[ad_1] Kirk (William Shatner) bids farewell to Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in the emotional finale of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection) It’s been forty years since Spock put the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few — or the one — in the final moments of …
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[ad_1] Pat McCormick and Paul Williams as Big Enos and Little Enos in Smokey and the Bandit. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection) Han Solo may be the galaxy’s best smuggler, but back here on terra firma, no one outraces the Bandit. Forty-five years ago, Smokey and the Bandit went head to head with Star Wars over …
[ad_1] Johnny Carson bids farewell to late night on his final episode of The Tonight Show, which aired 30 years ago. (Photo: Alice S. Hall/NBCU Photo Bank) This is the way a late-night king leaves his throne: not with a fight, but just a heartfelt good night. Thirty years ago, on May 22, 1992, Johnny …
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[ad_1] Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell in Ernest Goes to Camp. (Photo: ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) Attention Kamp Kikakee alums: You can go home again. Thirty-five years ago, Tennessee’s own Montgomery Bell State Park turned its historic Group Camp One over to the cast and crew of Ernest Goest to Camp, starring local …
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[ad_1] Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis and Ian Holm in The Fifth Element. (Photo: ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) Sometimes a career makeover also requires a personal makeover. Twenty-five years ago, Bruce Willis — who recently “stepped away” from acting after his family publicly disclosed his aphasia diagnosis — took a major professional risk by attaching himself …
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[ad_1] Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty are stranded in the desert in the legendary 1987 box office bomb, Ishtar. (Photo: Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) When is a big-budget cinematic comedy also a punchline itself? When that comedy is Ishtar, the notorious box office bomb that became the literal poster child for expensive Hollywood flops. Released …
[ad_1] Drew Barrymore and Sara Gilbert in Katt Shea’s 1992 cult hit, Poison Ivy. (Photo: Kimberly Wright / ©New Line / Courtesy Everett Collection) Kid actors — they grow up so fast. When multiplex audiences first met Drew Barrymore, she was a cherubic six-year-old scene-stealer in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 family blockbuster, E.T. the Extraterrestrial. Ten …
[ad_1] Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in 2002’s Spider-Man. (Photo: Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection) The first Spider-Man movie opened 20 years ago, on May 3, 2002, a time when superhero movies were far from the box-office behemoths they are in 2022. For every instant comic-based classic like 1978’s Superman and 1989’s Batman in the preceding decades, …
[ad_1] Ellen Degeneres and Oprah Winfrey on “The Puppy Episode” of Ellen. (Photo: ABC/Getty Images) Editor’s Note: This oral history was originally published in 2017. It has been updated to reflect recent events. No puppies were harmed — in fact, no puppies appear at all — in “The Puppy Episode.” But when it premiered 25 …
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