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Mark Harmon and his wife Pam Dawber both have had respectable acting careers in the entertainment industry. But after marrying Harmon, Dawber felt it would work better if she was the one who parted ways with her career.

Pam Dawber walked away from her career for her family Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber | Ron Galella Collection / Getty Images

Like Harmon, Dawber already built up a high profile career for herself in both film and television. Perhaps she’s most known for starring in the 1970s sitcom Mork & Mindy. But the actor has several other credits to her name such as The Twilight Zone and movies like Stay Tuned. Dawber even appeared on her husband’s show NCIS for a few episodes.

Her film career might’ve grown even further, but acting wasn’t her number one priority anymore after marrying Harmon. The two would later share two children together,...

It’s nearly impossible to become a household name faster than Haley Joel Osment did in the late ’90s. The critical and commercial success of The Sixth Sense catapulted him into the limelight as a child actor worthy of being considered alongside adult peers in major award categories.

Osment seemingly managed to avoid the dark side of young stardom despite his entrance into the entertainment industry coming in a way that can only be described as creepy Af.

Haley Joel Osment | Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images Osment’s career started after strangers took pictures of him at an Ikea

When Osment was four years old, he went to an Ikea in Burbank, California, with his mother, Theresa. That shopping trip would change the course of his and his family’s life. When the Osments went passed the child’s play area, two women took pictures of Haley Joel, something they did...

“I didn’t really think there were that many people out there who were interested in Mr. Miyagi,” Kevin Derek says. “But (it turns out) millions and millions of people are.”

Derek is a martial artist, producer, and documentarian, whose latest documentary, More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story, seeks to humanize the man behind some of pop culture’s most mythical characters. The timing for such a doc couldn’t have been better, but it turns out that was simply good fortune.

“We started shooting this back in 2016, so it was a year before Cobra Kai was even in production,” says Derek. “They didn’t even know that they were going to shoot Cobra Kai.”

Everyone knows Pat Morita from his beloved Oscar-nominated role as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid franchise, and many remember him as Arnold in the hit TV show Happy Days. However, Morita’s TV...