Tony Curtis may be best known for dressing up like a woman in Some Like It Hot, but his long career also had turns in westerns, film noir, and epics like Spartacus. It was his off screen life, however, where he really turned up the heat with six wives (!), six kids and a boatload of affairs. Break out the eye-liner and take a look at Tony Curtis’s wild ride through Hollywood.
Corey Feldman seems to have led multiple lives. One common thread, however, has been Feldman’s insistence that he was a victim of a Hollywood group that preyed on young actors like himself. There are believers and those who say he’s made the whole thing up.
Chris Farley could hit a room like a cannonball, and people who worked with him said it was hard not to get swept up. He moved fast, talked fast, and committed to every joke like it was life or death. That same all-in energy made him famous, but it also fed habits that caught up with him.
Gram Parsons didn’t have a long career, but his impact on music was immense. During this short period, he managed to reshape country rock as a genre. Additionally, he had one of the strangest journeys possible in the days following his unfortunate demise.
Ken Berry seemed destined for lasting stardom, headlining popular series and winning loyal audiences nationwide. But when television abruptly reinvented itself in the early 1970s, his career momentum stalled, even as he endured profound personal loss.
For some actresses, the internet narratives grow louder with each public appearance. They end up doing or saying things that can put people off and gain negative publicity. Fame gets messy when perception hardens.
Most actors play bad guys as purely evil. Noonan found hurt, confusion, even sweetness in his monsters. That approach separated him from countless forgettable antagonists, and his performances aged better than the films containing them often did.
