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1. When the precocious creator Jean-Michel Basquiat dated Madonna successful the aboriginal '80s (just arsenic the 2 were rising to fame), helium talented her galore of his paintings. After they broke up, Madonna said Basquiat asked for his artwork back, and erstwhile she returned them, helium painted implicit the pieces black.
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2. And Jay-Z, a longtime admirer of Jean-Michel Basquiat, has astatine slightest 1 Basquiat coating hanging successful his location shared with Beyoncé. In 2013, Jay-Z bought Basquiat's coating "Mecca" from 1982 for $4.2 million.
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Note: The artwork shown supra successful Tiffany & Co.'s "About Love" run is Basquiat's "Equals Pi" (1982), not "Mecca" (1982).
3. There was a biggggggg pop culture rumor that Mister Rogers was a sniper successful the Vietnam War and developed utmost choler issues. Allegedly, his therapist suggested that the champion mode to diminish his aggression was to get progressive successful children's entertainment. But Mister (Fred) Rogers was ne'er a subordinate of the military, nor did helium combat successful the Vietnam War. He attended Rollins College successful 1951 to study euphony composition, landed a occupation astatine a TV presumption successful 1953, and, arsenic you whitethorn already know, started Mister Rogers' Neighborhood successful the precocious '60s.
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4. On Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett described her wholesome 60+ twelvemonth relationship with Julie Andrews. Burnett and Andrews are an iconic personage duo who person worked unneurotic connected hilarious projects similar Julie and Carol astatine Carnegie Hall, and they amusement up to enactment 1 different arsenic they person awards successful the amusement world. But the astir endearing portion of their chummy relationship is however they marque each different chuckle. While filming The Sound of Music, Burnett told Poehler that Andrews would "send her soiled limericks."
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5. Elvis Presley was really a earthy blonde. His idiosyncratic hairsbreadth stylist, Larry Geller, dyed his hair acheronian successful the '50s by mixing shampoo, vitamin capsules, aloe vera, and herbs together. Geller told Yahoo! successful 2015, "I utilized to spell to the wellness nutrient store and get a benign basal shampoo and get immoderate vitamin capsules and determination 99 percent axenic aloe vera and different herbs into it, and shingle it up."
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6. While filming their makeout scenes successful Grease, Jeff Conaway (Kenickie) really gave Stockard Channing (Rizzo) hickies you spot successful the malt store scene. Channing said that Conaway was "was truly feeling his oats."
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7. Tina Turner was the 1 who taught Mick Jagger however to creation erstwhile she toured with the Rolling Stones successful the '60s. "The Rolling Stones requested that Ike [Turner] and Tina bash the England circuit with them. I didn't truly cognize Mick, but determination was ever this feline who stood successful the wings," Turner revealed. "He wasn't dancing connected signifier [yet]. We were successful the dressing rooms together, having a ball, and Mick says to me, 'Teach maine however to bash The Popcorn.' And I said to him, 'So that's what you were doing successful the wings each this time, learning immoderate of the dances we do?'"
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You tin ticker Tina Turner and Mick Jagger dancing unneurotic here.
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8. When Harry Styles experimented with mushrooms during the signaling of Fine Line astatine Shangri-La studios, helium accidentally spot the extremity of his lingua off. He said, "I was trying to sing with each this humor gushing retired of my mouth. So galore fond memories."
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9. In Honey Don't! starring Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley, there's 1 peculiar titillating enactment country that's really beauteous darn funny, erstwhile you larn the behind-the-scenes mechanics of it all.
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When Honey (Margaret Qualley) and MG Falcone (Aubrey Plaza) are astatine the bar, Qualley revealed the concealed instrumentality they utilized to marque the enactment enactment realistic. "There's idiosyncratic from the props section connected their knees holding a jar of coconut oil," she said. "Aubrey's got to assistance her digit up and person it beryllium wet. It was playing with antithetic levels of however acold you get successful that mounting and trying to enactment retired the physicality determination to marque definite that I was saying what we were trying to say, but it was truly funny."
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10. In Carrie Fisher's location successful California, she collected a ton of eccentric items, placing them astir each room, nook, and cranny connected the property. In the 2016 documentary Bright Lights, she gave an eventual circuit of her amusive location (which was downright iconic). She showed disconnected unsocial items, similar a subordinate soft successful the bathroom, comic Prozac art successful the kitchen, and a postulation airy hanging from a histrion successful beforehand of her house. The lone idiosyncratic who could propulsion disconnected this superb benignant of personage location decor was Carrie Fisher, and Carrie Fisher only!
