Bizarre Celebrity Complaints

"I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses -- but when I finally came out and said, 'Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay,' yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question -- big, big time." -Boy George

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." -Dolly Parton (about herself)

"Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring." -Michelle Pfeiffer

"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse." -Jacqueline Kennedy

"It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated." -Monica Seles

"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes- and six months later you have to start all over again." -Joan Rivers

"It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years--except they had little to do with being a child." -Liza Minnelli

"I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, 'I'm in here when you're walking around like that?'" -Robin Williams, about his body hair

"Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb." -Former supermodel Helena Christensen admits she can speak six languages

Bizarre Celebrity Quotes

"My boyfriend calls me 'Princess,' but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retarded.'" -Alicia Silverstone

"I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie." -Angelina Jolie

"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it." -Arnold Schwarzenegger

"This time I'm going to be the bride. She got me these pink panties with a big bow on them." -Billy Bob Thornton

"I would rather have a cup of tea than sex." -Boy George

"I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all." -Mike Tyson

"I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man." -Justin Timberlake

"Wal-mart...do they like make walls there?" -Paris Hilton

"I've been noticing gravity since I was very young." -Cameron Diaz

"My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe." -Celine Dion

"I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers." -Moby

"I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day." -Linda Evangelista

"I think the longer I look good, the better gay men feel." -Cher

"I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been put through hell on Earth." -Liza Minnelli

"I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt." -Madonna

"I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one." -Noah Wyle

"I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day." -Linda Evangelista

"I think the longer I look good, the better gay men feel." -Cher

"I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been put through hell on Earth." -Liza Minnelli

"I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt." -Madonna

"I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one." -Noah Wyle

Bizarre Entertainment Facts

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.

In 1920, 57% of Hollywood movies billed the female star above the leading man. In 1990, only 18% had the leading lady given top billing.

In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)

In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

Mickey Mouse is known as 'Topolino' in Italy.

Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.

Bizarre Celebrity Suicides

Singer Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) committed suicide playing Russian roulette.

Actress Clara Blandick (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz) took sleeping pills, and tied a plastic bag over her head.

Talk show host Ray Combs (Family Feud) hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

Actress Lillian Millicent Entwistle jumped from the 'H' of the 'HOLLYWOOD(LAND)' sign.

Newscaster Chris Chubbuck shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast on Florida TV station WXLT-TV. She died 14 hours later.

Rock musician Michael Hutchence of Inxs hanged himself with a belt in his room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Sydney, Australia. (Perhaps auto-erotic asphyxiation.)

Celebrity stalker Margaret Mary Ray committed suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.

Actress Clara Blandick (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz) took sleeping pills and tied a plastic bag over her head.

Family Fued host Ray Combs hung himself with bed sheets in his hospital room while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

Poet Hart Crane drowned when he bid his fellow passengers on a steamship farewell and jumped overboard.

Actress Lillian Millicent Entwistle jumped from the 'H' of the 'Hollywood' sign.

Chris Hubbock, a newscaster, shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast in Florida.

Michael Hutchence, the musician of the band Inxs, hung him- self with a belt in his room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Bizarre Celebrity Sex Scene Confessions

"His idea of a romantic kiss was to go "blaah" and gag me with his tongue. He only improved once he married Demi Moore. - Cybil Shepard on Bruce Willis

"I enjoyed bumping up against it even though it had black stuff all over it...By the end of the shoot I was covered in black goo'. - Kim Bassinger being turned on by Michael Keaton's Batman costume.

Kenneth Williams' moment of unbridled passion with Joan Sims in "Carry On Up The Khyber" was somewhat marred by Williams' persistent flatulence.

Hygiene conscious Lana Turner chewed gum to keep her mouth fresh for her kissing scenes. During the filming of "Homecoming," Clark Gable kissed her so hard that the pair became entwined by a ribbon of sticky gum. From then on, she gargled.

"It's a little too sick, real or feigned to do in front of your mother." - Jennifer Jason Leigh stated about a sex scene in her 1996 movie, "Georgia." Leigh asked her screenwriting mother, Barbara Turner, to leave the set at the crucial moment.

"God I miss my husband." - Patsy Kensit whispered to Mel Gibson during their naked romp in "Lethal Weapon 2."

Bizarre Royal Figures

George III of Great Britain and Ireland was being driven through Windsor Great Park when he ordered his carriage driver to stop. The King got out, walked over to an oak tree, shook hands with one of its branches and talked to it for several minutes. He thought he was talking to the King of Prussia.

Princess Alexandra of Bavaria was convinced that as a child she had swallowed a full-size grand piano. Nothing could ever shake her from this belief.

Ludwig II of Bavaria was Alexandra's nephew. His reign was notable for his decision to reverse night and day. He had a moon painted on his bedroom ceiling and embarked on epic mountain journeys in the dead of night in a golden sleigh, accompanied by coachmen who were forced to dress in the style of Louis XIV.

Catherine the Great of Russia, discovering that she had dandruff, imprisoned her hairdresser in an iron cage for three years to stop the news spreading. Enchanted by a prim- rose in the royal garden, she posted a sentry to guard the plant day and night.

