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Discover how Saturday Night Live’s original cast, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and four fellow comedy legends, transformed sketch comedy, political satire, and television forever in 1975 and beyond.

Long before Marcia Wallace became the voice of Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons, she was already one of television’s most recognizable comic performers.

There’s something about summer love that makes romance feel a little more intense, and that something has inspired generations of musicians.

For decades, some of Los Angeles’ most shocking celebrity deaths seemed to lead to the same man. Dr Thomas Noguchi served as Los Angeles County’s chief medical examiner-coroner from 1967 until 1982, earning the memorable nickname “Coroner to the Stars.” His case history eventually included Marilyn Monroe, Robert F Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, Natalie Wood, William Holden, and John Belushi.

Sally Kellerman earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the movie version of M*A*S*H, but it was a tough act to follow.

Loni Anderson became a television icon on WKRP in Cincinnati, using wit, ambition, and comic talent to prove she was always far sharper than her glamorous bombshell image ever suggested.

Boris Karloff transformed Frankenstein’s monster into a Hollywood icon, but behind the terrifying makeup was a gentle English actor whose warmth, talent, and humanity shaped generations of popular culture forever.

Test your 1990s sitcom knowledge with challenging trivia about Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, Full House, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and more. Can you answer even half of these questions correctly?

Discover how Hollywood transformed Margarita Cansino into Rita Hayworth, reshaping her name, appearance, and identity while creating a glamorous screen legend whose private struggles revealed the lasting cost of stardom.