Jesse Singer articles

Have you ever seen a UFO? Well, if you have, then you have something in common with some of the most famous celebrities on the planet.

Most people remember Jan Smithers as the sweet, shy Bailey Quarters on WKRP in Cincinnati. But her road to television began 12 years earlier, when she was a 16-year-old high school student who made one tiny decision...that would change her life forever.

Hollywood had a pretty clear idea of what a male star was supposed to look like—and these guys were not it. Then they became some of the biggest stars of the 60s and 70s anyway.

These women once filled theaters, bedroom walls and teenage daydreams. Today, most Millennial men probably couldn’t name a single one. How many do you remember?

Barbara Stanwyck never publicly told her side of the story. Robert Wagner waited nearly two decades after she was gone before giving his fullest account.

Someone born in 1946 had a completely different TV childhood than someone born in 1962. These are the shows older Boomers raced home to watch while many younger Boomers barely remember they ever existed.

At 13, Bobby Driscoll had an Oscar. At 15, he became the voice behind Disney’s Peter Pan. He was one of the most recognizable faces in America. Yet, less than 20 years later he would be gone and buried in an unmarked grave.

Sometimes Oscar voters absolutely nailed it. Other times, they chose a great movie while an even better one sat a few rows away trying not to look annoyed. Using each film’s release year, here are the winners—and the films that actually should have won.

Everybody remembers The Office. Everybody remembers How I Met Your Mother. Those shows never really left. But the 2000s also cranked out dozens of sitcoms that were genuinely funny...then somehow disappeared without a trace.