AP - Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference in the lives of others.
AP - Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference in the lives of others.
AP - Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference in the lives of others.
A man who embraced education for himself and other Filipinos as an escape from poverty is the CNN Hero of the Year. Twenty-one-year-old Efren Penaflorida (EFF'-ren Pen-ya-flow-REE'-duh)... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 21 Nov 2009 | 11:55 pm
AP - Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.
AP - Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.
AP - New York police shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber (BEE'-ber) after thousands of young girls showed up and got a little too wild.
AP - The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 — plus tax — on Saturday.
Jon Gosselin came bearing gifts. He left one giant step closer to losing a wife.
The artists otherwise known as Jon & Kate met face to face at a Pennsylvania law office on Saturday...
Cougar Town fans are waiting with bated breath to find out if Jules Cobb can lock down a younger man. But some real-life drama involving star Courteney Cox is going to keep that cliffhanger...
Owning Michael Jackson's infamous moonwalk glove: $350,000 plus tax.
The King of Pop's rhinestone-studded white...
The New York Times reports today that people who can't stop themselves from texting or talking on the phone while driving (which, as The Ethicist scolds in the Magazine, is bad even hands-free) are installing systems that monitor how fast their cars are going and block all cellphone signals if the car is in motion. There's even a workaround for passengers. Hooray for everyone who doesn't want to die an early death! Now we just have to find a way to make it standard in all cars like seatbelts. High-Tech Babysitters Get Drivers Off Phone [NYT]
To promote the third season of Mad Men in New Zealand, the communications agency DraftFCB put together Don Draper dolls to send to the media there. While you can't own one, and they don't really look like Jon Hamm, whose face is much craggier and more masculine, with a stronger jawline and a much less button-y nose (we can't even imagine how smooth this doll's "smooth area" must be!), you can admire the idea and the craftsmanship. A representative from the agency told the Mad Men uber fansite Basket of Kisses how they put the doll together:
"His suit is hand-stitched from real cloth, we designed and built a wood-paneled box for him to sit in. They were prohibitively expensive to make and we ran out of budget pretty quick, but totally worth it."
Note that the packaging is even cuter than the doll: "Collect all four mistresses!"
Tina Fey hosted the Ad Council's dinner the other night, where she made NBC jokes ("I really believe that if everyone in this room would watch NBC for one night ... then that would be a 40 percent increase") and even did a brief Sarah Palin impression ("all of my ideas are in these glass things!," meaning the teleprompter glass). It's a little weird to see Tina do award-show-host one-liners, but once you get used to it it's pretty funny.
The last two Democrat holdouts, Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Sen. Mary Landrieu, have both said today that they'll be voting to move forward with debate on the health care bill tonight. Maybe they just wanted some attention! [WSJ]
Nikke Finke breathlessly reports that The Twilight Saga: New Moon is expected to have made $72 million on its opening day, breaking the record set by The Dark Knight in 2008 ($67 million). The lesson appears to be: girls rule, boys drool. [Deadline Hollywood]
Jennifer Aniston hit her favorite Hollywood hot spot this week, the bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel, where she met up with a male friend for—gasp!—french fries!
Wearing jeans,...
Janet Jackson may be about to answer the musical question, "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" A source who caught Jackson rehearsing Friday for her upcoming American Music Awards...
(AP) AP - Vampires and werewolves have vanquished a dark knight. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single day domestic box office record previously held by "The Dark Knight," which had a $67.2 million opening day last year. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Nov 2009 | 10:41 am
AP - Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago.
In an article about HIMYM, which has 700,000 viewers in Canada, the CanWest news service addressed the show's constant teasing of its Canuck character, Robin Scherbatsky, played by actual Canadian Cobie Smulders, quoting her co-star Neil Patrick Harris: "By the end of (last) season, Cobie was like, 'All right, dudes, enough with the Canadian jokes." The article is good-humored about the whole thing, though its writer couldn't help but throw in a mention of Canada's Stanley Cup win and the writer even makes a national self-deprecating joke about the Stanley Cup. How I Met Your Mother Going Strong Thanks to Plenty of Canadian Jokes [Canada.com]
The glove and other Jackson items are part of a music memorabilia auction being held by Julien's Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square on Saturday.
Lost in, or possibly timed to coincide with, yesterday's puzzling huge fuss about Oprah's planned departure from her show many many moons from now was the news that Bill Moyers, trusted voice of calm reason at PBS, is retiring from weekly television and will end his current show, Bill Moyers Journal, at the end of next April. By way of explanation, he told the New York Times "I'm 75 years old." Now that is some actually fuss-worthy TV show host retirement news! Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television [NYT]
Front Page: French corp, GE at impasse over valuation -- Vivendi has officially become a thorn in the side of Comcast Corp.'s takeover bid for NBC Universal.
Sarah Palin's book tour hit Noblesville, Ind, Thursday night, where 1000 fans were told that they would have their books signed, but their adoration quickly turned to hate when Palin's bus took off early, leaving over 300 former fans chanting "quitter!" and "sign our books!" Palin fandom can withstand anything, it seems, but a personal slight. In other Palin news today, Rudolph Delson is live-blogging his reading of Going Rogue this weekend on The Awl, and in his first post, notices some undeniable similarities between the book's cover and the ironic cover of Dave Eggers' 2000 bestseller A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. You don't get to be a dust jacket designer at Harper Collins without a wry sense of humor.
Despite the fact that we all knew New Moon was coming and The Oprah Winfrey Show was going sometime soonish, the stars of both made major splashes this week every time they offered up even the...
The Madonna episode of Glee is here! While babysitting Mr. Shu's wife's sister's brats, Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Puck (Mark Salling) make beautiful music together. To be specific,...
The rare Saturday night session in which the Senate will vote on whether or not to begin debate on the current health care bill will commence at 8 pm this evening. With no Republicans supporting debate, the Democrats need every Democratic and Independent vote, and there appear to still be two holdouts. [CBS News]
Jon Gosselin came bearing gifts. He left one giant step closer to losing a wife.
The artists otherwise known as Jon & Kate met face to face at a Pennsylvania law office on Saturday...
Cougar Town fans are waiting with bated breath to find out if Jules Cobb can lock down a younger man. But some real-life drama involving star Courteney Cox is going to keep that cliffhanger...
Jennifer Aniston hit her favorite Hollywood hot spot this week, the bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel, where she met up with a male friend for—gasp!—french fries!
Wearing jeans,...
Janet Jackson may be about to answer the musical question, "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" A source who caught Jackson rehearsing Friday for her upcoming American Music Awards...
Despite the fact that we all knew New Moon was coming and The Oprah Winfrey Show was going sometime soonish, the stars of both made major splashes this week every time they offered up even the...
The Madonna episode of Glee is here! While babysitting Mr. Shu's wife's sister's brats, Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Puck (Mark Salling) make beautiful music together. To be specific,...