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Best Hollywood stories?
I, like many film fans (I assume), love gossipy Hollywood stories. I'm not talking about who's giving who herpes this week, or what American Idol reject is in rehab. No, I'm talking about stories that most of the public never hear, like who did crazy shit on-set, secret backroom deals, directors getting in actors' faces, casting calls... things that are generally kept under wraps.
I've got a couple good ones to start... My dad's ex-gf was a model back in the 70's and she was Andy Williams ex, so she was in with the old-school Hollywood crowd. Anyways, she told me that she went to a party at Lawrence Olivier's house one night with Andy, and Dustin Hoffman showed up in street clothes. He sat next to her at the table and proceeded to ask her dirty questions, like "when did you give your first blowjob?" He also kept sticking a loaf of bread from the table between her legs. Needless to say, she got uncomfortable and left. She also told me that an attractive girlfriend of hers was asked out by Robert DeNiro. She arrived at his hotel and his assistant told her to head up to his room. She said the door was open and when she walked in he was wearing a robe, nude underneath. He had a hard-on, looked at her, then looked down at it and said, "How did that get like this? How did that... get like this?" Needless to say, she also made a quick exit. Anyone else got some good tales to share? |
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I don't believe any stories about Scorsese where the storyteller keeps mispronouncing the name Scorsese.
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Originally Posted by KillerCannibal
(Post 9827740)
I, like many film fans (I assume), love gossipy Hollywood stories. I'm not talking about who's giving who herpes this week, or what American Idol reject is in rehab. No, I'm talking about stories that most of the public never hear, like who did crazy shit on-set, secret backroom deals, directors getting in actors' faces, casting calls... things that are generally kept under wraps.
I've got a couple good ones to start... My dad's ex-gf was a model back in the 70's and she was Andy Williams ex, so she was in with the old-school Hollywood crowd. Anyways, she told me that she went to a party at Lawrence Olivier's house one night with Andy, and Dustin Hoffman showed up in street clothes. He sat next to her at the table and proceeded to ask her dirty questions, like "when did you give your first blowjob?" He also kept sticking a oaf of bread from the table between her legs. Needless to say, she got uncomfortable and left. She also told me that an attractive girlfriend of hers was asked out by Robert DeNiro. She arrived at his hotel and his assistant told her to head up to his room. She said the door was open and when she walked in he was wearing a robe, nude underneath. He had a hard-on, looked at her, then looked down at it and said, "How did that get like this? How did that... get like this?" Needless to say, she also made a quick exit. Anyone else got some good tales to share? I remember a character in my neighborhood who claimed to have worked on a film with Linda Blair and then told a whole story about a budding romance with her. And he had every detail down pat. But he was making the whole damn thing up! And when I told other people about this, they all asked the same thing...if you're gonna make up a story, why choose Linda Blair? (This was around the time of EXORCIST II.) |
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^ [Seinfeld]Oh but that's the beauty of it. If he had said he had a budding romance with, say, Liam Neeson, everyone would know thaat it wasn't true.[/Seinfeld]
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Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
(Post 9828998)
Did you ever stop to think that maybe your dad's ex-girlfriend is completely full of shit? People DO make up stories about themselves and celebrities, y'know. Esp. when they've got gullible listeners.
And, really, people make shit up? No kidding... Any other earth-shattering revelations you want to let me know about? |
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I think one of the funniest and most believable revelations about a celebrity is that Robin Williams has horrendous body odor, from all that hair on his body. (by Jay Thomas on the Howard Stern Show).
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Originally Posted by KillerCannibal
(Post 9831758)
Well, I'd like to think I know her a little better than you. So, no, I know she isn't full of shit. She isn't the type to make shit up just for the hell of it.
And, really, people make shit up? No kidding... Any other earth-shattering revelations you want to let me know about? But, be honest. If you came on this board and read those stories in someone else's post, your immediate reaction would be disbelief, wouldn't it? |
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Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
(Post 9832082)
If I had known you were that close to your dad's ex-girlfriend (:blush:), I would have been a little more sensitive. Sorry.
But, be honest. If you came on this board and read those stories in someone else's post, your immediate reaction would be disbelief, wouldn't it? And I wasn't that close. She modeled in the 70's... the 30-odd years of smoking in-between didn't do her any favors. But she's not the gossipy/need-for-attention type, so I highly doubt she'd care enough to make something like that up. |
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I heard that Pikachus age hit puberty fast, so in order to keep Pikachu looking and sounding "cute" in the Pokemon movies they had to replace him every week or so. The discarded Pikachu would be eaten by the crew or sold to slavers.
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Lawrence Tierney terrifying every person on the set of Seinfeld. The guy stole a knife and put it in his jacket for no logical reason.
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Originally Posted by Groucho
(Post 9832128)
I heard that Pikachus age hit puberty fast, so in order to keep Pikachu looking and sounding "cute" in the Pokemon movies they had to replace him every week or so. The discarded Pikachu would be eaten by the crew or sold to slavers.
Now I can never watch Pokemon again. :( |
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Mark Wahlberg once gouged out the eye of a Vietnamese liquor store clerk.
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Originally Posted by jeffkjoe
(Post 9831786)
I think one of the funniest and most believable revelations about a celebrity is that Robin Williams has horrendous body odor, from all that hair on his body. (by Jay Thomas on the Howard Stern Show).
