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Varney graduated from Lafayette Senior High School in Lexington Kentucky. He credited one of his teachers there for him becoming an actor. Most people know Varney simply as “Ernest”, for the character/persona he created Ernest P. Worrell. Between 1987 and 1990, Disney released four Ernest centric movies that generated over $99 million. Five more films [...]
Chambers was a pornographic actress who is best known for her 1972 hardcore film “Behind the Green Door”. Chambers was trying to find work as an actress, when she answered an advertisement for a casting call. Upon her arrival, she found out that it wasn’t for a normal gig… it was for a porno film. [...]
Dana Plato will forever be known as Kimberly on the show Diff’rent Strokes, the sister to Arnold and Willis, played by Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges respectively. After Diff’rent strokes went off the air, Plato’s career sunk to playing roles in B-movies, some of which bordering on soft-core porn. She had experienced drug and alcohol [...]
Brad Renfro was a young actor who had appeared in mostly independent films. Perhaps most famously, he was the kid in the film version of John Grisham’s The Client, and later went on to appear in such films as Apt Pupil (based on the Stephen King novella), Bully, Ghost World, and Deuces Wild. His last [...]
Ross was a painter who is best known for his television show “The Joy of Paining”, which was shown on public broadcast stations across the United States. During each episode Ross would show viewers the art of oil painting using the quick-study technique that kept colors to a minimum and broke the whole process down [...]
Nicknamed the Russian Rapunzel, Ruslana Korshunova was a fashion model who had appeared on the covers of French Elle and Russian Vogue. Though she was of Russian descent, her homeland was Kazakhstan. She appeared in print advertisements for the following: Blugirl by Blumarine, Clarins, Ghost, Girbaud, Kenzo Accessories, Max Studio, Moschino, Old England, Pantene Always [...]
Stevie Ray Vaughan is considered by many to be one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. He played a brand of blues-rock that is often imitated, and Vaughan’s songs still get heavy radio airplay to this day. He battled drug and alcohol problems, but as many rock stars would meet their demise from [...]
Murphy was a famous actress who had starred in such movies as Clueless, 8 Mile, Sin City and Riding in Cars with Boys.
Robert Urich was an actor who usually played private investigators and similar roles. His shows included: Spenser: For Hire, Vega$, S.W.A.T., Soap, and The Lazarus Man. He played a combination of leading roles and supporting roles on as many as 19 TV series and miniseries.
Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana to a working class family on August 29, 1958. His father, Joseph, was a steel mill employee and often performed in various R&B groups. His mother was a stay at home mom and a devout Jehovah’s Witness. Michael was the seventh of nine children; his siblings include Rebbie, [...]