Soccer star Briana Scurry still remembers the day she knew she wanted to be an Olympian: It was 1980, and Scurry, then 8 years old, watched on TV as the underdog men's U.S. Olympic ice hockey team beat Team USSR in Lake Placid, NY. "I was so inspired, I rose up from the couch and declared to my parents that I wanted to be an Olympian," Scurry says. "They, thankfully, were nurturing of that little inspiration and helped me hone my skills in all different sports through high school.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Barbie is set to direct her first feature film. No doubt inspired by Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” blockbuster this past summer, Mattel has announced that their annual “Career of the Year” collection this year will feature a slate of film vocations such as a film director, studio executive, cinematographer and, of course, movie star.

Sandra Bullock swears by a skincare treatment that she lovingly calls a “penis facial” and there’s no denying that it’s definitely kept her looking youthful. During a 2018 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the talk show host grilled the actor about the specifics, wondering why Bullock referred to it as a penis facial. Sandra Bullock and her ‘Ocean’s 8’ co-star got these unique facials In an interview with Vogue Australia (via The Cut), Bullock’s Ocean’s 8 co-star Cate Blanchett explained why Bullock gave the skincare treatment its unique name.

Linda Thompson was Elvis Presley‘s girlfriend for four years and became one of his closest confidantes. The king of rock and roll trusted her judgment as one of the key interior designers of his Memphis, TN, home, Graceland; her influence remains within the house today. While you may know some of her more iconic touches to the estate, there is more to Linda’s story in giving Graceland a retro feel.

Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson in Sex Education. It stands to reason, or at least the logic of television plotting, that an extremely forthright sex therapist would raise an extremely uptight son. That’s the basis of Sex Education, a new Netflix comedy that stars Gillian Anderson as Jean, the therapist in question, and Asa Butterfield as her son Otis, who is so self-conscious he has trouble masturbating. The show hinges on Anderson and Butterfield’s parent-child dynamic, and together they deliver something that’s both awkward and sweetly human, especially once Otis decides to help out other high-school kids with the X-rated lessons he absorbed from his mom.