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11. Tallulah Bankhead allegedly sprinkled Marlene Dietrich's golden wig particulate connected her pubic hairsbreadth and showed it disconnected to random radical who passed by her dressing room. Bankhead was quoted arsenic saying, "Going down connected a pistillate gives maine a stiff neck, going down connected a antheral gives maine lockjaw, and accepted enactment gives maine claustrophobia."
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12. Barbra Streisand has been known for having agelong nails ever since she came onto the country arsenic a vocalist successful 1963. For her 1976 film, A Star Is Born, she acceptable retired to larn the guitar and wrote the classical "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)," which won the Oscar for Best Original Song successful 1977. Because she had agelong nails, she had to cut the nails connected her near manus to marque learning the guitar easier, and consciousness much in-tune (pun intended) with the opus she was composing.
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They ended up cutting a country from A Star Is Born that showed Barbra Streisand playing the guitar for costar Kris Kristofferson. She released the deleted country successful 2018, wherever you could spot her agelong nails connected her close manus plucking "Evergreen" connected the guitar. Streisand revealed successful an Instagram video that, "When I had to larn the guitar for A Star Is Born, I lone had to chopped [my nails] connected 1 hand."
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You tin perceive to "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" here.
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13. And speakinggggggg of winning the Oscar for Best Original Song, Lady Gaga won successful 2019 for co-writing "Shallow," the main taxable from the 2018 mentation of A Star Is Born. Two legends, 2 stars, 2 winners for the aforesaid legendary story!!!
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You tin perceive to "Shallow" here.
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14. Jane Fonda and Marilyn Monroe were successful the same Method acting class — the Actors Studio — which was tally by legendary acting manager Lee Strasberg. "I sat adjacent to Marilyn Monroe successful Lee Strasberg's classes. She and I would beryllium successful the backmost of the room," Fonda recalled connected Oprah's Master Class successful 2012. "She'd person nary constitution on, acheronian sunglasses, and a scarf astir her head. She was excessively frightened to get up and bash anything."
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15. Big Sean's location (which utilized to beryllium owned by Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash) has a customized nightclub successful the basement. It was already determination erstwhile helium moved in, and helium made immoderate flimsy changes from Slash's archetypal setup. He kept the achromatic interior, the stripper pole, and the skull-shaped lights, but redecorated astir of the space. He adjacent replaced the couches due to the fact that helium "didn't cognize what the fuck [Slash] was doing down here."
16. The infamous "Peppa Pig" punctuation from Season 2 of The White Lotus was really improvised. Sabrina Impacciatore (who played Valentina) didn't cognize her quick-witted gag made it into the last cut. "I'm truthful gladsome it's connected the amusement due to the fact that Mike [White] said: 'You tin improvise if you privation successful this scene,'" Impacciatore told Access Hollywood: "It was connected my 3rd time of shooting, and I was intimidated by Jennifer [Coolidge] due to the fact that to me, she's a goddess. I improvised, I said, 'Peppa Pig,' and bash you cognize what happened? She could not halt laughing."
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17. In Beyoncé's opus "Smoke Hour ★ Willie Nelson" from her 2024 medium Cowboy Carter, she pays homage to Black artists who laid the instauration for country/rock music. If you wage attention, you'll drawback onto songs by revolutionary artists similar Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry, and Roy Hamilton.
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You tin perceive to "Smoke Hour ★ Willie Nelson" here.
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18. In Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker purposefully tripped a batch passim the bid to emulate immoderate of her favourite carnal comedians, similar Steve Martin and Jennifer Saunders. She believed tripping successful decorator shoes was existent to Carrie's quality due to the fact that she was "such a wreck of a idiosyncratic truthful overmuch of the time." Tripping successful shoes captured Carrie's quality to a tee: "Her flat is specified a messiness that she should travel implicit footwear boxes," Parker said. "They are successful the way."
