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Here's a man who usually gets no respect - getting some respect from Elvis Presley in Las Vegas. Again, its so surreal seeing photos of celebrities you never thought would ever cross paths. Rodney Dangerfield's career took off when he was called in as a last-minute replacement for an act on Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. He was often invited back and became a headliner in Las Vegas. Thus where this photographic meeting-of-the-minds took place. Meanwhile, Elvis had just filmed his legendary comeback special the year before - and was having a rejuvenated resurgence of his career. Elvis also loved comedy - and once cited that Andy Kaufman did the best impersonation of The King.
Okay, we have some photos that will have you doing double-takes on first viewing. Did you know that sexy pop culture icon, Raquel Welch, was considered for the role of Mary Anne on Gilligan's Island? Well, we got her audition photo. What about Michael Meyers enjoying a Dr. Pepper while taking a break from filming the original Halloween movie. Yup, that's in our gallery as well. Also, we have Tom Hanks in a karate outfit fighting Fonzi, Bruce Lee wearing the coolest clothes you've ever seen, Elvis Presley meeting comedian Rodney Dangerfield - as well as dozens and dozens of photos that will blow your mind and provide you with trivia facts to keep everyone in work carpool interested.
Rest your eyes and get ready for 56 groovy photos that will keep you talking. Onward!
Oh wow! Wonder Woman! This was back in the day, when skateboarding was sort of new. So every TV show tried to tie into the craze; even Wonder Woman, who, apparently, needed to wear a helmet while skateboarding. Safety first for Wonder Woman. This episode had an easy premise: While on vacation in California visiting her teenage goddaughter, non-Wonder Woman, Diana Prince, uncovers an illegal gambling operation while watching a local skateboard competition. Transforming into her alter-ego, Wonder Woman, she is able to bring down the organization with the help of a skateboarder who has a photographic memory.
Spoiler Alert: Wonder Woman apprehends the thugs while pursuing them on a skateboard. In the end, everyone goes out for pizza. The end.
Talk about some crazy, unnatural measurements. Betty Brosmer was a bodybuilder, fitness instructor, and pinup model. In fact, if you watch the 1967 movie, The Dirty Dozen , pin-ups of Brosmer can be seen on the walls of the MP barrack - that's how big of a star she was back in the day.
Bromer's other claim to fame was that in 1961, she married bodybuilder, Joe Weider, and began a career as a spokesperson and trainer in the budding health and fitness industry. She coauthored several books on the subject and, along with her husband, helped to generate the American fitness craze.
Back in the days before the Iron Curtain came down, you had to wait in line for everything in Russia - including a Big Mac and fries. Though the 1980 arrival of McDonald's in the Soviet Union didn't change everything overnight, it was a shape of things to come. A mass of people lined up outside the American fast food chain and paid the equivalent of several days’ wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries. Apparently, they wanted to eat like how the Yankee Pig-Dog Oppressors ate. It was estimated that 30,000 people waited for their chance to enter the world of Ronald McDonald. The Moscow establishment was the largest McDonald's in the world and could seat up to 900 people. What a country!
Every actor has got to start somewhere. And before they become famous, these movie icons had to go through the audition process. If you haven't been on an acting audition, the protocol is you first sign in and then have a photo taken. In the case of casting director Mali Finn - her collection of polaroids is a regular who's who - of future Hollywood stars. Finn was responsible for casting such stars as Billy Bob Thorton (pictured above in a red shirt and suspenders), Leonardo DiCaprio (in Titanic), and Russell Crowe (L.A. Confidential) in some of the biggest career-making roles. During her stint, Finn cast roughly 90 movies and television series.
Wow! Before she was Foxy Brown, the future legendary blaxplotation actress Pam Grier was a young hot beauty queen. Look at all the trophies she won! Grier was the very first African American woman to star in an action movie. In the 70s, she was dubbed queen of the blaxplotation genre due to her roles in Coffy, Black Mama White Mama , and of course, Foxy Brown .
Always an innovator, Grier continued to break the acting mold with her role in the 1995 Quentin Tarantino’s 1995 classic Jackie Brown , and as Kit Porter in groundbreaking lesbian TV drama The L Word . But before all that - she was a young, hot beauty queen in the 1960s!
