Daytime stars who ruled the 1980s soap opera boom, inspired devoted fandoms, and became as famous as television’s primetime favorites.

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...

For decades, Joan Collins has been celebrated as one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars, but her real life has often been more outrageous than anything she portrayed on screen. Between five marriages, famous lovers, bitter betrayals, and extraordinary encounters with Hollywood royalty, Collins collected enough stories to fill a library. Eventually, she did exactly that, turning her tumultuous personal history into bestselling memoirs, scandalous novels, and revealing diaries.