In the early 1930s, Peg Entwistle looked like she might actually achieve the Hollywood dream. She had Broadway success, a studio contract, and her first Hollywood film had just been released. But just a few months later she would leave the house to go for a walk into the hills above Hollywood. She never came back.
For a while in the 80s, Jan-Michael Vincent seemed untouchable. But away from the cameras, a very different story was already unfolding—one that would soon turn his life into one of Hollywood’s most turbulent cautionary tales.
If you watched Saved by the Bell in the late 80s and early 90s, Elizabeth Berkley was impossible to forget. From the curly hair to the unforgettable caffeine-pill meltdown, her intense and ambitious Jessie Spano became one of the defining faces of Saturday morning TV. But that was more than 30 years ago—and seeing Berkley today is a reminder that time really does fly.
There are plenty of modern bands that sound close enough to the old-school greats that fans will feel right at home. So we paired the boomer bands you grew up with with their modern-day doppelgängers you should check out. Do you agree with our choices?
The 70s gave us plenty of TV classics that ran for years and are forever engraved in our minds—but it also produced some truly fascinating shows that disappeared almost as quickly as they arrived. Some were ahead of their time. Some were just plain weird. And honestly, pretty much all of them deserved a much longer run. How many of these do you remember?
Johnny Lewis rose to fame on the hit series Sons of Anarchy, playing a character surrounded by chaos and violence. Off camera, his life followed an even more troubling path—one marked by documented instability, court warnings, and missed intervention.
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