Tony Hawk might look like a complete dork in this photo - but the man is pretty amazing. Hawk was one of the original pioneers of the sports who skated alongside the original Dogtown and the Z-Boys crew. Among his many achievements, on June 27, 1999, Hawk was the first skater to land a "900," a trick involving the completion of two-and-a-half mid-air revolutions on a skateboard.
Not only is Hawk gifted at skateboarding, but he's also gifted in the brain-area. When he was middle school, he tested with an I.Q. of 144, and teachers recommended placing him in advanced classes.
Here's a shot of mother/daughter Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis inside the legendary club - from back in the day - apparently having just seen a ghost or the trailer to the first installment of the Halloween franchise.
As far as being a supermodel goes, Kathy Ireland always hit a home run. Not only did she appear in 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues - but Ireland also has a current net worth of $420 million. That's knocking the ball clear out of the park. Besides having her own brand company, Ireland has appeared in a numerous TV and movie roles. Most notably is the 1988 flick: Alien from L.A. The plot centers on a young woman who visits the underground civilization of Atlantis. Not to say the movie is laughable - but it got a send-up during the fifth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 .
In more recent years, Ireland was also featured on the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars , with her dance partner Tony Dovolani. Sadly, the dancing couple was eliminated in the second week of competition. Boo!
Early Billy Joel was kind of cool. Here he is back in 1974 - showing a lot of irony while drinking in public right next to a sign where it says it's not permitted to do such. Mr. Piano Man grew up in Long Island. His father was a classical pianist born in Germany - who emigrated to America to escape the Nazi regime. Coming from a musical family, Joel has a half-brother, Alexander Joel, who is a classical conductor in Europe.
Not only did Joel take up music at an early age, but he also took up boxing to help defend himself. In fact, as a teenager he successfully boxed on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit. He won 22 bouts, but quit the sport when his nose was broken during his 24th bout. And the rest is Piano Man history.
This 1989 movie teams together Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, and Bill Paxton a.k.a. Chet from Weird Science . Ben Stiller is also in this forgettable flick. In one of his earliest roles, Stiller plays the character: Lawrence Isabella. Patrick Swayze did double-duties on the film; not only starring as tje redneck cop, Truman Gates - but also appearing on the Next of Kin soundtrack, where he sings the song "Brothers" with country music star Larry Gatlin.
The movie got pretty mixed reviews but did receive one notable award nomination. Swayze was nominated for Worst Actor by the Razzie Awards that year - only losing out to William Shatner for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier .
When you think of Willie Nelson, one of the things that comes to mind is massive amounts of weed. Here is the musical icon's mugshot from when he was arrested for a weed-related-escapade. The musician first landed himself in jail for marijuana possession in Dallas in 1974. A reoccurring motif in Nelson's life, he was arrested again in 2010 when Border Patrol agents stopped his tour bus in Sierra, Texas. They found six ounces of pot on board. What do you expect when you pull over Willie Nelson's tour bus? After that arrest Nelson created the TeaPot party under the motto "Tax it, regulate it and legalize it!"
Actress Emily Banks is best known for her role as 'Yeoman Tonia Barrows' on the 1966 "Shore Leave" episode of the original Star Trek series. But Banks also appeared on episodes of Dragnet, Love American Style, Fantasy Island, Bewitched, Airwolf , and Highway to Heaven. Not only did Banks try to swoon William Shatner while on screen - but also Elvis Presley. She appeared in The King's flick : Live a Little, Love a Little.
Banks got her start in 1960 when she was elected Miss Rheingold and appeared in ads and promotions for Rheingold Beer.
George Harrison once said when he visited Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco during the "Summer of Love" in 1967 - it was a defining moment when he knew the hippie movement was over. After spending 6 days in Los Angeles, Harrison and his wife Pattie flew in a private jet up to San Francisco to visit his wife's sister and to see what the deal was with all these American hippies. At the time, Haight-Ashbury was the LSD capital of America and was the home to such musicians as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin.
