructions say to start drinking it in the evening but I start it in the afternoon so I can get so sleep that night.
A girl 1 year ago
Oh yes. If you don't live alone and don't have two bathrooms, rent a porta potty or give your family a map of gas stations near you. You OWN that toilet for at least half a day.
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A girl 1 year ago
You're kidding? That's the treatm. Legal medical euphoria. I'm really sorry
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JL 1 year ago
I think they should make a movie about them prepping for the next one.
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DarkViolet 1 year ago
My dear child, obviously you have never undergone the procedure.
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Jane Hower 1 year ago
But you aren't supposed to drive yourself home afterwards - so what did they do??
Cat Houston 1 year ago
Honestly, I'd rather die of cancer. When it's your time to go, it's time to go.
#41
Nas listed his then 7-year-old daughter, Destiny Jones, as an executive producer on his fifth studio album Stillmatic to ensure she would always receive royalty checks from the album.
Liv ੈ‧₊˚ 1 year ago
Not sure that’s the same thing as making sure your daughter is always provided for…
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Fred Rogers proposed to his wife Joanne via letter. When she received it, Joanne rushed to a payphone to respond. She was so nervous that when Fred answered the phone she was focused on the phone booth graffiti and greeted him by saying, "Sh*t." Fred laughed and she agreed to marry him.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
Obligatory "Mr. Rogers is amazing" comment. (No for real though he is/sadly was.)
#43
When former 'Tonight Show' host Johnny Carson died in 2005, 'Late Show' host David Letterman recited a comedic monologue at the beginning of the show, revealing later that every joke had been written by Carson, who had been sending in one or two jokes a week during his retirement.
Ryan Smith 1 year ago
I'm old enough to remember when Carson, Cronkite and Cosell were the standard-bearers for the three networks.
Major Harris 1 year ago
ensign johnnny carson, u.s. navy, WW2, reported to the battleship u.s.s. pennsylvania during the battle of okinawa,. his first job was to put together a working party to retrive bodies from a sealed compartment when the ship had been torpedoed just two days before.
#44
Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to k*ll her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing s*icide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.
Chris Warriner 1 year ago
How do u know she is a good mom? Never know what happend behind closed doors.
Load More Replies... Jess Smith 1 year ago
Dear BP, stop censoring this stuff. It's "kill" and "suicide". Thank you. (Incidentally, my real first name and middle name sound a lot like Angelina Jolie - middle name Jolie, first name is about as similar to it as say 'Alina' is. [It's not Alina].)
Jiji The Cat 1 year ago
I assume the redditor posted this censored - bp usually censors more of the word.
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#45
Mike Judge moved to Texas and a storm blew off a part of his fence. After his new neighbors fixed it for him, no questions asked, it became the basis for King Of The Hill - "about neighbors who... ultimately, do the right thing and do right by people and are basically good people."
RagDollLali 1 year ago
I'll tell you huat now, I definitely agree with you
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The Other Guest 1 year ago
A former co-worker loved the show because it was "just like how Texas really is." My matron of honor hated it for the exact same reason.
Major Harris 1 year ago
except for "dale"! for the life of me, always wondered why "hank" remained friends with him after all the garbage he put "hank" through! LOL!
#46
William Shatner interviewed several of his fellow cast members, for his book Star Trek Memories. Shatner was taken aback to discover the negative memories some of them from working with him and James Doohan refused to meet Shatner at all.
panther 1 year ago
I think it's funny that he didn't realize that he was not that popular with his costars.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Now go watch Galaxy Quest with a new appreciation. I'm not saying take it too literally; Spock was a singing cowboy, not strictly a Shakespearean actor. But once you start connecting that they are satirizing actual actors, it's even more fun.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
He didn't know so many people didn't/don't like him? Lol that's kinda surprising, considering the things I've heard about how he's treated fans...