Queen Juana of Spain worshipped her husband Philip, who died in 1506, so much that she refused to allow him to be buried and had his coffin accompany her wherever she traveled.

Henry Christophe, King of Northern Haiti, ordered his guards to prove their loyalty to him by marching over a 200ft-high cliff. Those who obeyed plunged to their deaths; those who refused were tortured and executed. Christophe eventually ended up shooting himself.

Bizarre Presidential Facts

Gerald Ford used to let off loud farts and blame them on his Secret Service men.

John Quincy Adams loved to swim in the nude.

Chestur Arthur was a clothes hog who owned over 80 pairs of pants.

Grover Cleveland is the only U.S. president who personally hanged someone. He threw a noose over two criminals' necks while working as a sheriff.

Warren G. Harding once gambled and lost a box of priceless White House china during a poker game.

John F. Kennedy was plagued by the venereal disease chlamydia and spent the first moments of the Bay of Pigs invasion getting a giant shot of penicillin.

Bizarre Facts About Celebrities

Marlon Brando used to wander so much on his way to kindergarten that his older sister Jocelyn had to take him to school on a leash.

Clark Gable is listed on his birth certificate as a girl.

As a child, Ann-Margaret's family was so poor that they had to live in a funeral parlor. She slept next to a casket every night.

Dudley Moore was born with a club foot. As a result, his left leg is shorter than his right.

Demi Moore was born cross-eyed.

Rita Hayworth was born with one eye much bigger than the other. She camouflaged it with specially constructed eye- lashes.

Jane Seymour was born with one green eye and one brown eye.

Hollywood tough guy Charles Bronson had a rather non-macho childhood. His family was so poor that he had to wear his sister's hand-me-down dresses to school.

Bizarre Hollywood Insults

On Julie Andrews: "Working with her is like being hit over the head with a Valentine's card." -Christopher Plummer

On Richard Gere: "I'm always trying to find diplomatic ways to talk about Richard and the movie 'An Officer and a Gentleman.' I liked him before we started but that is the last time I can remember talking to him." -Debra Winger

On Marilyn Monroe: "It's like kissing Hitler." -Tony Curtis

On Esther Williams: "Wet she's a star. Dry, she ain't." -Fanny Brice

On Jayne Mansfield: "Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater." -Bette Davis

On Rex Harrison: "The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more." -Anna Neagle.

On Margaret O'Brien: "If that child had been born in the Middle Ages, she'd have been burned as a witch." -Lionel Barrymore

On Marlon Brando: "He has preserved the mentality of an adolescent. When he doesn't try and someone's speaking to him, it's like a blank wall. In fact it's even less interesting because behind a blank wall you can always suppose that there's something interesting there." -Burt Reynolds

Bizarre Famous Deaths

Attila the Hun, one of the most notorious villains in his- tory, died from a nosebleed on his wedding night. He gorged himself on food and drink at the banquet for his wedding celebration to a young girl named Ildico. He suffered a nosebleed sometime during the night, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the following morning.

French national hero Napoleon Bonaparte, successful for conquering most of Europe, was killed by his own wallpaper. Napoleon was imprisoned by the British on the island of St. Helena. Scheele's Green was a coloring pigment used in fabrics and wallpaper at the time. If wallpaper that contained Scheele's Green became damp and moldy, the pigment would undergo a chemical change, and would give off Arsenic gas. The wallpaper in Napoleon's bedroom contained Scheele's Green and he was poisoned.

Alexander I of the Hellenes, the King of Greece from 1917, died after being bitten by his pet monkey. While he was walking his dog in the garden, his pooch and his monkey started to fight. In an attempt to separate them, Alexander was bitten on the ankle by the monkey. Five days later, the wound turned septic and he came down with a fever. He later died from the resulting Cellulitis.

French King and Crusader Henry I died from accidental defenestration. When Henry was awaiting word from the Pisan army that their ships and soldiers were ready to join him in relieving Jaffa from Al-Adil's Saracen army, he eagerly turned to greet the delegation when they arrived. When he did, he stepped backwards and lost his balance. As he fell over, his little dwarf, Scarlet, pulled at his robes. However, instead of saving the king, the dwarf fell, too, and both men died instantly.

Francis Bacon, one of the most influential minds of the late 16th century as a statesman, philosopher, writer and scientist, died by stuffing snow into a chicken. He was struck by the notion that possibly snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. He bought a chicken from a local village, killed it, and then tried to stuff the chicken full to snow to freeze it. The chicken didn't freeze...but Bacon did.

Bizarre Music Facts

Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

Elvis favourite collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in.

Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella.

The world's largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records.

In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world record by disco dancing for 408 hours.

The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul Mc-Cartney about his sheepdog Martha. More

The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.

Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by Clint Eastwood.

The only guy without a beard in ZZTOP surname (last name) is Beard.

The Carpenters signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank.

Bizarre Country Song Titles

Do You Love As Good As You Look?

Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed

Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye

Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure

I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling

I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me

I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win

I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised

If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You

If My Nose Were Full of Nickels, I'd Blow It All On You

If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?

My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart

My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him

She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft

They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out

You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too

You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Bannister Of Life

You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly