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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Simon & Garfunkel: The Constant Ups and Downs of Their Relationship

As Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel became the darlings of the folk-rock, countercultural movement of the late 1960s, selling millions of albums and performing sold-out shows across the globe. Privately, their friendship would be strained to the point of breaking time and time ...

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How David Bowie Created Ziggy Stardust

Outlandish, confronting and musically gifted, the character of Ziggy Stardust signaled the arrival of David Bowie as a rock star capable of transcending musical genres and inverting the common perception of how a performer should look and behave. Though he would abruptly shed the persona when much ...

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Inside Brian Wilson's Mental Health Struggles

Labeled by the press as a musical genius while still in his 20s, Brian Wilson would produce more than two dozen Top 40 hits as a member of the original Beach Boys. Yet substance abuse and mental health issues would force the singer-songwriter-composer to withdraw from the world just as his ...

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Inside Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' Close — But Often Complicated — Relationship

The mother-daughter pair of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher was the subject of public interest from the moment Fisher was born in 1956, thanks to Reynolds' movie star status. Though Fisher at times struggled to establish her own identity outside of Reynolds' shadow, the two overcame this and ...

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Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder's Enduring — and Heartbreaking — Love Story

Two of the funniest actors of the 20th century, Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder were such a perfect match and so in love that their relationship remains one of the most iconic in Hollywood history. Radner and Wilder met in 1981 on the Manhattan set of the Sidney Poitier-directed comedy caper ...

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Scott Peterson: A Complete Timeline of His Trial for the Murder of His Wife Laci and Unborn Son

It's a cornerstone of the American legal system and a virtual literary trope that people are presumed innocent until being proven guilty, but it sure was easy to assume the worst about fertilizer salesman Scott Peterson after his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, mysteriously disappeared in ...

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Monday, December 14, 2020

The True Story Behind 'Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom'

She was known as the “Mother of the Blues.” A brash, brilliant performer who captivated audiences with her moving voice and outsized personae. Ma Rainey influenced future legends like Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith, but it was her own struggle to remain true to herself as a Black artist during ...

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James Taylor Wrote One of His Biggest Hits While in Rehab

James Taylor was only 22 years old when he achieved breakout success as a singer-songwriter, but he’d already experienced the sort of pain, frustration and sublime thrills of someone twice his age. Fittingly, the song that launched him to stardom, the 1970 single “Fire and Rain,” summoned and ...

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James Taylor Wrote One of His Biggest Hits While in Rehab

James Taylor was only 22 years old when he achieved breakout success as a singer-songwriter, but he’d already experienced the sort of pain, frustration and sublime thrills of someone twice his age. Fittingly, the song that launched him to stardom, the 1970 single “Fire and Rain,” summoned and ...

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Joni Mitchell: The Heartbreak and Vulnerability Behind Her Iconic 'Blue' Album

Joni Mitchell composed and sang all of the songs on Blue, on which she came into her own as an artist. The 1971 album spotlighted her musical genius, became her first album to sell more than a million copies, and earned admirers ranging from Bob Dylan and Prince to Taylor Swift. Per Mitchell, ...

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Ina and Jeffrey Garten’s Decades-Long Love Story

Best-selling cookbook author Ina Garten has a few constants in her life: a love of cooking and serving up delicious meals to close friends, an enquiring mind that has led from a career in policy analysis in D.C. to running a prepared food store on New York’s Long Island, a cookbook and television ...

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: The Ups and Downs of Their Relationship

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been the talk of Hollywood for more than a decade. Kardashian rose to fame in 2007 with the hit reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, while West first made a splash with his 2004 debut album, College Dropout, and cemented his place music history with ...

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Bob Dylan Was Going to Quit Music But Then Wrote One of His Biggest Hits

It didn’t take long for Bob Dylan to become a star, but it required a few very whirlwind and unprecedented years for the folk-rock icon to actually feel like he was doing something worthwhile and in control of his life and career. And if it weren’t for one rambling writing session and an experiment ...

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16 Icons Who Passed Away in 2020

In a year heart-wrenchingly challenging for the entire global community as the pandemic spread around the entire world, life and death became a harrowing part of daily life in 2020. The devastation was accentuated by the loss of some of the most notable figures — from a variety of causes — who ...

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Monday, December 7, 2020

Orson Welles and the Drama Surrounding 'Citizen Kane'

When presenter Preston Sturges announced Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles as the joint winners of the 1942 Academy Award for Citizen Kane’s screenplay, neither man was present at the high-profile event. Instead, RKO Radio president George Schaefer accepted the award on their behalf, explaining ...

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Friday, December 4, 2020

Paul Simon: The Controversial South African Trip That Inspired ’Graceland’

A bootlegged cassette tape, Saturday Night Live and half of the legendary folk-rock act Simon & Garfuknel seem like the oddest of combinations. And perhaps even stranger, they came together to lead Paul Simon to get on a plane to South Africa — a trip that laid the foundation for his 1986 ...

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How Yolanda Saldívar's Obsession With Selena Turned Deadly

Yolanda Saldívar began her path down the murderous road when she founded the Selena Fan Club in 1991, before working her way all the way up to a trusted confidant for the singer. But after Selena Quintanilla’s dad, Abraham Quintanilla, found hints that Saldívar was embezzling ...

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Selena Quintanilla’s Whirlwind Love Story With Husband Chris Pérez

The life of one of music's brightest rising stars Selena Quintanilla was cut tragically short at just 23, when she was shot by her fan club president Yolanda Saldivar, just days before she could celebrate her third wedding anniversary with Chris Pérez. The couple first ...

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Casey Anthony: A Complete Timeline of Her Murder Case and Trial

In 2008, the world was captivated by the bizarre behavior displayed by Casey Anthony. The then-22-year-old single mother from Orlando, Florida, was revealed to have spun a web of lies to cover up for the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, that summer; the Facebook photos of her ...

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Tiger Woods' Sex Scandal: Inside His Fall From Grace and Comeback

Tiger Woods is widely considered one of the best golfers of all-time and undoubtedly the most dominant of the last 40 years. As an astonishingly successful and personable star, who is of Black, American Indian and Asian descent, he was also the greatest ambassador the historically white game of ...

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and His Impressive Wrestling Family Tree

Dwayne Johnson is known today as one of Hollywood's most sought-after actors, with roles in popular film franchises such as the Fast and Furious and Jumanji, as well as the Disney movie Moana. With all of his acting success, it's easy to forget that Johnson first rose to fame as a World ...

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Monday, November 30, 2020

10 Things You May Not Know About Jimmy Fallon's Wife, Nancy Juvonen

Comedian Jimmy Fallon first won over audiences as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and found continued success as the host of Late Night and The Tonight Show, and by his side for more than a decade is his wife, Nancy Juvonen. Usually very private, Juvonen stepped into the spotlight in 2020 ...

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Friday, November 20, 2020

Prince Charles and Lord Mountbatten's Treasured Relationship

Many children look up to athletic stars or fictional heroes as role models, but for the United Kingdom's Prince Charles, there was no need: His hero was the flesh-and-blood Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, his father's uncle, the last viceroy of India and first sea lord of the ...

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Inside Princess Margaret's Physical and Mental Health Struggles

Queen Elizabeth II of England is the single biggest landowner in the world. Her sister, Princess Margaret, meanwhile, had a lock on the column inches and cover pages of the British tabloids for much of the mid-to-late 20th century. Margaret was in many ways the quintessential modern royal, caught ...

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Chadwick Boseman's Private and Courageous Cancer Battle

When Chadwick Boseman stepped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War in 2016, a fan asked him what he had in common with his character T’Challa. “I am a keeper of secrets and I think T’Challa is definitely a keeper of secrets,” he said in an ...

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Carole King: 12 Famous Songs You May Not Know She Wrote

A teenaged Carole King and her first husband, lyricist Gerry Goffin, wrote doo-wop and rock 'n' roll songs in New York City in the 1960s, many of which became hits. After that period King continued to pen tunes, both on her own and with other lyricists, and a number of these also became famous. ...

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10 Things You May Not Know About Elon Musk's Mom, Maye Musk

Tech giant and entrepreneur Elon Musk is known for his roles in PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX. But before he began making electric cars and launching rockets into space, he grew up in South Africa with his mother, Maye Musk. Maye, in addition to raising Elon and his fellow successful siblings ...

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Friday, November 13, 2020

Princess Diana’s Surprise Dance at the Royal Opera House

Like so many times before, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were sitting in their Royal Box at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden one evening in December 1985. On this particular night, the mood was lighter than normal since it was a private event to thank the patrons who had ...

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Ronald Reagan: Inside the Attempted Assassination of the 40th President

Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States in November 1980, winning a landslide victory against President Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John B. Anderson. A few months later, in March 1981, Reagan was nearly killed by a would-be assassin in an ambush attack that shocked the ...

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Ronald and Nancy Reagan's Timeless Love Story

Their love would endure beyond the marquee lights and names of old Hollywood, strengthening across decades of public service that would culminate in a two-term tenure in the White House. As a couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan would become the epitome of political glamour and private ...

