Do We Need a "Ben-Hur" Remake? Not Really -- At All
"IT WAS Jimmy Fallon's choice for the reasons you reasoned. Your story was right on." The above quote -- concerning Barbra Streisand sitting at Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show desk -- comes from somebody...
View ArticleMeghan Trainor Never Called A Woman A 'Skinny B*tch'
Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of the Meghan Trainor "All About That Bass" song. Not so much for the lyrics but more about the beat. It was just a song I could not get into at the gym...
View ArticleThe Boomer List: A Portrait of a Generation: An Interview With Timothy...
What do Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Wozniak, Kim Cattrall and Tommy Hilfiger have in common? They all made "The Boomer List." On Tues. Sept. 23, PBS will air as part of its award-winning "American...
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Turning the Lens on Langdon (PHOTOS)
Question: What do Angelina Jolie, Ryan Seacrest, Frank Sinatra, Serena Williams and I have in common? Answer: We have all been photographed by Harry Langdon, the Hollywood celebrity photographer. It's...
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Can We Talk? An Interview With Joan Rivers
When I was a teenager and new to America and comedy, I used to go wherever comics gathered. Back then, anyone could open a stage, because comics weren't paid. I tried to have some stage time at a...
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Whiplash Wins Top Prizes at the Deauville American Film Festival
Is it worth driving yourself mad -- to the point of bleeding hands and losing your girlfriend -- to achieve greatness? This is the premise of Damien Chazelle's extraordinary new film, Whiplash, which...
View ArticleRock Stars Black Keys Used Fame to Do What?
When you get to be a rock star, there are the benefits that have become the stuff of legend and cliche': all the sex you want, trashing hotel rooms with impunity, staying out all night ordering...
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The Cosby Show Turns 30! Surprising Facts About the Hit Series
In November 1984, just two months after a brand new TV show called The Cosby Show first debuted on NBC, John Markus, a writer on the series, visited his family in London, Ohio for Thanksgiving. He took...
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Shree Nayar: The Art of Vision
The son of an engineer, it would seem no big surprise that Shree followed in his father's footsteps but that wasn't necessarily the plan. "He never said I should become an engineer, he wasn't pushing...
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Nicholas Kristof: A Path Appears
With the success of their first book, Half the Sky, Nicholas and his wife Sheryl WuDunn exposed the harsh realities of slavery and sexual exploitation that so many women and girls face worldwide. The...
View Article26 Signs You're Obsessed With 'Gilmore Girls'
The first week of our freshman year, we discovered that we were both very big fans of the show Gilmore Girls. Our obsession sometimes reached questionable heights; for example, during our senior year,...
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Outlander Episode 107 'The Wedding' Ties That Bind
To catch up on previous Outlander episodes, go HERE. Episode 107 begins with a flashback to Claire's and Frank's wedding day. The spontaneity of his proposal on front of the office of the registrar...
View ArticleJennifer Lopez, 45, in 'Booty' Video: Thanks for Showing Women They Can Be...
JLo, you just redefined the image that the world has of a 45-year-old woman. You celebrate the sexual power of a beautiful big booty in your new "Booty" video and destroy the idea that women over 40...
View ArticleOutlander and the Female Gaze: Why Women Are Watching
By now you've doubtless heard of Outlander, Starz's new entrant in the race for premium channel subscribers. The surprise hit, based on the epic fantasy romance novels by author Diana Gabaldon, isn't...
View ArticleThe Man Behind the Merman
One of today's great comediennes is in fact a man. In the tradition of other celebrated gender benders, like Divine, Dame Edna and RuPaul, the man who transforms nightly into Varla Jean Merman--"the...
View ArticleA-Sides Gets Raw: Talking the Ring and the Road with WWE Divas Champion Paige
Bra and panties matches are all well and good, but arguably many diehard wrestling fanatics might dismiss gimmick matches like that as simply "eye candy" with a chance of a lucky wardrobe malfunction....
View ArticleBloom Taking a Bite Out of Hollywood With BiteSizeTV
Ron Bloom doesn't have to be in the entertainment industry. In fact, given his track record for making money for a lot of people, he really doesn't have to do much. And yet, here he is, literally in...
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Stories of Our Lives is an Intimate, Masterly Portrayal of Kenya's LGBT...
(A still from the film, Stories of Our Lives). The poet Audre Lorde once said, "When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it...
View ArticleNo More Booty Songs, Please
I tried to ignore it. I really did. It all started with the promo cover shot for Nicki Minaj's new single, "Anaconda". The singer is squatting with her backside toward the camera, wearing something...
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Inside the Long-Unopened Storage Locker of The Beatles' American Lawyer
Sometimes when you research a book, you get lucky. That's how this story began. I got lucky last June, just not in quite the way I'd hoped, as you'll read. But my pursuit of a long-lost audiotape...
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