Super Bowl Highlights: The Good, the Bad and the Missy Elliott
Another year and another Super Bowl has come and gone. However, what's a Super Bowl without its fair share of talent, controversy, entertainment and food? This year a whopping 111.5 million people...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Diana Ross, 70 Going on 22, Glamorously Re-Opens Brooklyn's...
Diana Ross -- Miss Ross to you, Diane to family and (Motown) friends -- heart-stoppingly opened Brooklyn's restored King's Theatre last night (Feb. 3) by entering from the back of the vast,...
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An Ounce of Prevention
February 6 is National Wear Red Day, a day to raise awareness for heart disease in women. I admittedly don't know much about heart disease, but I felt like this upcoming awareness day was the impetus I...
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Kevin Sessums: Meet The Best Celebrity Interviewer Ever
The Vanity Fair Oscar parties seemed like a prom filled with all the high school kids who maybe didn't have a good time at their own proms and were making up for it now as adults," Sessums says of the...
View Article6 Oscar-Worthy Baby Bumps
This year, the Oscars will be replete with pregnant celebrities. Mallory Moss, co-founder of Babynames.com, offers up her predictions for who should win the coveted statue for Best Baby Bump 2015. 1....
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9 Delightfully Bleak Anti-Valentine's Day Movies
If you're in a relationship, the pressure is on to conform to some predetermined way of expressing love for your partner. If you're single, the pressure is on to feel lousy about being single. Either...
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7 Fictional Women Whose Life Stories Inspire Us
Emily Byrd Starr Emily is the heroine LM Montgomery wrote after Anne of Green Gables and its many sequels, when she was sick of being "dragged at Anne's chariot wheels". In 1920, she confided in her...
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The Alaska reality TV shows that didn't make it
With the current slate of Alaska reality TV airing, you would think that networks will pick up just about any program that features shots of a menacing bear noticing the camera, a moose chomping on...
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Does This 'American Idol' Contestant Look Like Jimmy Fallon?
Image courtesy of AdamLasherBand.com It was a little over a week ago when Adam Lasher first appeared on American Idol. Lasher's pre-audition interview with Ryan Seacrest revealed that he is the nephew...
View ArticleCommon: An Overnight Success 20 Years in the Making
Wow! In the last 26 days, gifted actor, producer and MC Common has won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture (with John Legend), received an Oscar nomination for the same song,...
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Mommy's Boy: Xavier Dolan Explains Why Women Are Like Gay Men
The former boy wonder, Xavier Dolan, who is now 25, sauntered into New York about a week or so ago with a new movie, Mommy -- his fifth -- for which he won the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film...
View ArticleMillenials Must Hunt
In the winter of 2013, I set out in the Greater Yellowstone wilderness of Southern Montana to try to share what I believe to be the most honest possible version of what hunting is. I worked with Henry...
View ArticleHollywood's Furriner Problem
I was waiting to buy a ticket to see the new film American Sniper when the guy next to me provided a capsule review. It was a fantastic movie, he told me. The main character, Chris Kyle, was a great...
View ArticleRomance, Sex and Fifty Shades of Grey on Valentine's Day
No single holiday brings up more consternation and confusion than Valentine's Day. Whether you love or hate the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, one thing the film is doing by debuting on this romantic...
View Article10 Commonly-Asked Questions by 'Talent' Considering a Reality TV Show
I'm constantly being contacted by people who have read some of my blogs about participating in reality television and have questions about jumping into the game themselves. I get it! I know the...
View ArticleFailure and Criticism Can 'Mean' You're a Pro: What I've Learned From Steven...
I'm currently in the process of interviewing 100 people about a dream they made come true for my next book, and about 40 interviews in, I'm noticing one very clear pattern -- each person's reaction to...
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Dear Empire Critics, Stop Hating. You Just Don't Get It.
Dear Empire critics, In a society that is currently more observant of media and entertainment pitfalls than ever before, sometimes we are too quick to judge. The speedy jolt of a tweet to pass...
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The Universal Tone: Conversations With Carlos Santana, Bobby Rush and Dylan...
DYLAN GARDNER'S "TOO AFRAID TO LOVE YOU" PREMIERE Newcomer Dylan Gardner's latest video is for "Too Afraid To Love You," one of the key tracks from his album Adventures in Real Time. A full interview...
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DVDs: Dumb Fun With John Wick, Smart Fun With Fury and Dear White People And...
The best part of January and February for DVD and BluRay (and streaming) buffs? The fact that all the big award season contenders come flooding into your home. It's probably the best time of the year...
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If Batman Were Real, Who Would Be His Secret Identity in the Real World?
If Batman were real, who do you think his secret identity would be in the real world?: originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from...
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