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Donald Sutherland spent decades wowing audiences with his skill and bravery, so it doesn't make sense that throughout his career, he never won an Oscar. But there may be a startling reason why the academy snubbed him.

Who doesn’t know the Jacksons? Their family story is seriously messed up—yet somehow, Janet Jackson came out of it all as a superstar, and seems relatively untouched by the drama. Well, keyword, relatively. What was it like for her to step out from the shadows of her famous siblings and make a name for herself? And how has she managed to escape the Jackson curse?

Tony Hancock spent his entire career making people laugh. But when it came to his own life and its shockingly tragic end, it turned out he didn’t have much of anything to laugh about.

Metallica, the only band that has played on all seven continents, has a long history filled with tragedy, overindulgence, and making a lot of people really, really angry.

Christopher Plummer would rather fans forget his most famous role as the stoic head of the Von Trapp family. That guy was a real bore compared to the real-life Christopher Plummer: A self-proclaimed boozer and serial womanizer. If anyone thought Plummer was the male version of his saintly co-star Julie Andrews, here are some facts that’ll prove them wrong.

WC Fields was a sloshed-out comic genius who couldn't help but take his work home with him—and suffered the grim consequences because of it.