When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century”
Mary Austin: The friend who inspired and supported Freddie Mercury, and inherited a portion of his wealth
Al Pacino, whose grandparents came from town of Corleone in Sicily, said, “I’m all Italian. You get your full dose with me.”
The term “paparazzi” was coined by Fellini while making his film about the lives of the Sixties elite, “La Dolce Vita”
The Beach Boys sang about a California culture of sun and sand in the 1960s but didn’t actually like to surf themselves–and one of them drowned
Conspiracy theorists believe Woody Harrelson’s father, a convicted murderer, was the youngest of the “Three Tramps” and the assassin who killed John F. Kennedy
Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, suffered 3rd-degree burns while making “The Wizard of Oz”
Blanche Blackwell, the Jamaican heiress who was Ian Fleming’s lover, was far more substantial than a Bond Girl