Did you Know… A Little A This ‘N’ That

My grandma, she can make a soup,
 With a little a’ this ‘n’ that.
 She can feed the whole sloop group,
 With a little a’ this ‘n’ that.…Pete Seeger (1963)

 A policeman in civilian clothes is called a fly cop.

Clark Gable had false teeth and according to his leading ladies, very bad breath. Wonder how Scarlett felt about this?

 In 1958, when Elizabeth Taylor’s third husband the producer Mike Todd, 25 years her senior, was killed with four others in his private plane called the Lucky Liz, she was the lucky one.

 She was supposed to have gone with him, but at the last minute because she had a cold, he made her stay home.

 She always said, he and Richard Burton were the two great loves of her life. Todd was 48. 

 In 1920, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $4,000 dollars per essay from the Saturday Evening Post. That would be $55,000 in today’s currency.

The actor Christopher Walken has never owned a cell phone. When he works on a film, the production has to issue him one so they know where he is.

  Never look down at someone unless you’re helping them up…Jesse Jackson

President Joseph Biden in the 11th hour of his Presidency, pardoned Elizabeth Cheney and the entire January 6 Committee so the present administration couldn’t retaliate as promised.

 Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite food was fried chicken smothered in gravy, a specialty of his southern mom’s.

The comic Steve Martin’s first job was at Knott’s Berry Farm as part of a comedy troop. After that he sold guide books at Disneyland. 

  A wild turtle can live up to 50 years.

  A house turtle, 25, unless you were Tom, a gift from my Dad who ventured from his bowl and passed away behind the couch.

Carrie Fisher while making Star Wars, had to stand on an apple box in her scenes with Harrison Ford being a foot shorter than he was.

  There are two things in the world you never want to let people see you make’em – laws and sausages. Leo McGarry…The West Wing (1999).   

Jackie Kennedy bought her 1040 Fifth Avenue 14-room apartment in 1964 for $250.000. After she died in 1996, billionaire David Koch bought it for $9.million dollars that he recently sold for $32 million.

  If an apartment could have an ego, this would be the one.

  Every storm runs out of rain…Maya Angelou

 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on…Winston Churchill   

 Think I’ll end there.

  Recommended Reading…

 Oath of Honor; A Memoir and a Warning…Liz Cheney (2023)

Born Standing Up…Steve Martin (2007)

Elizabeth…J. Randy Taraborrelli (2006)

 SB