Mark Harmon had a number, an answering machine, and one bold idea. Instead of meeting Pam Dawber on a safe group date, he called her directly and asked for coffee.
Pam heard the message as he left it.
She picked up.
They went out that night.
And quietly, everything changed.
By 1986, Mark was PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive. Pam was already beloved as Mindy on “Mork & Mindy” (1978).
They looked like a perfect Hollywood couple.
Instead, they became something rarer.
Private.
Mark didn’t want romance turned into a committee decision.
“We do not have to all go out,” he told her. “We could get a cup of coffee or something.”
One phone call.
One night.
Then decades together.
They married on March 21, 1987, in a private ceremony without the Hollywood circus.
By 2026, they had reached 39 years of marriage.
Then came family.
Sean was born in 1988. Ty followed in 1992.
Sean eventually became an actor and stunt performer, even portraying young Gibbs on “NCIS” (2003).
Ty found his own direction through writing and visual effects.
For Pam, protecting that family mattered.
She had already experienced fame.
A number-one show. Her own deal. Theater. Voice work. Television.
Then she became a mother.
And her priorities changed.
“I did everything you can do in this business, and then I had children,” she explained.
She wasn’t disappearing.
She was choosing.
Pam understood that privacy wasn’t secrecy.
It was protection.
She didn’t want their children becoming magazine material. She wanted them growing up with parents, not publicity managers.
Mark shared that instinct.
At home, the famous actor was simply a husband proud of his wife.
“I am proud to be married,” he said, “and I am proud of who I am married to.”
Their formula was never complicated.
Laughter. Communication. The right person.
They were different.
That helped.
They didn’t need identical interests or opinions.
They needed to keep talking.
Keep laughing.
Keep coming home.
Their story began with a cold call.
But it lasted because they kept fame outside the front door.
Mark and Pam never needed to sell their marriage.
They simply lived it.
One call became one family—and one family became a lifetime ♥️
Video of the “jellyfish” spotted during today’s Falcon 9 launch 🚀
The glowing “jellyfish” appears when a rocket lifts off right after sunset or shortly before sunrise. On the ground it’s still dark, but the Sun is already lighting up the upper atmosphere. It catches the expanding exhaust plume high above, turning it into a bright, ethereal cloud with trailing tentacles — a stunning twilight spectacle that can be visible for hundreds of miles.
During the pre-dawn CRS-35 launch on October 13, the Falcon 9’s plume lit up across the East Coast, creating one of the most striking space jellyfish displays in recent memory as it headed toward the International Space Station.
“I wanted to try to challenge myself with new ideas and a new theme about the music, so this year for the short program, we chose to do something that's like a memoir, like a memory, it's Cantata Memoria. It's originally about an accident in Wales where they had a big landslide that covered the elementary school and many kids passed away in that moment. It's become a universal [piece of] music for tragedy or tragic events.
Definitely I wanted to kind of show this new side of me, this new vulnerable and this very emotional and sensitive side, to see maybe that can change how people think about me.”
— Ilia Malinin on choosing Cantata Memoria as his 2026–27 short program.
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Many of you are talking about the “space jellyfish” following this morning’s launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
More than 6,300 scientific investigations and cargo are on their way to the @Space_Station, as part of SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply services mission for NASA.
A jellyfish happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape resembling a jellyfish.
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Ilia Malinin receiving the certificate for his donation of the second "The Lost Crown" costume at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland today.
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