Like many children, Brooke Burns dreamed of being a dancer. Born in Texas, she studied ballet for more than a decade before a skiing injury in her early teens left her with a torn ligament […]
Auditioning for The View is no easy feat—just ask Garcelle Beauvais. In her new book, Love Me As I Am, the actor and reality TV star talks about her experience trying out for The View […]
Steve Urkel became a beloved sitcom character for annoying his neighbors, the Winslows, on Family Matters, and it seems that there were some off-screen issues between them, too. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, […]
Welcome to Life Lessons. This week, we revisit our December 1997 “Grab a Friend” issue featuring Ben Affleck and his Boston-born better half, Matt Damon. Affleck recently maid tabloid headlines the world over with the announcement […]
Not many people can look back and say they were once a teen idol, but Peter Barton definitely can. After becoming an actor in his early 20s, he starred on the TV shows Shirley and The […]
Few people have made quite an impression with an accessory as Dwayne Wayne on the ’80s and ’90s college sitcom, A Different World. The character’s key traits were his math skills, his on-and-off relationship with […]
More than a decade after his death, it’s not uncommon to see clips from George Carlin’s stand-up sets circulating. Carlin was an irreverent, searing, and deeply funny comic. Over the course of his decades-long career, […]
Kanye West is facing a lawsuit after a Texas pastor sued the rapper for sampling his sermon on “Come to Life,” a standout track from Ye’s 2021 album Donda. TMZ reports Bishop David Paul Moten has filed a […]
It’s one thing to make it in show business as a teen idol—it’s another to be a teen idol with a catchphrase. Joey Lawrence falls into that second, more selective category, thanks to the role that made him […]
Kim Coles is best known for playing the lovable, somewhat ditzy Synclaire on the sitcom Living Single, which ran from 1993 to 1998. Before that, she was part of the cast of the sketch series […]
For five seasons, from 1995 to 1999, fans tuned into NewsRadio to watch the antics of the WNYX staff. One of the most memorable members of the gang was Beth, the eccentric secretary played by […]
For a star as big as Elizabeth Taylor, doing anything in public and going unnoticed had to have been nearly impossible. But, in 1985, the actor was able to visit a close friend near the […]
Welcome to Life Lessons with Mariah Carey. These days, Carey is mostly known for her powerhouse vocals, her Christmas bangers, and her unrelenting star power. But when she graced the cover of our September issue […]
Actor Ted McGinley shook things up when he joined Married… with Children during its fifth season. He played Jefferson D’Arcy, a somewhat mysterious gold digger who married Marcy (Amanda Bearse) for her money and became […]
Each decade has its supermodels and fashion icons, and the 1970s were all about Marie Helvin, Jerry Hall, Janice Dickinson, and Pat Cleveland, to name a few. If you’re curious about what it was like […]
There’s a time-honored history in Hollywood of co-stars falling in love both onscreen and off, but, in real life, no happy endings are guaranteed. In the 1980s, Jane Seymour fell in love with another actor […]
Photo Credit: Nissim Black HBO is developing a comedy based on the life of Hasidic hip-hop star Nissim Black. Here’s what we know. According to a report from Deadline, the comedy is being developed by […]
If you watched Ellen—the sitcom, not the talk show—then you certainly remember Audrey Penney. Audrey, played by Clea Lewis, was Ellen Morgan’s (Ellen DeGeneres) friend with the distinctive voice, who was sometimes a little too […]
They’re two of the most popular singers of all time and share a number of musical connections, but Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick never got along. At the very least, Franklin didn’t have many positive […]
Set in one of Oprah’s favorite places, Maui, Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event opens with a beautiful sunrise that can only be from God Himself. This is a spiritual affair. The media mogul’s […]