But how could she rebel against the ultimate rebel? Well, she went into investment banking and forged a ‘normal’ life on the trading floor. One day she witnessed a colleague take part in a chicken ...

Released in 1985, The Toxic Avenger was produced by Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma Entertainment and became the company’s first notable success. It influenced not just Troma’s output for the next 50 years, but ...

And true to Troma’s up-with-regular-people way, the invite-only soiree has no automatic admittance policy for “VIPs”—in 1999, R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe was turned away due to capacity concerns.