Inside John Stamos' Time In The Beach Boys
The loss of Dennis Wilson didn't break up The Beach Boys. They took some time off to mourn, and then started looking for a replacement.
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The Truth About Crop Circles
Whether you've just seen them in an old episode of The X-Files or you're a full-on UFO hunter who's scoured the local countryside for extra-terrestrial landing sites, you're bound to know what a crop circle looks like. They are often exceptionally beautiful.
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Why Sky Dancer Dolls Were Way More Dangerous Than You Thought
The regulatory agency said the company that made Sky Dancers, Galoob, received 170 reports of the dolls hitting people, resulting in 150 injuries ranging from scratched corneas, temporary blindness, and chipped teeth to broken ribs, a mild concussion, and facial lacerations that required stitches.
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Why Robert Plant Didn't Get Any Credit On Led Zeppelin's First Album
In 1966 and 1967, Robert Plant had been the singer for the band Listen; they were still under contract with CBS Records. Writing for his new band, which was signed with Atlantic Records, would count as a breach of contract. The result: He remained anonymous on an album that would make his career.
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The Reason Axl Rose Dropped Out Of School
Despite placement tests that ranked him in the top three percent of his classmates, Rose dropped out of school in the 11th grade, returned, and eventually dropped out again in his senior year, failing to graduate from high school.
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The Extremely Unhealthy Way Jared Leto Gained Weight For Chapter 27
Leto's later film, 2007's Chapter 27, told the story of John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman. Leto's preparation for the role would lead him to alter his body in an even more dangerous way. Leto reportedly gained nearly 65 pounds to play Chapman.
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What Nobody Told You About Mike Wolfe From American Pickers
The best thing to come from the show wasn't the ratings, or inspiring the general population to search through dumps for potential treasure; it was the personalities. The stars of American Pickers have lives outside of the show. Wolfe is a pretty interesting guy.
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The Legendary Martial Artist That Bruce Lee Inspired
Jackie Chan is known for performing his own breathtaking acrobatics in fight-scene-filled flicks like Rumble In the Bronx, Rush Hour, Drunken Master, the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid, and so many other films. And where does a legend like that get the inspiration? Why, from another legend.
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This Might Have Been Andre The Giant's Most Challenging Wrestling Match
Even though Andre's back was not in the best shape at that point, he agreed to be a part of the show and do what was required of him. In fact, his back hurt so much that in a scene for The Princess Bride, the wrestler couldn't support an actresses's weight.
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How Much Money Did Jamie Hyneman Make From MythBusters?
Jamie is living proof that you can make a living doing what you love. "I think I grew up in the Midwest and work was what you did to make money, and you had fun afterwards," he told Design News, "But if you can find something you love and can earn a living doing, money will take care of itself...."
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Here's How Hong Kong Reacted To Bruce Lee's Death
Lee became a star of the silver screen in America, albeit months too late. Unsurprisingly, Lee's death felt across the globe was mourned in two very different ways.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Simon & Garfunkel
Tragically, feuds and shifting careers have led Simon & Garfunkel to reunite and break up many times over.
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The Magical Reason This Victorian Market Looks Familiar
When these highly ornamented places need to be translated into movie sets and relatively non-green-screened environments, it becomes exceedingly tricky to craft just the right space. Details and broad strokes need to be balanced to stay true to the novels' vision, and also provide enough details.
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The Trick MythBuster's Jamie Hyneman Uses To Solve Problems
When his body is engaged, his mind does a better job at dismantling puzzles and coming up with new ideas. As Wired described the clip, "It sure sounds Californian, but there must be something to it." Hyneman himself says, "The mind and the body really aren't so separate."
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The Tragic Death Of Dale Earnhardt, Sr
According to initial reports by the Orlando Sentinel, he died of the brain injury, but those reports turned out to be incorrect. According to U.S. Motorsport, Dr. Barry Myers, a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, reviewed Earnhardt's autopsy images.
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Why The Smiths Decided To Call It Quits
Any break up is complicated. Such is the case with The Smiths.
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The Famous Singer That Inspired Tom Petty To Make Music
Petty didn't find modern music appealing at all and was disappointed by what he discovered. For him, classical legends were inspirational. The turning point for the singer was meeting musical icon Elvis Presley as a 11-year-old.
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How The Government Helped Make Saturday Morning Cartoons Disappear
Eventually, the near-legendary image of a child plopped before a TV screen with a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning was no more.
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The American Rock Star Who Inspired Joan Jett
Joan Jett freely admits that her iconic "look of black leather, black eyeliner, and a black shag haircut," as well as her sound, are not entirely original; her inspiration was rocker Suzi Quatro.
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How Jerry Lee Lewis' Marriage Destroyed His Career
Myra Gail attracted plenty of attention from journalists during the couple's trip to England, where a local reporter, Paul Tanfield, engaged in a conversation with Lewis about Myra. How old is she? Lewis promptly revealed that Myra was 15.
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The Truth About Jared Leto's Tragic Childhood
According to Leto, his father went out to get a carton of milk, only to metaphorically end up on a milk carton himself, back in the early 1970s when Leto was only a baby. The story gets a bit darker. Leto's dad remarried, and Leto never heard from the guy again.
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The Tragic Death Of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' Thuy Trang
The Vietnamese-born actress Thuy Trang was on her way to a very successful Hollywood career when her life was tragically cut short in 2001.
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The Truth About The First Fatality At The X Games
Caleb Moore readied his snowmobile. He was about to begin his run at the 2013 Winter X Games Snowmobile Freestyle event, an event he had earned the Bronze medal for three years running. He didn't know it would be his last.
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The Concerning Truth About Moon Shoes
While trampolines have sent over a million people to the emergency room, toy manufacturers in the 90s thought, "Why not strap them to kids' feet?" And thus, the moon shoes were born.
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The Real Reason Guns N' Roses' Original Guitarist Left The Band
Tracii Guns was hanging around stage before a gig for his band, L.A. Guns, when another young man performed a mic check. "Oh s---," Guns recalled thinking to AL, "who is this guy?"
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Here's How Much Steely Dan's Donald Fagen Is Really Worth
Donald Fagen is the co-founder, lead singer, and keyboardist of Steely Dan, a band noted by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their "deviously slick music" that made them "the perfect musical antiheros for the Seventies." How much has their musical heroism paid Fagen?
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The Tragic Death Of Basketball Phenomenon Hank Gathers
Basketball player Hank Gathers was a legend in the making. But his life ended tragically early.
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