Beans 1 year ago
I've met him and he's really good with fans. Granted he was 80 at the time and maybe he's worse now idk, but he was really lovely and even comforted a crying fan who used to watch TOS with her late father
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I was fortunate enough to have met both Leonard Nimoy and William Shater at several different conventions as part of a Star Trek writers' forum I belonged to. Nimoy was always incredibly gracious--he remembered me and would even compliment my cowboy boots. Shatner on the other hand would run hot and cold: at times he could be the most charming and charismatic person you've ever met, while others he could be so distant and self-absorbed that he'd barely acknowledge your existence.
Heffalump 1 year ago
Not the first person who didn't realise they were an AH because no-one made it clear to them at the time. And the absence of feedback makes it not entirely their fault: if no-one sets boundaries, there are no boundaries crossed.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
EVERYONE made it clear to him. William Shatner is a huge dickweasel. As George Takei said at his roast: "Fúck you and the horse you rode in on". This is coming from a BIG Trekkie
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Steve Jobs never coded for Apple. According to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he didn't do any original design and one of Apple's earliest employees also stated that Woz was the inventor while Jobs was the marketing person.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
Kinda thought it was well known jobs was basically an a*****e whose greatest talent was taking the credit for others work. Dude was a less pathetic Elon.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Jobs was always the public face, and Woz was the engineer. That was never a secret.
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Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
Those are pretty well known fact. Woz was the brain, Jobs the face. Woz invented a small device capable of hacking into phone lines to make free calls. He used it for himself, until Jobs convinced him to make more to resell. They used the money (mostly Woz's, who was already kind of a hippie and more interested in the engineering side than in making bank) to develop the first Apple computer. By the time the company went public, Jobs was the public face CEO but everything was developed by Woz. The only thing designed directly under Jobs supervision was the Apple III OS -when Woz had long leave after being in a plane crash- and it was the reason for the near bankruptcy of the company and the ousting of Jobs.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Anyone around for the first gen "holy trinity" of home computers knows that one. Steve Blow was a salesman, not a nerd. Woz was the genius. [ ....................... ] Wozniak once told how Blow said they were offered $100 each to do something (in 1970s money). Wozniak later found out from the client that he paid $500, and Blow ripped off Wozniak, pocketing the $300 extra instead of splitting it.
MagicJacket 1 year ago
This sort of thing is what inspired comedian Bill Burr's bit about Steve Jobs. Completely accurate.
#48
The Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
I didn't watch all of the series but I seem to recall most were catch and release.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago (edited)
He didn't eradicate them, people just don't wanna watch two episodes about the same critter 😆
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mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
River Monsters was a cool show. You don't really get a feel for how huge some of those fish are until you see them. I saw an Arapaima (he talks about them a lot) in an aquarium in Tennessee, and it was huge. It's wild to see a fish the size of a small couch.
Ru Bee 1 year ago
I was astounded to see a sun fish in an aquarium they are massive, and weird and kinda gross.
Load More Replies... Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
……It is true, the show River Monsters ended. He went on to do other tv shows, sure, but this post simply says the tv show River Monsters ended when he ran out of fish to catch in the rivers. Which is true.
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#49
Sir Ian McKellen came out accidentally, before he'd told his family, during a BBC radio debate on the anti-homosexuality Section 28 legislation.
#50
Dr. Phil lost his license to practise psychology in 2006. Therefore, all guests on his TV show must sign a contract stating they are only there to receive "advice" from an individual, not a psychologist.
Mab 1 year ago
Multiple sources say he didn’t loose it, he let it expire. Although, in my opinion, his shenanigans are worth loosing a license
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Never could stand him when Oprah started having him on her show. Never could figure out why any idiots would give him his own show.
Mimi M 1 year ago
"McGraw stopped renewing his Texas license to practice psychology in 2006; he has never had a license in California, where his show is taped. In 2002, the California Board of Psychology determined that, because McGraw's television show was more about entertainment than psychology, McGraw did not need a license."
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Retaining some professional licenses requires continuing education course work. If Dr. Phil hadn't done that work, there was no point in applying for a renewal.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Likely to be down voted, but I never understood the love for Oprah or any of her lackeys. Dr. Phil was a pop-psych charlatan who caused more harm than good; Dr. Oz is a quack--more than 40% of his medical recommendations have been proven to be worthless snake oil--and most of the books in her book club were so awful that no one would have read them otherwise. (And I worked at bookstores at the time, so I know.)
