1. Alan Smithee was childhood friends with former Pennsylvania State Senator Budd Dwyer. They used to play cowboys and indians together. An attempt to re-enact one of their a play-sessions led to the infamous Budd Dwyer suicide in 1987.
2. Alan Smithee used the umbilical cord of his sixth son Alan Jr. VI (born from dancer/singer Iris Chacon) to play jump-rope in the hospital dorm. When later confronted on his strange behavior he used the same umbilical cord to garrote the delivery doctor, two nurses, six hospital patients and a potted plant before jumping out the window and suffering a broken leg upon hitting the pavement.
3. Alan Smithee voiced Beavis in the Mike Judge short cartoon "Frog Baseball" in 1992 by request of the animator. Smithee also animated the film in question, as well as six unreleased episodes of "Beavis & Butthead".
4. On August 23rd, 1964, Alan Smithee was reported to grow a full beard on a short bus trip from New York to Florida. This famous event is known to have inspired James Leo Herlihy in the writing of "Midnight Cowboy". The beard in question is known to have inspired Chuck Norris and, to a lesser extent, James Hetfield of Metallica.
5. Alan Smithee has an autographed Bible at home. The autograph is that of Alan Smithee.
6. Alan Smithee taught Mark Knopfler how to play guitar. The friendship of the two guitar-virtuosos was short-lived though, as Smithee, during a drunken binge, tossed Mark Knopfler's television set as well as his first guitar and one of his children out the window of their seven-story hotel room. They have not spoken since.
7. Alan Smithee invented Santa Claus by mistake one morning when he, having not shaven for some six hours, fell down the chimney of famed caricaturist Thomas Nast on January 30th, 1863.
8. Alan Smithee bench-pressed 600 lbs once. Having supposedly died from the effort, he mysteriously appeared on the set of "Catchfire" and directed it, disregarding the numerous claims of his death. Later that same evening, Denis Hopper suffered a near-fatal heart-attack. Found at the foot of his bed was a hankerchief with the initials "A.S.". It has been rumored to be left there by famed lounge-singer Arnold Schwarzenegger.
9. Alan Smithee guest-directed the shot from "Mean Streets" where Harvey Keitel points his finger at his girlfriend. The gunshot that can be heard during this event was caused by Alan Smithee who at the same instance shot a member of the catering personnel with his .357 revolver.
10. Alan Smithee once broke a coconut with a hammer.