Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

It seems to me that Glenn Gould and Bobby Fischer mirror each other in many ways: in eccentricity, in supremacy in their fields, in appearance, in approach to their work and to others... Theirs is solipsism made manifest.

 Tea snobs insist that Earl Grey should not have milk added, but is best enjoyed with lemon. But since Earl Grey is already black tea flavored with the citrus bergamot, surely this is an insult to both fruits.

 

Meryl Streep and J, Geils dated in high school.

Took the name 'Bip' for his clown character from Great Expectations' 'Pip.'

 Singer Dan Hartman was close friends with Holly Johnson, lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

The script was written by John Huston and Truman Capote. Bogart was in an accident while filming and lost some teeth. Unable to speak well, some of his dialogue had to be dubbed in post. A young British actor, gifted at impressions, was hired. Peter Sellers.

 Max Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim

 Terri Nunn, later the lead singer of Berlin, reading for Princess Leia.

 Trey Wilson was only 40 years old when he died.

 "An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use."                  -J.G. Ballard

 Apparently, both Burt Lancaster and Burl Ives turned down the title role in Zorba the Greek before it went to Anthony Quinn!

 "Jejune? You have the temerity to say that I am speaking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all the Russias!"

  The Sally Bowles of Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin thinks she is Lisa Stansfield.

 In the Seventies, actor Seymour Cassel (Confessions of a Chinese Bookie, etc.) met a young boy named Saul Hudson, who had recently moved to the United States from England. Because the boy was always running around, moving from one thing to another, Cassel nicknamed him "Slash." That boy later learned to play guitar.

 Three years after Bagdad Cafe, Jevetta Steele appeared in Prince's Graffitti Bridge as a backup singer to Mavis Staples.