Very polite suicide

Following the Nazi annexation of Austria, the famed Viennese author, critic, and theatre director Egon Friedell died when he hurled himself through an office window to avoid capture by Gestapo agents. 

His last words? "Watch out, please!"

Leonard Nimoy

"I had an embarrassing experience once, many years ago," he told The New York Times in 2009. "I was invited to go to Caltech and was introduced to a number of very brilliant young people who were working on interesting projects. ... And they'd say to me, 'What do you think?' Expecting me to have some very sound advice. And I would nod very quietly and very sagely I would say, 'You're on the right track.' "

Go Russ Go!

Go, Russ, Go!

 

On the set of the Australian film Proof, Russell Crowe is said to have seduced a young ingenue in his trailer.

Though he later denied it, passersby who knew what Crowe was up to swear that, during the act, he was overheard shouting "Go, Russ, go!" at the top of his lungs.

Jack Nicholson

“I was working valet at the mansion. We used to park the nicer cars in the roundabout just for show. At 2 AM Jack (Nicholson) comes out with a tall blond girl. She couldn’t have been a day over 25 and they start going at it on top of a 1952 Jaguar Roadster. It wasn’t the kissy-kissy stuff either. They were both drunk.

I’m watching this when the owner of the Jag walks up to me. It was James Caan. I thought he was going to kill me for allowing this to happen. Caan was a nice guy but he had a temper.

I said, “Mr. Caan, Shall I go fetch your car.”

James Caan looked at me and said,

“Son, you don’t take meat away from a lion when it’s eating. I’ll be in the kitchen.”

Schwarzenegger

Schwarzenegger - Guess ?

One day Arnold Schwarzenegger passed a heavy woman and noticed that she was wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the 'Guess' logo. Arnold's response? "I said, 'Thyroid problem?'"

Bill Murray - Charlies Angels

Bill Murray and Lucy Liu didn’t get along on the set of the first Charlie’s Angels. Bill was always uncomfortable around her and nobody knew why until one day a huge fight erupted between the two while they were filming a scene. People Magazine reported the Bill ‘loudly complained about her technique.’ People was being gentle.

What actually transpired was much more intense. Bill Murray stopped a scene in progress and pointed to Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu saying in order, “I get why you’re here, and you’ve got talent….but what in the hell are you doing here. You can’t act!” At that, Liu blew her lid and attacked Murray, wildly throwing punches. The actors had to be separated to opposite corners of the room while they lobbed verbal hand grenades at each other.

With a Columbia Pictures gun to their heads, both actors would publicly downplay in incident but insiders know better. Bill Murray would not do any sequel with Liu attached and was subsequently replaced by Bernie Mac.

Harriason Ford

Harrison Ford: "I have this funny thing that happens to me. When I see famous people on the street, I turn away so as not to embarrass them by staring. But sometimes it's someone I know, only I've forgotten I know them. I think I'm only imagining I know them because they're famous. Jack Nicholson has been a friend for 15 years, but every time I see him, my instinct is to turn away, to preserve his privacy. I have to remind myself that I can't do that; I do know Jack and I've got to say hi."