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Before every Sex and the City episode, Kim Cattrall always came in prepared with a variety of different angles and suggestions to see what would fit better for Samantha and the man she was having sex with. She said, “In the sex scene with the fireman, I suggested: ‘Let me do an orgasm with the sound of a fire engine, let me try different things.’ You don’t know if one’s going to be too much or not enough, so it’s nice for [the SATC crew] to have a few choices.”
All of the men who ended up filming sex scenes on Sex and the City wore a cup so nothing would actually show on screen. The cups were labeled “KC,” Kim Cattrall’s initials.
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According to Jane Fonda, during the infamous slap scene in Monster-in-Law (2005), Jennifer Lopez actually scratched her with her big diamond ring. “Jennifer had this enormous diamond ring,” Fonda said on The Drew Barrymore Show. “When she slapped me, it cut open across my eyebrow. She’s never apologized.”
And because Lamar’s star was shining bright as heck, established fans (and newer fans) seemed to be doing deep dives into his personal life. This has led to an old picture of Lamar from 2022 resurfacing and going viral — why, you ask? Because the legendary rapper attended UCLA! In the pictures, he’s on his phone (we don’t know what he’s doing exactly — my best bet is he’s taking genius notes to maintain said genius). UCLA shared the pictures on X with the caption, “Photos [are] from 2022, but the lesson stays the same — UCLA is where you level up 📚✍️.”
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In the Stranger Things series finale, which premiered on Netflix on December 31, 2025, the show featured Prince’s iconic song “Purple Rain” and David Bowie’s memorable “Heroes,” among others. This inspired fans everywhere to listen to them on Spotify, increasing a hugeeeeeee spike in streams. “Purple Rain” streams increased by 608% and “Heroes” increased by 185%, and rightly so!!!
You can listen to “Purple Rain” here and “Heroes” here.
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Almost a year after Speed was released, Keanu Reeves surprised Sandra Bullock with truffles, champagne, and flowers. When they were hanging out together, Bullock casually mentioned she never had truffles before — so, like the kind-hearted man he is, Reeves eventually surprised her. He showed up at her house, saying, “I just thought you might want to try champagne and truffles to see what it’s like.” Bullock then invited him inside, where she and her friend were painting their nails; she also painted Reeves’ nails.
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Carrie Fisher and Penny Marshall, who became best friends when they dated Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in the ’70s, were known for throwing a legendary joint birthday bash every October. They celebrated their birthdays together (both in October, both Libras!) and had some of the wildest experiences with A-List celebrities, like David Bowie and Jack Nicholson.
On The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Fisher and Marshall revealed that David Bowie crashed one of their parties and that the guest list started out at 60 people but gradually went up to 400 as the years went on.
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When Julia Roberts was born in 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid for her hospital bill. In a recent interview with Gayle King, Roberts said: “My parents had a theatre school in Atlanta called The Actors and Writers Workshop, and one day, Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school.” Roberts continued: “They were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids. [The Kings and my parents] all became friends, and they helped us out of a jam.”
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At the 2023 Met Gala, Rihanna — famously known for being the star of every Met Gala — wore jewelry that most likely cost wayyyyyy more than your house, rocking Cartier jewelry that cost $25 million. According to Vogue, she chose “Bulgari’s High Jewelry necklace in platinum with five pear diamonds, 118 Akoya cultured pearls, seven pear diamonds, 109 round diamonds, 561 fancy shape diamonds, and pavé-set diamonds.”
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One time at Disneyland, when Zendaya’s security mistreated fans who came to see her, she stood up for them in the best way possible. According to BuzzFeed Community user kevinm41b9dbc63, she said: “‘Look: Nobody standing here would have a job right now if it wasn’t for people like them watching the show and supporting me. I’d really like it if you’d let me have a few minutes with my fans to thank them. It’s the least I can do.’ [Zendaya] was only 14 at the time, and she took pictures with all of the fans who asked — she even complimented my boots and hair.”
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Marlene Dietrich openly identified as bisexual and allegedly had sex with notable actors like her Shanghai Express costar Anna May Wong. Dietrich referred to her affairs with women as “sewing circles” and created a safe space where lesbian and bisexual women in the Old Hollywood community could be themselves. Dietrich was also one of the first actors to have a lesbian kiss in a major motion picture in the US. Dietrich’s character in Morocco (1930), Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, kissed a female audience member during one of her performances in a to-die-for black tux and top hat.
