Subject: Re: STARS' LUMPS OF YULETIDE COAL
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:11:37 -0000



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From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-mutualaid.org>
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Subject: STARS' LUMPS OF YULETIDE COAL


> New York Post [Page Six] - December 25, 2003
>
> STARS' LUMPS OF YULETIDE COAL
>
> TIRED of heartwarming tales of Christmas cheer? Read on: from Webster
> Hall curator Baird Jones come stories of holiday horror and
> gift-giving gone awry that prove, as Jim Carrey told World
> Entertainment News Network, "If you dig deep enough, everyone has a
> reason to be miserable at Christmas."
>
> Among the warm and fuzzy yuletide memories Jones collected:
>
> * Filmmaker John Waters' favorite Christmas memory is of the tree
> falling on his grandmother.
>
> * Peter O'Toole's father, Capt. "Spats" O'Toole, came home tipsy one
> Christmas Eve. O'Toole told in his memoir, "Loitering With Intent,"
> how he once asked his dad if Father Christmas was coming. Spats went
> outside, burst a paper bag, and told his young son that Father
> Christmas had just shot himself. O'Toole "wept for hours."
>
> * Jeffrey Katzenberg, as Paramount studio chief, required his
> underlings to work Christmas Day. According to Kim Masters' book "The
> Keys to the Kingdom," Katzenberg rewarded them with turkey sandwiches.
>
> * Mary Higgins Clark didn't have a Christmas tree when she was 10
> because, "My mother waited too long to buy one . . . and none was
> left. So she decorated a lamp."
>
> * Sylvester Stallone supposedly bought his wife Jennifer Flavin, her
> sister Trish and two best friends, yuletide boob jobs one year.
> Metasleaze.com quotes a friend as saying: "He loves Jennifer and
> thought this was the best way to show that."
>
> * Richard Dreyfuss once sent Steven Spielberg "a poison scorpion set
> in amber. It was the only thing I could think of that he didn't have.
> The gift was not - I repeat not - any reflection on him."
>
> * Larry Flynt's daughter Tonya recalls her flesh-peddling father's
> gift gaffe: "The Christmas card he sent me when I was 12 had a
> picture of Santa on a bed making love with a nude model and a gift of
> hundreds of dollars inside. I cried so much."
>
> * Princess Diana's last Christmas present from Queen Elizabeth II,
> according to "The Day Diana Died" by Christopher Anderson, was a bar
> of soap.
>
> * But the all-time worst gift-giver in history was Vincent van Gogh,
> who famously sliced off one of his ears on Dec. 23, 1888 after his
> girlfriend, a prostitute named Rachel, made fun of their large size.
> He delivered the trophy to Rachel on Christmas Day.
>
>

That's fuckin' brilliant that is.  My funny bone is appropriately tickled.
Father Christmas just shot himself.  >:-)

Lorax