Comes from a real incident in 1704. Failed playwright John Dennis wrote a play, Appius and Virginia, for which he invented a new method for making the sound of thunder. The play soon closed, but a subsequent production of Macbeth used his thunder machine. Dennis was upset, and was q
A much-sued, never found liable, police officer once told me “When they sue you for five billion, don’t give it another thought; when they sue you for $2,500, start to sweat.”
“When it’s cherry blossom time in Orange, New Jersey, we’ll make a peach of a pear, I know we can’t elope, but honey do be mine, in cherry blossom time” – Novelty song from 1944 movie Up in Arms, with very cringe performance by Danny Kaye in his first feature movie. Another song from the movie, Now I Know, sung by Dinah Shore, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
I thought the Lou Malnati’s were a conspiracy theory myth. Or maybe that the proof of their power was that they had eliminated all evidence of their existence.
quoted as saying “D**n them. They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder.”