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Carlos Santana was so high on LSD during his performance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, he thought his guitar neck was a snake. In an interview, Santana recalled: “The neck of the guitar started wavering like a snake, and I was like: ‘Uh-oh.’ I just started making faces because I was trying to keep it tame, you know?”
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Queen Latifah believes the premise for Friends was taken directly from her ’90s sitcom that aired just the year before, Living Single. In a 2016 interview, Queen Latifah (who played Khadijah James) said: “When Living Single came out, Warren Littlefield — who was the president of NBC — [was asked] if he could have any show on television, which one would it be? And he said Living Single. The next thing you know, here comes Friends — which was an amazing show, and they did a great job with it. So if you’re gonna rock it, that’s the way to do it.”
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James Avery, aka Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, had a deep admiration for jazz music. He had posters of Billie Holiday and Charlie “Bird” Parker displayed in his dressing room. He gave DJ Jazzy Jeff a bunch of jazz CDs, and they spent hours together in Avery’s dressing room listening to music.
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Jordan Peele made Daniel Kaluuya film the famous “Give me the keys, Rose” scene in Get Out several times. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Peele pushed Kaluuya that day on set because he wanted his character (Chris) to finally break free. “Each take I was trying to rev [Daniel] up more and get him to this point where he was going to essentially lash out for the first time in the film,” Peele said. “[Chris has] been so patient, he’s been so contained, [and] he’s suppressed so many uncomfortable emotions throughout the movie that this is going to be his chance to lash out in the form of yelling at Rose (Allison Williams’ character).” After shooting several takes, Peele finally got the emotional reaction he wanted from Kaluuya on the last take.
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Ernest H. Shepard, the renowned illustrator of the Winnie the Pooh books, had a daughter who was just as famous in the publishing world. His daughter, Mary Shepard, was best known for illustrating the Mary Poppins book series (talent did indeed run in the family!!!).
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Queen’s “We Will Rock You” was written specifically for their fans. One night after a concert was over in England, Queen fans stayed and serenaded the band with a song. Brian May, Queen’s lead guitarist, said: “We did an encore and then went off, and instead of just clapping, they sang ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ to us, and we were just completely knocked out and taken aback. It was quite an emotional experience, really, and I think these chant things are in some way connected to that…I went to bed thinking: ‘What could you ask them to do?'”
“They’re all squeezed in there, but they can clap their hands, they can stamp their feet, and they can sing,” said Brian May. “In the morning, I woke up and had the idea in my head for ‘We Will Rock You.'”
You can listen to “We Will Rock You” here.
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In 1970 when political activist Angela Davis was arrested in New York City for a crime she was wrongfully accused of — and even threatened with the death penalty — many famous musicians came forward to show their support. Big names like Aretha Franklin offered $100,000 to $250,000 to post bail for Davis. “Angela Davis must go free. Black people will be free. I’ve been locked up, and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can’t get no peace,” Franklin told Jet Magazine in 1970. “I have the money — I got it from Black people. They’ve made me financially able to have it, and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.”
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Before making it big in Hollywood, a bunch of famous women starred in pretty popular television commercials. Zendaya was in a Disney commercial promoting iCarly toys in the mid-’00s, Cate Blanchett was in a Tim Tam commercial in the ’90s, and Diane Keaton did an ad for deodorant in the ’70s.
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If you don’t recognize Cree Summer by her face, then you’ll definitely know her by her voice. She’s one of the most iconic voice actors of all time, lending her talents to such characters as Susie Carmichael from Rugrats, Miranda from As Told by Ginger, and Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. During a 2017 panel at BoroughCon, Summer said, “I don’t adhere to competition — I believe that the jobs I get are only mine. I’ve gone into auditions and [have] just taken a dump — and I get that gig, ’cause that’s my job. No one else was meant for that job.”
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John Stamos has collected a LOT of Disney memorabilia over the years, and displays it in an office/studio on his Beverly Hills property. He owns items from Disneyland and Disney World rides like The Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, and Snow White’s Enchanted Wish. Stamos even snabbed a gigantic Disney sign from eBay when the site first started.
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In 1989, the Grammys created a new category: “Best Rap Performance.” DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith (then the Fresh Prince) were nominated for the award and won for “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” However, they refused to attend the ceremony because the Grammys didn’t plan on televising the category. To show their support, rappers like LL Cool J and Salt-N-Pepa didn’t attend the ceremony either.
