Robin Williams' teachers at the Juilliard School thought he was such a "genius", that they encouraged him to leave in his junior year because there was "nothing more" they could teach him.
During an episode of Who Do You Think You Are, Sarah Jessica Parker discovered that her 10th great-grandmother was accused of witchcraft in a scandal that actually put an end to the Salem Witch Trials. Of the revelation, the actor said, "It has changed everything about who I thought I was."
Björk's name is frequently pronounced incorrectly as "bee-york". In fact, the singer herself clarified that it's supposed to rhyme with "j#rk", and should be pronounced like "bee-yerk".
Jack Black made a video begging Led Zeppelin for permission to use "The Immigrant Song" in School of Rock. The band have a history of not letting people use their songs, and had previously denied director Richard Linklater rights to their music for his 1993 film Dazed and Confused.
Richard asked Jack to make a plea, which he did in front of a crowd during the shooting of a scene. The band apparently responded by saying, "oh, that's funny. Yeah, we'll let him use the song."
While we're on Jack... His mother, Judith Love Cohen, helped create the Abort-Guidance System – a system which was used to help the Apollo 13 astronauts safely return to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft.
According to her son Neil, Judith considered her work on the program "the highlight of her career", and "was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a 'thank you' to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach."
Stevie Nicks appears in the music video for Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious". The reason being that the guitar riff running through the song is actually a sample from Stevie's iconic track, "Edge of Seventeen".
Shortly after filming on Annie had wrapped, Carol Burnett went have to work done on her chin, which she had always felt was "necessary". Later, she was called up to do some re-shoots ~after~ the procedure, which had made a noticeable change to her face.
Carol was worried that audiences would notice her going into a closet "without a chin", and coming out of it "with one". After sharing her concerns with director John Houston, he simply told her she could style it out by looking "determined".
Tilda Swinton comes from an ancient Anglo-Scottish family – one of the oldest in Scotland – that can be traced back to the Middle Ages. She also went to school with Princess Diana!
Cherie Currie, the frontwoman of The Runaways, left the group in 1977 because she felt "unable to cope" with being in the band. She later became a chainsaw artist, which has been her "sole livelihood" ever since.
Alexis Bledel, best known for her starring role in Gilmore Girls, did not speak English until she started school. Alexis considers herself Latina, and grew up speaking Spanish with her family; she still speaks it at home with her family today!
Kim Kardashian suffers from psoriasis, an autoimmune skin condition that causes flaky patches of skin which form scales. The reality TV pioneer has been very candid about her experience of the disease, sharing that psoriasis "is the sh#ts".
Stanley Tucci met his second wife, Felicity, at the 2006 premiere of The Devil Wears Prada. Felicity is the sister of Emily Blunt, who was Stanley's co-star in the film. The pair began dating around 2010 and secretly married in 2012.
Emily was a bridesmaid at the wedding, which Meryl Streep also attended!
Courtney Love's great-grandparents – Elsie de Sola Fox and Paul Hervey Fox — were just about as wild she is! The writer couple flitted between Manhattan and Hollywood, mixing with film stars and engaging in all sorts of debauchery.
The pair had one daughter, novelist Paula Fox, who they continually abandoned and neglected throughout their lives. Paula once described her father as "a far-gone alcoholic", and her mother as "sociopath".
Nicole Kidman has shared more than just a screen with her Big Little Lies co-star Zoë Kravitz. Nicole was actually once engaged to Zoë's dad Lenny Kravitz, and the three even lived together!
"I was about 13, and she would take me to see movies; she was so nice to me", Zoë told Net-a-Porter.com's magazine, The Edit.
Lena Headey and Jerome Flynn both starred in all eight seasons of Game of Thrones, but allegedly refused to film scenes together because of a bad break-up between them years before.
Despite such reports, Jerome denied a rumour that the pair "hated" each other at Nashville's Con of Thrones. The actor told a fan, "the last time I saw Lena we were speaking, so I wouldn’t believe everything you read".
David Bowie credited much of his early cultural education to his older half-brother, Terry. Unfortunately, after briefly joining the RAF, Terry came back showing "pretty evident signs of schizophrenia", according to David.
Terry would soon be admitted to a mental hospital where he would spend the rest of his days.
George Harrison remortgaged his house so that the Monty Python gang could make the seminal 1979 movie, Life of Brian. He set up film company called HandMade Films, and gave them around £2million to make the movie after the funding from EMI was withdrawn.
And finally – Mara Wilson's mum was dying during the production of Matilda, so director and star, Danny DeVito, took an early cut of the film to the hospital for her to watch before she passed away.
Mara was worried that her mum, who died four months before the film's release, would never see the movie. However, years later, when she was a little older, Danny revealed to Mara that her mother had, indeed, seen the film before she died <3.
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Think of the god old word: Nerd
*https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/nerd*
That has the ø ö sound instead of the e.
ohwowwhogivesash#t
that fact that you don't doesn't mean nobody does.
Actually, the only interesting ones were Robin Williams and George Harrison/Monty Python...