Cadbury himself.” That fantasy, he said, became the inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He fantasized about working in a chocolate laboratory when he grew up and inventing a chocolate that would wow even “the great Mr. In his 1984 memoir, Boy, Dahl wrote that one of his happiest childhood memories involved the newly invented candy bars that the British chocolate maker Cadbury sent to his boarding school from time to time, asking Dahl and his classmates to rate them. So it isn’t surprising that he was reportedly buried with some (as well as a bottle of Burgundy, snooker cues, pencils, and a power saw). Roald Dahl (1916-1990). The author of the children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, celebrated chocolate in both his art and his life. If you have to stop your act to keep lighting your cigar, the audience goes out.” Now if you're onstage and your cigar keeps going out, you have to keep lighting it. They go out on the stage while I'm doing my act. The interviewer was Arthur Marx, son of another well-known cigar-chomping comedian, Groucho Marx.īurns told him, “the reason I smoke a domestic cigar is because the more expensive Havana cigars are tightly packed. He explained the very practical reason behind his preference in a 1994 interview with the magazine Cigar Aficionado. What brand those might been doesn’t seem to have been recorded, though Burns was known to favor El Producto Queens. For the vaudeville, radio, television and movie comedian, cigars were a constant prop, and he went to his grave with three in his pocket. Perhaps his most famous line of movie dialogue, “Play it again, Sam,” from 1942’s Casablanca never appears in the actual movie either. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”įor whatever reason, Bogart seems to have inspired memorable misquotations. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Though the quote in the inscription is often cited as a line of dialog from the movie, what Bacall’s character actually says would have required a much bigger whistle: “You know you don't have to act with me. The line was a reference to their 1944 film, To Have and Have Not, loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, and the first movie to pair the then 43-year-old Bogart and his 19-year-old future wife. Before the actor’s cremated remains were laid to rest, they were supposedly joined in their urn by a small gold whistle bearing the inscription “If you want anything, just whistle,” which he had given his widow, Lauren Bacall, years earlier. I ought to know because I have the same problem myself… It’s like being two different men locked up in the same body one man is a conductor and the other a composer, and they’re both one fellow called Mahler (or Bernstein).” Introducing a 1960 Young People’s Concert devoted to Mahler’s work, Bernstein observed, “It’s a problem to be both a conductor and a composer there never seems to be enough time and energy to be both things. At least one account claims it was placed directly over his heart in his casket, though others say it was simply put in alongside him.īernstein was known to have both idolized and identified with the late Austrian conductor and composer. While each item had its significance in Bernstein’s life, the Mahler symphony was probably closest to his heart. The famous conductor and composer, whose works included the musicals On the Town and West Side Story, was buried with a piece of amber, a lucky penny, a baton, a copy of Alice in Wonderland and a pocket score of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, according to the 2014 biography Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician. When the comedian David Brenner died earlier this year, obituaries reported that he’d asked to be buried with $100 in small bills, “just in case tipping is recommended where I’m going.”īrenner is not the first celebrity to challenge the conventional wisdom of “you can’t take it with you.” Here are nine more:
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