Johnny & Ashley

"He was such a goofball. Just really creative and funny and fun to be around. He always called me Shug. He also called me his second wife because he was married at the time. We had a great relationship. He was just a load of fun."

Ashley Gardner about Johnny Hardwick, 2025

Soul Sisters

"Well, first of all, we were born and raised in the City of Angels. We were both born to legends. We were both born to very public women — in my case, both parents — and all of the drama. Obviously, she had a great tragedy that I did not have, I was raised by my mother. It's just kind of given birth to a new friendship at a time when she is really stepping up and into her great strength as a woman, as a mother, as a sister, as an artist, as a filmmaker, and it's just thrilling. Couldn't be more fun. She’s been carrying her family story for a long time, and it’s time for her to shed it in this gorgeous documentary and now step free as an artist. Now we have a filmmaker.”

“We laugh a lot. The f-word is dropped — a lot, and we both say, ‘Hold, please,’ a lot, like, a lot. I’ve never met somebody else who says, ‘Hold, please,’ as much as I do,” she continued, even acting out an example by mimicking scrolling through a phone and saying, “Hold, please. Hold, please. The two of us are like little parrots. We also share being women in our 60s in show business where we are active bosses, where we are active philanthropic women, where we are advocating. And we do it with a lot of joy and spirit.”

Jamie Lee Curtis about Mariska Hargitay, 2025

Bringing Along Her Mother

“The pink does have great significance because I'm bringing my mother with me tonight, and she's here. She was one of the most glamorous women in the world, and I just hope that I can do her justice.”

The Closest Sweathogs

“By far, John Travolta and I were the closest. We hung out daily, double-dating and all that stuff. For the first year we filmed, John didn’t have a television, so he would come to my house and watch TV! And when I did Roots, the night that came on, we went up to Marcia Strassman’s house and we watched me on Roots together.”

Laurence Hilton Jacobs, 2021

Just Three Left

“Kotter is something very special in my life. It’s sentimental, because a lot of people are gone now — Bobby Hegyes, Ron Palillo, Marcia Strassman, Johnny White. It’s just Gabe, John and I now. You know, we were all actors, and it was our job, but we were all friends, too. What was lucky about us in the Welcome Back, Kotter years is that we became a family.”

Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, 2021

 

Baby Brother Love

“Sean likes the fact that because he was the only child- he was always saying, 'I'm the only child, I mean, I don't have anybody around me,' or something so it was good that he got together with Julian, and also, by the way, he got together with Kyoko too."

Yoko Ono

 

Lucky Meeting

"I only met Marilyn Monroe that one time, on the Columbia lot. We shared the same stand-in, Evelyn Moriarty, because I played the part in the TV series of How to Marry a Millionaire that Marilyn played in the movie."

Barbara Eden, 2011

Lesson From Marilyn

 “I had known her and seen her days before her death. Her beauty, charming wit, and joy of life seemed paradoxical to the tense loneliness which she faced in her life, and was to me, clearly apparent. I realized that her tragedy reminds us all how vulnerable we are, and I chose to try to be stronger.”

Natalie Wood, 1966

Ringo Thinking of Kurt

 "Absolutely great, and the man himself had so much emotion. That’s what I loved. I’m an emotional guy. No one can doubt Nirvana, ever. And who knew he’d end up where he ended up. I don’t think anyone who listened to music with any courage could doubt him, ’cause he was courageous. I don’t know the end story, and it’s not about him, and we lose a lot of people in our business early. And you think, 'How harsh must it have been?' I mean, 'Why don’t you call me?' You never know. This is the famous 27-year syndrome. A lot of them went by 27, like it’s that number — what, had they got it all in by then? Or maybe that’s just the way God planned it; I don’t know."

Ringo Starr

Cooking Sisters

“She’s really good. We all grew up talking about food. When we became a vegetarian family, we were talking about filling that gap on the plate. And I’m always adamant that I don’t want someone to look at my plate and think: ‘Oh, I’m glad I don’t eat veggie.’ I want them to look at my plate at dinner and go: ‘Oh, I wish I’d ordered that.’ That’s how I base my food style.” -Mary McCartney, 2022

Campvan

"I get my campervan out jump in there with my daughter we go round Croatia, all around Italy. We just park it up anywhere and jump in the lake, do a bit of cooking and get out every day, living the rucksack life. It's brilliant, it puts your feet back on the ground, puts you back in nature." 

Heather Mills, 2015

Linda's Few Fashion Show Appearances

Linda, Paul, and James at Stella's Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design graduate fashion show on June 12, 1995

October 15, 1997

"Stella is doing great as a designer, and I love her clothes.  We went to her first Chloe show in Paris, and I was just so proud of her and the reaction she got."

 -Linda McCartney, 1998

March 11, 1998

"When I started my label, she only saw two of my shows. The majority of my career, I've done without he,r here. When you lose someone that close to you, there is a level of 'fuck it, none of this matters anyway,'" 

-Stella McCartney, 2021

Face Smudge

“We grew up with food on our faces and clothes that didn’t fit and it was all very funky—all of which was to our benefit. That feeling of intimacy and observing people and striving for the intensity of characters became why I’m obsessed with pictures.”

