Most people assume cartoon characters spring purely from the imagination of artists and writers. The truth is far more interesting. Animators have long looked to real people for inspiration, borrowing ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." No other 19 th century author is as omnipresent in today’s pop culture as Edgar Allan Poe. He has ...

The real-life inspiration for the famous toxic bachelor on “Sex and the City” left the Big Apple for the Green Mountain state. Ron Galotti, perhaps best known as the inspiration for Mr. Big in “Sex ...

While 'Squid Game' creator Hwang Dong-hyuk insists his hit series is fiction, its themes of economic inequality resonate ...

Indiana Jones seems to have been inspired by a Charlton Heston character, Harry Steele. Indy's wardrobe and storyline in Raiders of the Lost Ark mirrored those of Steele. The real-life inspiration for ...

“The Office” has a spinoff series premiering this week called “The Paper,” in which the same documentary crew that captured the shenanigans at Dunder Mifflin are now filming at a newspaper in Toledo, ...