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The Real Story of Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison's Relationship

After centuries of being relatively buried in the pantheon of history’s most important scientific figures, British paleontologist Mary Anning is finally receiving the recognition she deserves. Kate Winslet plays Anning in the drama called Ammonite, a biopic that has nonetheless created controversy ...

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Princess Anne's Groundbreaking Equestrian Career

Anne, the Princess Royal, is well known as one of the hardest working members of the British monarchy, with her responsibilities as president of the Save the Children Foundation and patron of numerous organizations taking her around the world for hundreds of engagements per year. To earlier ...

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Princess Diana and Prince Charles: A Complete Timeline of Their Relationship

The July 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer came across as a real-life fairy tale to the hundreds of millions of people around the world who watched the ceremony. After years of bachelorhood, the 32-year-old prince had found his princess: a shy, beautiful 20-year-old English ...

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Inside Prince Charles' Hunt For a Bride

A young Prince Charles faced one inescapable demand of royal life: he needed a bride. Marriage was the first step in producing heirs to the throne and would provide a partner to sit by his side as queen when he became king. But the prince couldn’t have just anyone fill this role. His potential ...

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Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II: The Tumultuous Relationship Between the Royals

When Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles and heir to the British throne, millions around the world thought they’d witnessed the beginning of a golden new age for the House of Windsor. But while many, including Diana’s mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, had hoped Diana might be a breath of ...

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton: The Unbreakable Bond Between the Music Superstars

When Dolly Parton popped up as a guest star on an episode in the first season of Hannah Montana in 2006, many were shocked to see the country music legend on a tween show. But she had a little inside connection with the star of the show, Miley Cyrus. “I've known her since she was a baby,” Parton ...

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Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher: The Complicated Relationship Between the Two British Leaders

Powerful female leaders have long been a trademark of England. After all, Queen Elizabeth II isn’t just the longest-ruling monarch, but she’s also the only female member of the British royal family to have served on active duty with the British Armed Forces, even having served during World War II. ...

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Monday, November 9, 2020

Michael Fagan: The Intruder Who Broke Into Buckingham Palace

It was a morning like any other at Buckingham Palace on July 9, 1982. Queen Elizabeth II was still asleep in her four-poster bed. The overnight police sergeant who watched the corridor outside her bedroom had gone off duty, as scheduled at 6 a.m., and the palace’s domestic staff had started their ...

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Friday, November 6, 2020

Kelly Clarkson: All The Ways 'American Idol' Changed Her Life

With her octaves-encompassing singing voice and an almost guileless approachability, Kelly Clarkson became an instant star when she won the first season of American Idol in 2002. Yet her say-it-like-it-is realness and seeming eternal optimism were not the typical naïveté of a 20-year-old, but an ...

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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Inside Princess Diana’s 1986 Trip to Vienna Aboard the Concorde

In the '80s and '90s, jet setting around the world came in true style aboard the storied supersonic passenger flights on the Concorde. Not only did it fly higher (five miles above the average 747) and faster (twice the speed of sound), but the service aboard was unimaginably luxurious. Think: ...

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Inside Taylor Swift’s Mom’s Cancer Battle

In April 2015, Taylor Swift took the intimate relationship she had with her fans to the next level. The Grammy winner posted an entry on her Tumblr to announce her mom, Andrea Swift, a beloved figure amongst her fans, had been diagnosed with cancer. “I'd like to keep the details of her condition ...

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

12 Influential Native Americans Leaders

While our Founding Fathers, presidents and military leaders are remembered as heroes of American culture, it's often overlooked how indigenous people contributed to many of the major events in the nation's history. Here are a dozen Native Americans who left a lasting mark with their leadership, ...

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Monday, November 2, 2020

Serena and Venus Williams: How Their Father Made Them Tennis Stars

Venus Williams was just 17 years old when she played in the first tennis match against the woman who would soon become her greatest on-the-court rival: her sister, Serena Williams, who was only 16 when the two met at the 1998 Australian Open. Venus won that match in straight sets, then won the ...

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Stephen Colbert: The Tragic Plane Crash That Changed His Life

As one of the most popular comedians and political satirists over the last two decades, Stephen Colbert has made people laugh and cringe on a nightly basis. His comedic mind is unparalleled, supported by a razor-sharp wit and expansive intellectual curiosity, but what sets him apart isn’t just the ...

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Queen Elizabeth II: The Many Attempts to Assassinate the Royal

When Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Sapphire Jubilee on February 6, 2017, she became the first British monarch to ever reach that momentous occasion, marking 65 years since her coronation. At 94 years old, she continues to serve her royal engagements, with ties to more than 600 organizations, ...

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Trevor Noah and His Experience Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

Every evening as the host of The Daily Show Trevor Noah brings a unique perspective to the analysis of American politics and pop culture, having been born and raised in a country where the legal system segregated people based on the color of their skin for more than 50 years. Noah was born in ...

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How Sacagawea Served as an Invaluable Aid to Lewis and Clark

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark unveiled many of the mysteries of the uncharted western frontier by leading the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean and back east in the early 1800s. And, thanks to the recollections of the arduous trek from their invaluable journals, the third most famous ...

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s Enduring Love Story

John Legend took the stage at the Billboard Music Awards in October 2020 and behind his customary piano, the Grammy-winning artist poignantly dedicated his performance to his wife, Chrissy Teigen. “This is for Chissy,” a reserved Legend said as he played the first few notes. The dedication didn’t ...

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Princess Diana: All The Details Behind the Royal's Iconic Wedding Dress

Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s July 29, 1981, wedding had an estimated 750 million viewers from 74 countries tune in to watch the London ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral. While all eyes were no doubt on the young royals, the true star of the show may have actually been Diana’s wedding dress: ...

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

10 Famous People Who Died on Halloween

The Celts believed that on the night of October 31, the border between the living and human worlds became blurred — leading them to celebrate Samhain, a festival when they’d ward off the ghosts of the dead by lighting bonfires and dressing up in costumes. The ancient tradition from 2,000 years ago ...

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Friday, October 16, 2020

Alfredo Ballí Treviño: The Killer Doctor Who Inspired the Character Hannibal Lecter

Few fictional creations spark more of a visceral reaction than Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the sadistic psychiatrist who first jumped off the page in Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon for his penetrating questions, impeccable manners and taste for making gourmet meals out of his victims. The character ...

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Inside Mary Kay Letourneau's Final Days

To the world, Mary Kay Letourneau was a sixth-grade teacher who began a sexual relationship with student Vili Fualaau when he was only 13 in 1996. But for Letourneau and Fualaau, it was just their love story. Their relationship was forbidden by law, yet they had two children — one born in 1997 and ...

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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Amanda Knox: A Complete Timeline of Her Italian Murder Trial

In late 2007, the eyes of the world were drawn to the Italian city of Perugia for the gruesome murder of a foreign exchange student and twisted tales of sex games gone wrong that emerged from its picturesque facade of steep mountain streets and centuries-old buildings. Meredith Kercher, a ...

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Dick York: The Real Reason He Suddenly Left 'Bewitched'

On the hit 1960s sitcom Bewitched, Dick York played Darrin Stephens, the long-suffering mortal married to witch-turned-housewife, Samantha. Yet in season six of the show’s eight-season run, York was replaced in the role by actor Dick Sargent. For audiences used to seeing York, no onscreen ...

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Why Edgar Allan Poe’s Death Remains a Mystery

Edgar Allen Poe was one of the first great American-born authors, a master of macabre and mystery whose name alone evokes an eerie chill. Tragically but fittingly, Poe’s death has also long been cloaked in mystery, with each legend and rumor of how he passed more ghastly than the next. Poe ...

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Friday, October 2, 2020

John Brown and Frederick Douglass Had a Complicated Friendship

The inaugural meeting of two of the 19th century's most famous abolitionists, Frederick Douglass and John Brown, took place at Brown's home in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1847. Douglass was already widely known for his enslaved upbringing and escape from captivity in the late 1830s, his account ...

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

12 Famous Breast Cancer Survivors

In 2020 in the United States alone, the American Cancer Society estimates about 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women and about 42,170 women will die from the disease. Not only is it the second leading cause of cancer death, but there’s a one in eight ...

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Inside Joe Biden's Unbreakable Bond With Son Beau

By now, many are familiar with the tragedy that profoundly impacted Joe Biden's early adult life. On December 18, 1972, the 30-year-old senator-elect was preparing his transition into office when he learned his family had been in a horrific car accident back home in Delaware. His wife, Neilia, and ...

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Chris Watts: A Complete Timeline of the Murder of His Wife and Daughters

The summer of 2018 should have been a joyous one for the Watts family. Husband Chris Watts, then 33, and wife Shan’ann, 34, just found out they were expecting a son to join 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste in their suburban home of Frederick, Colorado, about 27 miles north of Denver. As the ...