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I whole-heartedly agree with this 100% and if I could upvote more than once I would.
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#51
While shooting a TV series, 12-year-old Kurt Russell gave co-star Charles Bronson a birthday gift but the older actor walked away without responding. Bronson, who grew up very poor, later thanked Russell, explaining he had never been given a birthday gift before.
Phoebe Bean 1 year ago
From Wikipedia: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American Western television series based on Robert Lewis Taylor's 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, and starring Kurt Russell, Dan O'Herlihy and (in the final 13 episodes) Charles Bronson. The series aired on ABC for one season, 1963–64, and was produced by MGM Television
#52
After Martin Luther King was killed in 1968, his funeral was held at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and a small group of current students were chosen to be ushers for his funeral. One of those ushers was Samuel L. Jackson.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago (edited)
In a similar story, the members of DEVO and Chrissie Hynde were students at Kent State in 1970 and witnessed the terrorist attack on students, the four murdered by government thugs.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
As a student Samuel L. Jackson held MLK's father hostage From the internet: 'In 1969, actor Samuel L Jackson was expelled from historically black Morehouse College for locking board members in a building for two days in protest of the school's curriculum and governance. Included in this group of people who were held hostage was Martin Luther King Jr.'s very own father, Martin Luther King Sr.'
#53
Ghostbusters actor Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore, auditioned as the voice for the same character in the animated series but was rejected because they didn't think he sounded enough like Winston from the movie.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
That’s the character where they used the same voice over dude who played Garfield to do, used to spin me out as a kid
#54
Billy West, who does the voice of Philip J. Fry's on Futurama among other characters, intentionally made Fry's voice close to his natural voice as a job security measure because it would be more difficult to replace him.
#55
While filming 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' (2017), Michael Keaton would whisper 'I'm Batman' to Tom Holland during fight scenes. "We have a fight in the movie and I punch him. He turns around and says [in a deep voice], ‘I’m Batman.’ He kept doing Batman quotes on set” Holland said.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Betelgeuse is the name of the star in Orion. The movie was Beetlejuice. That's twice - no-one else say it now!!
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Javier Bardem's performance as Anton Chigurh in 'No Country for Old Men' was named the 'Most Realistic Depiction of a Psychopath' by an independent group of psychologists in the 'Journal of Forensic Sciences'.
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
Every time I see his character being mentioned, I can't help but remember the car crash scene where he broke is arm and you can see the bone sticking out of his skin
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Bartender: "See that man who just came in?" Man at bar: "Yes, who is he?" Bartender: "He was the baddie in No Country for Old Men". Man: "Javier Bardem?" Bartender: "No, he's allowed in..."
#57
After writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
I may be making the point of this post, but he probably wouldn't have been asked if he hadn't first inserted that riff into every hearing brain on the planet.
#58
When Dr. Dre survived 3 strokes over a 2-week period after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm in 2021, it led to Eminem & Snoop Dogg ending their feud with each other. Because it helped them realize that it was "stupid as hell" for them "to be feuding right now". So they talked it out.
#59
Aretha Franklin required that she be paid in cash before any performance. The cash went into her handbag and the handbag either stayed with her security team or would rest on the piano during her onstage performance.
#60
Elvis Presley's manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money from people who weren't buying Elvis merchandise
David 1 year ago
There was a conservative speaker, who before he went to university campuses, would have people who worked for him sell anti him merch to the protesters before the events. He had a lot of money before it came out that all the hating him merch sold at the protests were from him.
#61
The role of April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation was specifically created for Aubrey Plaza after the casting director met her and felt she was the weirdest girl she had ever met in her life.
The explanation 1 year ago
Parks and rec, as well as Thirty rock, have got to be my two favourite TV series. Modern family is also up there
#62
After the massive success of his #1 hit "Somebody That I Used to Know", Gotye stopped recording solo music, went back to his old band and hasn't released a song under the Gotye name ever since.
Ellinor 1 year ago
But he didn't had to cut us of, make it like it never happened and that we were nothing...