Mary McCartney 

Lucky & Luanne Forever

"John Altschuler, who ran the show for the last seven/eight years, had written this character named Lucky and described him as looking like 'Tom Petty without the success.' And we thought, what if we tried to get Tom Petty? And he said, 'Yeah, I'll do it.' And he was great, just killed at the table read. Then he said, any time you want me to do it, I'll do it. Turns out he really meant it." (2009)

~

"We had all grown up on his music, that unique voice of his, and to have him as the voice of Lucky on King of the Hill was just wonderful. He was always a pleasure to work with – such a funny guy. He will be greatly missed." (2017)

-Mike Judge

Not the Same Without Freddie

“It’s his choice. He doesn’t contact us. John was quite delicate all along. He could be very outgoing and very funny, but I think some of the stuff that happened in Munich gave him a lot of damage, and I think losing Freddie was very hard for him as well. He found that incredibly hard to process, to the point where actually playing with us made it more difficult.”
Brian May, 2017

Sweet Angelic Erin

OH Erin…now you will finally have the peace you wanted so badly here on earth. Rest In It serenely now…too soon
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I will always remember Erin with her sweet smile that greeted me on the very first day I walked onto the set of Happy Days in 1974. She was only nine years old. For the next ten years that smile never faded. Unfortunately yesterday it did. My condolences go out to her family. She will always be locked in my heart

-Henry Winkler

Such sad sad news. RIP Erin. I’ll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up tv screens

-Ron Howard

I am so incredibly sad to hear about Erin. She was a wonderful, sweet, caring, talented woman. As I write this I can’t really comprehend this right now. A very painful loss. It gives me some comfort to know that she’s with Tom, Al, Pat and Garry.  Rest In Peace, sweet Erin.

-Don Most

Erin was a person who made everyone around her feel better. She truly cared about others first, a true angel. I will miss her so much, but know that she is in God’s hands. RIP sweet angel.

-Anson Williams

She would go to school, and she would come back after a break and would have to fit into all the jokes we were doing on the set and pick up fast exactly where we were — which she could. She was the quickest, fastest little kid. Wonderful. This breaks my heart.

-Marion Ross

May people remember Erin for her contagious smile, warm heart, and animal loving soul. I always hoped she could find peace in her life. God has you now, Erin.
-Scott Baio

Tom Bosley (RIP 2010) and Erin Moran (RIP 2017)

Second Banana

"I'm perfectly content to play second banana to Dick Van Dyke. That's a chance that doesn't come around that often. Nah, I don't have any problems with it. I love him and it's where I want to be."
-Scott Baio

Mary's Only TV Husband

She was 23 years old, gorgeous of course, and had a kind of mid-Atlantic accent. She sounded a little bit like Katharine Hepburn. My first question was, “Can this girl do comedy?” After that I said, “She’s a little young for me.” I got to be on hand and watch her grow into the talent she became. She was just the best.  

I don’t know what made her comic timing so great. On Dick Van Dyke, we had Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie, both of whom were old hams and had razor-sharp timing, and mine wasn’t bad either. But Mary just picked it up so fast. She had us all laughing after a couple of episodes. She just grabbed onto the character and literally turned us into an improv group, it was so well-oiled. That show was the best five years of my life.

I remember when we all won Emmys. We were nominated — or at least I was — for the first years and there was no comedy category. We lost to The Defenders. It wasn’t until 1966 that they added a comedy category, and that year we all won. My God, we were excited. We had also been cancelled!

The funny thing was, after the show went off the air, Mary had the reputation of being the wife, the woman who brings the coffee. So we cooked up this special called Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman where we showed off everything she could do, and that somehow changed CBS’ mind and that’s how she got The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It fell into the hands of great writers. It was a milestone, that show. It kicked off an awful lot of enthusiasm in a lot of women. She got it moving! Thank God she ended up with Carl Reiner and those writers, who just understood her and what she did. The episode when Chuckles the Clown died? She was at the funeral and she was crying and suddenly, as she recalled him, she began to laugh. It was a performance that had me on the floor! It was just masterful comedy.

In 2012, I got to present her with her SAG Life Achievement award. She had moved to upstate New York and was already beginning to succumb to the diabetes, so outside of talking to her and her husband Robert, I didn’t see her unless it was an occasion like the SAG Awards. That night, she had trouble seeing, so they had to bring her onstage in the dark. For me, it was a payoff moment. A culmination. Outside of her family, I don’t think there was anyone more proud of her than I was. Just to watch her grow was such a thrill for me. She left an imprint on television comedy.

-Dick Van Dyke

Being Dad

"I’m not the greatest dad on earth, I’m doing me best. But I’m a very irritable guy, and I get depressed."
-John Lennon, 1980

Four Aging Queens

"We're  going to stay together until we fucking well die"

Freddie Mercury