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.

The 1980s produced plenty of Oscar winners everyone still talks about, but the decade's awards history is much stranger once you move beyond the usual classics. Some of these movies won Best Picture, major acting prizes, or handfuls of trophies, yet now seem to live in the shadow of films they actually beat.

William Shatner and George Takei's decades-long Star Trek feud involved bitter accusations, public insults, and a controversial wedding invitation. Discover the surprising story behind their enduring Hollywood rivalry.

Hattie McDaniel's 1940 Oscar victory was historic, but the celebration came with an astonishing contradiction: the ceremony was held inside a segregated Los Angeles hotel, and McDaniel was seated apart from most of her Gone with the Wind colleagues. Her triumph broke a barrier while the room around her demonstrated just how many others remained.

They were on your television every week, getting laughs and sometimes stealing scenes from the people whose names appeared first in the credits. Do you remember their characters? How about their actual names? Can you get to 5?

When a teenage Dick Van Dyke tried to enlist during WWII, his mother made a startling confession: He was actually a year older than he'd been led to believe. She claimed she'd changed his birthday because he'd been born prematurely, but when Dick questioned his grandmother, he discovered the real reason. His parents had conceived him before they were married, and they'd altered his birthday to hide the scandal. But as Dick began piecing together the truth, he realized just how far his family had gone to keep their secret.