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This is just turning into ridiculous rumor mongering. Errrr... turning into?
Owen Wilson loves trannies. I mean, he LOVES them. |
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Richard Gere likes gerbils and has one as a pet. Well he had a pet gerbil, but it mysteriously died.
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Originally Posted by jeffkjoe
(Post 9831786)
I think one of the funniest and most believable revelations about a celebrity is that Robin Williams has horrendous body odor, from all that hair on his body. (by Jay Thomas on the Howard Stern Show).
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
(Post 9835070)
I've heard that Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are a couple of smelly dirtbags too.
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And I heard the story that Brad Pitt doesn't take showers and smells bad....
I mean... I'm pretty sure a lot of these aren't real. |
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Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
(Post 9835851)
I seem to remember on one talk show or another Jenny McCarthy said Christopher Walken smelled like formaldehyde. I can actually believe that...
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I don't believe this one, but I get a kick out of it...
Sometime in the mid-1990s, when Mike de Luca was running New Line, he got it into his head that he wanted to do a LOST IN SPACE movie. Only, he wanted it to be a huge, prestige production along the lines of ID4 or BRAVEHEART. He was dreaming of a $150M budget (this is when WATERWORLD had broken the bank at $200M). So, he made the right calls, and managed to get David Mamet Meryl Streep Robert Redford in the same room, at the same time. They had no idea what kind of project they were going to be dealing with, but the money at stake was too big to be ignored. So, anyways, you've got three of the biggest talents in the business and Mike de Luca sitting in a conference room, and de Luca starts the meeting by saying: "I want to make a $150 Million LOST IN SPACE movie." Dead silence from the other three. They do not do movies based on shitty TV shows. No they don't. Redford, still silent, looks at Mamet. He then looks at Streep before looking back at de luca and asking: "How much coke did you do last night?" |
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Johnny Cash once killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
For realz. |
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Originally Posted by Neeb
(Post 9840022)
"I want to make a $150 Million LOST IN SPACE movie."
Dead silence from the other three. They do not do movies based on shitty TV shows. No they don't. Redford, still silent, looks at Mamet. He then looks at Streep before looking back at de luca and asking: "How much coke did you do last night?" |
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Originally Posted by Groucho
(Post 9840282)
The joke's on them, because the eventual film was so popular it knocked Titanic out of the #1 slot!
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Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
(Post 9840369)
But just think how much better it would have done with Streep and Redford in the cast and dialogue by David Mamet!:horsepoo:
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David Schwimmer > oxygen
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Originally Posted by Neeb
(Post 9840022)
I don't believe this one, but I get a kick out of it...
Sometime in the mid-1990s, when Mike de Luca was running New Line, he got it into his head that he wanted to do a LOST IN SPACE movie. Only, he wanted it to be a huge, prestige production along the lines of ID4 or BRAVEHEART. He was dreaming of a $150M budget (this is when WATERWORLD had broken the bank at $200M). So, he made the right calls, and managed to get David Mamet Meryl Streep Robert Redford in the same room, at the same time. They had no idea what kind of project they were going to be dealing with, but the money at stake was too big to be ignored. So, anyways, you've got three of the biggest talents in the business and Mike de Luca sitting in a conference room, and de Luca starts the meeting by saying: "I want to make a $150 Million LOST IN SPACE movie." Dead silence from the other three. They do not do movies based on shitty TV shows. No they don't. Redford, still silent, looks at Mamet. He then looks at Streep before looking back at de luca and asking: "How much coke did you do last night?" Michael De Luca is best known for receiving a blowjob at age 32 from the sister of actor Cary Elwes and producer Cassian Elwes in front of guests (such as ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGER, EMMA THOMPSON, JOHN MALKOVICH and QUENTIN TARANTINO) at a pre-Oscar party thrown by then head of the William Morris motion picture division, Arnold Rifkin at his home in March, 1998. De Luca and the woman were escorted from the party by security guards. Mrs. Rifkin reportedly tossed out the chair in which Mike was sitting, saying that she would never ask her guests to sit in it again. De Luca received a stern reprimand from his bosses at New Line, Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne. Mike had a father-son relationship with Shaye. At his surprise 32nd birthday party at Lucky Cheng's in New York, De Luca was photographed having a transvestite lick whipped cream off his bare chest for a photo spread in Creme & SuGar magazine. From Brooklyn, the brash De Luca developed such hits at New Line as "The Mask," "Dumb and Dumber," "Seven," "Boogie Nights," "Wag the Dog" and "The Wedding Singer." De Luca exudes a don't-give-a-damn attitude. He has a record of public fistfights and drunken driving. He prefers to wear denim and leather over suits and ties and enjoys riding a Harley. De Luca was fired by New Line in 2000. He was then hired by Dreamworks. Born in 1965, Mike grew up in the Canarsie area of Brooklyn. He dropped out of New York University as a senior and went to work at New Line as an intern at age 19. He moved from gofer to story editor to vice president to head of production. He earned over $300,000. Writers and directors love working with him. "In a business that's filled with second-guessing, Mike has the courage of his convictions and that's why so many filmmakers want to work with him." screenwriter Gary Ross told the LA Times Claudia Eller for her 3/29/98 article. "Almost anyone I know would give his right arm for his track record." Mike wrote two New Line movies: the sixth installment of the "Nightmare" series, and the John Carpenter-directed "In the Mouth of Madness." |
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