Mar. 15, 2025
Eddie and Dr. Wendy Osefo at her 40th birthday party.Photo:Javon Roye
Javon Roye
Dr. Wendy Osefoshed tears when she celebrated her milestone 40th birthday earlier this year.
TheReal Housewives of Potomacstar tells PEOPLE she was overwhelmed with emotion at her glamorous soirée, moments after blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.
“I looked out in the crowd and saw everyone who meant something to me in my life and the tears just started flowing,” Dr.
Mar. 15, 2025
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.Photo:airchild Archive/Penske Media via Getty
airchild Archive/Penske Media via Getty
Gena RowlandsandJohn Cassaveteshad a love story for the ages.
Over the course of their careers, the actress and filmmaker collaborated on 10 films together, includingGloria,Opening Night,A Woman Under the InfluenceandMinnie and Moskowitz. Both 1974’sA Woman Under the Influenceand 1980’sGloriasaw Rowlands earn a Best ActressOscarnomination.
They first met as students at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in 1954 and married only a few months later, perABC News.
Mar. 15, 2025
Cecilia Hart and James Earl Jones in 2009.Photo: Brian Ach/WireImageJames Earl Jones, whodiedat age 93 on Monday, Sept. 9, left behind a powerful body of work on both screen and stage. But another part of his legacy was his 34-yearmarriage with Cecilia Hart.“She made me laugh. She was stimulating,” the late actor wrote in his 1993 memoirVoices and Silences. “And she did not seem to take me seriously at all, which meant I could relax and be myself with her.
Mar. 15, 2025
Yoko ono John Lennon.Photo:R. Brigden/Daily Express/Getty
R. Brigden/Daily Express/Getty
In the summer of 1980,John Lennonrecorded a demo of a new song he’d written called “Life Begins at 40” in his expansive apartment complex at New York City’s Dakota building. With its title borrowed from the classic self-help book, the playful hoedown, delivered in a comical southern twang, opened with the couplet:
“They say life begins at forty and age is just a state of mind / If all that’s true, you know that I’ve been dead for thirty-nine.
Mar. 15, 2025
Jussie Smollett.
Jussie Smollettdoesn’t care what anyone thinks. In his eyes, only the universe can right his wrongs.
Still, the road to finding inner peace was one of the hardest things he’s ever faced. He’s learned how to “hold on for five more minutes” amid the chaos of the last five years — a close personal mantra he now holds dear to his heart.
In an exclusive sit down with PEOPLE since the 2019 incident, Smollett, 42, joins the Zoom conversation “ready as I’ll ever be” from his hotel room in New York City.