The Rev. Al Sharpton ripped Hollywood after the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, with black actors completely shut out of each of the four top acting categories for a second straight year.
Laverne Cox, the transgender star of the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black, was named on People’s 2015 list of the World’s Most Beautiful People.
After Stephen Colbert left Comedy Central to be replaced by omedian Larry Wilmore, critics were exultant. But three months after taking over, Wilmore’s ratings have taken a serious tumble.
Ben Affleck revealed the name of his slave-owning great-grandfather on Wednesday, a day after saying he regretted asking producers of a PBS documentary to edit any mention of the ancestor out of a documentary television show.
A new study commissioned by both the Sundance Institute and Women in Film found the gender gap between directors to be at its widest in top-grossing films.
Breitbart News has tracked down one likely suspect for the slaveholding ancestor Ben Affleck wants to disown. It may be Benjamin L. Cole of Savannah, Georgia. In 1850, Benjamin L. Cole owned 25 slaves, according to the Chatham County, Georgia Schedule of Slaves enumerated in the 1850 United States Census.
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.
Last month, Jay-Z and a handful of some of the biggest names in music teamed up to launch Tidal, a new artist-owned streaming music service that would compete with household names like Pandora and Spotify. The concept seemed promising; a new
A Ukrainian woman named Kristina Caro has filed a lawsuit against actress Mila Kunis alleging she stole her pet chicken 25 years ago.
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
Breitbart associate editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was nominated by public vote as the leading candidate in the “journalist” category of the Shorty Awards this year, was scrubbed from the nominations roster after a whispering campaign by feminist agitators, say sources close to the Awards.
On April 22 families of 11 Sandy Hook Elementary victims made clear that they are not affiliated with Sandy Hook Promise, the gun control group for whom Tim McGraw is raising money.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, one of Hollywood’s more prominent lifestyle gurus, made headlines last week for taking celebrity chef Mario Batali’s “Food Stamp Challenge” (and failing) sponsored by the Food Bank for New York City.
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.
In a Wednesday appearance on MSBNC’s “Morning Joe,” country music singer Tim McGraw re-affirmed his commitment to play the gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise and acknowledged that he is leading with heart rather than his mind on this one.
Every once in a while – okay, every few hours – I get a text, email or Twitter message from someone threatening to kill me, saying they’d be happy if I died or even instructing me to commit suicide. Tweets such
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.
Ben Affleck took to Facebook on Tuesday to address the controversy surrounding censorship of his segment on the PBS television show Finding Your Roots.
Legendary X-Men character Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, is set to come out of the closet in a new issue of the “All-New X-Men” comic book series.
Beauty-tip seeking teenagers showed off their painful, bruised lips on social media this week after attempts to undertake the “Kylie Jenner Challenge” proved unsuccessful.
Madonna has landed herself in trouble on social media again.
Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame is running for President, and he wants your support.
On Monday, Grammy-winning singer John Legend, praised California’s Proposition 47, which was passed last year by referendum and reduced some nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, letting some convicts serve shorter sentences or avoid jail time altogether.
The integrity and reputation of PBS could be damaged by the revelation that the network censored information about Ben Affleck’s slave-owning great-grandfather out of the actor’s segment on the television show Finding Your Roots, several media professors said Monday.
The International Space Station now features a high-tech espresso machine. Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti celebrated the arrival of the “Dragon” spacecraft last Friday by wearing a Star Trek: Voyager uniform and updating her Twitter account. “There’s coffee in that nebula…
After 17 years at the helm, Jon Stewart revealed Monday night he would host The Daily Show for the last time on August 6.
