We've already mentioned during the Golden Globes this year that Hollywood seems to be in retrograde. Giving awards to Madonna, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Jessica Lange is just so 2002. But we also noted that the actors themselves seem to be going into a kind of time-warp, none of which was more apparent than at last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards: Read More
A selection of celebrities who have recently attended Cirque Du Soleil and been summarily featured in press on People or Us Weekly's web sites or PerezHilton.com, placed in ascending order of desperation for publicity:
Newsweek's current issue features its annual pre-nominations "Oscar roundtable"--and either it'll look dated when nominations are announced tomorrow, or we need to adjust our predictions! The panelists are likely nominees George Clooney and Viola Davis (the working-it pair both recently appeared together on an Entertainment Weekly cover, too), as well as Read More
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Angelina Jolie covers this week's Newsweek, keeping with the Tina Brown tendency to feature bold face name women and with a black background design that harkens back to her Talk days. It might even be working at little, as Newsweek subscription renewals rose last month for the first time in 2006, according to Read More
America is rapidly moving towards a happier, more just society, where anyone can stream a video clip of Angelina Jolie straight to their smartphone.
Standing in our way is a nefarious array of mobile devices and operating systems. Angelina might play well on the iPhone, but not an Android. She might appear in all her HD Read More
Politics as usual Ground Zero Mosque
The great Koran (Quran, Qur'an)-burning controversy launched by Terry Jones, the crazed pastor of a tiny Gainesville, FL church, may have been defused: Sarah Palin (or maybe her ghostwriter) has taken to Facebook to add her 2 cents. And she agrees with everyone else who has publicly commented on the matter--it's Read More
The Internet gets blamed for killing lots of parts of literary culture—from independent bookstores to attention spans. Its latest victim seems unlikely to attract many mourners.
"In the age of the Internet, the unauthorized biography has been increasingly scooped by instant, endless online gossip," reports the AP. Our love of celebrities remains steadfast, but Read More
Salt is not a cautionary tale about the dangers of high blood pressure from too much sodium. No, it's just another entry in the flaky, forgettable farrago of predictable action thrillers in a particularly brainless summer, this time starring Angelina Jolie as a C.I.A. operative named Evelyn Salt, who may or may not be Read More
Eva! Georgina! Angelina! Inglorious glamour in the south of Read More
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.
Need a movie to keep Read More
On Friday, April 3, hospitalized celebrity psychic Judi Hoffman announced that, despite three rounds of chemotherapy, her prognosis is not good.
Ms. Hoffman, 49, was diagnosed with throat cancer last August.
But she’s taking the bad news in stride. The Upper East Side clairvoyant is promising to answer the eternal Read More
How much worse can things get for journalists?
Newspapers and magazines are closing; the ones that remain grow thinner by the week as if somehow cursed; freelance budgets are being slashed and staffers accustomed to taking it easy are being forced to write like their livelihoods depend on it. (Hint: They do.) The only thing Read More
A couple of years ago, Jordan Osher spotted Kanye West in SoHo, chomping on a hotdog and spilling mustard on his shirt. Naturally, he took a picture.
"You get a photo of it and, what do you do with it?" Mr. Osher asked The Observer. Well, put it on the Internet, of course! "The average Read More
CNBC host and advertising mogul Donny Deutsch was caught on a private eye's camera kissing hedge funder Andrew Sandler's wife, Lisa. [P6]
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are "holed up" in London trying to fix their troubled marriage. However, a source says, "Gwyneth has the Madonna bug bad. … It's eerie. Gwyneth acts normally Read More
A probably not pregnant Mary-Kate Olsen hung out in a "faux abandoned meth lab" with boyfriend Nate Lowman at Art Basel Miami Beach last week. [Intelligencer, P6]
Brad Pitt thinks it's "inappropriate" for Angelina Jolie to make friends with the couple's household staff. [Page Six Magazine]
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