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Enraged by Bristol Palin on ‘Dancing,’ Man Shoots TV, Prompts Standoff
The Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)
Entertainment
Headlines
Television
Bristol Palin
I like my films to influence the audience; even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
W.C. Fields
(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Entertainment
Film
These go to 11.
Christopher Guest
(1948 – ) English-American screenwriter, musician, director & actor
Entertainment
Music
TV/Movie Quotes
As Nigel Tufnel in “This Is Spinal Tap”
Going “one louder” on their amplifiers
Volume
If Michaelangelo had been a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
Rita Mae Brown
1944) is an American writer & screenwriter
Characteristics
Entertainment
Heterosexuals
Homosexuals
Michaelangelo
Good producers are as rare as rocking horse doo-doo.
Jon Amiel
(1948 – ) English film director
Entertainment
Film
Producers
It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.
Rita Rudner
(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Entertainment
People
Self
Prom
They don't make 'em too big for this business.
Tempest Storm
(1928 – ) American stripper, burlesque star & actress
Appearance
Body
Entertainment
Breasts
Burlesque
Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Mark Rothko
(1903 – 1970) Russian artist
Art
Entertainment
Does it have a happy ending?
Groucho Marx
(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Entertainment
To Elton John who accompanied Groucho to a performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar” as the lights went down
Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
Mencken's Second Law
Entertainment
Murphy’s Laws
Arts
Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing.
Samuel Goldwyn
(1879 – 1974) film producer
Entertainment
Film
Television
English painter & sculptor Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?
Whistler’s reply: My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?
James McNeill Whistler
(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist
Communication
Entertainment
Insults
Criticism
Painting
Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.
Anonymous
Acting
Dance
Entertainment
Film studio official’s comment on Fred Astaire
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Art
Definitions
Painting
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together; the public doesn’t give a damn what goes on inbetween.
Thomas Beecham
(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment
Music
Orchestras
I know two kinds of audiences only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
Arthur Schnabel
(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist
Entertainment
Music
Audiences
Coughing
There's no business like show business… but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman
(1947 – ) comedian & television host
Entertainment
Occupations
Work
Accounting
Show business
Press agent: How do I get our leading lady's name in your newspaper?
George S. Kaufman: Shoot her.
George S. Kaufman
(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Communication
Entertainment
Reading/Writing
Newspapers
You might be a redneck if… you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.
Jeff Foxworthy
(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Activities
People
Rednecks
Television
VCRs
Wrestling
English Channel: The BBC.
Anonymous
Definitions
Entertainment
Television
English Channel
Violinist: A high-strung musician.
Anonymous
Definitions
Entertainment
Music
Wordplay
Violinist
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Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.