Sounds counterintuitive, right? This is the heart of the “Romeo and Juliet Effect,” a psychological phenomenon coined by Richard Driscoll, Keith Davis and Milton Lipetz. In their classic study ...

Two households, both alike in dignity …” is “Romeo and Juliet’s” famous opening line. Well, maybe not that much alike in dignity, if the households are Shakespeare and Britney Spears.

Her final film credit saw her career come full circle in the 2015 film Social Suicide, a modern take on Romeo and Juliet, in which she was reunited onscreen for the first time with Whiting.