Against War

Speaking of David Niven, he once said that he would never work with Rex Harrison. He claimed it was because Harrison was a pacifist during the war, but I think it had something to do with Harrison's penchant for late night golfing-if you know what i mean

Sonorous

According to Wikipedia, Ronald Colman successfully made the transition to "talkies" because of his elegant and sonorous speaking voice. I am told not to believe everything on Wikipedia, but i believe this because i have seen Prisoner of Zenda 12 times and his voice is indeed sonorous. But so is David Niven's.

Do Jon

If I owned a house with a backyard, I'd build a bamboo fence around it. In the backyard I would train a force of martial arts warriors in something the people from Burma call a do-jon. They would be really proficient with metal stars. This army would be mine, but I wouldn't use them to hurt people. But it would be still cool to have.

Fame

Basil Rathbone said the pursuit of fame was as empty as making love to a $2 whore. If he were still alive today, I suspect we would have seen him on Extra touting a new workout. He was like that.

One evening I stepped through a dream and into my grandparent's backyard that sat on an extension of water from Barnegat Bay. It was roped off like a municipal swimming pool and boats moved through swimmer's lanes. Without transition, I moved to one of these boats-strangely, not the one my grandparents had tied to their dock and as I took the helm we reached the end of the water, where the arm grew narrow-like at the wrist-and a feeling of dread and loss overcame me which we odd emtions to running out of places to go. I turned the boat sharply, cutting across the narrow lanes and I ran over three mallards.