Jesse Singer articles

Dick Shawn spent decades making audiences laugh by doing the unexpected, from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to some of the strangest live comedy routines of his era. Then came one night in 1987...

Lee Meriwether beat out more than 200 actresses for one of the hottest roles in Hollywood. She got the costume, the movie and a place in Batman history. Then, almost as quickly as she got the role, it was gone. But why?

The 80s gave us some TV dramas that seemingly never went away. Mention Dallas, Magnum, P.I., or Miami Vice and almost everyone immediately knows what you’re talking about. But then there are these shows. Seriously, how many do you remember?

The 80s sold an unbelievable number of rock albums. Just apparently not these. A few had major labels behind them. Some received reviews that should have made them huge. Others helped create sounds that would make different bands rich years later. Yet almost all of them disappeared with little fanfare and little sales.

Dolly Parton spent decades making millions of people feel like they knew her. But during her final days it’s been reported that she kept most loved ones away from her deathbed, with one unexpected exception...

Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal believed they could keep whatever was happening between them under control. They were wrong.

There were so many great songs released in 1969, but only some of them made their way all the way up to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And the question is...how many of those do you remember?

Their faces are beautiful and familiar to anyone who watched television or went to the movies in the 1960s (even if you didn’t, you might still recognize them). Their names, however...well, that is a very different story. Pretty sure most people cannot name even five of these actresses. Can you?

There were no cameras recording what happened that night. There was no stunt coordinator watching nearby and no second take if something went wrong. There was only Reeves, a motorcycle, a dark California canyon and a terrifying series of events he would never forget.