"We were expecting Haight-Ashbury to be special, a creative and artistic place, filled with Beautiful People, but it was horrible – full of ghastly drop-outs, bums and spotty youths, all out of their brains. Everybody looked stoned – even mothers and babies – and they were so close behind us they were treading on the backs of our heels. It got to the point where we couldn't stop for fear of being trampled. "
Not fun to be a Beatle if the hippies turn out to be aggressive.
Catherine Bach was one of the queens of the 70s and 80s - with her role of Daisy Duke on the Southern redneck TV show, The Dukes of Hazzard. But besides her comedic portrayal on the show, Bach is best known for a particular article of clothing: her Daisy Duke short-shorts. Back in the day, Bach had her famous legs insured for $1 million. Recently Bach has spoken out about Hollywood's obsession with being skinny and body image. She pointed out that she was slim during her heyday on Hazzards - not from starving herself, but because she was an athlete. She kept herself in shape during her Daisy Duke days by dancing three hours a day, hiking, and swimming.
This is one great movie. And also another reason to give Stephen King some respect; he wrote the short story which the screenplay was based on - which was called, The Body . The plot centers on four friends heading off into the woods to find a dead body of a missing child. Some changes were made to the plot of the film, from the short story, which included changing the location of Castle Rock from Maine to Oregon.
Rob Reiner directed the screen version, which helped launch the careers of River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland as gang leader: John "Ace" Merrill. Oscar winner, Richard Dreyfuss did the narration for the film. Co-star, Corey Feldman, later went on to appear in the movie Meatballs 4.
Early Bob Dylan was the coolest. Here's a kid from the small town of Hibbing, Minnesota, who went on to conquer the international music scene, simply with great lyrics, a raspy voice, and a guitar. A champion for the people, on July 2nd, 1963, Dylan and folk singer Pete Seeger performed in a cotton field in Greenwood, Mississippi - as part of a civil rights voter registration rally.
Here's a shot of Dylan playing on the back porch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office - which was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the '60s.
Ah yes, to be JFK Jr. - rich, hunky, the son of a president, and one of America's elite. Here he is on a Labor Day Weekend in 1980, enjoying the weather at Hyannis Beach, Massachusetts. JFK Jr. was born in 1960, two weeks after his father was elected president. His childhood nickname was "John-John," which made reporter think they were mishearing JFK when he called him "John" twice in quick succession.
In 1995, JFK Jr. started the glossy political magazine, George. He also did an acting stint when he appeared on the sitcom Murphy Brown. In the episode, Kennedy visits Brown's office to promote his magazine. He appeared as himself - which was quite an acting stretch.
This looks like a scene straight out of the TV show, The Beverly Hillbillies or Sanford and Son . Here's a man who takes leisure to a whole new level as he rides on top of a pile of mattresses in Atlanta traffic. Apparently, driver safety codes in 1968 weren't as strict as they are today . I'm not sure if the man is riding high on top of the pile for fun or to secure the bounty of mattresses?
A lot was going on in Atlanta during 1968. It was the year the Memorial Arts Center - which provided a new home for the High Museum of Art and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It was also the year that the city moved the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta - which changed the face of baseball.
This was one crazy Hollywood power-couple. In 1971, Nicholson was already a screen icon after appearing in Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces , Carnal Knowledge , and, of course, Little House of Horrors . Houston, at the time, was a former model and daughter of legendary film director, John Houston. At 21, Houston left her modeling career and moved from New York to Los Angeles - where she immediately fell in love with Nicholson. The two would later star together in the 1985 movie, Prizzi’s Honor, which won Houston an Oscar. Their relationship lasted for 17-years; only to end when Nicholson told Houston he was having a child with a younger woman. Whoops!
Wow! How much does Lloyd Bridges look like Sean Penn in this photo from 1951? Here's the screen icon with his son, future screen icon Jeff Bridges - with a photo taken on Father's Day. Jeff was born in 1949, and grew up with this siblings in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. When he was 17, the future "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski - toured with his father in a stage production of a show called: Anniversary Waltz. He later moved to New York City to study acting and served for seven years in the United States Coast Guard Reserve.
While growing up, Jeff had a close relationship with his older brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their acting dad was working.
