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When Diahann Carroll was cast to be Isaac, the Bartender's, love interest on "The Love Boat", Ted Lange (Isaac) messed-up the scene FIFTEEN times so he could kiss her again, and again, and again!! LOL

Also, in the first season of "The Love Boat", Isaac the bartender never mixed a drink. After the first season----and they knew the show was going to be around for awhile----Ted Lange took bartending lessons so he could make it look more authentic.

Lauren Bacall's apartment in the famous Dakota building was purchased for $48,000 in 1960.

Yesterday it was put up for sale.

Asking price $26 million.

Dollars.

Her artworks are being auctioned, and have an estimate of three million dollars.

Only fifty people were invited to her funeral in Manhattan

And I STILL cannot find out where she was buried.

Leonardo DiCaprio was the first choice to play Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (1996). The first choice for Juliet was Natalie Portman. DiCaprio was 21 years old at the time of filming, but Portman was only 14. Portman shot test footage with DiCaprio, but according to her, "They said it looked like Leonardo was molesting me when we kissed." Portman was replaced by Claire Danes, who was only two years older but looked much closer in age to DiCaprio.

Olivia Hussey was 15 when she portrayed Juliette.

....and it's been downhill all the way since then.

Gérard Depardieu and Andy Garcia were considered for the role of the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein before the filmmakers settled on Robert De Niro.

Depardieu could play that role now, without being made up, to judge from recent photographs!

Elizabeth Taylor, or Dame Elizabeth, as she loved being called, left each of her four children

one hundred million dollars.

Each.

And she left most of the rest to AIDS research.

Though she was known as a dedicated fundraiser for AMFAR, not everyone knows why.....she

and two doctors created AMFAR.

She was heartbroken by losing her dear friend Rock Hudson (and others) to AIDS, and being

Elizabeth, she determined to fight.

And she did.

R.I.P., Dame Elizabeth, and thank you for being you.

Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made "that disgusting movie, 'Psycho'".

Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund Pevensie in the Narnia movies, is the great-great nephew of economist John Maynard Keynes, the great grandson of two Nobel Prize winners, and the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin.

Robin Williams had Lewy Body Dementia.

The same kind Casey Casem had----second, only to Alzheimer's. It's not rare----it affects nearly a million and a half people in the U.S., alone It shares some characteristics with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

A friend of his said he had seen him about a month before his death, and that: "You could tell he was not all there".

So very, very sad.....

Melissa Rivers is suing the clinic where her mother, Joan Rivers, was having a routine throat procedure, when she died. It seems they did not begin CPR in a proper timeframe.

Also, the clinic administered Propofol (the same drug that killed Michael Jackson)----that's not illegal, but I thought it was an interesting fact.

Rocky IV is the only film in the series in which the music is not composed by Bill Conti (The Karate Kid). It was instead composed by Vince DiCola (Transformers: The Movie).

Three top stars who tried being blonde for awhile....

Rita Hayworth

Joan Crawford

Lucille Ball!

Seems to me I remember Lucy as a blonde. I can't imagine the other two as blondes, though.

Know who else 'went blonde'?


Sir Laurence Olivier!

For the film 'Hamlet',of course.