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#63
Schwarzenegger faked interest in the movie "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot" to trick Stallone into starring in it. Stallone later called the movie "maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen."
MaxMi 1 year ago
Try "alien 2 on hearth". Basically a b-movie shot in italy right after alien, so stupid it eventually got some fame.
Load More Replies... PFD 1 year ago
I saw this dubbed into Spanish during a hellish coach trip to Spain around *cough cough* years ago. They played it twice. On the return trip, when the toilet was broken in the most malodorous way imaginable and heavy rain revealed that the roof leaked, they played it again. It's now without a doubt my most hated movie that's not actively evil.
#64
Jane Kaczmarek was nominated by the Emmys for her portrayal of Lois in Malcolm in the Middle seven consecutive years - the entire run of the show - and never won.
#65
Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is on a wall instead of on the ground. This is because Ali, a devout Muslim, did not want people stepping on the name "Muhammad".
#66
that soon after Bill Gates had gone to start Microsoft, a Harvard professor who had worked with him recalled, "He had moved to Albuquerque... to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: 'Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.'"
#67
Russell Crowe turned down an offer to play Aragorn in the LOTR trilogy that included 10% of the backend grosses (which would've been about $100 million). He felt WB had forced Peter Jackson to make the offer & that Jackson had somebody else in mind & he should be allowed to hire who he wants.
Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago (edited)
New Line Cinema and WingNut Films didn't force Peter Jackson to offer anyone any role in the LOTR trilogy and Warner Brothers don't have any input/ownership/rights in Jackson's trilogy either.
Toasted Applesauce 1 year ago
I can't see those movies without Viggo. No matter if WB or Jackson or whoever made that decision, it was the right one.
#68
Wayne Gretzky is the only Hockey player to have scored over 200 points in a season, and did so a total of four times. His stunning success as a Hockey player was immortalized in the fact that not only did is own team retire 99, Gretzky's Jersey number, but the league as whole did as well!
The Dusty Rhino 1 year ago
As a Canadian, I approve this message. Gretzky for God!
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago (edited)
It helped that he had ten other Hall of Fame players on the team, a result of the 1979 NHL draft (draft age went from 20 to 19, meaning two years' worth of players were draftable at once) and the WHA merger (three teams folded, Oilers' owner Pocklington bought Gretzky's contract from Indianpolis for peanuts).
#69
When Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette, she told him to get odd objects to prove his affection. They were J.D. Salinger's autograph, a Bob's Big Boy statue, a black orchid, and a Hill Tribe wedding outfit. Despite the list being intended to be impossible, he found them.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Especially that Salinger autograph... he definitely did some kind of National Treasure type of s**t to get that.
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Orwell 1 year ago
It's beautiful that he was willing to go to such lengths. But, the whole proving your love concept is pretty awful.
PFD 1 year ago
I mean, if the list was meant to be impossible, then I guess it was meant to be a rejection, not an invitation to subvert her will... As described it sounds creepy more than romantic. But I don't know if this is the true story.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
All it proved that he had the money to buy these objects and the money to hire people to find them for him.
#70
Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia's apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.
#71
Ben Stiller developed the premise for Tropic Thunder while shooting Empire of the Sun. He wanted to make a film based on the actors he knew who became "self-important" & appeared to believe they had been part of a real military unit after taking part in boot camps to prepare for war film roles.
Squirrel Chaser 1 year ago
But, but, shouldn't we boycott this movie because Robert Downey Jr. wore black-face? /S
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James Earl Jones was officially replaced as the voice of Darth Vader last year by AI with Jones' consent. The move was made after he told Disney that he "was looking into winding down this particular character." He consented to the future use of his voice with AI to "keep Vader alive."
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
The reason why he was chosen in the first place, was because the person who was in the costume - David Prowse ( also known to lots of grownup UK kids as the Green Cross Code Man!) - had quite a thick West Country accent. Imagine Worzil Gummage playing Darth Vader!!!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Alas, to anyone not in the UK, that’s utterly meaningless XD
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Frank Sinatra died the night of Seinfeld's finale and his ambulance made it to the hospital in record time because traffic was so light due to everyone watching the show.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
But it was the last record Frank made in his life.
