January 15, 2024 Ted McGinley, Anson Williams, Henry Winkler & Scott Baio (All images via ABC unless noted) The New York Times just interviewed surviving Happy Days cast members Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, Don Most and Marion Ross on the occasion of the series' 50th anniversary. Yes, the famous show about the '50s…
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Madonna Musical Opens, Joan Collins Drops F-Bomb, ‘Priscilla’s’ Clothes, Carol Burnett’s ‘Twilight Zone’ & MORE
October 5, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today ... Celebrate! (Image via Holidays) KSLX: Madonna, 65, is opening her new world Celebration Tour October 14 in London, but there's also an all-Madonna jukebox musical opening France! ROLLING STONE: The Frasier revival sucks. Ninety and naughty! (Image via Instagram) INSTAGRAM: Hilarious to see Joan…
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David McCallum, ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ & ‘NCIS’ Star, Dies @ 90
September 25, 2023 Less than a week after turning 90, veteran of TV, movies and the stage David McCallum — indelible for his work on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in the '60s — died Monday, September 25, 2023, of natural causes. McCallum only escaped Illya by playing Ducky. (Images via CBS & NBC) He died…
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Kate Jackson Sighting, Rick Springfield’s Evergreen Nips & More
August 3, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today! Or maybe it's Making Love II: What's Good for the Gander? (Image via Instagram) INSTAGRAM: Don't look now, but there was a mini Charlie's Angels reunion at Jaclyn Smith's wedding. Reclusive Kate Jackson made the scene! PEOPLE: Rick Springfield has been famous since the '70s,…
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Andrés García, Enduring Latin Sex Symbol & Telenovela Star, Dies @ 81
April 6, 2023 These portraits illustrate how the actor's physicality was his calling card. (Images via IMDb, movie still & tear sheet) Andrés García, who became a superstar of Mexican telenovelas after a career in films, died April 4, 2023, at 81. His widow, Margarita Portillo, shared (in Spanish) on Instagram, “With a pain that…
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Bob Mackie’s a ‘No’ on Kim Kardashian in Marilyn’s Gown, RIP Maggie Peterson & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Bob tut-tuts Kim (Image by Matthew Rettenmund; image above by Alejandro Mogollo Diez) EW: Bob Mackie, 82, who drew the original sketch for the Jean Louis dress Marilyn Monroe made famous when she cooed "Happy Birthday" to lover JFK, is finally speaking out about Kim Kardashian wearing the…
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Tom Hanks Tears Up Remembering Peter Scolari, Paul Newman Memoir, Garrett Morris on Racism at ‘SNL’
Links to the past, with relevance today: The book is said to be candid about his personal demons. (GIF via GIPHY) INQUIRER.NET: Shocker — a memoir written by the late Paul Newman (1925-2008) in the '80s as a counter to tabloid rumors has been discovered. Though he never published it, he worked on it with…
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Took It All Off: ‘The Great American Strip-Off’
If you're looking for a camp flashback to the '80s with some juicy sex thrown in, look no further than The Great American Strip-Off, an '80s Playboy Channel show that daringly offered topless girls and mixed male and female contestants in a reality show decades before its time. Disrobing for dollars (Image via video still)…
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Icon of the French New Wave, Dies @ 88
Jean-Paul Belmondo, the French film icon closely associated with the New Wave genre of the early '60s, and who went on to become one of his country's most bankable action stars, died Monday, September 6, at his Paris home. An indelible image from Breathless (GIF via GIPHY) He was 88. Belmondo, born April 9, 1933,…
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Stamos’s Cure for Trigger Finger, Sirhan Sirhan to Be Freed?, Enos Envy & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Full House-pital (Image via Instagram) PEOPLE: Even ailing, John Stamos, 58, looks good. He posted a selfie from a hospital bed following surgery for a condition known as "trigger finger." HUFF POST: Sirhan Sirhan, the 77-year-old convicted assassin of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), has been granted…
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