Jesse Singer articles

For millions of TV viewers, Nanette Fabray will always be Katherine Romano, the funny, outspoken mother of Bonnie Franklin’s Ann Romano on One Day at a Time. But behind that incredible career were two absolutely terrifying moments when everything could have ended very differently. And when we say “inches,” we mean it.

Everyone remembers Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis. But they were only standing at the very top of an enormous 1980s action-movie pyramid. Below them was a whole army of ninja masters, muscle-bound warriors, martial artists and cable-TV legends whose faces once seemed impossible to escape. Seriously, how many of these actors do you remember?

These are the ones buried way down in the decade—the shows that actually aired, had real casts, real time slots, and in some cases even lasted more than one season...yet somehow seem to have disappeared almost completely.

Millions knew Marcia Strassman as Julie Kotter, and Welcome Back, Kotter had made her famous. But while she might've once prayed for a break like this, once she got it, she prayed every day for it to end.

The Beatles’ White Album is brilliant, strange, beautiful, funny, irritating, and occasionally impossible to explain. Ranking these songs is clearly going to upset some people. So let’s get started. And please, let us know how your rankings would differ of course.

Greta Garbo spent most of her life making sure the public knew as little about Greta Garbo as possible. So when a collection of her private letters was locked away with instructions that nobody could read them until years after her death, people were understandably curious. Especially because the woman who saved those letters claimed she and Garbo had been much more than friends.

Here is what won Album of the Year at every Grammy ceremony from 1970 through 1979—and what really should have won. Do you agree?

For decades, Henry Fonda seemed like the kind of man America could trust. Quiet. Decent. Steady. Whether he was standing up for justice or playing the reluctant hero, audiences believed him. But Jane and Peter Fonda knew a very different Henry Fonda—and there was one family secret they weren’t supposed to know at all.

For decades, Nashville had room for both of them: the woman who helped define country music and the actress who made a fictional country star feel completely real. They belonged to different generations and were never a famous pair. Then, in August 2026, their stories suddenly collided.