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19. In the archetypal occurrence of Stranger Things 5, which premiered connected Netflix connected November 26, 2025, the amusement featured Diana Ross' iconic 1980 deed "Upside Down." Naturally, this inspired viewers to perceive to The Boss connected Spotify, resulting successful a BIG spike successful streams. "Upside Down" streams accrued by 510%, which...HOLY MOLY!!
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You tin perceive to "Upside Down" here.
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20. Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" was inspired by the Woodstock Music and Art Fair successful August 1969. She was primitively expected to execute astatine the festival, but astatine the past minute, her manager told her not to go. She was scheduled to look connected The Dick Cavett Show the adjacent day, truthful alternatively of performing astatine Woodstock, she stayed back successful New York.
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Moved by 1 of the archetypal immense euphony festivals successful history, Mitchell followed the Woodstock quality sum connected TV. It was that play she wrote the monumental opus "Woodstock," and unknowingly created the anthem of the precocious '60s. "I don't cognize if I would person written the opus 'Woodstock' if I had gone [to the festival]," she told Life successful 1994. "I was the instrumentality who couldn't go, not the performing animal. So, it afforded maine a antithetic perspective."
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The adjacent day, Mitchell appeared connected The Dick Cavett Show alongside Woodstock performers Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby, and Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Mitchell listened to their stories astir the festival she unfairly missed retired on. The opus "Woodstock" became a large deed for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young successful March 1970, and a period later, appeared connected Mitchell's medium Ladies of the Canyon arsenic a dark, soft ballad.
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21. Oprah perfectly loved '70s sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show erstwhile she was successful her twenties. She wanted to beryllium Mary Tyler Moore's character, Mary Richards, erstwhile she grew up. She adjacent had an "O" hanging successful her apartment, conscionable similar Mary's legendary "M." In 2008, Oprah reunited the formed of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and astatine 1 point, they amazed her with a golden "O" signed by everyone.
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22. In a 2021 interrogation with People, Bowen Yang talked astir the legendary Saturday Night Live afterparties and his idiosyncratic experiences with them. When helium archetypal became a formed subordinate successful 2019, helium said, "Everybody [usually] goes to a steakhouse successful Midtown and sits astatine a array and sips connected 1 martini and leaves — but you'd person to spell to the after-afterparty with a password." He went into item astir his champion afterparty acquisition successful 2020. "One of my happiest moments [was when] RuPaul hosted and each of the Season 12 girls [from RuPaul's Drag Race] came," Yang said. "The DJ played location euphony from the '90s, and everyone got connected tables and danced — and it was Cecily [Strong's] birthday. It was 1 of the champion nights. I consciousness similar that's the imaginable an SNL afterparty usually has."
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23. Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" was partially inspired by the 2017 movie Call Me by Your Name. In a 2021 interrogation with Genius, Lil Nas X revealed it was a magical process penning "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)." He said, "The storyline happens this 1 nighttime successful the summertime wherever I instrumentality a interruption from moving connected [Montero], and I sojourn this feline who's an artist. He's like, 'Come sojourn my house!' and I was like, 'Okay.' I get there, and I'm like, 'Oh, I similar this feline a lot.' And the adjacent day, I started penning the song."
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Lil Nas X explained that Call Me by Your Name was "one of the archetypal cheery films I had watched," and however profoundly the movie influenced his 2021 hit. "The opus is called 'Call Me by Your Name,' which is themed aft the movie Call Me by Your Name," helium said. "The opus is my sanction [Montero], but it's the person's sanction due to the fact that I'm calling them by my ain sanction — you get it?"
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You tin perceive to "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" here.
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24. Liza Minnelli was really the archetypal creator to sing "New York, New York" successful 1977, earlier Frank Sinatra made it celebrated 2 years later. John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the opus for the 1977 movie New York, New York starring Minnelli, but unfortunately, her mentation didn't get the popularity it truthful rightly deserved. They adjacent made a gag astir it connected Arrested Development, connected which Liza was featured arsenic Lucille 2.
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25. And Stevie Nicks revealed connected Oprah's Master Class that she would support a gram of cocaine successful her footwear successful the '70s. She took truthful overmuch cocaine that by 1986, a integrative surgeon told Nicks she had a spread successful her nose, and if she took 1 much "hit of cocaine," it would beryllium her past ever.
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While everyone astir her successful the '70s thought she looked beautiful, Stevie Nicks disagrees. The cause addiction was evident successful her eyes, that looked similar they were "swimming successful water."
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