Alex Summers articles

The life story of Rita Hayworth is a tragedy of epic proportions. Beauty, talent, fame, intelligence: She had it all. And yet she remained unhappy and unloved until the day she passed. The men in her life often used and damaged her, and ultimately her failed relationships broke her spirit.

Great bands don’t always stay in one lane. Sometimes evolution is less about surviving trends and more about reshaping them while keeping the core of what made something special in the first place. These artists stepped beyond comfort zones, experimented with new sounds or approaches, and came out with work that still felt authentically them.

From acting to dancing—singing to activism—Shirley MacLaine has done it all and then some. With a career that spans over eight decades, her struggles and triumphs pepper her unapologetic life. Even now, her wild eccentricities and controversial comments keep making headlines.

Television is sometimes dismissed as frivolous entertainment, but there’s no doubt that it holds a profound influence over our lives. The following are television series that have made a significant impact on the medium, and pop culture at large.

If you remember being able to follow these shows as a kid, you were probably smarter than you thought!

Ingrid Bergman was Hollywood’s saintly good girl—but nothing could be further from the truth. Her explosive affair with Roberto Rossellini turned an entire nation against her, and it quickly became the Hollywood scandal. But that was only the beginning. Even after her death, sordid secrets from Bergman’s naughty past kept surfacing—and they threatened to ruin her legacy forever.

Rock and electronic music weren’t always obvious partners. One grew from sweaty clubs and amplifiers, the other from machines, circuits, and studios. But when the two collided, something powerful happened. These bands didn’t just add synths to rock or guitars to dance music. They rewired how songs were written, how records sounded, and how audiences thought about genre itself.

Jeanette MacDonald rose to fame in the ruffle-laden, fantasy-ridden Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, her angel’s voice transporting audiences and establishing her as one of the highest-paid actresses of the day. MacDonald kept this pristine image until the day she died, even right up to her beautiful last words to her long-time husband.

Some of the biggest movie hits of the 80s made Gen Xers shrug and say "whatever."