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Monday, September 28, 2020

James Dean's Death: Inside His Tragic Passing at Age 24

At the time of his sudden death on September 30, 1955, at age 24, James Dean had starred in only one motion picture released in theaters. He would become a cultural icon to generations and a touchstone for the burgeoning youth movement of the era, due largely to his shocking demise in a car ...

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Joe Biden: The Heartbreaking Car Accident that Killed His Wife and Daughter

It was love at first sight for Joe Biden. The University of Delaware junior had taken a spring break trip to the Bahamas and sneaked into an exclusive beach resort, where he came upon Syracuse University senior Neilia Hunter sunbathing by a pool. "When she turned toward me, I could see she had a ...

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Oscar Pistorius: The Rise and Fall of the Olympian Turned Killer

By the summer of 2012, few public figures were more widely admired than South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius. The "Blade Runner" had captured the world's attention by becoming the first double-amputee to compete against able-bodied runners in the Summer Olympics, his show of speed on a set of ...

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

10 Americans Who Have Lain in State

The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal are the two highest awards that can be bestowed upon a civilian in the United States – unless they’ve worked in government. For those who have led distinguished lives devoted to public service, there is one even loftier ...

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How the Kennedy-Nixon Debate Changed American Politics

The 1960 presidential race was one of the closest in United States history. It was a battle between new and old, with the Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, a handsome young optimist, squaring off against Vice President Richard Nixon, who was only slightly older but was known for having something ...

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Monday, September 21, 2020

Nicole Richie’s Surprising Adoption Story

Lionel Richie was at a Prince concert in 1983 in Los Angeles and he couldn’t take his eyes off the stage. But it wasn’t the “Purple Rain” singer who had captivated him — it was the 2-year-old girl playing the tambourine alongside him. Lionel was immediately drawn to her. He found himself ...

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Sylvia Mendez and Her Parents Fought School Segregation Years Before 'Brown v. Board'

A decade before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case ended racial segregation in schools across the country, a Mexican family in California paved the way for equality in schools. At the center of the 1946 case was Sylvia Mendez, an 8-year-old girl in Westminster, California, who dreamed of ...

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How Teacher Christa McAuliffe Was Selected for the Disastrous Challenger Mission

Christa McAuliffe was used to speaking in front of people, but on July 18, 1985, she found herself in an extraordinary situation, admitting, “It’s not often that a teacher is at a loss for words.” The social studies teacher from New Hampshire’s Concord High School, who had been teaching since 1970, ...

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Monday, September 14, 2020

The Crew Members Who Died in the Challenger Explosion

The explosion that doomed the Challenger space shuttle remains one of the most harrowing and heartbreaking moments in American history. On the morning of January 28, 1986, what was meant to be a seminal moment for NASA and the future of space travel turned into a disaster that was viewed on live TV ...

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Friday, September 11, 2020

15 Influential Hispanic Americans Who Made History

There isn’t an industry in which Hispanic Americans haven’t made their mark in history, with some of the most iconic politicians, singers, actors, athletes and more coming from Hispanic descent. We're celebrating 15 of the most notable Hispanic Americans whose influence has touched everything from ...

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere Reportedly Got into a Fight Over Princess Diana

In the dawn of their Hollywood careers, future Rocky star Sylvester Stallone and the eventual American Gigolo and Pretty Woman star Richard Gere were paired together for the 1974 film The Lords of Flatbush. But when the film hit theaters, Gere was nowhere to be seen — Perry King had taken over the ...

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Monday, August 31, 2020

10 Famous Explorers Whose Discoveries Changed the World

When Europeans first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the East, but what they found was more than they imagined: the New World.  Learn more about some of the history's most famous explorers and their revolutionary discoveries: Marco ...

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

How Mark Twain’s Childhood Influenced His Literary Works

Hannibal, Missouri made Mark Twain, and, in turn, Twain made Hannibal famous. Few American authors are as closely intertwined — and influenced — by their hometowns as Twain. The childhood years spent in this Missouri town gave birth to some of the most famous characters in American literature, an ...

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Steve Irwin: The Devastating Death of ‘The Crocodile Hunter’

When Steve Irwin was 6 years old, he caught a common brown venomous snake. While most kids (and adults!) would shudder at the very thought of a deadly creature, it lit a spark for the young Australian. Three years later, his passion for interacting with wildlife was in full force, as he helped ...

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Monday, August 24, 2020

The Original Five MTV VJs: Where Are They Now?

Huddled in a Fort Lee, New Jersey, bar on August 1, 1981, the team behind a new television network watched anxiously as their project hit the airwaves. Despite some early glitches — and having to cross the Hudson River since New York City didn’t carry the stations — MTV music television was ...

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Suzanne Somers Was Fired From 'Three’s Company' for Asking for Equal Pay

Every episode of the Three’s Company centered around a misunderstanding, but Suzanne Somers’ sudden departure from the show was a real discrepancy that network executives were unwilling to fix. When the sitcom debuted on March 15, 1977, it was a mid-season show with only six episodes, but the ...

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

How Ozzy Osbourne Went from Working-Class Kid to Global Rock Star

When Ozzy Osbourne covered John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” in 2005, there were layers of meaning behind why the tune hit so close to home for him. Not only could he relate to lyrics like “As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small… a working-class hero is something to be,” but Lennon ...

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The Plane Crash That Changed Ozzy Osbourne's Life

Ozzy Osbourne has always been about reinventing himself. No matter what hurdles life threw at him, he always found a way to stack everything back up and find success in a new realm. But there’s one incident that he has never gotten over — even to this day. The British musician had made a name for ...

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

Was King Arthur Real?

The legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table have captivated readers for more than a millennium. Growing out of the chaos of the post-Roman occupation of Britain, the stories offered a rallying point and origin story of British might and power. Many continue to search for ...

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

How Alan Alda's Real-Life Military Service Influenced 'M*A*S*H'

M*A*S*H, which began as a TV adaptation of an Oscar-winning anti-war movie, functioned first as a lighthearted sitcom set in the middle of a war zone. Over the years, as the show gained more acclaim and new creative forces accrued power in the writers’ room, M*A*S*H retained its comedic edge but ...

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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Brittany Murphy: The Mysterious Circumstances Surrounding Her Untimely Death

The headlines on December 20, 2009, didn’t seem to make sense: How could Brittany Murphy, the 32-year-old actress, beloved for her upbeat roles in film favorites like Clueless, 8 Mile, and Uptown Girls, be dead? But there it was in newspapers and on sites around the globe. She had ...

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Monday, August 3, 2020

Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon: The Story Behind Their Famous Handshake Photo

They were two of the most controversial and consequential figures of the 20th century, transformational figures who helped shape the culture and politics of the United States in the tumultuous ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Elvis Presley helped kickstart the age of rock ‘n’ roll while President Richard Nixon ...

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Friday, July 31, 2020

Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston: The Controversial Fight Behind Their Iconic Boxing Photo

The most iconic photo in boxing history documents the knockout that almost nobody saw happen. Even before the first punch was thrown, the May 25, 1965 bout between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston, during which the photo was snapped, was already shaping up to be the stuff of legends. Ali first fought ...

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Inside Princess Diana and Elton John's Tight — but Often Complicated — Friendship

By the time Elton John was heading into Windsor Castle for Prince Andrew’s 21st birthday party in 1981, he was no stranger to royal affairs. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret had long been fans of the musician since the 1970s and he had become a staple to the most intimate family events. On ...

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Monday, July 27, 2020

Albert Einstein Once Wrote Marie Curie a Letter Advising Her to Ignore the Critics

December 2014 brought a long-awaited moment for Albert Einstein fans when a trove of his personal papers, letters, diaries and postcards became available online via the Digital Einstein Papers project. The approximately 5,000 documents offered some insights into his mindset, but the one that stood ...

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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Roald Dahl's Wrote 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' During the 'Most Difficult Years of His Life'

The thrill of the Golden Ticket, the wonderment of a chocolate factory and the whimsy of the Oompa-Loompas: The sugary sweet world imagined in Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has made it one of the most beloved tales in children’s literature. With at least 20 million copies ...

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Henry Hill and the Real-Life GoodFellas: The True Story Behind the Movie

It’s rare that a real-world event is more dramatic and hard to believe than what transpires in the Oscar-winning movie it inspires, but you can absolutely make the case that it applies to the 1978 Lufthansa Heist, which serves as a climactic moment in Martin Scorsese’s classic film GoodFellas, ...

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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The Five Crime Families of New York City: Inside the Rise and Fall of the Mafia

In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York City's five largest Italian American criminal organizations and declared himself capo di tutti capi — the "boss of all bosses." Maranzano was soon killed off — the other bosses ...

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Monday, July 20, 2020

JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder: Timeline of the Child Pageant Star’s Death and Investigation

All the pomp and circumstance of the pageant scene became tainted with holiday murder in the unlikeliest of homes — and at the heart of it was an innocent six-year-old child. The discovery of JonBenét Ramsey’s brutally murdered body on the morning after Christmas in 1996 in a spare room in the ...

