Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Peter Marshall: "Paul, why do motorcyclists wear leather?" Paul Lynde: "Because chiffon wrinkles."

  At Laurel's funeral, Buster Keaton said "Chaplin wasn't the funniest. I wasn't the funniest. Stan Laurel was the funniest."

  Brief Encounter and Strangers on a Train

  Started the day in Vienna. Finished in Venice.

  The character of Mork, played by Robin Williams, was created by Jerry Paris, who played Jerry Helper, Rob and Laura Petrie's next-door neighbor on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Charles Augustus Howell Charles Augustus Milverton Charles Augustus Magnusson

 "No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

I learned just today that Eliot's Dry Salvages is to be pronounced to rhyme with 'pages!'  

 "Everybody respects a bloody nose"

Watching Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in Murder Most Foul (1964) with Granny. Love the meta-note that the murder victim was an actress who had appeared in a production of Agatha Christie's Murder, She Said, with Marple mentioning Christie by name several times. Also love that Miss Marple, auditioning for the theatre company where the victim had worked, in her search for clues, recites "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert W. Service!  Because of course she does.

 

 

 The original voice of Charlie the Tuna was Herschel Bernardi!

Asteroid 12050, also known as Humecronyn, was not named after the actor. It was named after his father. As was the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory.

 "If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word 'collectible' as a noun, you may consider yourself an unqualified success." -- Fran Lebowitz