When An Actor Had Brains

Back in the good ol' days of Hollywood, the people who pursued movie stardom were individuals who had something to say -- not just empty, pretty shells waiting for a script to appear. Case in point: Richard Burton.

In a 1974 interview with Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune creator/gazillionaire Merv Griffin, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Welshman responds to a comment about man being on the moon. Burton sniffs:

The least important thing we've done...in the last 100 years is to get a man on the moon. The idiots who went up there had no knowledge or no idea or no purpose. They were just simply automatons.

You don't hear that everyday about astronauts, huh?