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Friday, July 17, 2020

Inside Amy Winehouse's Downward Spiral and Tragic Death

When Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, she had not released a new album in five years, since she put out her landmark, multi-Grammy-winning classic Back in Black in 2006. That Winehouse was just 27 years old when she died underscored her sheer natural brilliance, the ...

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Why the Menendez Brothers Killed Their Parents – a Look Inside Their Murder Case

On August 20, 1989, José and Mary “Kitty” Menendez were shot to death in their Beverly Hills home. Nearly seven years, three trials and many thousands of hours of TV coverage later, their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez, were found guilty of their murders and sentenced to life in prison without the ...

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Angela Lansbury Risked Her Career to Star in ‘Murder She Wrote’

While still in its nascence in the early 1980s, the producers of Murder, She Wrote had one actress in mind they believed would be perfect to personify the series main character, the gentle writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher: British-born star of stage and screen Angela Lansbury. But ...

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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon: The Intense Highs and Extreme Lows That Plagued Their 12 Year Romance

Describing the relationship and marriage of Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon as on-again, off-again, on-again, would be a massive understatement. Across 12 years, the pair dated, split, became engaged to another, dated again and then decided rather than split they should wed. After the marriage ...

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Friday, July 10, 2020

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: The True Story of His Tragic Death

In 1978, Gianni Versace had a vision for a new fashion line and opened his first boutique in Milan. By 1997, he had 130 high-end boutiques around the world — and was a global fashion titan worth $807 million. Known for his colorfully vibrant designs, he transcended the fashion world with his ...

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Jesse James: The Death of the Wild West Outlaw

Jesse James was no hero, despite what the dime novels depicted, nor did he have a charitable Robin Hood complex as some may have suggested. James, along with his older brother, Frank, were out to get rich by breaking all the rules. The brothers were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War and, ...

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Milli Vanilli's Lip-Sync Scandal: Inside One of Music's Biggest Hoaxes

Milli Vanilli was experiencing unheard of meteoric fame. Their debut hit “Girl You Know It’s True” was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 26 weeks, peaking at No. 2, in April 1989, so joining the inaugural Club MTV Tour alongside Paula Abdul and Tone Loc seemed to be the next logical step to catapult ...

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Why Rock Hudson and Linda Evans' Seemingly Innocent Kiss on 'Dynasty' Made Headlines

It was a chaste kiss, even by primetime television standards of the day, but it generated headlines around the world. When guest star Rock Hudson, the square-jawed leading man of yesteryear, locked lips with series star Linda Evans on a February 1985 episode of the soap/drama Dynasty, he was ...

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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

10 Italian American Who Changed History

Since their large-scale influx from the homeland in the late 19th century, Italian Americans have rendered their distinct pattern on the cultural fabric with their food, fashions, expressions and mores. Many have gone on to prominence in sports, academia and public service, overcoming perceptions ...

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Monday, July 6, 2020

Inside Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal’s Rollercoaster Relationship

Ryan O’Neal stood there with his ear on the phone, conflicted. He had recently reconnected with an old friend Lee Majors when he was in Toronto visiting his daughter Tatum O’Neal on the set of her movie. They had hit it off and O’Neal started visiting Majors’ home, getting reacquainted with his pal ...

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Uncharacteristically Joined Forces During America's First Tabloid Murder Trial

In 1800, four years before they fatefully met on a dueling ground in Weehawken, New Jersey, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr temporarily put aside their fierce rivalry to join forces in a high-profile murder trial in New York City. READ MORE: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's Deadly Rivalry ...

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Monday, June 29, 2020

Why Rock Hudson’s Decision to Come Out Marked a Turning Point of the Aids Epidemic

Rock Hudson was one of the last stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era, but he was forced to keep his private life a secret, concealing his sexuality to protect his leading man image. But after decades of secrecy, Hudson’s revelation that he had AIDS shortly before his death in 1985 proved to be a ...

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Friday, June 26, 2020

How Freddie Mercury Inadvertently Gave the Sex Pistols Their Big Break

By late 1976, Queen and the Sex Pistols were occupying opposing corners of the music spectrum. Set to introduce their fifth studio album, A Day at the Races, the world-famous members of Queen had recently performed before 150,000 fans at London's Hyde Park and released a single infused with their ...

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's Deadly Rivalry

Thanks, in part, to the blockbuster success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical Hamilton, the lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr have sparked the interest of millions around the world. Their legendary rivalry was born in the bruising world of early American politics and ended on ...

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Inside Michelle McNamara's Obsessive Hunt for the Golden State Killer

For years, the Golden State Killer had been a cold case long abandoned by California police, but journalist Michelle McNamara, along with a few fellow sleuths and internet friends, turned the heat back on an investigation that would eventually become a national news story. McNamara’s long chase ...

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Friday, June 19, 2020

Freddie Mercury Once Snuck Princess Diana Into a Gay Club — Without Getting Caught

As written in history books, for centuries the most powerful members of the Royal Family tend to come off as stuffy and conservative. That began to change in 1981 when 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles and brought youthful energy and a new spirit to the staid monarchy. Diana was ...

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

12 Presidential Nicknames and Their Unusual Origins

The nicknames given to America’s commanders in chief have been as varied as the people themselves. Some have showcased military victories and qualities of leadership to propel candidates onto the national stage, while others have revealed the darker side of American politics itself. Here’s the ...

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Inside Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor's Notorious Love Triangle

It was a love triangle straight out of a Hollywood farce: A famous singer divorces his equally famous movie actress wife, leaving her and their two young children in order to immediately marry one of her erstwhile best friends, who also happens to be a globally famous movie star. Yet the events ...

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Monday, June 15, 2020

Wilson Phillips: The Inspiration Behind Their Hit "Hold On"

Before Wilson Phillips' first No. 1 single, "Hold On," reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1990, founding member Chynna Phillips had to hit rock bottom. The singer, who formed the group with Carnie and Wendy Wilson in 1986, struggled with drug and alcohol addiction throughout ...

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Friday, June 12, 2020

The Marx Brothers: Inside the Comedians' Early Life and Travels

Remembered as kings of the vaudeville stage and early motion picture comedies, it's fitting that the Marx Brothers found their origins in a performance setting. Their father, Simon, was a tailor from Alsace-Lorraine who despised using tape measures and derived his greatest enjoyment from games of ...

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Paul McCartney Came up With the Melody to One of the Beatles' Biggest Hits in His Sleep

The Beatles’ classic ballad “Yesterday” has a dreamy and gentle melody, with lyrics that feel plucked out of a man’s deepest subconscious. So it’s only fitting that rock legend Paul McCartney came up with the earliest stages of the song in his sleep, then let them pour out of his soul on the piano ...

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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Chuck Wepner: Meet the Heavyweight Boxer Who Inspired 'Rocky'

On the night of March 24, 1975, a struggling actor and screenwriter named Sylvester Stallone checked into a Los Angeles theater to watch a closed-circuit broadcast of the great Muhammad Ali whipping some big, lumbering lug of a boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey, named Chuck Wepner. Or so he thought. ...

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Monday, June 8, 2020

Why Michael J. Fox Waited Seven Years to Reveal His Parkinson’s Diagnosis

Like many kids, Michael J. Fox had his eyes on a career as a rockstar. “I grew up admiring rockstars like Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page,” he told The New York Times Magazine. “That’s what I thought being famous was. But I wasn’t a rockstar.” Many might argue that the Canadian actor is a rockstar — ...

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Sunday, June 7, 2020

Bruce Lee: The Mystery Surrounding the Martial Artist's Death

Bruce Lee poured himself into everything he did. When he discovered martial arts, he committed to a fitness regime 100 percent, avoiding drinking and smoking, plus taking vitamin supplements — and even drinking raw hamburger meat to build the perfect tone. When he found acting and wasn’t finding ...

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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Aerosmith, Run-DMC and the Story Behind Their Genre-Bending Hit "Walk This Way"

In the early months of 1986, songs like Dionne Warwick’s “That’s What Friends Are For,” Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” dominated the Billboard charts. The hype over Aerosmith — who had six platinum hits in the 1970s — had cooled down. While hip-hop ...

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Robin Williams: The Unexpected Role that Jumpstarted His Career

Robin Williams brought joy to countless people over the course of his career. However, before he had audiences laughing at films like Aladdin and Mrs. Doubtfire, or touched hearts with performances in Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting, he had his breakthrough role with a guest appearance on ...

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

How Stevie Nicks’ Obsession With Tom Petty Turned Into a 40-Year Friendship

While the four decades-long friendship between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks grew into one of mutual love and respect for one another, it started as a one-way obsession. Nicks had just joined Fleetwood Mac when she started hearing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ music on the radio and became ...

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Monday, June 1, 2020

How Pearl Jam Helped Define the Grunge Music Movement

Pearl Jam, the band that would come to define a region and an era found its earliest pieces when Montana-born bassist Jeff Ament and Seattle guitarist Stone Gossard joined fellow guitarist Steve Turner, drummer Alex Vincent and frontman Mark Arm in 1984 to launch Green River, a band named after a ...

