All-American at both high school and the University of Florida, Aaron Hernandez would go on to be an NFL tight end for the New England Patriots and play in Super Bowl XLVI. His stellar football career would come to an abrupt end and be eclipsed when he was charged with the murder of semi-pro ...
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Famous Speech Almost Didn’t Have the Phrase 'I Have a Dream'
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John Lennon Wanted Eric Clapton to Replace George Harrison in the Beatles
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Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols' Enduring Love Story
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Edward VII, George V and Edward VIII: The Complicated Relationship Between the British Kings and Their Heirs
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Inside David Bowie and Queen’s 'Tense' Recording Session for "Under Pressure"
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How Christopher Reeve Took Control of His Life After a Horseback Riding Accident Left Him Paralyzed
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When KISS Wiped Away Their Iconic Face Paint in 1983, Fans "Hated" the New Look
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Syd Barrett: How LSD Created and Destroyed His Career With Pink Floyd
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The On and Off Screen Connection Between Ed Asner and Mary Tyler Moore
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The Brat Pack: Where Are They Now?
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The Contentious Relationship Between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict
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Why William Daniels Quit Playing Mr. Feeny on ‘Boy Meets World’ — and What Brought Him Back
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Why Did Pope Benedict XVI Resign?
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How Louisa May Alcott's Real-Life Family Inspired 'Little Women'
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Before 'Golden Girls,' Betty White Was a Game Show Star
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Matthew McConaughey: The Chance Encounter That Led to His Breakout Role in 'Dazed and Confused'
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Mussolini Wrote a Little-Known "Romance" Novel
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The True Stories Behind 'The Godfather'
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How 'Wheel of Fortune' Helped Vanna White Cope With Personal Tragedies
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The Story of Security Guard Richard Jewell
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Jennifer Lopez: The Impact Playing Selena Had on the Actress' Life
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The Icons Who Passed Away in 2019
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The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant
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Inside Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's 'Fantastic Romance' and 'Successful Divorce'
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Did the Mob Kill John F. Kennedy?
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Why Mister Rogers Took Pictures of the People He Met
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Princess Margaret: What Really Happened on Her 1965 Tour of the United States
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Mister Rogers Proposed to His Wife by Letter. Inside Their 50-Year Love Story
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John Travolta Called Dancing With Princess Diana 'One of the Highlights of My Life'
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Apollo 11 Astronauts Had an Awkward Encounter After the Moon Landing
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The True Story Behind 'Ford v Ferrari'
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Mister Rogers Always Weighed 143 Pounds. The Significance Behind That Number
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10 of the Most Powerful Mob Bosses of All Time
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Kurt Cobain: The Inspiration and Meaning Behind Nirvana's Hit 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
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Inside Dolly Parton's Private Marriage to Carl Dean
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Inside Whitney Houston's Relationship With Best Friend Robyn Crawford
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12 Famous Veterans Who Served in the United States Military
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How Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson Teamed up for Her Hit Song "Crazy"
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Tammy Wynette and George Jones' Rollercoaster Relationship
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Hank Williams' Daughter Didn't Know That He Was Her Father for Decades
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Waylon Jennings' Close Call on 'The Day the Music Died'
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Why Faith Hill Embarked on a Journey to Meet Her Biological Family
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Johnny Cash Described His Love for June Carter as 'Unconditional'. Inside Their Love Story
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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s Road to Love, Marriage and Happiness
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How Garth Brooks' Humble Oklahoma Roots Drove Him to Succeed
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Mugshots of Famous Mobsters (PHOTOS)
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Tim McGraw Didn't Meet His Dad Tug Until He Was 11. Inside Their Complicated Relationship
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Inside Harriet Tubman's Life of Service After the Underground Railroad
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Michael Jackson: Behind the Scenes of His Iconic 'Thriller' Music Video
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The Devastating Plane Crash that Killed Reba McEntire's Band
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How Billy Graham Tried to Prevent JFK From Winning the Presidency
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Why Dolly Parton Has Devoted Her Life to Helping Children Read
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Why Loretta Lynn Stood by Her Husband Despite His Cheating and Violent Behavior
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Shania Twain: The Surprising Inspiration Behind “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”
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Luke Bryan's Sister Passed Away Suddenly, So He and His Wife Adopted Their Nieces and Nephew
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12 True Stories Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror Tales
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Carly Simon Was by Jackie Kennedy's Side When She Died. Inside Their Surprising Friendship
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7 Surprising Facts About 'The Partridge Family'
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Danny Rolling: The True Story Behind the Killer Who Inspired 'Scream'
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Ed Gein: 7 Horror Movies Inspired the Body Snatcher and Murderer
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Catherine the Great: The True Story Behind Her Real and Rumored Love Affairs
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Why Princess Diana Risked Her Life for Humanitarian Causes in Africa
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'The Exorcist' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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'Carrie' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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What Happened to Marie Antoinette’s Children?
