"Photographer Jim Marchese joined Springsteen’s 1981 tour for “The River” in Europe. 'When we got to a new town,' Marchese recalls, 'the joke was that there was a $5 tip for whomever in the crew spotted ‘the arches’ first,' ... where Bruce orders a meal." Bruce Springsteen in New Orleans, 1975
These famous relatives did grant permission for Madame Tussauds to dress their wax figures in such Christmas-inspired jumpers.
"Interview" with Bela Lugosi - 1932 Obviously rehearsed, but it is an unusual setting, for Count Dracula. This was edited out around 2:45: Dorothy West: Do you believe in vampires? Lugosi: Yes, three of them I married.
It looks like Mark Twain just graduated from somewhere. Reminded me... My girlfriend chose to have her wedding on the same day I graduated, and I was her maid of honor. Graduation in the late morning, then change clothes for the wedding and take off. The car I was driving ran out of gas, not too far from home. I had to walk back in heels, exchange keys and take off immediately in another car, while my father retrieved mine. Everything went fine otherwise. Sorry, I digressed.
Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet returned. Mark Twain in his gown (scarlet with grey sleeves and facings) for his D.Litt. degree, awarded to him by Oxford University, in 1907.