Cher’s most memorable marriage was to Sonny Bono, but the Queen of Pop had another husband, Southern rocker Gregg Allman, and the relationship was a calamity
Famed party palace Studio 54 was shuttered after its owner taunted the government and bragged, “Only the mafia makes more money”
After finding fame as Dracula, Bela Lugosi turned down the chance to play Frankenstein’s Monster, a role that went to little-known Boris Karloff
Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line
“It’s raining cats and dogs” may be a bizarre way to describe a heavy downpour, but it’s better than “It’s raining old women with clubs”
The Wild West era, a period of myth-making cowboys, gunslingers, and saloon madames, actually lasted only 30 years
A crazy if unconsummated 1965 love triangle starring Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Bob Dylan ended tragically
Holly Golightly would be “divinely and utterly happy,” because now, finally, it’s possible to have breakfast at Tiffany’s
The epic “Cleopatra” was the first movie to generate more heat from what happened behind the scenes with an illicit affair than onscreen