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'Scream' Movies Cast: Where Are They Now?
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Inside Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn's Instantaneous and Unbreakable Bond
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'Halloween' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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Julie Andrews Had Surgery to Fix a 'Weak Spot' on Her Vocal Cords and Lost Her Singing Voice
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Why the Zodiac Killer Has Never Been Identified
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Rita Moreno Was Over Being Stereotyped in Hollywood, so She Quit Making Movies for Seven Years
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'Ghostbusters' and 'Ghostbusters II' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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How Wham!'s 1985 Concerts in China Broke Cultural Barriers
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'The Addams Family' & 'Addams Family Values' Cast: Where Are They Now?
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The best-laid plans are often better off ignored — at least that was the case with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most “transformative and influential” ...
Ringo, Paul, John — and Eric?! Perhaps no other band in history is quite as synonymous with the first names of its members as the Beatles. But at one point, George Harrison walked out on the band — and at the top of the list to replace him: Eric Clapton. The guitarist first met the Fab Four when ...
Separately, Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer led impressive lives. Sawyer was an aide to President Richard Nixon who assisted him with his post-Watergate memoirs before she conquered the world of journalism. She served as the first female correspondent on 60 Minutes, made her mark on PrimeTime Live, ...
Royal family dysfunction is nothing new, especially in the British royal family. Generations of British kings and queens have faced difficulties — real or imagined — with their offspring. Queen Elizabeth II has often been criticized, including by some of her own children, for her distant mothering ...
It’s perhaps one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in popular music — those six identical notes followed by one a fourth down. But the impromptu recording session that created the hit “Under Pressure” was packed with tension between David Bowie and Queen, especially Freddie Mercury. “Freddie ...
Early in the afternoon on May 27, 1995, actor Christopher Reeve, best known as the star of four Superman movies, prepared for the cross-country portion of his equestrian event in Culpepper, Virginia. Reeve had learned to ride horses for his part in the 1985 adaptation of Anna Karenina and, as with ...
When the band KISS first emerged on the scene in the 1970s, they weren’t like the other popular acts of the time. “At the same time that we were forming in New York, there was a very big glitter scene, where boys were basically acting like girls and putting on makeup,” KISS frontman Gene ...
By the spring of 1967, Pink Floyd was at the forefront of the psychedelic rock movement that was pushing its way into mainstream popular culture. Fronted by lead guitarist and songwriter Syd Barrett, and including bassist Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason and organist Richard Wright, the band ...
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77) starred Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards, a single woman in Minneapolis working as an associate producer in television news. A central focus of the series was the complicated relationship between Richards and her boss, news director Lou Grant. Grant, portrayed ...
The year was 1985 and New York Magazine journalist David Blum was set to interview up-and-coming actor Emilio Estevez in Los Angeles. Knowing Estevez ran with a posse of other popular 20-something actors who had a knack for partying, Blum suddenly came up with a nickname for them: the Brat Pack. ...
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, later known as Pope Francis, and Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger of Germany, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, were brothers in Christ before being selected for the most holy position at the Vatican in Rome. When Benedict stepped down in 2013 and Francis ascended to the ...
“Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.” With those final four bits of sage advice, Mr. Feeny, played by Williams Daniels, bid goodbye to Cory, Topanga, Shawn and Eric on the family sitcom Boy Meets World, which ran from 1993 to 2000. By the time Daniels took on the role of the iconic middle ...
On February 10, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI issued the stunning declaration that he intended to resign from his post as head of the Catholic Church at the end of the month. The move was virtually unprecedented, as every Church head since Gregory XII in the early 15th century had fulfilled his papal ...
Louisa May Alcott had come to Europe to rest. But even in the Swiss Alps, the author couldn’t escape the thing that had exhausted her in the first place: her fans. Her latest book, Little Women, was a runaway bestseller — and the constant barrage of fan mail, the visits and the demands on her time ...
If life were a game show, Betty White might just be the winner. After all, the actress-turned-cultural icon has won over the hearts of fans around the world as the star of iconic shows including The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls. And more recently, she experienced a career ...
Like Fast Times at Ridgemont High in the early 1980s and American Graffiti a decade before that, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused captured a moment in time for high school kids. The cult classic film was hyper-specific in its focus on a small Texas town in 1976 but also universal enough to ...
