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Before streaming, viewers sometimes waited years for two television characters to figure things out romantically. These are the best 1990s couples.

For decades, Warren Beatty seemed almost synonymous with bachelorhood. Then Annette Bening walked into his life during Bugsy...

Robin Williams gave Disney one of its most unforgettable characters when he voiced the Genie in Aladdin. But behind the laughter was a bitter dispute that left the comedian feeling betrayed by the very studio he'd helped make a fortune. Disney even gave him a Picasso painting worth a reported $1 million, but the extravagant gift couldn't make things right. Years later, after Williams' passing, the studio honored him with a touching tribute that brought their complicated history full circle.

Behind many of Hollywood's most admired marriages were affairs, arguments, financial problems, sacrifices, and secrets the public knew little about.

Keanu Reeves spent years living in hotels, even after becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars. When he finally bought a $5 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills, he thought he'd found somewhere to settle down. But one morning in September 2014, strange noises led him to his library, where he discovered an unfamiliar woman sitting silently in a chair. Her explanation was unsettling, but what happened just three days later was even more bizarre.

Mama Cass Elliot was one of the biggest voices of the 1960s, but she kept one enormous secret from the world. In 1967, the Mamas & the Papas singer gave birth to a daughter named Owen, yet never publicly revealed who the father was. Cass passed away seven years later, taking that secret with her. Then, on Owen's 19th birthday, Michelle Phillips finally uncovered the truth: Her father was a musician named Chuck Day, but the reason he'd remained absent from her life was even more surprising.

Mercedes McCambridge became the most acclaimed voice actor of her time before moving on to a successful Hollywood career. But while she looked back on a long life of improbable accomplishments, the unspeakable happened.

Some of classic rock's biggest songs began with musicians fooling around, mocking the music industry, or trying something so ridiculous that nobody expected it to work. Others weren't exactly jokes, but their bizarre origins make their success almost as surprising. From a deliberately terrible love song to a rock anthem invented on a tour bus, these stories reveal just how unpredictable hit-making can be. And in one particularly hilarious case, a band tried to embarrass its record label, only to end up with another smash hit.

Eric Clapton didn't simply fall for another man's wife. He fell for the wife of one of his closest musical friends: George Harrison.