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Dana Michelle Plato led quite an interesting life, full of dizzying heights and shattering lows. She came to fame as a child star but found out soon enough that early fame often has its own pitfalls. Best known as Kimberly Drummond

Cocaine, Margaritas, Zoloft and Saturday Night Live's Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman rose to fame with Saturday Night Live

In Pasadena's early days, before the historic Colorado Street Bridge was built, crossing the Arroyo Seco (a deeply cut canyon linking the San Gabriel Mountains to the Los Angeles River) was an extremely difficult task...

By the age of 20, Freddie Prinze's fame was already through the stratosphere as his television show, Chico and the Man was a top five charter in the U.S. He was a big star, his face graced the covers of numerous magazines such as ...

Having broken into show biz with TV's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers that ran during the 1982-83 season, River Phoenix would follow up with his feature-film debut as a somewhat bookworm-ish kid in Explorers (1985). But it ...

Warning: The photos below are extremely graphic in nature. So, if you are easily grossed out, don't look! You've been fairly warned!

The Seedy World of Bob Crane - TV's Colonel Hogan

Robert Edward Crane was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 13th, 1928. By his early teens, he was demonstrating musical talent and had set his sights on becoming a drummer, fantasizing about becoming the...

Dorothy Stratten was born in Vancouver, British Columbia as Dorothy Hoogstratten. When barely 17, she was spotted in a Canadian Dairy Queen fast-food restaurant by Paul Snider, nine years her elder....

Timeline of Events

September 7, 1996 - 8:39pm: Mike Tyson knocks out Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Hotel, in Las Vegas; 8:45pm: As Tupac Shakur leaves the MGM Grand, he gets into an altercation with a young black man believed to be Orlando Anderson, member of a rival gang, The Southside ...

Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Killed over $50 and a Hunting Dog

Carl Switzer was born in Paris, Illinois in 1927. He would later become known as "Alfalfa", a character he played on the Hal Roach produced series of film shorts called "Our Gang." Carl died on January 21, 1959, the victim of a...