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Friday, May 29, 2020

The Mystery Surrounding Grace Kelly's Death

She was the epitome of Hollywood glamour and transformed that into real-world flair when she married royalty, but ultimately Grace Kelly — who became Princess Grace of Monaco — was only human. When her car tumbled off the cliff of a winding road in Monaco on September 13, 1982, even her ethereal ...

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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Inside Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio's Roller Coaster Relationship

American greats Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio’s short-lived union and lengthier relationship captured the hearts and attention of a nation. When they met, Monroe was becoming the siren of Hollywood movies, and “Yankee Clipper” DiMaggio had already been labeled the greatest baseball player of all ...

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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Larry Kramer Captured His Seemingly Hopeless Fight for HIV/AIDS Victims in 'The Normal Heart'

As the first sign of the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, Larry Kramer started ringing the alarm — loudly and with fury. But he was often met with inaction, which drove him to get even louder and more furious. It was that passion — and aggression — with which the playwright ...

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Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III Were Introduced for a Magazine Article — and Then Fell in Love

Long before Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle, there was another lavish fairytale wedding between a European royal and an American actress… when Prince Rainier III of Monaco married Grace Kelly in 1956. Both were seemingly at the top of their worlds before they met: He had stepped up to assume the ...

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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Who is Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" About?

It’s ironic that Carly Simon’s biggest hit “You’re So Vain” was on an album titled No Secrets. After all, the inspiration for the song has been one of the biggest secrets in popular music history — and even today, the mystery has only been partially revealed. The staggering success of the song has ...

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Liv Tyler Didn't Know Steven Tyler Was Her Dad Until She Was 11

Liv Tyler was 11 years old in August 1988 when she looked up at a poster of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler on her bedroom wall and came to a realization that would rock her entire existence. "My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, 'I think Steven is my father,'" she explained in ...

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Monday, May 18, 2020

Why 'Wonder Woman's' Lynda Carter Left Hollywood For Washington D.C.

In the role of television’s Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter had the strength, resilience and intelligence to fight crime and put the troubles of the world to rest. As an in-demand actress and singer in the 1980s, Carter used those same qualities to make the real-life decision to turn her ...

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” Was Inspired by This Former First Daughter

Good times never seem so good (so good, so good) as when Neil Diamond’s 1969 hit “Sweet Caroline” is being sung by a huge crowd. The carefree singable track debuted in May 1969, becoming the ultimate summer hit, spending 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at No. 4 on the Hot 100. Since then, it’s ...

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Why Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy Kept Their Relationship a Secret

A love relationship as complicated as it was devoted, the bond between screen greats Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy stretched across three decades and nine films including Woman of the Year and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. But their offscreen union would remain publicly unacknowledged ...

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

How Guns N' Roses Got Together to Form the Iconic Hard Rock Band

In many ways, the rise of Guns N' Roses into one of the world's biggest bands in the late 1980s represents the quintessential Hollywood success story, a culmination of ambitions realized by five boys who left behind past lives and old names to reinvent themselves as rock royalty. Adler introduced ...

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How the Dalai Lama Took the Throne at Age 4

Lhamo Thondup was just a 2-year-old boy, one of seven children living on a farm in a small Tibetan village, when a search party declared him the 14th Dalai Lama. Before the discovery, he was considered an ordinary boy who spent time collecting eggs in the family’s chicken coop with his mother, ...

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Troubled Marriage of Catherine the Great and Peter III

Catherine the Great was the longest-serving female ruler in Russian history. But before this Prussian-born princess could reign, she had to overcome a loveless marriage to an unstable heir that resulted in a power struggle that turned deadly. Peter III was the grandson of two emperorsThe ...

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Monday, May 11, 2020

Algonquin Round Table: How the Group of Writers Became a Symbol of the Roaring Twenties

For more than a decade a group of writers, critics and entertainers gathered each day at New York City’s Algonquin Hotel, earning themselves the nickname the "Algonquin Round Table." The “10-year lunch” epitomized the glamour and excitement of the Roaring Twenties.  Fueled by alcohol, witty ...

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

How Chevy Chase Helped Created ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ ‘Weekend Update’

In a time before “fake news” became a term we all debated, Saturday Night Live’s "Weekend Update" segment proudly opened with the words, “And now the fake news” in the mid-90s. Since the weekend sketch comedy show's October 11, 1975 premiere, the current events satire has been the only ongoing ...

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The 27 Club: Kurt Cobain and Other Musicians Who Died at Age 27

The 27 Club is predominantly made up of musicians who would rise to become the voice of their generation and pioneers in their genre — from blues to rock to grunge. Some died from unknown circumstances, others by taking their own life, while a substantial number fell victim to the excesses of drugs ...

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Eric Clapton: The Unthinkable Tragedy That Inspired "Tears in Heaven"

“Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same, if I saw you in heaven?” asks the lyrics to "Tears in Heaven," the emotionally wrought hit song by guitar idol Eric Clapton. Released in 1991 it charted in the top 10 in more than 20 countries and won Grammys for Song of ...

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George Takei and Pat Morita’s Harrowing Childhood Experiences in Japanese American Internment Camps

At a time when Asian Americans were hardly seen on screen, Pat Morita and George Takei broke new ground — seizing roles where they were able to play against stereotypes in the 1960s and '70s. Morita portrayed Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on the sitcom Happy Days from 1975 to 1983 before his Academy ...

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

10 Famous Comedians Who Were Rejectead by 'Saturday Night Live'

Live from New York, it’s dozens of famous comedians who were rejected from Saturday Night Live — but still went on to become household names in entertainment. The sketch comedy show, which has been on the air since 1975, has launched the careers of some of the funniest performers of the last four ...

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Monday, May 4, 2020

Why Bob Dole Was Often Seen Clutching a Pen

Just like hosting town hall meetings and kissing babies, shaking hands is a must for politicians on the campaign trail. But that last part was tricky for Bob Dole. The veteran lawmaker who spent eight years serving Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives and 27 years in the Senate, suffered ...

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Friday, May 1, 2020

Inside Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner's Tumultuous Relationship

It was a love match anchored in the history of old Hollywood. A child star turned teen idol, Natalie Wood had grown up on film screens in front of millions of Americans, and at age 18 had made the transition to serious adult actress. Robert Wagner, a 26-year-old square-jawed aspiring contract ...

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

10 Iconic Wild West Figures

The 1860s and the 1890s gave birth to the period known as the Wild West and laid a foundation to its ensuing mythology. It was an era of cowboys, Indians, pioneers, outlaws and gunslingers brought together by the purposes of expansion, defense, greed and reinvention. Explore some of the legends of ...

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

How Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Inspired the Characters Sam and Diane From 'Cheers'

Everybody knows the names Sam and Diane. Predating iconic TV couples such as Ross and Rachel or Jim and Pam, the Cheers characters quickly became the topic of water-cooler conversations when the sitcom premiered in September 1989. Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) was a snooty grad student turned ...

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Monday, April 27, 2020

Keith Richards Wrote One of the Rolling Stone’s Biggest Hits In His Sleep

One of the most iconic rock songs of all time may never have existed if it weren’t for the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards’ uncanny ability to write songs in his sleep.  The Stones' 1965 hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” features one of the most famous intros in music history, but ...

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

How Jane Goodall Became One of America's Most Notable Scientists — Without a College Degree

When Jane Goodall first arrived at Gombe Stream Game Reserve in what’s now Tanzania in 1960, little was known about the world of chimpanzees. But the 26-year-old secretary would go on to make groundbreaking discoveries through her immersive, unorthodox observations, even as her findings were ...

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Matthew Perry's Addiction Struggle: He Doesn't Remember Three Years of 'Friends'

As much as Matthew Perry wanted to be a successful actor, he also craved the fame that came along with it. “There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly,” the actor admitted to the New York Times in 2002. “You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best ...

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Monday, April 20, 2020

How Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird Led the Dream Team to Olympic Gold

Following decades of dominance, by the late 1980s, it was clear that the American men's basketball program could no longer roll out a team of amateur players and expect to beat professionals from other countries simply because of the USA letters on their jerseys. The point was driven home by a ...

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Mamas & the Papas: Inside the Band’s Love Quadrangle, Drug Problems and Hit Songs

Folk-rockers the Mamas & the Papas — made up of John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot — provided the musical backdrop to the late 1960s with hit songs like "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday." Yet the groovy era didn't save the group from behind-the-scenes ...

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Why TLC Never Replaced Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes After Her Untimely Death

In the 1990s, TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas created hits like "Waterfalls," "No Scrubs" and "Unpretty," won four Grammy Awards and sold more than 20 million albums. Their level of success places them alongside groups like the Supremes, the Dixie ...

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How Childhood Friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Formed The Rolling Stones

The story of The Rolling Stones begins with an encounter between its foundational pieces, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, at a train station in Dartford, England, in October 1961. This wasn't the pair's initial introduction, as the two grew up in Dartford and attended grammar school together, but ...