Oh my God! Is this a cast photo from an 80s version of the movie, Children of the Damned !? The 1980s was known as the era of big hair. And big hair didn't get big on it's own; these coiffures needed a lot of products. That's where perms and Aqua Net hairspray came in. During this era, hair spray wasn’t as good at giving a natural look. So when people used a product such as Aqua Net, it tended to make hair look crunchy: but big and crunchy. Despite doing harm to the ozone layer - the product gave teens that desired look and feel they craved. It also made them look like they were extras in a 80's Poison music video.
Janis Joplin is the most famous person to ever come out of Port Arthur, Texas. In high school, she was a misfit and bonded together with the school's other outcast - who shared a common loved for blues music. She later said that's what influenced her to become a singer. Joplin went to the University of Texas - at Austin, where she performed with a folk trio called the Waller Creek Boys and socialized with the staff of the campus humor magazine: The Texas Ranger.
Last year, Joplin's childhood home in Port Arthur was up for sale. It was originally listed at $500,000 but was reduced to $200,000; despite being appraised at $52,500. I guess no one wants to live in Port Arthur; not even in a music icons former home.
Imagine how wild a young Ozzy Osbourne must have been back in 1972 when this photo was taken? He must've been biting heads off of bats on a daily basis. What I love about Black Sabbath is they formed in 1968 - during the time of the Summer of Love and they are cited as being the pioneers of heavy metal music. Their music was the polar opposite of the hippie movement. It was dark and heavy - and resonated of a band that was formed in industrial Birmingham in the U.K. Originally named the Polka Tulk Blues Band, the group went through numerous line up changes through the years.
Yes, in a parallel universe, Chevy Chase was once the hippest comedian of the era. During the 70s Chevy Chase had a moment of being the reigning king of comedy. He was the first breakout star on Saturday Night Live - during the first season back in 1975. He gained fame by being the host of Weekend Update - which has gone on to became a staple of SNL. Chevy, though, did it best.
Chase got his start as a writer. He once wrote a one-page spoof of Mission: Impossible for MAD magazine in 1970. What kick-started his career was becoming a cast member for The National Lampoon Radio Hour - which featured the likes of Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray. The show went on to become an off-Broadway revue called, Lemmings, which also featured a young John Belushi. When Lorne Michaels started SNL - he basically scooped the best talent from National Lampoon. And the rest is Chevy Chase history...
Okay, if I could be a fly-on-the-wall with this trio. This photo was taken in 1978, around the time when Mick Jagger recorded with Peter Tosh on the song: Don't Look Back. Check out the video on YouTube - and you'll find a very high-looking Jagger singing along with Tosh. This photo was actually taken backstage at a Rolling Stones concert at the Palladium in New York on June 19th, 1978.
Reggae was a big influence on the Rolling Stone. The group covered the classic tune Cherry Oh Baby - on their 1976 album, Black and Blue. In 2011, Jagger formed SuperHeavy a one-off supergroup that consisted of Bob Marley's son Damian.
Nancy Walker was an actress best known in the 70s for her appearances on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda . She was also known as the spokeperson for Bounty Towels - appearing on their TV commercials. On the spots, she played Rosie - a New Jersey diner waitress who uttered the product's slogan, "the quicker picker upper." It became a popular, iconic catchphrase. The Bounty commercials ran from 1970-1990. Walker credits her 'Rosie' portrayal for helping her land the role of Ida Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
One of the memorable moments on the Bounty commercial series was the time that Rosie challenged football legend, Rosie Grier, to a quicker picker upper contest with an inferior paper towel. Can you guess which Rosie won?
Check out these two comedy icons in a photo taken during the very first season of Saturday Night Live. This comedic pair had a performance history before they were cast on SNL. They appeared in the off-Broadway show, Lemmings, which was produced by National Lampoon - and also helped launch the comedy careers of Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, and Brian Doyle Murray.
Belushi's first breakout character on SML was an uncanny musical impression of Joe Cocker, which he performed alongside the icon. Radner got her footing with her portrayal of Roseanne Roseannadanna - who crushed it with her appearances on Weekend Update. Sadly these two comedy icons both died young - leaving the world with less laughter.
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