Jeremy Helligar

"You hire Chris to get people's reactions, which are immediate and usually invite hysterical laughing," an industry insider tells PEOPLE after Will Smith's infamous 2022 Oscars slap

Although the singer-songwriter's biggest hit has been a wedding staple since 1972, her goosebump-inducing vocal performance was inspired not by romantic yearning but by the death of her cat.

"We were making strides. He would have definitely felt that we have gone in the opposite direction," says Rain Pryor of her father, legendary comedian Richard Pryor, who died in 2005

Michael and Janet Jackson's musician nephew calls his grandmother Katherine Jackson, 91, "the maternal figure I needed from that point on"

Gwyneth glimmered and sophia sizzled as stars showed off the tops—and flops (sorry, Celine)—in Oscar fashion