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Coronavirus: Cameron Diaz opens up about motherhood during lockdown in rare social media appearance

Cameron Diaz says she is enjoying being a new mother

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

How Ellen DeGeneres' Historic Coming-Out Episode Changed Television

When Ellen Morgan, the character Ellen DeGeneres played on her sitcom Ellen, came out as gay on the show's April 30, 1997, episode, it sent shockwaves through the television industry. Up to that point, only a handful of gay characters had been seen on television, and none of these were series ...

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Many Ups and Downs of the Beach Boys

The Beach Boys began their careers with sunny paeans about California life that led to multiple No. 1 hits, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and years of successful tours. However, the band has also faced harsh realities such as Brian Wilson's mental illness, the early deaths of Dennis ...

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The Surprising Reason Lisa Kudrow’s Character on ‘Friends’ Was an Identical Twin

Long before Lisa Kudrow wove her way into the 1990s pop culture fabric as the flighty but lovable Phoebe Buffay on the sitcom Friends, she was already cracking audiences up with a recurring role in another comedy on the same network, Mad About You. After making her debut on the show starring ...

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

How Dr. Seuss' 1970 Trip to Kenya Inspired 'The Lorax'

More than a decade after he'd dreamt up iconic characters like a hat-wearing cat and a grumpy Grinch who stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss introduced the world to the Lorax. "Describe him...That's hard. I don't know if I can," wrote Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel) in his 1971 children’s book. "He was shortish, ...

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Why Julia Roberts Lost Her Role in ‘Pretty Woman’ — and Then Got It Back

Casting anyone other than Julia Roberts to star in Pretty Woman could have been a big mistake. Big. Huge. The actress snagged the role of down-on-her-luck prostitute Vivian Ward, and then just three days later lost the job that would eventually earn her the title of "America's Sweetheart." That's ...

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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Mary Todd Lincoln Shut Herself in the White House for Weeks After Abraham's Death

April 14, 1865, got off to a far better start than most days in the White House Mary Todd Lincoln. For years, Abraham Lincoln's wife had been attacked in the press for her profligate spending, unladylike behavior and alleged Southern sympathies during the Civil War, with her misery compounded by ...

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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s A-List Competition for ‘Titanic’

The only pairing more iconic in the 1990s than Titanic’s Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson were the actors behind the characters, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. And if it weren’t for Winslet herself, that perfect casting may not have happened. “I closed the script, wept floods of tears and ...

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Monday, April 6, 2020

Dolly Parton Was Inspired to Write “9 to 5” After Strumming Her Acrylic Nails

When Jane Fonda approached Dolly Parton to co-star in 9 to 5, the legendary country singer had one demand. "I said, 'well, this is a good opportunity, but I'll only do it if I can write the theme song," Parton, who'd never acted in a film before, explained. From there, the Tennessee native took ...

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Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' Long-Lasting Friendship

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers achieved long and successful solo careers in country music while also regularly joining their distinctive voices for duets and tours. In addition to often being performing partners, the two shared a close friendship that first blossomed when they recorded the ...

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Friday, April 3, 2020

Why Shirley Temple Quit Hollywood for Politics

Shirley Temple will forever be etched into pop culture history as the perennially positive child star with 56 blond ringlets who starred in more than two dozen movies in the 1930s, bringing a dose of optimism to Americans during The Great Depression. Numbers like “On the Good Ship Lollipop” ...

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen: Their Turbulent and Tragic Love Story

He was born in England and endured a peripatetic childhood with a single, drug-abusing mother, before finding acceptance amid the other spiky-haired teens who flocked to London's King's Road in the early 1970s. She was born in a comfortable Philadelphia suburb but proved too volatile for ...

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

How Woody Harrelson Helped ‘Cheers’ Overcome the Death of a Beloved Character

In February 1985, after nearly three seasons of following a gang of lovable losers that included womanizing bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson), stuffy bar maid Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and barflies Norm Peterson (George Wendt) and Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger), the writing-producing team of ...

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Monday, March 30, 2020

‘Apollo 13': The Real-Life Astronauts Portrayed in the Movie

"Houston, we have a problem." The iconic five-word phrase spoken by Tom Hanks, portraying astronaut Jim Lovell, in the 1995 blockbuster Apollo 13 instantly became one of the most memorable movie quotes of all time. However, the line was one instance where director Ron Howard's Academy ...

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Shakespeare Wrote Three of His Famous Tragedies During Turbulent Times

William Shakespeare was no stranger to the task of plying his trade amid difficult conditions. He was working in London when the bubonic plague surfaced in 1592 and again in 1603, the latter a particularly lethal outbreak that left more than 30,000 city dwellers dead. In 1606, as England was ...

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Why Jennifer Aniston Hates 'The Rachel' Haircut From ‘Friends’

In the 1950s, it was Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy pompadour. In the '70s, it was Farrah Fawcett’s Charlie’s Angels’ feathered ‘do. And in the '90s, there was no hairstyle more iconic than Rachel Green’s chic layered locks on the hit sitcom Friends. Even though the show debuted on September 22, 1994, ...

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Isaac Newton Changed the World While in Quarantine From the Plague

When the Great Plague of London ravaged through the British city beginning in 1665, Issac Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. As described in Gale Christianson's Isaac Newton, a few months after acquiring his undergraduate degree in the spring of that year, the 23-year-old ...

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: Their Case, Trial and Death

The story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, reads like something out of a John le Carré novel with its components of shadowy spies, corrupted trial proceedings and family betrayal. It also captures the real-world dangers that were rife in ...

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Queen Elizabeth II's Surprising Military Role During World War II

As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II has devoted her life to the service of her country. But nearly a decade before she became queen, she entered another kind of service when she became the first female member of the British royal family to become an active duty member of the ...

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Monday, March 23, 2020

Inside Gloria Steinem’s Month as an Undercover Playboy Bunny

Gloria Steinem’s name is synonymous with feminism. On top of being a political activist, she helped create New York and Ms. magazines and is the co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus, Free to Be Foundation, Women’s Media Center and Women's Action Alliance. Steinem has long been ...

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Friday, March 20, 2020

How Florence Nightingale’s Hygiene Crusade Saved Millions

Known as the “Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale provided care and comfort for British soldiers during the Crimean War. She helped revolutionize medicine with her no-nonsense approach to hygiene, sanitation and patient care and turned nursing into a valued profession. ...

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

ABBA: Their Long Road to Winning Eurovision and Topping the Music Charts

In June 1966, two of the biggest bands in Sweden, The Hootenanny Singers and The Hep Stars, crossed paths for the first time with gigs at the same venue. As the night's partying stretched to dawn, Björn Ulvaeus and his new Hep Stars friend, Benny Andersson, sang together in a park and agreed to ...

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Donny and Marie Osmond: Inside Their Early Years in Utah With Their Musical Family

The Osmonds were never destined to be your run-of-the-mill, post-World War II American family. The first two children born to George and Olive Osmond of Ogden, Utah, named Virl and Tom, were both diagnosed as severely hearing impaired. Ignoring suggestions to have them institutionalized, Olive took ...

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Friday, March 13, 2020

Elizabeth Taylor: Richard Burton and the Six Other Men She Called 'Husband'

Finding fame at such a young age, Elizabeth Taylor was thrust into the spotlight and forced to become wise beyond her years. And that included starring in romantic films with actors far older than she was. “At barely 17, I grew up for all America to see. I was cast in Conspirator opposite one of ...

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Why Jimmy Carter Ordered the U.S. to Boycott the 1980 Olympics

By late 1979, as he headed into the fourth year of an administration marked by lagging domestic support, President Jimmy Carter found himself facing a new set of challenges from foreign agitators. In November, more than 60 people were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Then, in late ...

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Monday, March 9, 2020

How Bea Arthur and 'Maude' Changed the Way Women Were Portrayed on Television

In November 1972, Norman Lear's sitcom Maude broke new ground. In two episodes titled "Maude's Dilemma," the character of Maude, played by Bea Arthur, learns that she's pregnant at the age of 47. After grappling with her choices, she decides to terminate the pregnancy. These lauded episodes, which ...

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Friday, March 6, 2020

Elvis in the Army: 'People Were Expecting Me to Mess Up'

Elvis Presley was reveling in success at the end of 1957. He already had megahit singles like “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Love Me Tender” and “Jailhouse Rock,” three successful films and concert dates that took him from Canada to Hawaii. Sitting at the pinnacle of fame, the following year was poised to be ...

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Blondie Recorded ‘Autoamerican’ to Help ‘Resolve Racial Tensions’ by Crossing Musical Genres

In November 1980, the punk band Blondie released their fifth album, Autoamerican, and critics were intrigued — and a little confused. Blondie, rising out of the hardcore 1970s New York City punk scene of CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, had been mainstream stars since their 1978 breakthrough ...