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Jamie Hyneman was an early competitor in Robot Wars (where people design robots that fight each other), but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition.
#75
TIL in 2003 rapper Pusha T wrote the McDonald’s Jingle “I’m lovin’ it” but doesn’t own publishing rights for it. Learning from this mistake, he owns 40% from the next jingle he wrote: Arby's “we have the meats”.
#76
On James Cameron's 3rd dive to the Titanic, he & his pilot had "a near-death experience". They encountered a sandstorm on the ocean floor & became temporarily stuck there with low power supply & few batteries. It took them 3 attempts from the bottom to rise above 25 meters & surface 5 hrs later.
Saddest_Lion 1 year ago
"James Cameron, the bravest pioneer!/ No sea too deep, no budget too steep/ Who's that? It's him! James Cam-er-on!"
#77
Jim Carrey was the first actor to have three films go straight to number one in the same year. The year was 1994, and the films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber.
Dream 1 year ago
And I seem to be the only one on earth that thinks all 3 of those are stupid and not funny.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I thought they were hilarious when I was a kid (I was 12 in 1994) but I'm not sure I'd feel the same if I re-watched them today. I have a feeling the word I'd use for them is "cringey" XD
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
1994. Cripes. I was 12 years old. Where did the time go? ::checks under her bed for it::
#78
Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to ensure "Logan" would be rated R. Since 'R-rated' films typically limit the overall audience that can attend, Jackman's reduced salary brought the budget down to an acceptable place to warrant an R rating.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
If fewer people can attend fewer money is earned thus R films must cost less to produce, is the reasoning I believe
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#79
In 1967, Paul McCartney forgot his passport when travelling to France to shoot a music video. He told the agents, ‘You know who I am so why do you need to see a photograph of me in a passport?’ And was let through.
Jaaawn 1 year ago
Sounds funny to me. It's like our senior Royals not having passports!
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#80
After actor Sean Astin turned 18, he left numerous personal items at his mother Patty Duke's house. Upon returning for them, many items, including the treasure map from "The Goonies," were gone. “It’s an item that would probably be worth $100,000 now,” he said. “And I think my mom threw it out.”
Ban-One 1 year ago
And John Astin (Gomez from the original Addams Family) is his step-dad who adopted him.
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Robin Williams used to trash-talk teenagers on Call of Duty, and described the series as "cyber c*caine".
#82
Mike Tyson went bankrupt in 2003. Despite having earned $400 million from boxing, examples of reckless spending included $6.3 million on luxury cars and $580K on his 30th birthday party. He has improved his financial situation and now receives $900K/month from his cannabis company, however.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
Also Mike tyson mysteries and a dozen other things. He'll probly make 30 million from that upcoming jake Paul fight too. That said Jesus that fight should not happen. At all.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I hope the fight happens, because I'd like to see Tyson beat the living c**p out of Paul.
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#83
Michael Jackson's chimpanzee 'Bubbles' is still alive at 40 years old and living in Florida.
#84
TIL when Steven Spielberg reenrolled at Cal State in 2001 under a pseudonym in order to earn a degree in Film and Electronic Arts, he was able to use Jurassic Park to pass paleontology and Schindler's List to pass advanced filmmaking.
#85
After Chamillionaire won a Grammy for “Ridin’”, he approached ‘Weird Al’ Yancovic on the red carpet, thanked him for the “White and Nerdy” parody and told him “I think your parody is a big reason why I won this Grammy, because you made it undeniable that my song was the rap song of the year."
#86
Akira Toriyama's biggest reason for Goku's hair going blond when he went Super Saiyan was to save work for his assistant whose time was always taken up by filling in Goku's black hair.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
I'm not the biggest fan of Dragon Ball but I did enjoy Dr Slump for a bit. God smile on your soul eternally, Toriyama-san T_T
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama. We lost you far too soon. You inspired and delighted many generations of people and will continue to do so, even though you have moved to a different plane of existence.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Who pïssed in your coffee this morning? Cripes. You don’t have to like anime, but there is NO need to shït on it or the countless hours of work, effort, and creativity that go into creating it.
