Reportedly, after facing Leonard, Jackie Robinson once said: " I am glad of one thing, and that is I don't have to hit against Dutch Leonard every day.

Reportedly, he began referring to himself as a god when meeting with politicians and he was referred to as Jupiter on occasion in public documents.

Reportedly, 40, 000 Goths were brought by Constantine to defend Constantinople in his later reign, and the Palace Guard was mostly composed of Germans, as the quality of the native Romans troops kept declining.

Reportedly, Siebold was not the easiest man to deal with ; he was in continuous conflict with his Dutch superiors, who felt he was arrogant.

Reportedly, the medium's first major African-American star George Washington Johnson was obliged to perform his " The Laughing Song " ( or the separate " Laughing Coon ") literally thousands of times in a studio during his recording career.

Reportedly, he was kicked off the set of The Liberace Show for not wearing a tie, and he refused to cue a car salesman during a live feed because of his attitude towards stagehands.

Reportedly, the warden was reluctant to allow the filmmakers to work at the prison until he was introduced to Peckinpah.

" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.

Reportedly, part of her charm came from the fact that her earliest appearances were episodes in which dialogue written for Keel was simply transferred to her.

Reportedly, he was a zealous and goal-setting student, upset by the slow pace of promotions, and compensating for his diminutive stature through toughness.

He had made his mark as a Disney child star, but after being fired, was hoping to revive his career with Mars Needs Women treating it as a serious project, to the extent of rewriting some of his dialogue. Reportedly, Buchanan allowed Kirk to create his own soliloquy for his scene in an astronomical observatory as he explains that his world is dying.

Reportedly, Thorpe's vocal was chosen as the final one after each member of the band tried to sing it without success.

Reportedly, Pop Warner was hesitant to allow Thorpe, his best track and field athlete, to compete in a physical game such as football.

Reportedly, this was because Nickelodeon's six-year contract to air the 1981 season expired in 1987, and since Nickelodeon was beginning to aim for a younger demographic and many of the 1981 episodes dealt with topics more relevant to adolescents ( such as smoking, drugs, sexual equality, and peer pressure ); the network opted not to renew the contract.

Reportedly, Gordon Gekko is said to be a composite of several people: Owen Morrisey, who was involved in a $ 20 million insider trading scandal in 1985, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, corporate raider Carl Icahn, art collector Asher Edelman, agent Michael Ovitz, and Stone himself.

Reportedly, Lake was disliked by some of her co-stars ; McCrea refused to work with her again, turning down a lead role in I Married a Witch, and Fredric March, who got the part, didn't get along with her as well.

Reportedly a video for the track " Long Time Dyin '" was shot, but due to the non-existence of metal in the mainstream media at the time, it is unlikely that the video has ever aired on television.

Reportedly, the body of the boy emperor was found near today's Shekou in Shenzhen, though his actual grave has yet to be found.

Reportedly Jenkins was also killed after being seized and stabbed ; another Hospital patient killed was Trooper Hunter of the Natal Mounted Police.

Reportedly, pop icon Britney Spears was asked to replace Applegate when her contract expired, but declined the offer.

Reportedly, John Huston asked cinematographer Oswald Morris that he wanted the color scheme of the film to look " as if Toulouse-Lautrec had directed it ".

Reportedly Trumbull asked, " Why not do it the way we did it on 2001?

Reportedly, Brian Cashman asked Ponson if he would be amenable to being placed in the pen before going ahead with the trade ( which also involved acquiring Bobby Abreu ).

Reportedly, Jon Bon Jovi asked Gary Moore-guitarist with late ' 60s Irish rock group Skid Row-to sell the rights to the name for $ 35, 000.

Reportedly, Gero tricked McGillion into agreeing to play the kiss by lying that David Hewlett was asked first and had already agreed.

Reportedly, Dick Cavett once asked Dai Vernon who could still fool him.

Reportedly, he tried to resign several times for health reasons but was asked to stay on by the disarmingly witty Pope John.

Reportedly General Bernard Montgomery refused to allow Eighth Army soldiers who fought under his predecessor, General Auchinleck, from October 1941, and even his first few months of service starting in August 1942 to wear the award.

Reportedly, Fitzsimons refused to allow Peckinpah to give direction to O ' Hara.

Reportedly the religious authorities refused the Nazi request.

Reportedly, they did not warm to each other and she refused to work for him again.

Reportedly, the two actresses quickly refused to speak to each other and the producers had to film their confrontational scenes separately and then splice them together ; Turner was written out of the show soon after.

Reportedly he refused to fall down on set after a prop revolver was fired at him, saying " Just one bullet can't stop Bancroft!

Reportedly he sometimes refused payment.

Reportedly, the negotiations were so bitter that when a settlement was finally reached, Players Association representative Marvin Miller and the owners ' negotiator Ray Grebey refused to pose with each other for the traditional " peace ceremony " photograph.

Reportedly, the artist name was initially credited to " Mandre ", but altered after it was refused by a director of Smash !!

Reportedly the band refused to sign the contract unless it was to be done in a strip club or some place of the sort.

Reportedly, folk singer Judy Collins had seen him perform at a New York City club and was so taken and moved by his performance that she told her friends Bobby Colomby and Steve Katz about him ( knowing that they were looking for a new lead singer to front the band ).

Reportedly, in the instant before the gendarmerie opened fire Mesrine's eyes were described as being so shocked they seemed to be bursting from his head as he realized he was trapped.

Reportedly, two freak accidents happened that day: Fitzsimmons hit the bag so hard that it broke, and then his opponent of that day allegedly slipped, getting hit in the head and the boxing exhibition was cancelled.

Reportedly, he was frightened of thunderstorms, and so pyrophobic that he rarely cooked his food ; he lived largely on hard-boiled eggs, which he prepared 50 at a time while boiling glue for his artworks.

Reportedly Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew is staged on the final day, and so is the last play performed during the era of English Renaissance theatre.

Reportedly the screenplay was entirely reworked by screenwriter Daniele Stroppa after Fulci's death, so the finished film sadly bears little resemblance to Fulci's original screenplay.

Reportedly the villagers of Sant ' Angelo were so busy accommodating tourists that they had no time to appear as extras in the film.

Reportedly, during the first phase of the battle Prince Casimir was ordered to depart so as not to deprive the Polish Kingdom of the presumptive heir.

Reportedly, he was to give a sermon before James I and was so entertained playing with a ring the King gave him that he forgot the sermon altogether.

( Reportedly, the orderly Germans were so impressed that Alkemade had bailed out without a parachute and lived that they gave him a certificate testifying to the fact.

Reportedly, he gave an incorrect age to the police so that he would not be treated as a juvenile, but sent to an adult prison instead.

Reportedly, their models of U. S. Navy warships were so accurate, that in 1960 it was discovered that the Kremlin had purchased a significant number of different models to help fill in blank spots in their intelligence regarding the design of American warships.

Reportedly while Thomas was making the drink, President Ulysses S. Grant was so impressed that he gave Thomas a cigar.

Reportedly, his powerful family demanded too high a weregild from Ecgþeow's clan, the Wægmundings, so Ecgþeow was banished and had to seek refuge with the Danes.

Reportedly, Bloody Knife was standing next to Reno, who had motioned for Bloody Knife to approach him so he could ask Bloody Knife what the Indians would do when his command began to move away from their village.

Reportedly, Armstrong looked so much like Harrison Ford that the crew members on the films were constantly mistaking him for Ford.