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.
Sony’s small budget faith-based drama War Room, a film about the power of prayer, pushed three-week champion Straight Outta Compton out of the top spot, winning the final weekend of the summer box office season.
Susan Sarandon gathered the ashes of her late friend and LSD guru Timothy Leary and brought them to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert to be burned.
Former Secretary of State and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell backed the Iran deal on Sunday. The retired statesman, who played a key role in the push for war in Iraq, later supported Barack Obama for president.
Actor/comedian Damon Wayans was sitting for an extended interview on radio station Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club on Friday when the discussion abruptly turned toward Bill Cosby and the more than three dozen sexual abuse allegations leveled against him this year.
Seven years before Jared Fogle confessed to preying on vulnerable children, the former Subway pitchman appeared on VH1 to mock men busted for trying to have sex with teens on NBC’s To Catch a Predator.
Singer Aretha Franklin won an 11-hour bid Friday night to stop the premiere of a documentary of the making of her 1972 album Amazing Grace, which was set to show at the Telluride Film Festival in southwest Colorado.
President Barack Obama will present the 2014 National Medal of Arts ceremony next week to a total of 11 individuals or groups, including novelist Stephen King and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field, at an event in the East Room of the White House.
Roberto Esquivel Cabrera, the 52-year-old Mexican man who literally carries the world’s longest penis, has been offered an exclusive deal with porn company Vivid Entertainment, according to TMZ,which has also obtained footage of Roberto’s behemoth hang down.
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan weighed in on the 2016 presidential race at a Q&A before a recent concert in Cincinnati, saying that while he may not necessarily agree with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s policy positions, it’s “cool” that he is in the race.
As fans of the Star Wars franchise eagerly await the December release of Star Wars The Force Awakens, Friday helped them manage their anticipation, with the release of new toys and other merchandise, in an intergalactic Black Friday of sorts.
Is ageism alive in Hollywood? Anne Hathaway says yes, and while being young once worked in her favor, the actress now says roles she easily landed in her early 20s are going to much younger actresses.
The latest trailer for tense drama/thriller Partisan is here. Vincent Cassel stars as Gregori, the leader of a “community” (more like a cult) that trains up young children to do dangerous errands for the group, including assassinations. Here’s the official
Say what you will about the upcoming film The Lobster – but you can’t say it’s not original. Colin Farrell stars as David, a man distraught after his wife leaves him for another man. But in the peculiar dystopian society in
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe stars as Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser in this month’s BBC TV movie The Gamechangers.
With transgender characters and themes growing more prevalent in TV and film, the upcoming biopic The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as one of the first known recipients of gender realignment surgery, isn’t just a part of a fad, according to one of its co-producers.
As Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan met with social and political leaders in Detroit to organize this year’s 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, he took time out to have dinner with the city’s most famous cultural export – rapper Eminem.
Oscar-nominated Actress Kathleen Turner will co-star in an upcoming off Broadway play about a lesbian struggling with gender identity issues.
The British charity regulator has investigated a land mine clearing charity – which rose to prominence in the 1990s when the late Princess Diana was a prominent supporter – after celebrity board member Angelina Jolie quit her role having made accusations
Weeks after being forced to defend its line of organic sunblock, Jessica Alba’s all-natural Honest Company is facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit for allegedly misleading consumers about what ingredients are in its other products.
President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett returned to Hollywood to promote the White House’s anti-rape campaign “It’s On Us.”
On Wednesday, new James Bond author Anthony Horowitz told The Daily Mail (UK) that he didn’t think Idris Elba, star of Luther and The Wire, would be a good fit for Bond.
The video for Miley Cyrus’s latest single “Dooo It” dropped this week, and to say she really “does it,” would be an understatement.
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson says the tongue and throat cancer he recently beat was caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV) – and he contracted it by engaging in too much oral sex.
“Did you hear Kermit found a new girlfriend? Good, that last one was a real pig,” said not a single feminist this week.
‘80s film star Amanda Peterson died at 43 of respiratory failure, as a result of a deadly combination of drugs, according to a coroner report obtained by TMZ.