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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

How Jaclyn Smith Created Her Multi-Million Dollar Fashion Company

Today, movie stars, models, chefs and musicians are often brands first, artists second. Stars from Gwyneth Paltrow to Kanye West have begun diversifying their careers by branching off into other industries such as apparel, wellness and cosmetics. However, this practice was not always the norm, ...

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Monday, March 2, 2020

Anne Sullivan Found 'the Fire of a Purpose' Through Teaching Helen Keller

The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan has a well-known beginning that's been dramatized in the movie and play The Miracle Worker: Due to an illness, Keller lost her sight and hearing before the age of two, then struggled to find her place in the world. In 1887, a 20-year-old Sullivan, a ...

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Dr. Seuss Wrote 'Green Eggs and Ham' on a Bet

From The Cat in the Hat to Horton Hears a Who!, Dr. Seuss had a magical way of taking merging animal antics with silly words and turning them into poetically memorable children’s books. Behind that fun-loving exterior was a man with a bit of a competitive edge to prove that he could conquer ...

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Friday, February 28, 2020

8 Famous People Born on February 29

When Julius Caesar created the Roman calendar, he introduced an extra day every four years based on an Egyptian solar calendar. After all, since the earth takes 365.24219 days to circle the sun, the extra 24 hours (called a leap day) every fourth year (called a leap year) makes up for the math. A ...

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Thursday, February 27, 2020

The von Trapps: The Real Family That Inspired 'The Sound of Music'

When The Sound of Music debuted on cinema screens in April 1965, audiences fell hard and in huge numbers for the joyous celebration of music, dance, patriotism and familial and romantic love, propelling it to become one of the world’s most beloved movie musicals and turning the story of the von ...

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Maya Angelou: The Meaning Behind Her Poem "Still I Rise"

Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" is a powerful poem that draws on a range of influences, including her personal background and the African American experience in the United States. Its message of liberation and survival was a consistent theme in Angelou's work. Years after it was published in 1978, ...

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Pilot Bessie Coleman Tragically Died as a Passenger on a Test Flight

From her earliest days, Bessie Coleman had the ambition to soar above the conditions of segregated small-town Texas at the turn of the 20th century. Fresh off the backbreaking hours in the cotton fields, she would discreetly slip her foot on the scale beneath the day's haul to squeeze a few more ...

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Friday, February 21, 2020

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Weren't the Original Choices to Star in 'Grease'

Grease was a huge hit when it came out in 1978 and has since become an American classic. But when the movie was being filmed in 1977, no one knew they were making what would become the highest-grossing American movie musical of the 20th century, including leads John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, ...

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

10 of Langston Hughes' Most Popular Poems

In a 1926 story for The Nation, Langston Hughes wrote, “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” And throughout his career, he crafted his words with that exact essence. Born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, ...

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Harriet Tubman: Timeline of Her Life, Underground Rail Service and Activism

After escaping slavery on her own in 1849, Harriet Tubman helped others journey on the Underground Railroad. From 1850 to 1860 she made an estimated 13 trips and rescued around 70 enslaved people, including many members of her family. She also provided information so that others could find their ...

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

How Ted Bundy Helped Catch the Green River Killer

Ted Bundy is known as one of the most notorious serial killers in American history, having admitted to killing 36 women, but possibly having as many as 100 victims during his murdering spree in the 1970s. After being given death sentences in 1979 and 1980, Bundy was on death row when murderers ...

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Kriti Sanon, Jacqueline Fernandez Wish Their ‘Mentor’ in Heartwarming Posts

Jacqueline Fernandez and Kriti Sanon posted similar messages on Instagram. They thanked birthday boy Sajid Nadiadwala for believing in them. The B-town beauties touched our hearts too!

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After Bigg Boss Season 13, Shehnaaz Gill and Paras Chhabra Begin a New Journey

Shehnaaz Gill and Paras Chhabra have exited the Bigg Boss Season 13 house and have now moved on to their new show, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, where they will search for potential spouses

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Karan Johar Denies Rumours of Launching Suhana Khan in Student Of The Year 3

Karan Johar is known to launch new faces in Bollywood and all eyes have been on him debuting Suhana Khan. However, he shut down all rumours with a tweet about SOTY3

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Shaquille O'Neal Reveals Kobe Bryant’s Special Bond with His Kids

Kobe Bryant’s death shocked the world and his memory will always continue to live on. At a weekend game, Shaquille O'Neal opened up about Bryant and here’s what he had to say

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Has Pawan Kalyan Charged INR 45 Crore For his Next Films?

Telugu superstar Pawan Kalyan is taking over control of the next three films he is starring in

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thanks Mahira Khan For Her Extraordinary Support

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met Mahira Khan on his ongoing trip to Pakistan.

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Monday, February 17, 2020

Kartik Aaryan Starts Preparing For His First Action Film

Kartik Aaryan has signed the first action film of his career with Tanhaji director Om Raut.

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Kalki Koechlin Has a Pregnancy Tip For the Mums-to-be

Kalki Koechlin urged pregnant women to remain physically active during the nine months. Here is what she said in detail.

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Ishqiya Episode 3: Hamna Avoids Hamza As Her Nikkah Takes Place To Azeem

In Ishqiya, Ramsha Khan and Feroze Khan play lovers, Hamna and Hamza, who are not destined to be together. Hamna has her nikkah without informing Hamza, leaving their relationship at a crossroads

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Prince William and Kate Middleton Decide to Take a Break From Their Royal Duties

Prince William and Kate Middleton are on a short break from their royal duties to spend some family time with the children.

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Hamza Ali Abbasi Lifts Naimal Khawar in His Arms. Here is What She is Thinking

Hamza Ali Abbasi and Naimal Khawar recently attended the wedding ceremony of the latter's sister in Islamabad.

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Zara Noor Abbas Signs Her Next Film

Zara Noor Abbas will be seen on the big screen yet again after Asim Raza's star-studded family drama-film, Parey Hut Love.

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Sara Ali Khan in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Next Film?

Sara Ali Khan will be seen in some pretty unusual roles over the next few months

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Sara Ali Khan in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Next Film?

Sara Ali Khan will be seen in some pretty unusual roles over the next few months

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Ranveer Singh Feels Deepika Padukone is the Reason for All His Awards

Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are head over heels for each other and Ranveer Singh recently won an award for Gully Boy. He credits Deepika for all his awards

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Justin Bieber Admits Being Reckless in Previous Relationship

Justin Bieber recently dropped his new album, Changes and his new music is truly proof that he has changed. He mentioned in an interview that he was being reckless in his past relationship

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Hollywood Family Therapist Amie Harwick Murdered in Los Angeles

Dr Amie Harwick was a well-known family therapist. She was murdered on Saturday at her home in Hollywood Hills. Learn more below

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Pawan & Pooja Review: A Pleasing Take on Relationships on MX Player

Pawan & Pooja Review: It is a watchable series on relationships

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Taapsee Pannu May Rescue Alia Bhatt. Here’s How

Taapsee Pannu’s Thappad to release at the end of the month. Can she break the jinx at the box office with regards to female-led films?

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Netflix Taj Mahal 1989 Review: Good Performances Can’t Rescue this Netflix Hoax

Netflix Taj Mahal 1989 Review: This Netflix film is a huge disappointment

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Netflix Taj Mahal 1989 Review: Good Performances Can’t Rescue this Netflix Hoax

Netflix Taj Mahal 1989 Review: This Netflix film is a huge disappointment

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Sara Ali Khan’s Travel Documents Baffle US Authorities for This Reason

Sara Ali Khan has been very vocal about her fitness journey and has transformed in a rather positive way. Her transformation, however, leaves airport security rather confused

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When Jaya Bachchan REFUSED to Work with Rajesh Khanna – Blast from the Past

What went wrong between Jaya Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna that she refused films with him for the longest time? Find out here…

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Tejas: Kangana Ranaut Exudes Major Boss Lady Vibes in Her First Look As An Air Force Pilot

Kangana Ranaut is seen clad in a flying suit, donning a pair of dark sunglasses and carrying a helmet in hand. She shed light on the bravery of female air force pilots which often goes unnoticed

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Love Aaj Kal Box Office Day 3: Kartik Aaryan, Sara Ali Khan's Film Fails to Impress

Love Aaj Kal started off with a fairly decent INR12.40 crore (Friday) but it took a major hit the following day, with an even bigger blow on Sunday. Find out the reasons for its below-average performance

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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Bigg Boss Season 13: Ex-Bigg Boss Contestants Stand Divided Over Results

The Bigg Boss Season 13 finale saw Sidharth Shukla and Asim Riaz face-off with Sidharth Shukla being declared the winner. But along with viewers, celebrities were also vocal about the results

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Ehd E Wafa Episode 20: Saad and Duaa’s Marriage Reunites the SSG

In Ehd E Wafa, Ahad Raza Mir, Osman Khalid Butt, Ahmed Ali Akbar and Wahaj Ali’s characters finally reunite as a group during Saad’s wedding as his marriage to Duaa takes place

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Sara Ali Khan Recreates the Magic of Mother Amrita Singh in This Photoshoot

Sara Ali Khan shares a striking resemblance with her mother Amrita Singh. Her recent post on Instagram proves it.

