Celebrity Anecdotes

Who lost her top after diving into the high school pool? Who got expelled for mooning his teacher? Who got caught wearing his girlfriend's panties at the gym? Whose "fart in a jar" was sold on eBay? Thanks to anecdotage.com editor J. Julian Payne, the answers to these and many other burning questions can now be found in one indispensable volume: Celebrity Anecdotes: Funny Stories About the Stars is a quirky collection of (apparently true) stories about 48 top celebrities, from Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney and Johnny Depp to Ozzy Osbourne, J. K. Rowling and Tiger Woods. Each of the book's 48 chapters contains biographical information (including nicknames, rumored romances, family history, and key credits) as well as dozens of amusing quotations and anecdotes. The text is also interspersed with humorously-captioned photos, amusing anagrams (who knew that ?Periodic anal odor? could be rearranged to spell the name of a certain titanic movie star?), and interesting trivia: The secret behind Jennifer Aniston's famously lustrous hair? ?Mane ?N Tail shampoo? ? for horses!Celebrity Anecdotes, however, is not of interest only to celebrity-mad trivia buffs. While some chapters make for light reading (most of the stories about supermodel Tyra Banks detail her wacky encounters with ardent fans) others contain more substantial fare. The book's pages on Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, and Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore, for example, chronicle each star's formative years and yield more insight into his character than many full-length biographies. Indeed, so diverse are this volume's sources that even ardent fans will learn something new about their idols. And, with entries ranging from Absentmindedness and Accidents to Yachts and Yoga, the book's index also makes it a useful reference.Payne, J. Julian is the author of 'Celebrity Anecdotes ' with ISBN 9780973622102 and ISBN 0973622105.