Madonna wasn't yet a household name when she opened the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards by humping the stage, leading some people—including her own management team—to believe her career was over.

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A huge fan community has sprung up around Home Depot's massive 12-foot-tall skeleton, a Halloween decoration that's so scarce people are driving hundreds of miles to find one.
How much would Downton Abbey cost? More than a Hobbit hole, 'Frozen'’s castle, and every other estate on this list combined.
This year marks the 30th season of NBC’s 'Dateline.' To celebrate, here’s what you need to know about the show’s early days, how “To Catch a Predator” came to be, the show’s pivot to true crime, and what Keith Morrison really thinks of Bill Hader’s impres
Russell T. Davies, who revived 'Doctor Who' in 2005 after the series had been on ice for 16 years, is making his return.
“All I get now are phone calls all day from people asking me how I feel about Leonardo DiCaprio.” —97-year-old Titanic survivor Millvina Dean.
Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated this ultra-haunted house in Rhode Island decades ago. The paranormal activity hasn’t stopped.
'MacGruber,' the 'MacGyver'-inspired send-up of 1980s action movies, transformed a one-joke Saturday Night Live sketch into one of the best smart-dumb comedies of the last two decades.
'WandaVision,' which details the domestic bliss of Marvel superheroes Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), introducing the world to Phase Four of the Marvel Extended Universe.
Each box contains a random assortment of Pokémon Oreo, and like the creatures in the game series, some cookies are especially rare.
'Billions' is the perfect show about God-like wealth and our complicated feelings about those who wield it at a divisive time in American history.
A long-time Winnie the Pooh illustrator was asked to design and host this tree house Airbnb in Ashdown Forest—a.k.a. the inspiration for the One Hundred Acre Wood.
As this clip from ‘The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson’ proves, dishwasher cooking is more fun when Vincent Price is helping out.
Jim Morrison was the self-styled Lizard King, a leather-pants-loving rock deity who fronted the Doors and represented the dark and druggy flipside of the utopian ’60s dream.
Since making his acting debut in 1977, Denzel Washington has appeared in more than 50 movies, where he has awed audiences and garnered critical acclaim by delivering one powerful performance after the next. But there’s much more to the man than his movies
These 11 different Monopoly editions—including Monopoly: Cheaters Edition, 'Game of Thrones' Monopoly, and others—put a fun twist on this classic board game.
Firing Robert De Niro. Struggling with a non-functioning animatronic bear. Spending 40 years on hand-drawn animation. For these reasons and others, these films aren't likely to ever see the light of day.
On September 24, 1991, Nirvana released their second album—and radically changed the face of pop music and altered the cultural landscape for years to come.
Calling all ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ car fanatics: Now’s your chance to drive Furiosa’s War Rig or shred guitar atop the Doof Wagon.
Daniel Craig is reprising his role as Detective Benoit Blanc in two ‘Knives Out’ sequels to the tune of $100 million.
To some, Grimace is a dimwitted creature hailing from McDonaldland. To others, he looks like a ruptured scrotum. A McDonald's manager may have finally revealed what he really is.
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