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Ricky Martin’s 1999 smash “Livin’ la Vida Loca” is the first song in music history to be recorded digitally (with zero use of analog) to hit Number 1. “Livin’ la Vida Loca’s” cowriter, Desmond Child, said: “We were the first to record and mix a record [in] what they called ‘in the box’ in Pro Tools. One of the things about that new sound of digital, it had a kind of metallic sound, and to compensate for that metallic sound, we made it drier than Latin music had ever been (which is more like ambient dance music).”
This hit changed the approach to music recording forever, according to Child. “We got [Ricky Martin’s] voice right in everybody’s face. It really worked, and from that moment on, nothing has ever sounded like it used to sound.”
You can listen to Livin’ La Vida Loca here.
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In Daisy Jones & the Six, you might recognize a guitar strap that Riley Keough’s character (Daisy) used. Keough — an actor in her own right — also has a rich family history: her grandfather is Elvis Presley. If you look close enough in Episode 2 of Daisy Jones, you could see a veryyyy similar guitar strap that Elvis used in a 1968 TV special.
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Ashanti sang demo vocals on one of Jennifer Lopez’s biggest hits: The Murder Inc. remix to “I’m Real.” She also claimed that she helped write Lopez’s second big remix: “Ain’t It Funny.” Ja Rule (who was also featured on both remixes) said the producers kept Ashanti’s demo vocals on “I’m Real.” “It’s weird because obviously you get frustrated for not getting credit or not being properly labeled,” Ashanti told Metro UK. “But then that turns into something you get admired for.”
You can listen to “I’m Real” (Murder Remix) here and “Ain’t It Funny” here.
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Megan Fox got a tattoo of Marilyn Monroe after filming the first Transformers movie because she loved the idea of Monroe’s crafted persona. In 2009, Fox told The New York Times: “She was always playing a character within a character — the psychology behind that is very interesting. I didn’t want to be literal. I didn’t want to put someone on my arm who I wanted to emulate.”
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While recording “Partition” in the studio, Beyoncé didn’t come prepared with any lyrics. She completely ad-libbed the song as soon as she heard the bass line and beat. In Beyoncé’s Self-Titled documentary, she revealed that she went into the recording studio without a pen and paper and just started singing into the mic. She said: “I’m in the studio and I hear this bass line and this beat. It has snaps, and it has two tracks — it’s very simple. It takes me back to when me and my husband first met and he’s trying to scoop me and he thinks I’m the hottest thing in the world.”
Beyoncé revealed that it was important for her to express her sexual fantasies in “Partition” because of the complex feelings women experience after giving birth for the first time. She said, “You could have your child and you could still have fun and still be sexy and still have dreams and still live for yourself. I don’t have any shame about being sexual, and I’m not embarrassed about it.”
You can listen to “Partition” here.
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Mariah Carey’s closet in her Tribeca apartment is not only a giant walk-in, but she has various rooms in her closet to organize her luxurious items. One room is for gowns and dresses, another room is for shoes, and one room is strictly for lingerie. She also has Marilyn Monroe’s white piano from her childhood on the first floor of her apartment.
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Rita Moreno was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Marlon Brando for eight years, which has always been glamorized by the public. In a 2021 interview with AP, Moreno revealed the truth behind her relationship with Brando, which was actually toxic. In the interview, she said, “We did a movie together long after I tried to do away with my life, and all of that had to do with my relationship with Marlon Brando. The movie’s called The Night of the Following Day [1969] … and I hauled off and slapped him in this scene … And, to my absolute astonishment, he not only slapped me back, he slapped me back so hard I — I now understood what it meant when you said, ‘I saw stars.'”
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Judy Garland and Jack Haley, who famously starred as Dorothy and the Tin Man in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, would have a familial connection down the line. Their children, singer Liza Minnelli and Jack Haley Jr., married each other in 1974.
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And in Glass Onion, writer and director Rian Johnson confirmed that the last shot of Janelle Monáe’s character (Helen) reflected the renowned Mona Lisa painting. The Mona Lisa played a huge role in the film, with Edward Norton’s aloof character (Edward) bragging about owning it to his “closest friends.” Johnson told the Wrap: “The notion of squinting and seeing something different was baked into the structure of [the final shot]. Everything Edward says when he’s talking about the Mona Lisa in front of everybody [fuses with Helen] at the end. She burned the Mona Lisa, but the Mona Lisa lives on in Helen.”