Benito Mussolini made an early name for himself as a journalist and political polemicist. An ardent anticleric, one of his most frequent targets was the Catholic Church, which he railed against in articles, essays and even a racy 1910 novel depicting a scandalous affair between a 17-century ...
Based on Mario Puzo's 1969 crime novel of the same name, Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather (1972) chronicles the fictional Corleone family and its rise to becoming one of the most powerful mafia families in America. Starring Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone and Al Pacino as ...
For nearly four decades, Vanna White has been revealing letters as the hostess on the game show Wheel of Fortune — and always with a smile. But for the television personality, who has been on the show for more than three decades, that smile has often covered up personal heartache, especially in her ...
Early in the morning of July 27, 1996, amid the hoopla of the Summer Olympics that made Atlanta, Georgia, the center of the world for a fortnight, security guard Richard Jewell was working his beat at downtown Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park when he noticed an olive-green backpack beneath a ...
Long before she was known simply as J.Lo, Jennifer Lopez shed her own identity and became the late Latin recording artist Selena Quintanilla in the 1997 biopic movie, Selena. First earning her name as a “Fly Girl” on the Fox TV series In Living Color, Lopez had appeared in a handful of films — Mi ...
Every year we lose a variety of award-winning, awe-inspiring and at times, controversial figures in the entertainment, political, business, philanthropic and fashion worlds — and 2019 was no different. This year's famous figures have made a long-lasting impact through their talents, skills, unique ...
Two of the most famous Americans of the 19 century, Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant’s formed a surprising friendship. On paper, the outgoing, personable author and the quiet, reserved general-turned-president couldn’t be more different, but their close bond led to the publication of a landmark work ...
The fiery redheaded performer hailing from Jamestown, New York, and the charming, Cuba-raised actor and musician were an unconventional fit for the buttoned-up Hollywood of the 1940s and 1950s. But that didn’t stop Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz from becoming America’s favorite on- and off-screen ...
Few historical events have given rise to the hundreds, perhaps even thousands of conspiracy theories as the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, TX. From an inside job to an unidentified umbrella man, extraterrestrials, multiple gunmen and a joint effort between the Cubans and ...
For generations of children, the characters from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood are cemented in their minds, like a mental photo album: the cranky Lady Elaine Fairchilde in her red coat and white lace collar, shyly smart Daniel Striped Tiger with his wayward whiskers, the all-ruling King Friday XIII ...
Princess Margaret wasn’t born to be like the other royals. In fact, she was the first member of the British royal family to be born in Scotland in 300 years. As the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the siblings were born as nieces to King Edward VIII — until their uncle abdicated the throne ...
Though Fred Rogers was truly as kind and gentle as he appeared to be on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, his life extended beyond that fictional setting. Away from the cameras, his relationship with wife, Joanne, was a focal point of his world. Despite facing some problems, the couple shared a ...
It’s a tale as old as time — or at least a modern-day pop-culture version of it. The graceful, good-hearted Princess Diana swirling around the dance floor with the king of silver-screen dancing John Travolta. In fact, it started as any fairy-tale dance scene would: “At midnight, I had to tap her on ...
The Soviet Union was the first country to send a person into space, but the United States won the race to the moon when its Apollo 11 lunar module landed there on July 20, 1969, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface. This momentous achievement captivated around 600 million ...
It was a clash of automotive titans. A years-in-the-making showdown pitting upstart Ford against reigning champion Ferrari for the checkered flag, and bragging rights, at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race. Representing the old world was Enzo Ferrari, former motor racing driver and ...
Everywhere Fred Rogers went, he touched people’s hearts with his gentle tone and irreplaceable way of relating to children and adults alike. Whether it was teaching relatable life skills through the Land of Make Believe puppets or tackling social issues by visiting neighbors around his ...
With its origins hailing from Sicily, Italy, the American mafia rose to power during the illegal bootlegging days of the Prohibition era. Its operations flourished mainly in Chicago and New York and began diversifying into illegal gambling, loan sharking and drug trafficking, among many other ...
The song that launched 1,000 grunge bands and changed the course of popular music found its conceptual spark in a grocery store in Olympia, Washington, in August 1990. While pacing the aisles, Kurt Cobain's musician girlfriend Tobi Vail and her Bikini Kill bandmate Kathleen Hanna came upon a can of ...
On May 30, 1966, Dolly Parton married asphalt contractor Carl Dean. The two have been together ever since, despite seeming to have little in common – Parton's created hit albums, starred in movies and appeared on television, while Dean's preferred to live away from the spotlight. ...
