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The one and only Liz

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Editorial Staff - Mar. 24 (Editorial) - There's no doubt that Elizabeth Taylor defined 'celebrity' for the modern age.

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George Clooney: 21st-Century Statesman

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By John Avlon - Feb. 20 (News Report) - In the age of Twitter-shortened attention spans, fame is an increasingly powerful weapon of diplomacy. How George Clooney is helping to bring change—and a hefty dose of hope—to Sudan.

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Lady Gaga goes to Washington via social media to end 'don't ask, don't tell'

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Kris Turner - Sep. 26 (News) - Lady Gaga goes to Washington via social media to end 'don't ask, don't tell'San Francisco Chronicle (blog)By using social media to inject herself into the middle of a heated national debate over gays in the military, the pop superstar is changing the way ...and more??

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Tiger Woods?s advisers helped to arrange affairs, Vanity Fair claims - Times Online

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - Mar. 31 (News) -

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Lindsay Lohan Sues E*Trade Over Ad with "Milkaholic" Lindsay - Today's News: Our Take

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

tvguide.com - By Joyce Eng - Mar. 09 (News) - Lindsay Lohan is suing E*Trade, claiming the financial company based the "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay in its commercial after her. Lohan filed the $100 million lawsuit Monday at Nassau County Supreme Court, a court clerk office rep told TVGuide.com.

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Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - Sep. 17 (News Report) - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

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A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Barstow - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The news of the suicide of Sylvia Plath’s son, Nicholas Hughes, has cut through two distant and disconnected worlds in vastly different ways.

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Forget Britney; Media Outrage Hits Big Spenders

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Mar. 13 (News Report) - It could be called “To Catch a Rich Guy." The celebrity Web site TMZ and TV shows like “Extra” and “Inside Edition” are expanding their coverage of starlets and Hollywood break-ups to include billion-dollar business scandals and the economic collapse.

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Tyler Perry: Hollywood's new commander in chief?

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick Goldstein - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - Last night, I was asked to speak at an evening program at a local temple. Since the topic was "Jews in Hollywood," I brought along a true Hollywood Jew, Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal, who spoke quite eloquently and insightfully about her faith and how it's sometimes tested by her job. Being my usual contrarian self, at one point I suddenly veered off topic, asking Pascal why -- if America had managed to elect an African American president -- was Hollywood was still light years away from the day when there could be a black studio chief.

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Goodbye Dubai

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Smashing Telly - Feb. 15 (Opinion) - Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea, and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and roll are an anathema. This is effectively the proposition that created Dubai - it was a stupid idea before the crash, and now it is dangerous.

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Ballots, Bullets And Suicide Bombers

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Christopher Dickey - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - If Barack Obama wants to change the Middle East for the better, he'll have to rethink the notions of democracy that the Bush administration found so easy to espouse, yet so hard to manage. And he should start by considering the vital, visceral importance of resistance, of defiance, of what an Irish Republican Army supporter once described to me as "f--- you rage and resentment," when people see themselves as occupied and oppressed.

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Mormons to get 'South Park' treatment

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Guy Adams - Nov. 19 (Not sure) - News of the potentially-controversial project comes at a tough time for the Mormon Church, which is fighting a propaganda war over its role in passing Proposition 8, the ballot measure that outlawed same-sex weddings in California this month.

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The Oracle

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Lauren Collins - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Although Huffington was known as a conservative for most of her life, the Huffington Post is a kind of liberal foil to the Drudge Report. According to Nielsen Online, in February it drew 3.7 million unique visitors, surpassing Drudge for the first time. Its advertisers have included Starbucks, Volkswagen, Home Depot, and the Times. In August, the site logged 5.1 million unique visitors. This election season, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—whom Huffington supported over Clinton, in part because of his opposition to the war in Iraq—attempted to harness the voting power of its impassioned readership, with Clinton contributing posts about child poverty and the Bush Administration’s threats to reproductive rights, and Obama justifying his position on the FISA bill and clarifying his relationship to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

