Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

"We all have wings, but some of us don't know why..."

Maurice Gibb was buried with a complete boxed set of the series Father Ted.

The doorbell in Neil Simon's Murder by Death is Fay Wray's scream from King Kong!

George Harrison and Eric Clapton Each married Patti Boyd and remained best friends. They referred to each other as "husbands-in-law."

Thinking about Robin Williams' simple and wonderful Osric in Branagh's Hamlet...Now thinking about the many Shakespeare roles we will never see him do: Autolycu s, Bottom, Costard, Launcelot Gobbo. When he was young he would have been a fascinating Edgar. My God, why did we never get to see him play Macbeth's Porter? And of course, Falstaff. To Billy Crystal's Justice Shallow. Well, I suppose he was Falstaff to all of our Prince Hals anyway...

In his youth, Stephen Fry once typed out the text of P.G. Wodehouse's Frozen Assets on a manual typewriter, simply because he so enjoyed typing.

To Bury, or Not to Bury? Russia Undecided about Legendary Hadji Murad’s Skull

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence." - Borges

How did I not know that Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun was an adaptation of a song by  Jacques  Brel, with English lyrics by Rod McKuen?

Yvonne Elliman sings back up on Lay Down Sally. wait a minute... Yvonne Elliman is Mary Magdeline. "Clapton is God" hmmm....

Schubert's Ave Maria was not in fact composed as a setting for the Catholic prayer. It was actually composed for part of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. "Ellen's Song" from the Scott poem begins with "Ave Maria'" and the misconception grew, with the Latin eventually supplanting the Scott.

    Momentarily confusing Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night and Eliot's Rhapsody on a Windy Night.