The time: Summer of 1980. The place: A community center in East Orange, New Jersey. The characters: Two regular teenagers working a summer job. But the moment they met, Robyn Crawford knew there was something unique about Whitney Houston. “She introduced herself as ‘Whitney Elizabeth Houston,’ and ...
When World War I ended on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" in 1918, it was immediately cemented as an essential day in history. A year later, on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary was celebrated as Armistice Day. “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice ...
While he is hailed today as one of the iconic musicians of his time, there was a time when Willie Nelson was trying to sell his songs for meal money like a fruit vendor on the streets. Such was the case when he arrived in Nashville, Tennessee in 1960, a broke balladeer armed with a trove of songs ...
Tammy Wynette may have been known for her 1968 breakout hit "Stand By Your Man," but she didn't stay true to that motto when it came to her relationship with third husband George Jones. She'd once described their dynamic as, "I was naggin' and he was nippin'," a reference to Jones' drinking and the ...
The year 1953 should have been one of hope and promise for singer-songwriter Hank Williams, one of America’s first country music superstars, known for his songs like “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Hey, Good Lookin’” and “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.” In fact, he was on his way to perform at a ...
By the late 1950s, Waylon Jennings was among a group of west Texas musicians looking to hit the jackpot at the intersection of country and the burgeoning rock 'n' roll movement. Buddy Holly represented the mold to follow – a boy from Lubbock who'd blossomed in the wake of Elvis Presley's ...
During her years in the spotlight as a country music star, Faith Hill has been open about being an adoptee and how the experience shaped her. The singer is grateful she had the "chance to be placed in such a loving family." Yet adoption also left Hill with questions about her origins and her place ...
Their story inspired iconic love songs and was recreated in an Oscar-nominated film. Johnny and June Carter Cash became the torch-bearers of deep, passionate love – country-music style. But the lovebirds navigated rough waters leading up to and during their 35-year marriage which produced one son, ...
It’s a relationship made in country music heaven: Two unknown singers meet almost two decades before they tie the knot, admiring each other’s professional careers enough to collaborate before eventually finding love and companionship with each other. In the intervening years, both would become ...
The youngest of six children, Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 7, 1962. Oklahoma would be not only the location of his birth but a touchstone in the country music superstar’s life he continues to revisit both physically and emotionally. “Just to be in Oklahoma puts you on the ...
Notorious gangsters, like Al Capone, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd and Bugsy Siegel, ruled the 20th century's organized crime world. From making money as bootleggers during the Prohibition era and carrying out violent bank robberies to arranging hits on rival gang members, these famous mobsters ...
It was like something out of a country-music song: Two young adults, one a 21-year-old professional baseball pitcher, the other an 18-year-old aspiring dancer, meeting in a steamy Florida summer amid good times by the pool. Nine months after their summer fling, the dancer gives birth to a son. ...
On June 23, 1908, there was a grand celebration in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. At the center of the festivities was a seemingly delicate, elderly woman. “With the Stars and Stripes wound about her shoulders, a band playing national airs and a concourse of members of her race ...
Zombies, werewolves and monsters, oh my! When Michael Jackson’s iconic music video for “Thriller” debuted on MTV on December 2, 1983, it changed the music video industry forever. Similar to the way Queen pushed through doubters and disobeyed the normal three-minute length for a song when they ...
As she remembered in her 1994 autobiography Reba: My Story, the extended weekend beginning March 14, 1991, was shaping up to be a busy one for country music superstar Reba McEntire and her band. A performance that day in Saginaw, Michigan, was to be followed by a private show for IBM executives in ...
As the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower neared its end in 1960, American citizens faced the question of whether incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon or Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy was better equipped to lead the country at a time of a changing racial landscape at home and a ...
Every month, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library mails a free book to children registered for the program; enrollment can begin at birth and lasts until a child turns five. A nonprofit promoting the joys of literacy to children may seem an unlikely endeavor for the iconic singer-songwriter who's ...
In 1948, Loretta Webb was a young bride of 15 when she wed 21-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn (nicknamed "Mooney" and "Doolittle") soon after they'd met at a pie social. They went on to have six children and stayed together until his death in 1996. The Lynns' complex marriage encompassed turmoil, ...
On the surface, Shania Twain’s 1999 hit “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” is the ultimate girl power anthem. With lyrics like “No inhibitions, make no conditions / Get a little outta line / I ain’t gonna act politically correct / I only want to have a good time / The best thing about being a woman is the ...
Whether he’s singing his hit country songs like “All My Friends Say” or “Knockin’ Boots," Luke Bryan is always the epitome of joviality. But the singer's had to endure the most horrific of family tragedies, time and time again. But through all the heartache, Bryan has maintained a positive ...
