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Follows the life of Crazy Eddie Antar, as he launches the successful Crazy Eddie chain and becomes the consumer electronics king, only to wind up serving six years in prison for fraud.

Susan Spencer-Wendel, a longtime court reporter is diagnosed with ALS, which destroys the nerves that power muscles including the lungs. She races against time to create a record of her life before her illness overcomes her. Spencer-Wendel and her 14-year-old daughter are fans of the reality show "Say Yes To The Dress," and so they head to Kleinfeld's so the teen can try on wedding dresses for her mom, which is always the plan before her mother took ill. Spencer-Wendel leaves behind money so her sister can eventually buy a dream dress there when her daughter is ready to get married.

In 2011, a 44 year-old court reporter quits her job after being diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative ailment that destroys the nerves that power muscles, which forces her to confront her own mortality. She tries her best to create memories for 14-year old daughter and her husband, that will bring them happiness when she is gone.

Iowa born John William Carson grows up to be a successful late night talk show host. He adopts a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with his guests. But his personal life is more tumultuous and he goes through three divorces and marries four times.

Set against the backdrop of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the story of how the son of an Alabama sharecropper shattered Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by winning a record four gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, the long jump and the 400-meter relay.

Traces Julian Assange’s childhood to his founding of Wikileaks, the whistleblower website that put Assange into the US government’s crosshairs when in November 2010 he published secret diplomatic cables. Right after, he was accused of sexual offences and is currently on bail.

Explores the life of Kurt Cobain, who formed Nirvana in 1987 with bassis Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. Nirvana ushered in the Seattle grunge music movement in the early ‘90s. Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994, leaving behind his wife and a daughter.

As DeAngelo Simmons' own sports dreams are ending, his sister moves back to Louisiana with her four sons and she wants to keep them away from the streets. She asks Simmons to teach them basketball. When one, Paul Millsap, grows into a 6’8”, 250 pound rebounding machine, Simmons learns to become a sports agent and brokers a four-year, $32 million deal for his power forward nephew with the Utah Jazz.

Story will trace Sam Kinison's rise as the son of a preacher to be one of the most cutting-edge and significant comedians of his era. His comedy often pivoted on his former role as an evangelist, with his first album titled "Louder Than Hell."

Huguette Clark is the youngest daughter of W.A. Clark, who was born in a log cabin but becomes a powerful mining and banking magnate after discovering copper in Montana following the Civil War. He rises to such wealth and prominence that he helps to found Las Vegas. Huguette is born in Paris and lives a very interesting life. She grows up in the largest house in New York City — a mansion of 121 rooms for a family of four. She owns paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls and beautifully crafted dollhouses. Huguette lives out the last two decades of her life in the Beth Israel Hospital, dishing out $400,000 per year to live there but is never in the VIP section. She is a generous woman who appreciates art and the simple acts of giving. Huguette is often taken advantage of because of her kindness. She dies in 2011 at 104, leaving behind an over $310 million fortune.

In the early 1960s, Helen Gurley writes the blockbuster book "Sex and the Single Girl" and then takes the top job at floundering magazine Cosmo. She remakes the magazine and turns it into a cultural powerhouse.

After Lauren Fern Watt, a 25-year-old New Yorker, discovers her beloved 160-pound English Mastiff, Gizelle has terminal bone cancer, she sets out to take him on a series of special adventures in his final few months. They canoe, go to Times Square, find the best donuts in the world, sit on the beach in winter and people-watch in Washington Square Park.

The story of con man Bo Stefan Eriksson, who has been in and out of Swedish and U.S. jails for fraud, extortion, auto theft, kidnapping and other charges, and the video game company, Gizmondo, that he founded before filing for bankruptcy.

In 2003, when LeBron James turns 18 and is the top pick in the draft, Bernard James is an unheralded Atlanta kid who drops out of high school and enlists in the Air Force. Unlike his namesake, Bernard James never plays hoops until he joins the military. After surviving three tours in Iraq, he becomes the oldest player to be selected in the NBA draft.

Rachel Carson struggles against the chemical industry she fights, which leads to a campaign to discredit both her and her work. Carson dies of breast cancer soon after Houghton Mifflin publishes her book in 1962.

Story center on the true story of Marlin "The Magician" Briscoe, the first African-American starting quarterback in football.

Joseph Carey Merrick spends most of his life as a carnival freak due to physical deformities. He is hounded, persecuted and starved in a brutal Victorian world until his fortune changes when he is rescued and befriended by Dr. Frederick Treves.