
A new film by former Politico journalist Patrick Gavin is challenging the culture surrounding what has become DC’s most self-absorbed annual event, the White House Correspondents Association dinner. His assessment: things started to go south around the same time Hollywood began using the event as an excuse for a four-day party.
by Kipp Jones24 Apr 2015, 6:26 PM PST0

An episode of PBS’ Finding Your Roots regarding the lineage of actor Ben Affleck aired with a major omission last September: one of the star’s ancestors owned slaves.
by Kipp Jones24 Apr 2015, 11:23 AM PST0

One of the twin brothers who played the sons of comedian Ray Romano on the long-running CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond died Thursday of an apparent suicide.
by Kipp Jones24 Apr 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

A group of seriously ill children appear to have become collateral damage in a war between Hollywood talent agencies.
by Kipp Jones23 Apr 2015, 10:41 AM PST0

Clint Eastwood was honored at an event at CinemaCon Wednesday, where he looked back on his acting career, opened up about possible upcoming directing work, and finally addressed the loudest critic of his record-breaking film American Sniper: Michael Moore.
by Kipp Jones23 Apr 2015, 9:14 AM PST0

Acting legend Robert Downey Jr. stormed out of an Avengers: Age of Ultron promotional interview this week, after a British reporter went off topic and began to inquire about the actor’s checkered past.
by Kipp Jones22 Apr 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

Just days ahead of the premiere of his televised special with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Bruce Jenner was allegedly photographed wearing a dress outside of his Southern California home this week. The former Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and
by Kipp Jones22 Apr 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

If only David Letterman would present a top ten list of appropriate times for a talk show host to walk away from comedy. He might have found a perfect candidate for no. 1.
by Kipp Jones22 Apr 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong is opening up about her upcoming gig as this weekend’s featured entertainment for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and thinks President Barack Obama might just be America’s “funniest” president, according to Variety.
by Kipp Jones22 Apr 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

Madonna has landed herself in trouble on social media again.
by Kipp Jones21 Apr 2015, 1:43 PM PST0

After 17 years at the helm, Jon Stewart revealed Monday night he would host The Daily Show for the last time on August 6.
by Kipp Jones21 Apr 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

A newly discovered species of glass frog from Central America shares an uncanny resemblance with Jim Henson’s famed Muppet character, Kermit The Frog.
by Kipp Jones21 Apr 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

Sitcom heavyweight Roseanne Barr shared her thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid Monday, but don’t expect any support from the former TV mom, as she made it perfectly clear she thinks Hillary is nothing more than “the same old s—t.”
by Kipp Jones20 Apr 2015, 8:08 PM PST0

HBO announced Monday the web-only comedy series High Maintenance, which follows a New York marijuana dealer and his crazy diverse group of clients, is coming to television from video sharing site Vimeo for six new episodes, according to Deadline. The
by Kipp Jones20 Apr 2015, 3:11 PM PST0

The musical Fun Home debuted on Sunday, and with it, the first lesbian lead character to appear in a Broadway production.
by Kipp Jones20 Apr 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

More than five months after a group of hackers crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment, information from thousands of leaked documents and emails is still surfacing.
by Kipp Jones20 Apr 2015, 10:03 AM PST0

Hollywood superstar and staunch environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio is again being accused of practicing hypocrisy after it was reported he boarded a private jet six separate times in a six-week period last year.
by Kipp Jones18 Apr 2015, 11:50 AM PST0

Hollywood director Paul Haggis, a former Scientologist, is now accusing his former church of trying to spy on him under the guise of a journalist working with Time magazine.
by Kipp Jones18 Apr 2015, 10:51 AM PST0

In the 2004 romantic comedy 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler’s character courts a young woman (Drew Barrymore) with dementia as a result of brain damage, and late in the film, helps her to remember him each day with a video of who he is and how they met.
by Kipp Jones17 Apr 2015, 1:47 PM PST0

Texas Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz expressed his love for The Simpsons Thursday, only to have the long-running Fox cartoon’s producer publicly state the show doesn’t love him back.
by Kipp Jones17 Apr 2015, 8:44 AM PST0

Lady Antebellum vocalist Hillary Scott and three others managed to escape injury early Thursday morning when the country music group’s tour bus caught fire on a Texas highway. “Hey guys, we had a crazy morning on the way to Dallas
by Kipp Jones16 Apr 2015, 2:27 PM PST0

Things got tense on Wednesday night’s American Idol during a verbal exchange between judge Harry Connick Jr. and a contestant, that host Ryan Seacrest later admitted he thought was about to turn violent.
by Kipp Jones16 Apr 2015, 10:53 AM PST0

Businessman Nick Loeb is suing his former fiancée, Sofia Vergara, to prevent her from destroying two female embryos created by the couple through in vitro fertilization six months before they called it quits.
by Kipp Jones16 Apr 2015, 7:56 AM PST0

In her crusade to highlight wage disparities between men and women, comedian Sarah Silverman admitted this week a story she previously told about being a victim of gender discrimination was embellished but asked “maniac” critics to support her cause anyway.
by Kipp Jones15 Apr 2015, 10:00 PM PST0

Jerry Seinfeld has better things to do than watch your shaky cat videos on YouTube.
by Kipp Jones15 Apr 2015, 3:02 PM PST0