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Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Roger Ebert - Sep. 12 (Opinion) - I think I might be able to explain some of Sarah Palin's appeal. She's the "American Idol" candidate. Consider. What defines an "American Idol" finalist? They're good-looking, work well on television, have a sunny personality, are fierce competitors, and so talented, why, they're darned near the real thing. There's a reason "American Idol" gets such high ratings. People identify with the contestants. They think, Hey, that could be me up there on that show! My problem is, I don't want to be up there. I don't want a vice president who is darned near good enough. I want a vice president who is better, wiser, well-traveled, has met world leaders, who three months ago had an opinion on Iraq. Someone who doesn't repeat bald- faced lies about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere. Someone who doesn't appoint Alaskan politicians to "study" global warming, because, hello! It has been studied. The returns are convincing enough that John McCain and Barack Obama are darned near in agreement.

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GOP Ignores Copyrights, Raises Ire Of Multiple Recording Artists

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dave Burdick - Sep. 05 (Opinion) - This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists who wouldn't have given permission if asked, and some who have spoken up to ask that their songs not be used in the future.

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Heart to McCain/Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda'

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By David Beard - Sep. 05 (News Report) - Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there.

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Hilary Duff - Stranger; Official Remix Video (HQ)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

YouTube - By Albert Castillo, ItaloSuave, MichaelBernard1, mdelcamp1, Hilary Duff - Aug. 01 (Entertainment) - I would like to dedicate this MashUp FanVid Music Video remake of Hillary Duff singing Stranger, to our White House Vice President "Tricky" Dick Cheney. I do so on behalf of both the American People generally, and President George W. Bush specifically. I think our Veep (and his NeoCon Wife and fellow travelers) has earned this award and designation. Enjoy. . .

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Carlin gets last laugh on death

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By CNN Staff - Jul. 29 (Special Report) - Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death -- and making it the butt of his jokes.

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Carlin knew what was really indecent

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 26 (Opinion) - He was angry. He, like Pacifica, gave voice to essential, dissident perspectives that have been almost entirely blocked from mainstream media. He said: "We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. Am I right? A group of slave owners who wanted to be free, so they killed a lot of white English people in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people and move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto of this country ought to be? You give us a color, we'll wipe it out." His prolific output will continue to inspire for generations to come.

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George Carlin, American Radical

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By John Nichols - Jun. 24 (Other) - Carlin may have stopped voting in 1972. But America's most consistently savage social commentator for the best part of a half century, who has died at age 71, did not give up on politics.

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John & Cindy's Separate Bedrooms: Cindy Scared to Touch His Skin?

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

UPJ - By Caleb Freeman - May. 10 (News Report) - Senator John McCain is believed to be carrying the new Contagious Skin Cancer strand and Cindy, his wife, may sleep in a separate bedroom because she is afraid to touch his sk

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Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Saga Repeat of Brook Sheilds in the 80's?

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Michelle Renee - May. 01 (Opinion) - Yesterday I got into a discussion with a good friend who said he believes Miley's parents are in on the "artistic prostituting" of their daughter. That conversation got me thinking back to the 1980's.

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What the hell has happened to our national gossip business?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Why the golden age of celebrity gossip is grinding to an end. - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - Perhaps the biggest shift in how we ingest our gossip, though, is the feeling of over-saturation and over-stimulation. We have gorged ourselves on nip-slips and sex tapes and divorce proceedings to the point of queasiness at the idea of consuming another morsel of celebrity meat. Or maybe that's just me.

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An hour with William F. Buckley, Jr.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Charlie Rose - By Charlie Rose - Feb. 27 (Interview) - A retrospective on Buckley on Charlie Rose

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Historians fear MLK's legacy being lost

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Deepti Hajela - Jan. 21 (Special Report) - Nearly 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some say his legacy is being frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message. "Everyone knows -- even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King -- can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream' speech," said Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo. "No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this guy had a dream. We don't know what that dream was."

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