On his weekly Friday night panel discussion during his show Real Time, Bill Maher wasted no time jumping into the vaccination debate. Maher suggested that vaccines are preventable if people would simply eat better, attacked genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and defended climate change to make his own argument that inconsistencies within the medical profession are all the more reason not to trust vaccines.
The Church of Scientology aired an advertisement during Sunday night’s Super Bowl broadcast, offering viewers an introduction to the “age of answers.”
The HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief debuted to a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Sunday.
Bill Maher took aim at American Sniper subject Chris Kyle Friday night on HBO’s Real Time, describing him as a “psychopath.”
HBO’s Bryant Gumbel tells Rolling Stone magazine that the NRA is ‘a curse on the American landscape.”
The centerpiece of “Triggering” has a room full of Hannah Horvath’s peers reciting various real-world critiques of Lena Dunham, sounding pretentious and shallow as they put her writing through the wringer. And yet, to her credit, Dunham balances it with even more self-effacing–depicting herself as thin-skinned, deceptive, selfish, and out of her depth.
The Church of Scientology ran a full-page advertisement in the New York Times Friday attacking HBO for the pay cabler’s upcoming documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
HBO’s Girls continues to walk a dichotomous tightrope: its sympathy for bubble-dwelling white Millennial princesses and its simultaneous recognition of the people who find their entitlement repulsive.
During Sunday night’s season premiere of HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham and company once again pushed the boundaries with a racy sex scene in which Allison Williams was on the receiving end of… well… the receiving end. The show’s cast seemingly
Earlier this week on “Charlie Rose” on PBS, comedian Chris Rock discussed preferring all African-American audiences at his HBO concert specials. He explained it frees him to poke fun at black culture and said black audiences laugh better than white
According to a statement released Tuesday by Barry One’s attorney Aaron Minc, they have been “contacting Random House and Ms. Dunham since October 6, 2014, seeking an apology and exoneration.” It was only this week that Random House finally exonerated
Lena Dunham writes an essay for BuzzFeed responding to the controversy over a passage from her memoir describing a sexual assault during her college years. It has been almost a decade since I was sexually assaulted. It took me a
This story originally appeared at Radar Online: Lena Dunham’s account of being raped as a college student by a conservative named “Barry” has been called into question by Breitbart News, as the outlet’s new report takes to task a number
How could it not be a winning formula? A news anchor’s daughter playing a boy in a LIVE broadcast on the same network where he voices the nightly news….well, it seemingly wasn’t. NBC’s Peter Pan Live aired Thursday night
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is almost finished with his new film about Scientology for HBO, but the premium cable channel isn’t taking any chances. According to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO has already hired about 160 lawyers to defend the film
NEW YORK (AP) — Britain’s Stephen Dillane and the Netherlands’ Bianca Krijgsman won the top acting prizes Monday night at the 42nd International Emmy Awards in which the honors were spread among eight countries. The highlight of the awards gala
Famed comedian John Cleese argued that political correctness was “condescending,” and seemed to suggest that fear of physical retaliation makes people afraid to criticize or joke about radical Islam on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The
On Friday, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that Republican outrage over President Obama’s executive action on immigration was unwarranted because Obama “reached out” to the GOP. “He [Obama] purposely reached out to the Republicans in his executive order.
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (UPI) — Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer said she wouldn’t mind seeing a little more male nudity in the HBO series for gender equality’s sake, of course. Dormer, who plays Margaery Tyrell in the series,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military veterans and active-duty service members were among the swarm of music fans who packed the National Mall on Tuesday for a free Veterans Day concert, bouncing to Rihanna, head-banging to Metallica and cheering protest anthems from
Momentum–of a sort–is building behind the idea that California governor Jerry Brown ought to run for President in 2016. On Friday, the same day that former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown argued that Hillary Clinton might lose after all unless
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Bernard Hopkins will turn the big 5-0 without a championship belt around his waist. Sergey Kovalev roughed up Hopkins from the opening bell, sending the aging fighter to the canvas — and possibly into retirement
Brandy Clark may not be the typical country artist, but she’s currently one of the most talked about as she’s known for singing about pot-smoking housewives. Clark, 37, has previously written tracks for Miranda Lambert and The Band Perry. She
Controversial comedian Bill Maher had a few choice words of advice for the portion of UC Berkeley’s student population whose calls to rescind the chancellor’s invitation to Maher to speak at the university’s upcoming commencement speech were rejected. “My reputation
HBO’s “Real Time” host, Bill Maher, announced “I’m planning to come” for his commencement speech at UC-Berkeley despite protests over the speech on Friday. Maher reacted to the controversy around his speech, saying “they invited me because it was the
HBO’s Bill Maher, Newsweek Foreign Policy Analyst Rula Jebreal, Gen. Wesley Clark, and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) sparred over Maher’s previous comments on radical Islam and the controversy around Maher’s planned commencement speech at UC-Berkeley on Friday’s “Real Time.” “I
(Reuters) – Time Warner Inc’s pay TV network HBO is preparing to cut 7 percent of its staff in the United States or about 150 jobs.
On Friday, Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time” slammed supporters of both Darren Wilson and Michael Brown for ignoring facts. “Everybody in America just sides with their own people and doesn’t look at the facts. The cops, I saw,
During his discussion on the recent shooting in Ottawa on Friday, HBO’s “Real Time” host, Bill Maher took a jab at critics who have accused him of Islamophobia. “I’m sure you saw this, an attack on the Canadian Parliament. The
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that President Obama has cracked down on whistleblowers and the press more than President Bush because he needs to prevent a terrorist attack and if there was a terrorist attack during the Obama
David Frum, senior editor of The Atlantic, declared that President Barack Obama is correctly “taking a risk with Americans” by not imposing a travel ban on countries with massive Ebola outbreaks because he believes such a ban would harm West
Just one day after news broke that HBO would go over-the-top with a live-streaming service, the evil that is bundled cable received another potential death blow with an announcement from CBS that the network would offer its own live-streaming subscription
In what could be a welcome and seismic crack in the foundation of bundled cable, Time Warner chairman and CEO Richard Piepler announced to shareholders Wednesday that HBO will break from bundled cable and offer a stand-alone streaming service. From
The liberal Minnesota-based blog UpTake posted a preview clip from HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” episode recorded this week, in which Maher is visiting the district of Rep. John Kline (R-MN) in an attempt to appeal to the voters
In her memoir, “Not That Kind of Girl,” Lena Dunham alleges she was raped by a “mustachioed campus Republican” named Barry and that the incident occurred on property owned by Oberlin College. In a chapter titled “Barry,” the creator of
An Oberlin College official confirmed to Breitbart News that the university is looking into and has made local law enforcement aware of the rape allegations made by Lena Dunham. In her memoir “Not That Kind of Girl,” Lena Dunham, the
Vice Media launched a unique series called “The Real” which profiles true stories and characters that inspire Hollywood’s most popular films and television shows. The media company dropped the first episode on Oct. 1, The Real ‘True Detective,’ in which they examined the satanic
According to a study published by the University of Michigan, chances are as high as 80% that the man Girls star Lena Dunham claims raped her has and will repeat his crime. As of now, there is no word that Dunham
Author Sam Harris and HBO’s “Real Time” anchor Bill Maher debated actor Ben Affleck and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Maher’s earlier comments on radical Islam on Friday. Harris argued, “liberals have really failed on the topic of
Boxing promoter Bob Arum recently suggested that Floyd Mayweather fears a fight with client Manny Pacquiao. The powerful southpaw thinks his nemesis on in the sports pages but not, as of yet, in the ring should fear someone else. “He
