On the last night of his life, Brandon Lee decided to stop off at Wilmington's Fitness Today health club for a quick workout before heading to Carolco Studios for what promised to be an arduous evening of filming. Lee looked exhausted; in the three months since the 28-year-old actor had arrived in North Carolina to star in The Crow, his punishing schedule had taken a toll. The movie, a bleak, dark action melodrama about a rock musician who returns from the dead to avenge his and his girlfriend's murders, had been a brutal shoot even for an actor in Lee's superb physical condition.

Carol Channing, in pictures Bob Ganley/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Legendary Broadway star Carol Channing (seen here at the 22nd annual Tony Awards in 1968) died on Jan. 15, 2019, at the age of 97. She charmed audiences with her iconic stage roles, most famously playing matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! and innocent gold-digger Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Read on for more photos from her life and career.

Pound for pound, song for song, is there any American musical packed with more pure, uncut hits than The Wiz? Maybe West Side Story, maybe Chicago, possibly Dreamgirls, but, particularly for Black audiences, the score of The Wiz plays like a greatest hits compilation.  The new revival of the 1975 musical by Charlie Smalls (et al) and William F. Brown updates some references (with the help of Amber Ruffin, fresh off her success with Some Like It Hot) and takes what worked from the 1978 movie (namely the Michael Jackson-as-Scarecrow solo “You Can’t Win”) and the popular TV musical (the swag, my god, the swag) to produce what may be the best version of The Wiz to date.

Well I was MIA last week for The Carrie Diaries, but I’ve returned and am happy to see that the hair is just as big. I like to imagine that when all the hairdryers are blowing on this set, New York is activating auxiliary power à la the twinkle lights in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. In the first week, AnnaSophia Robb was giving me notes of La Lohan — but this week I’m also picking up some touches of Hayden Panetierre.

David Hasselhoff (Mitch Buchannon) Mitch Buchannon; David Hasselhoff. Pearson All-American Television/Everett; Andreas Rentz/Getty David Hasselhoff — the longest-running cast member with 220 episodes under his belt — portrayed lifeguard captain Mitch Buchannon across Baywatch, spinoffs Baywatch: Hawaii and Baywatch Nights, and several made-for-TV movies. When NBC canceled the original series after just one season, Hasselhoff personally invested in its syndication, securing royalties from reruns in his contract.

The pulpy teen mystery series Pretty Little Liars premiered in 2010, following high school girls Aria, Hanna, Emily, Spencer, and Alison in the fictional town of Rosewood, Pa. But the friend group soon grows apart when their leader, Alison, disappears. A year later, the four remaining “liars” are tormented by a mysterious messenger dubbed “A” who threatens to expose their deepest secrets.  Though the series wasn’t exactly a critical darling, it maintained a loyal fanbase that enthusiastically tuned in each week.

Coming off the heels of Cruel Intentions (1999) and Legally Blonde (2001), Reese Witherspoon was at a career-high when Sweet Home Alabama hit theaters on Sept. 27, 2002. But Witherspoon's Southern charm was just one of many aspects that audiences fell in love with about this movie. Sweet Home Alabama became the first film to be shot in New York City following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with director Andy Tennant viewing it as a means to provide positivity in the aftermath of tragedy.

Say what you will about Wes and his sneaky, manipulative ways of playing the game, but Team U.S. lost one of its best players last week on The Challenge: War of the Worlds 2 when they turned against one of their own. It’s a brave, new, Wes-less world, and we’re all just living in it. But just because Wes is gone doesn’t mean the Challengers are done dismantling the game he worked so hard to set up even before the cameras started rolling, as Kyle immediately takes Laurel aside when they return to the house after Wes’ lost Proving Ground elimination to point out every Team U.

The first official The Challenge: World Championship winners have finally been crowned! Who crossed the finish line in triumph — and who didn't finish at all in the grueling two-day final? Let's recap... Before the final begins, the four remaining teams — Team U.K.'s Jordan and Kaz, Team U.S.A.'s Theo and Sarah, and Danny and Tori, and Team Australia's Troy and Kaycee — board the Fear Express train, and they get a good night's sleep in their tiny bunk beds.

Newly arrived in America, Arnold was a bulging Austrian babe in the woods when his bodybuilding mentor Joe Weider helped him land the title role in Hercules Goes to New York (1970), a low-budget oddity also known as Hercules Goes Bananas. The body is definitely Arnold’s, but the unaccented voice isn’t in this ridiculous adventure involving a toga-clad Herc on the loose in modern Manhattan. From this embarrassing beginning, Schwarzenegger worked his way up to muscularly mute bit parts to sword-and-sorcery epics to action and comedy to whatever else he wants to do.