Are you showbiz na showbiz? (Part 3)

The first two “showbiz na showbiz” features turned out to be a big hit among Hollywood fans (including Edmund Sicam) who have been requesting Funfare for more. So here’s Part 3, still from the book Hollywood Trivia (Over 300 Curious Lists from Tinseltown) by Aubrey Malone, given to me by Dr. Willie Ong (who writes a health column, out every Tuesday, in the Life section of this paper) and his wife Dr. Liza Ong.

Here we go:

• Curtain Calls (10 classic movie end-lines)

• “For a minute there, I thought we were in trouble.” (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969)

• “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” (Casablanca, 1942)

• “All right, Mr. De Mille, I’m ready for my close-ups now.” (Sunset Boulevard, 1950)

• “Made it Ma, top o’ the world!” (White Heat, 1949)

• “Shut up and deal!” (The Apartment, 1960)

• “Nobody’s perfect.” (Some Like It Hot, 1959)

• “Tomorrow is another day.” (Gone with the Wind, 1939)

• “Come back, Shane!” (Shane, 1953)

• “Listen, who do I have to f—k to get OFF this picture?” (Blue Moon, 1968)

• “Marry me, Emily, and I’ll never look at another horse.” (A Day at the Races, 1937)

•  Jesus Christ Superstar (15 stars who have portrayed the son of God)

• Robert Le Vigan (Golgotha, 1935)

• Robert Wilson (The Day of Triumph, 1954)

• Claude Heater (Ben Hur, 1959)

• Jeffrey Hunter (photo, King of Kings, 1961)

• John Barrymore (Pontio Pilato, 1961)

• Roy Mangano (Barabbas, 1962)

• Enrique Irazoqui (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964)

• Bernard Verley (The Milky Way, 1969)

• Robert Powell (Jesus of Nazareth, 1977)

• Brian Deacon (Jesus, 1979)

• Chris Sarandon (The Day Christ Died, 1980)

• John Rubinstein (In Search of the Historic Jesus, 1980)

• John Hurt (History of the World Part 1, 1981)

• Willem Dafoe (The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988)

• Jim Caviezel (photo, The Passion of the Christ, 2004)

•  Lip-O-Suction (10 things you should know about movie kisses)

• The first kiss recorded on film in a motion picture was in Thomas Edison’s The Kiss (1896). It took place between John Rice and May Irwin and played to nickelodeon audiences. It lasted for 30 seconds.

• The movie with the most kisses is Warner Bros.’ Don Juan (1926), starring John Barrymore. In the course of the 167-minute film, he bestows a total of 191 kisses on a number of beautiful señoritas — and average of one every 53 seconds.

• The longest kiss in film history is between Jane Wyman and Regis Toomey in You’re in the Army Now (1941). It lasts for three minutes and five seconds.

• The most famous homosexual kiss in movies is that between Peter Finch and Murray Head in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).

• Mae West (photo) never kissed a man on screen.

• Marlene Dietrich’s make-up man said she kissed so hard, she needed a new mouth after every kiss.

• “I’m fond of kissing,” Carrie Fisher told Playboy in 1983. “God sent me down to earth to kiss a lot of people.”

• Kim Basinger believes that there’s an art to it: “You have to believe it’s as good as what’s coming later.”

• ”Harrison Ford (photo) is so famous,” Carrie Fisher said once, “he doesn’t kiss with his own tongue any more — he uses someone else.”

• Michael Caine had to kiss Christopher Reeve in a homosexual encounter in Deathtrap (1982), so they shared a bottle of brandy to work up the courage for the smack.

•  You Don’t Say (Five famous misquotations)

• Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca (1942). What he actually said was, “Play it, Sam. If she can take it, I can.”

• Neither did James Cagney (photo) ever say, “You dirty rat” — well, not like that anyway. He said, “You dirty double-crossing rat,” in Blonde Crazy (1931) and “You dirty yellow-bellied rat,” in Taxi (1932).

• Mae West eventually said, “Come up and see me sometime,” but her first utterance of the line in She Done Him Wrong (1932) was “Come up sometime and see me.”

• Neither did Charles Boyer ever say, “Come wiz me to ze Casbah” in Algiers (1838).

• And nor did Greta Garbo say, “I want to be alone.” The actual line was “I want to be left alone,” in Grand Hotel (1932).

•  The Long Riders (10 unusually lengthy movie titles)

• Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

• The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain (1978)

• I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (1973)

• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Bad (1967)

• Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

• Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963), directed by Stanley Kubrick (photo)

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

• Ja, Ja Mein General! But Which Way to the Front? (1970)

• The History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)

• Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go into the Streets (1971)

(Note: That’s all for now, folks! More — and more, more, more! — coming in the near future. Promise!)

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