“The first song I ever performed live was in fifth grade. I took my guitar to class and played the “Frito Bandito” song from a popular TV commercial. A girl in class started flirting with me. I didn’t know anything about girls, but I flirted back. Not long afterward I went on to play guitar at...
1. Sleeping with Zorro? As a 15-year-old girl in 1957, Annette Funicello had a crush on the TV character Zorro, and "every night I drifted off to sleep hugging his eight-by-ten framed photo to my chest," she remembered in her biography. So the next year, Walt Disney had a special treat for the...
1. "Your Movie Sucks" Roger Ebert could wield a poison pen as well as anybody. And the story of one confrontation has a permanent place of honor in Ebert's page on Wikipedia. In January 2005, Rob Schneider took out full-page ads in Hollywood newspapers to attack movie critic Patrick Goldstein,...
1. The Greatest Story Ever Told I'm a fan — and there's one song Davy Jones should be remembered by. In 1986, the 41-year-old former teen idol recorded his own secret anthem. I think of it as his personal "My Way" — an original song about a life spent in show business, where (more than most...