A look at the troubled lives of Dana Plato, Andrew Koenig, Tracey Gold, MacKenzie Phillips, Corey Feldman, Jodi Sweetin, Gary Coleman, and Dustin Diamond. Tyler Lambert once aspired to follow his famous mother, “Diff’rent Strokes” actress Dana Plato, into show business. Instead, like her, he took a detour into drugs and eventual suicide. Johnny Whitaker, [...]

  Andrew McCarthy, the star of some of the most iconic teen movies of the ’80s (Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero), is getting back to his roots by taking on the CW’s sexy drama, Gossip Girl. McCarthy, who will direct an episode set to air in the spring, says the show’s young stars are [...]

If you’re wondering what some of your favorite stars from the 1980′s have been doing for the past two decades, you don’t have to look much farther than your DVR. 1980′s stars like Nancy McKeon, Rob Lowe and Candace Cameron-Bure are all over the TV this holiday season, starring in made for TV Christmas movies on [...]

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis in the same movie?  Yes, its true.  They all shot a scene together for a film last weekend.  The movie is Stallone’s new picture called The Expendables.  Also in the film is Dolph Lundgren who starred with Stallone in the Rocky IV sequel and of course was an action hero [...]

  Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 [...]

  Ah, the good ol’ days. MTV played videos, and those videos featured real people. Better yet, most of those real people were hot-looking women who really had no business being in a video. Except for the fact that they were hot. In all honesty, some weren’t that hot. Still, it was an ’80s hallmark: [...]

Adrian Zmed, soon to be on VH1′s new reality show “Confessions of a Teen Idol” sits down with PopWatch for a Q&A Session. When we asked which castmate on VH1′s newest celebreality show, Confessions of a Teen Idol (premieres Jan. 4), you most wanted us to catch up with, the overwhelming (and proper) response was [...]

John Taylor is to play Christina Applegate’s boyfriend on her hit TV show “Samantha Who.”  Samantha starts dating a former ’80s pop star, but doesn’t know who he is.  The Duran Duran bassist will play the part of Tommy Wylder, an ’80s pop star that Samantha and Dena had crushes on when they were teens. [...]

  As W. Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses prepares to release the band’s first album of new songs in 17 years, the British press is full of news that another 80s pop icon, Michael Jackson, will make a public appearance in London’s High Court next week. After an application to testify by video link [...]

  Actress Joan Collins, who played Alexis Carrington, John Forsythe’s vindictive ex wife on “Dynasty,” helped to set the bar when it came to malicious scheming, cat-fighting and starting fashion trends. Today, Collins continues to challenge herself with writing books and columns, as well as roles on television and the big screen. The legendary 75-year-old [...]