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Kiara Advani Stuns Like a Princess in a Faraz Manan Creation

Kiara Advani recently wore the creation of the Pakistani designer Faraz Manan at an event in Jaipur.

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Bigg Boss 13 Finale: Twitter Divided Over Sidharth Shukla's Win

Bigg Boss season 13 came to a conclusion last night with Sidharth Shukla taking home the winner's trophy.

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Maya Ali and Sheheryar Munawar Set the Dance Floor on Fire

Maya Ali's brother's wedding was recently in full swing in Lahore and one of the prominent attendees was none other than Sheheryar Munawar

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Aamchi Aparnna – Love Aaj Kal: A Stark Reminder of Imtiaz Ali’s Unimaginativeness

Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal is a reminder that he is unable to move from a fixed stereotype when it comes to women

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How Did Kate Middleton Battle Morning Sickness During Her Pregnancies?

Kate Middleton opened up about her difficult pregnancies during a recent interview.

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Sara Ali Khan Walks the Ramp for Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla

Sara Ali Khan sported a heavily embellished lehenga choli as she walked the ramp for Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla.

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Friday, February 14, 2020

How George Washington Kept Alexander Hamilton in Check

As Founding Fathers, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were seemingly far more different than they were alike. A member of the Virginia gentry, Washington was measured and stoic in public, patient to wait for his opportunities and secure enough in his abilities to solicit input from others. ...

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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Theodore Roosevelt's Mother and Wife Died Within Hours of Each Other on Valentine's Day

Theodore Roosevelt's mother and first wife died just hours apart on February 14, 1884. Each loss was an unexpected shock. His 48-year-old mother, Martha "Mittie" Roosevelt, had been taken ill with what was initially considered a cold, and his 22-year-old wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, had just ...

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Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech May Not Have Contained That Famous Phrase

During Sojourner Truth’s famous 1851 speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she used the phrase “Ain’t I a Woman?” four times to emphasize the need to fight for equal rights for African American women. Or so says a transcript of the speech that was published 12 years later. Fellow ...

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P.S. I Love You Sequel Will Be Set 7 Years After Gerry’s Death

P.S. I Love You is one of the most loved romantic films of all time, which stars Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in lead roles

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Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas Are Going To Be Parents

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas got married last year in Las Vegas after the Billboard Awards, with another ceremony in France a month later

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Angrezi Medium Trailer Review: Irrfan Khan, Kareena Kapoor Starrer Looks Promising

Angrezi Medium trailer is packed with a mixed bag of emotions. Packed with drama, entertainment and witty dialogues, it centres on the unbreakable bond of a father and daughter

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Bigg Boss Season 13: Sidharth Shukla Talks about His Equation with Rashami Desai and Shehnaaz Gill

In Bigg Boss Season 13, Rajat Sharma questions the housemates and Paras Chhabra is given a secret task to make the contestants believe the Bigg Boss house is haunted

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Valentine’s Day: Pakistani Television’s Most Memorable On-Screen Couples

As Valentine's Day approaches, here are the top 8 on-screen couples that made viewers not only believe in the relationships, but also in love itself

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Horse Girl Review: This Netflix Film is a Disturbing Depiction Of Descent Into Dementia

Horse Girl Review: Alison Brie’s film is not pleasant to watch but makes some important points and is quite enriching

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Eva Mendes Reveals Surprising Fact About Hubby Ryan Gosling and We’re Shook!

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling are one of Hollywood’s most loved couples. They rarely share deets about their life on social media which is why this info will come as a shock

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Netflix Show You Season Three Will be Even Darker. Here's Why

You, Netflix's hit show, stars Penn Badgley in one of his most loved roles, Joe Goldberg, and will be returning for a third season soon

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Netflix Show You Season Three Will be Even Darker. Here's Why

You, Netflix's hit show, stars Penn Badgley in one of his most loved roles, Joe Goldberg, and will be returning for a third season soon

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Margot Robbie, Christian Bale To Work Together Soon

Margot Robbie and Christian Bale will be appearing together in David Russell's next film together

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Shahid Kapoor All Set to Star in Karan Johar’s Next Film

Shahid Kapoor had a smashing year in 2019 with the success of his film, Kabir Singh. Fans are eager to see him on screen once again and he is said to be seen in KJo’s next

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Kartik Aaryan’s Female Leads: Who Looks Best of the Best?

Sara Ali Khan, Nushrat Bharucha or Ananya Panday – who shares the best chemistry with Kartik Aaryan whose Love Aaj Kal releases today?

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Aladdin: Will Smith, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott Starrer to Get a Sequel!

Aladdin, the much-loved Disney classic, was given a reboot last summer and crossed the billion-dollar mark. It is now confirmed the film is getting a sequel that is in the works.

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Varun Dhawan Puts Marriage Rumours to Rest After Fake News Spreads

Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal have been dating for some time now and rumours pertaining to their marriage have been circulating. The actor puts them to a rest

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Valentine’s Day For Singles: How to Stay Blissful on the Special Day

These ideas for single people to celebrate their Valentine’s Day are not only fun but also soulful.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Wendell Rodricks, Renowned Fashion Designer Passes Away

Wendell Rodricks passed away at his Goa home at the age of 59

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Taapsee Pannu’s Film Thappad Releases New Trailer. But It’s Not What You Think

Taapsee tells us not to recommend the trailer. We tell you why

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Prabhas and Rajamouli’s Films Will Not Clash. Here’s how They Avoided It

There were reports that Rajamouli’s RRR and Prabhas’ next film, to be directed by Radha Krishna Kumar will have a clash at the box office

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Jennifer Aniston Reveals Feeling Unsafe As a Child

Jennifer Aniston shared that she did not have a perfect childhood, adding that there were times she felt destabilised because of the environment

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Demi Lovato’s new tattoo is powerful and symbolic

Demi Lovato already has a number of art works inked on her body and has now come up with a new addition. Her new tattoo is powerful and symbolic and here’s what it represents

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Love Aaj Kal: Central Board of Film Certification Orders Several Cuts in the Film

The CBFC has reportedly removed several sexually abusive words in Love Aaj Kal and a scene of the lead actors undressing. It has also reduced the duration of a kissing scene

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Vicky Kaushal is all that Katrina Kaif Ever Wanted in a Man, Claims Source

Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal have sparked speculations surrounding their romance since late 2019. From bigwig parties to dinner dates, they have been seen at them all! What’s the truth?

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PISA Awards Controversy: Organisers Clear the Air

Faisal Khan of Mesmerise Events gets candid about the many questions and controversies about the awards and entertainment show that took place in Dubai last week

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Irrfan Khan Shares Emotional Message Ahead of Angrezi Medium Trailer Release

An emotional Irrfan Khan voiced a heartfelt message for his fans. Shared by Maddock Films, the clip shows different stills from the film as Irrfan speaks about life in the background.

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Jennifer Aniston: Celebs Wish the Actress As She Turns 51

Jennifer Aniston turned 51 on February 11 and stars rushed to wish the ageless actress on her birthday

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Mahira Khan Gets Thanked by Urwa Hocane and Farhan Saeed in This Cute Way

Mahira Khan praised the trailer of Urwa Hocane and Farhan Saeed’s film Tich Button

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Kartik Aaryan Exclusive: ‘I'm a Hopeless Romantic’

The eternal romantic Kartik Aaryan talks about love, relationships and the magic of romance as he gears up for the release of Love Aaj Kal this week

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Tara Sutaria’s Alleged Romance with Aadar Jain – Mum Rima Jain Has Her Say!

Aadar’s mother Rima Jain seems to have given her stamp of approval and a go-ahead to Aadar. She said, “We love anybody our son loves.” Tara has also been spotted in the Jain family’s pictures

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s daughter, Simone is headed to WWE

Simone Johnson will be taking the Johnson family’s legacy forward as she becomes the first fourth-generation wrestler in all of history

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Eminem Reveals Why He Didn’t Attend 2020 Oscar Ceremony and Kept His Performance a Secret

Eminem surprised fans on Sunday night with a special performance on Lose Yourself at the Oscars ceremony held in Los Angeles

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Thomas Edison Wrote a Sci-Fi Novel That Flopped

Thomas Edison is remembered as one of the outsized figures of American history, his invention of the phonograph and development of practical lighting systems helping to usher in a modern way of life. Branching out of his comfort zone in the early 1890s, Edison had the idea to churn out a novel, ...

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Why Farrah Fawcett Quit ‘Charlie’s Angels’ After One Season

Charlie's Angels was a television hit after the debut of its first season in September 1976. Stars Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett became famous for their portrayal of police officers turned private detectives Sabrina, Kelly and Jill. Fawcett's star power was boosted by her famous ...

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Valentine’s Day 2020: These Liali Jewellery Pieces Make the Perfect Gift

Valentine's Day is around the corner and if you are still wondering what to get your loved one, well, look no further!

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