Hollywood Wit : Classic Off-Screen Quips and Quotes

[Dark Saint Alaick]

In LA Story, Steve Martin remarks to his new girlfriend that her breasts feel a bit weird.

"Yeah. I'm Sorry", she says, "that's because they're real."

There you have it. Hollywood in a nutshell - or a D-cup : a place where the real seems more phony than the phony and the phony seems more real than the real. In this topsy-turvy town, where reality is flipped on its head, fiction is flaunted as fact, and lies are the common currency, can we ever know the truth ?

The truth, as they say, is out there, and one way to get at it is to look at Hollywood under an X-ray instead of the usual spotlight. It cuts through the hype, schmaltz and bullshit which obscure the truth. It strips away the phony silicone and reveals the real silicone underneath. In this Thread I brings together off-screen wit from the earliest days of Hollywood to the present. Enjoy it.