No other 19th-century author is as omnipresent in today’s pop culture as Edgar Allan Poe. He has "guest-starred" on the animated series South Park and The Simpsons and been featured as a character in numerous films. His face graces the cover of a Beatles album, he has fought crime ...
They were as different as could be. One was a free-flowing, hippy-spirited 70s rockstar and the other was a buttoned-up, perfectly poised former politician's wife. Yet “You’re So Vain” singer Carly Simon and President John F. Kennedy’s wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a decade-long friendship ...
What do Richard Pryor, Rob Reiner and Ronald Reagan’s daughter Maureen have in common? They were all guest stars on The Partridge Family. The show hit the air in 1970 and quickly became a hit, transforming velour pantsuits, neck ruffles and David Cassidy into national obsessions. For ...
In March 1994, a struggling actor and screenwriter named Kevin Williamson became engrossed in a news program about a drifter who terrorized the town of Gainesville, Florida, with the murders of five college students over three days in August 1990. Spooked, he hammered out the screenplay for what ...
Ed Gein wasn't actually a serial killer — he only admitted to killing two women — rather, he was a body snatcher who had an obsession with his deceased mother, Augusta. After his mother passed away, Gein was the sole survivor of his family. He was a loner who lived on a farm and made a living ...
During her three decades as Russia’s longest-reigning female ruler, Catherine II, better known as Catherine the Great, made significant strides for the country, including building new towns, expanding the borders, improving the educational system by calling for free schools and supporting cultural ...
When Princess Diana was tragically killed in a car crash in 1997, Prince Charles knew exactly the place to take his young sons to escape the media and have the space to properly mourn their mother. “My dad told my brother and me to pack our bags — we were going to Africa to get away from it all,” ...
Based on William Peter Blatty's 1971 bestselling novel by the same name, The Exorcist (1973) transformed the supernatural horror genre by not only injecting abject terror into movie audiences in very physiological ways — there were reports of fainting, vomiting, miscarriages and heart attacks — but ...
Combine the dark forces of fanatical religion, high school bullying, a prom prank gone wrong and telekinesis, and you get Brian De Palma's 1976 supernatural horror flick Carrie. Based on Stephen King's novel by the same name, Carrie stars Sissy Spacek as the young leading lady who gets her ultimate ...
Marie Antoinette has been portrayed as the spendthrift wife who meddled in the political affairs of her weak-willed husband, Louis XVI. But she was also a devoted mother to her four children, who provided emotional solace for the troubled queen. The French Revolution would tear France — and ...
Directed by Wes Craven, Scream (1996) breathed new life in the cult horror film genre in its satirization of slasher flicks. Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette (and a small but memorable role by Drew Barrymore), Scream made over $600 million at the box office and spawned three ...
Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn were friends up to the moment the 30-year-old Cline was killed in a plane crash on March 5, 1963. Though their friendship lasted a few years, it had a remarkable impact. Cline, whose emotion-filled alto had made her a star in country music, was a mentor to the then ...
John Carpenter's 1978 indie slasher film, Halloween, had a budget of just $300K but went on to make a whopping $70 million when it first came out. With its spine-tingling score and freakishly scary direction by Carpenter, Halloween spawned 11 films, a comic book series and a video game. In honor ...
Movies like Mary Poppins, Victor/Victoria and The Sound of Music showcased Julie Andrews' beautiful singing voice, which spanned four octaves and brought warmth and depth to any character she played. Unfortunately, a lifetime of singing has the potential to take a toll on any voice, even one ...
In 1968 and '69, the Zodiac Killer attacked seven people in four different Northern California locations. His first three targets were couples in secluded areas; two of these people survived. His last known victim was a taxi driver killed on October 11, 1969, in San Francisco. During and after his ...
At first glance, Rita Moreno's career appears to consist of triumph after triumph. After moving from Puerto Rico to New York City when she was five, she was on Broadway at the age of 13 and on her way to Hollywood by the time she was 17. Being cast as Anita in 1961's West Side Story earned her an ...
Written by actors Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the first two Ghostbusters flicks became such a hit with moviegoers that the franchise spawned an animation series, video games and recent reboots. The latest iteration, Ghostbusters 2020, is considered a continuation of the 80s franchise. Want ...
The past half-century has brought a handful of those remarkable moments when the barriers that separate cultures evaporate in a way for all the world to see. One of those transformative moments happened in April 1985, when the British chart-topping duo of Wham!, consisting of George Michael ...
Based on the characters of macabre cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1960s TV series by David Levy, the dark horror comedy The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993), were a hit with audiences, thanks to an A-list cast led by Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá and Christopher ...