After his wrestling success Albano began to transition over to television and film projects. During the 1980’s you could see him featured on Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling, Miami Vice, Wise Guys, Hey Dude and 227… to name a few. In 1989 Albano took on the role of Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Boyzone had sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK singles chart.

In 1999 Gately became one of the first pop stars to come out as gay.

Safire retired from his political column in 2005, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times had the following to say about Safire…

“The New York Times without Bill Safire is all but unimaginable, Bill’s provocative and insightful commentary has held our readers captive since he first graced our Op-Ed Page in 1973. Reaching for his column became a critical and enjoyable part of the day for our readers across the country and around the world. Whether you agreed with him or not was never the point, his writing is delightful, informed and engaging.”

More than likely he’ll be remembered for the Stratosphere, but Stupak was very well known for getting his name in the media. Over the years he won $1 million dollars on a 1989 Super Bowl bet, challenged Donald Trump to a $1 million dollar board game bet, and attempted to pay money to the Harlem Globetrotters so they would allow him to play with them.

Stupak was also quite the poker player, winning a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1989 ($5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw). Over his poker player career he amassed $865,441 in earnings.

Atkins, known as Sadie Mae Glutz within the family, was convicted for her role in eight of these murders, which includes the infamous Tate / LaBianca murders. Atkins incarcerated on October 1, 1969 and sentenced to death, which later became life in prison. Atkins had been denied parole 13 times.

Swayze got his start as a dancer for Disney on parade. Soon after, he got the part of Danny Zuko in the Broadway theatre production of Grease. It wasn’t until he played the older brother of C. Thomas Howell in The Outsiders that people started to notice his talent. In 1985 Swayze was cast in the television miniseries North and South, this was his first major success.

1987 saw the release of the cult classic, Dirty Dancing. Swayze was cast opposite Jennifer Grey, whom he had previously worked with on Red Dawn. Dirty Dancing wasn’t suppose to be successful, it was a low budget film that was only suppose to be in theatres for one weekend and go straight to video. The films popularity reached so far that alternate versions were made which ranged from a television series to a computer game. Altogether Dirty Dancing has made over $300-million dollars worldwide.

With his newfound stardom, Swayze found himself being typecast as a “beefcake” and went on to star in numerous movies that never really done his career justice. During this time period he starred in one of the most underrated movies of the 1980s Road House. In the film he played Dalton, a professional “cooler” who is hired to fix the problems at the Double Deuce. Road House also stars Sam Elliot features performances by Jeff Healey.

The 1990s started off very promising for Swayze. His film Ghost, also starring Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, would go on to become his biggest critical success. The very next year he starred alongside Keanu Reeves in the action hit Point Break. That same year he was chosen as the years “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine.

Swayze’s career began to cool off in the mid 1990s starring in films such as Tall Tale, Black Dog, Father Hood, To Wong Foo, Thanks Everything! Julie Newmar to name a few. Some feel that his alcoholism, which he sought treatment for, played a role in the decline of his career.

In 2001 he co-starred in Donnie Darko, a low budget cult classic where he played a motivational speaker and closet pedophile.

Most recently Swayze took the lead role in the A&E television series The Beast. In the show Swyze plays FBI Agent Charles Barker.

The groups first album came out in 1962 and featured one of their classic songs, If I Had a Hammer and Lemon Tree. That same year the group won Grammys for best performance by a vocal group as well as best folk recording.

After the group broke up in 1970 Travers released five albums of her own.

Gibson also had a long theatrical career which included titles such as…

The Nutty Professor
Innerspace
The ‘Burbs
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Bio-Dome
Wedding Crashers

DJ AM is probably most known for being seriously injured in a Learjet crash, along with Travis Barker from Blink 182.