Especially funny and/or audacious ones..
I find it hilarious that Coppola faked a seizure in front of Paramount executives when they said "Marlon Brando will never be in this picture". I think it helped because Coppola actually has epilepsy and used it in his favor.. Just imagine if someone else played Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather"
I like that one story about how Tom Sizemore forgot to bring a shirt he was supposed to wear for a day of shooting, and so a couple hapless PAs drove him back to the place he was staying to retrieve it, encountering a kitchen table along the way stacked with ashtrays and half-eaten boxes of Mike & Ikes.
Which movie do you think that was for?
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shareThere are a lot of funny "prove your masculinity" stories from the 60s and 70s.
It is debatable if early bond films are Hollywood productions or not, the internet is divided here. But a lot of Hollywood people were involved in George Lazenby's only Bond movie.
They had a small problem with Lazenby before choosing him though. There was a rumor that he was gay. Solution:
arrange a meeting and bring a prostitute to see if he will do her. Which he did. So he penetrated his way into that movie.
ha!
shareI don't think this is what you're looking for but I know more about music than movies so the story I always remember is how Greg Allman wrote Whipping Post, my favorite Allman Brothers song on an ironing board. From Wikipedia:
The song's metrical pattern and lyrics were written quickly on an ironing board cover, by Allman's telling in the middle of the night using the charcoal from extinguished kitchen matches. He later said: "It came so fast. I didn't even have a chance to get the paper out."
I like the story about Dennis Hopper when he was filming the movie "Hoosiers" and he was getting ready to film the scene where his character (Shooter) drunkenly walks onto the court during one of the tournament games. Hopper supposedly asked for a 10- second notice before "action." When he got it, he started spinning around in circles really quickly and then filmed the scene. I love little "tricks of the trade" things like that!
shareIt's better than drinking! Brando had a drunk scene in "One Eyed Jacks" but of course with more takes, he got more and more drunk and had to re-do it the next day.
shareAngelinos will get this one. Apparently at a party, some young starlet approached Katherine Hepburn and asked her if she had any advice to someone new to Hollywood. Hepburn answered, "Yes. Take Fountain."
Fountain Ave. is a residential East-West street that used to be, and still is at times, a less traffic-heavy "shortcut" route across Hollywood that runs between the bigger, more commercial Sunset Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd.