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Throwing more money at a movie doesn’t necessarily make it any better. Sometimes it just means there are much more expensive mistakes happening on screen. Hollywood has spent staggering amounts on movies that audiences hated, critics tore apart, or practically nobody showed up to see. A few eventually found defenders,

Some celebrities have a stretch of years when everything seems to line up perfectly. The movies are hits, the songs are everywhere, their face is on every magazine cover, and somehow even the most casual photograph looks like it belongs in an ad campaign. Looking back at vintage celebrity photos

Some days seem determined to be annoying from the minute they start. Nothing truly disastrous happens, but suddenly the elevator button is fake, someone has parked in a place that clearly isn’t a parking space, or the simplest request somehow produces the strangest possible result. They’re the kinds of problems

Old photographs can make American history look surprisingly familiar until you learn what was actually happening when the camera clicked. A smiling crowd might be standing somewhere with a disturbing past, an ordinary-looking building might have played a strange role in a national crisis, and a cheerful publicity shot can

Politicians are usually expected to look the part: suits, ties, carefully styled hair, and the sort of polished appearance that says they have spent considerable time shaking hands in expensive rooms. But American politics has never been short on exceptions. Some lawmakers look more like wrestlers, actors, soldiers, musicians, or