Curated playlist
People from Brentwood, Los Angeles
- LeBron JamesLeBron James led Cleveland back from a 3-1 Finals deficit, a first in NBA history. It ended a 52-year title wait.
- Clark GableA Warner Bros. executive once rejected Clark Gable because his ears were too big. He said Gable looked like an ape.
- Meryl StreepDino De Laurentiis insulted Meryl Streep in Italian, not knowing she spoke it. She answered him in Italian too.
- Lea MicheleLea Michele Sarfati was eight years old in 1995 when she walked onto a Broadway stage as a replacement Cosette in Les Misérables. By the 2020s she was still there, now as the headliner. In between came a Fox musical series that made her…
- Nicole Brown SimpsonNicole Brown Simpson was the second wife of the football star and actor O. J. Simpson, and in 1994 she was murdered outside her Los Angeles home. Her friend Ron Goldman was killed with her. Another friend, Kris Jenner, later said that…
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg died on Friday the 13th, fifteen minutes before midnight. He had long dreaded the number thirteen.
- Alanis MorissetteAlanis Morissette recorded a demo cassette in August 1989 and sent it to Geffen Records. The tape has never been heard. It was stolen, along with other records, in a burglary of the label's headquarters in October 1989. Whatever it held is…
- Conan O'BrienConan O'Brien went from writing The Simpsons to hosting late night, and critics said he would fail.
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger broke into a locked gym on weekends as a teenager. He later became California's governor.
- Maria ShriverMaria Shriver was volunteering on her father's 1972 vice presidential campaign when she was sent to the back of the campaign plane, where the reporters sat. In her 2000 book, Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real…
- Rashida JonesRashida Jones was still a teenager in 1994 when she answered one of the best-known rappers in America in print. Tupac Shakur had made scathing remarks in The Source about her parents' interracial marriage. Her open letter in reply drew…
- Rob ReinerRob Reiner, the American filmmaker, actor and political activist, once joked about how firmly a sitcom nickname had attached itself to him. "I could win the Nobel Prize and they'd write 'Meathead wins the Nobel Prize.'" The remark came…