Clark Gable was Hollywood royalty. He had the face, the swagger, the Oscar, and eventually one of the most famous movie roles ever put on film. But the part of his life that mattered most happened far away from a movie set. And one night in January 1942, everything changed.
We’re going deep into the 1970s record store. These are the albums that somehow ended up three bins over, underneath something by Foghat, where they sat waiting for one extremely curious teenager with five dollars to burn. So…have you actually heard any of them?
On screen, Mackenzie Phillips was the rebellious daughter in a family comedy. Off screen, she was a teenage performer earning a reported $50,000 a week.
Michael McKean became famous as Lenny on Laverne & Shirley, but his remarkable career later included This Is Spinal Tap, Broadway, Christopher Guest comedies, songwriting, and an unforgettable dramatic turn as Chuck McGill on Better Call Saul.
John Ritter turned pratfalls, panic, and perfect timing into sitcom gold. From Three’s Company to 8 Simple Rules, revisit the career of a gifted comedian who made physical comedy look impossibly easy.
From Kramer and Steve Urkel to Ned Flanders and the Barones, these classic TV neighbors regularly stole scenes, delivered the biggest laughs, and sometimes made us forget who the show was supposed to be about.
Frank Bonner became unforgettable as Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati, but his long career as an actor and prolific TV director was just as remarkable.
The 1980s gave us some TV shows that ran forever, some that became classics, and some that disappeared so fast you almost needed a VCR set to the right night just to prove they existed. But not every one-season show deserved the hook. Some were strange, funny, ambitious, or just too different for network TV at the time. But they all deserved more seasons than they got.