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Chris Hemsworth earned just $150,000 for his first appearance as Thor and the film brought in nearly $450 million globally.
#88
Michael Phelps has won a record 23 Olympic gold medals; No other Olympian has won more than 9.
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
To be fair there are a lot more medals up for grabs in swimming. In most other disciplines it wouldn't be possible for athletes to win that many medals regardless of how good they are. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world but only won nine. Sir Steve Redgrave won five and he's widely considered the greatest rower of all time. I'm not taking away from Michael Phelps achievement but just putting it into perspective.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
One medal for the 100 m swim...one medal for the 125 m swim...one medal for the 150 m swim...
Load More Replies... Jacquie Carr 1 year ago
That'll be because of the natural, biological advantage he has that strangely, no-one ever has a problem with
#89
Tom Cruise divorced all three of his ex-wives when they turned 33 (Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes) and each is 11 years younger than the last.
Jaaawn 1 year ago
I wonder if the number 33 has some significance in Scientology or something.
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Tabitha 1 year ago
Did he divorce them, or did they divorce him? Because it sure as hell looked like Katie Holmes went to great lengths to get herself and her daughter far far away from him and Scientology, and I remember it being reported that it was a huge surprise to him when it happened. That doesn’t sound like a guy who’s planing to divorce his wife on her 33rd birthday.
Lorrie Rothstein 1 year ago
Scientology found him Katie Holmes because he wanted a girlfriend. Scientology manipulated his breakup with Nicole kidman
Samantha 1 year ago
He is now dating Victoria Canal a 26 year old singer-songwriter, who has half arm missing from a birth defect.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
He was 36 when she was BORN. They’re both adults, but now that I’m 42, I can look back to my 20s and realize how inherently gross it is (in my opinion, at least) that a 62-year-old is dating a 26-year-old. Legal? Yes. Morally kinda gross? Also yes.
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Jim Carrey was paid $7 million for ''Dumb and Dumber'', while his co-star Jeff Daniels made just $50,000.
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Janice 1 year ago
Jackson Browne, singer/songwriter, has always been actively involved in a variety of social, political and environmental causes. In the 80s, he was, not only vocal about his views about Nicaragua by recording songs (losing fans) playing a lot of benefit concerts to raise awareness and money, BUT he would personally drive around Los Angeles going to medical supply stores to buy baby oxygen or gas(I don't remember which) to send to Nicaragua because they didn't have them that small. Browne lost a lot of fans by making albums (World in Motion) focused on different causes. He's one of the few who quietly and publicly sacrifices his time foe what he believes
Mike F 1 year ago
Not a lot of folks know how far back he really goes. Dr My Eyes is still one of my favorite songs (1972).
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John Nelson 1 year ago
The recurring bit on "Hee Haw" of Grandpa Jones always coming to the kitchen window to answer the call of "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" was an inside joke. Grandpa Jones built a new fence around his house, and only realized after it was done, that he'd forgotten to put a gate in it! He was forced to climb through the kitchen window to get in and out of his house for a while, until his busy schedule allowed time to fix his error!
Janice 1 year ago
Jackson Browne, singer/songwriter, has always been actively involved in a variety of social, political and environmental causes. In the 80s, he was, not only vocal about his views about Nicaragua by recording songs (losing fans) playing a lot of benefit concerts to raise awareness and money, BUT he would personally drive around Los Angeles going to medical supply stores to buy baby oxygen or gas(I don't remember which) to send to Nicaragua because they didn't have them that small. Browne lost a lot of fans by making albums (World in Motion) focused on different causes. He's one of the few who quietly and publicly sacrifices his time foe what he believes
Mike F 1 year ago
Not a lot of folks know how far back he really goes. Dr My Eyes is still one of my favorite songs (1972).
Load More Replies... John Nelson 1 year ago
The recurring bit on "Hee Haw" of Grandpa Jones always coming to the kitchen window to answer the call of "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" was an inside joke. Grandpa Jones built a new fence around his house, and only realized after it was done, that he'd forgotten to put a gate in it! He was forced to climb through the kitchen window to get in and out of his house for a while, until his busy schedule allowed time to fix his error!
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