Cool and Funny People: 250 Anecdotes and Stories

This book contain many anecdotes, most of them funny. (I hope.) A Sample: 1) In 1985, Judi Dench appeared in a BBC-TV production of Ghosts. The director decided that the credits would feature a scene with the characters of the play eating a meal. No actual dialogue would be heard on TV during the rolling of the credits, only a murmur under some music. This left the cast free to improvise their own dialogue and try to make the other cast members laugh. For example, Ms. Dench's character was ...