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Kansas Avoids Becoming Abortion Clinic-Free

Lauri Apple — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:20:38 EDT

Kansas has issued a license to Planned Parenthood to continue providing abortions in light of new, burdensome regulations that could shutter the state's two other clinics. Those clinics go to court today to fight the regs. [Image WeNews/via Flickr] More »

Natalie Portman Sparks New York Panic

Richard Lawson — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:29:35 EST

New York is full of actresses right now, some of them relaxing, others working. But all of them, as we've interpreted from these paparazzi photos, are thinking about Ashton Kutcher. First up is Natalie Portman who, while waiting for a cab, remembers what it was like filming No Strings Attached. [Splash] More »

You Can Now Major in Lady Gaga Studies

Brian Moylan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:55:43 EDT

The University of South Carolina will be offering a class called "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame" beginning next spring, taught by an obsessed professor with a Gaga fansite. Finally a college class with so many real world applications. More »

BP's Cement Plug Is Successful, Spill Costs Reach $6.1 Billion

Jeff Neumann — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:29:55 EDT

Yesterday BP announced that the cement plug in the leaking Gulf oil well was a success, and that a relief well would be finished later this month. The company also said the spill has so far cost it $6.1 billion. More »

Katherine Heigl Rescues Film from Reese Witherspoon's Shriveled Grasp

Adrian Chen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:45:50 EST

It's Blonde on Blonde as Katherine Heigl revives an abandoned Reese Witherspoon project. Rachel Weisz is in a spooky murder film. Howard Stern really is in talks to judge American Idol. God help us all, it's the Trade Roundup. More »

Erin Andrews Appreciates Men in Uniform

Andrew Belonsky — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:11:15 EDT

Erin Andrews offers thanks. Chris Noth's off the market. Kandi Burruss released a statement on AJ's death. And Don Imus remains an optimist. Good morning! It's your Monday morning gossip roundup! More »

DJ AM Report Reveals Sad Fact

Andrew Belonsky — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:00:19 EDT

DJ AM took OxyContin the night he died. Spencer Pratt takes his absurdity to new levels. And Kate Hudson wants to take over A-Rod's apartment. All that and more in your Wednesday Gossip Roundup! More »

In Twist of Fate, Fat May Shrink Brains

Andrew Belonsky — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:28:19 EDT

Fat: it's good for lewd and cruel jokes, but it's not so good for your health - including that of your brains. It eats them! More »

Why Wiccans and Virgins Can't Be Friends

Natasha VC — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:49 EDT

A source working at Comic Con tells us that organizers are purposefully putting Avatar events far from Twilight events because they fear a melee between the Fanboys and TweenGirls. Hopefully there will be enough More »

Please Turn the Governor of Alaska's Family Into a Television Program. Thank You.

John Cook — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:13:57 EDT

The heartwrenching saga of the Wasilla Hillbillies, the most recent installment of which features the dramatic break-up of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, cries out for a reality show. It could be on VH1. More »

How 'Benjamin Button' Can Finish 0-For-13 On Oscar Night

STV — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:54:57 EST

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grazed history last week with 13 Academy Award nominations. But could it seize Oscar legend by the throat on Feb. 22 with 13 losses? We think so! More »

Obama's Pals Plot Conspiracy to Isolate President

Owen Thomas — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST

Remember how you had to move as a kid and you totally promised to keep in touch with your friends, but you didn't? Barack Obama's Chicago buddies worry they're going to be those friends. More »

National Board of Review Makes 'Slumdog' 1-For-1 in Best Picture Race

STV — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:28:21 EST

Our ongoing Pop Culture Doomsday stroked the infant cheek of awards season this morning when the hooded, cloaked cultists at National Board of Review anointed Slumdog Millionaire as their Best Picture pick for 2008. It's just the latest setback today for Paramount, which, with one notable exception, will chase the bitter aftertaste of rolling layoffs with an ice-cold glass of Button-Snub Ultra. More »

Who Still Gets Laid At Posh Nightclubs

Ryan Tate — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:44:08 EDT

Economic meltdown or not, certain nightclubs still seem to be blessed with celebrities who will show up for free drinks, supermodels who will show up for the celebrities, and billionaires who will show up for the supermodels, black Amex cards at the ready. We know this thanks to writer and costume-lover Hud Morgan, who bravely traded his fruitinis for passionfruit shots and infiltrated 1OAK on behalf of Men's Vogue (a scan is after the jump). Illustrating how magazine publishers, too, are defying the recession and financing the posher forms of writerly hobnobbing. More »

Outraged Terry Gilliam Refuses to Place Heath Ledger in His Midsummer Oscar Pool

STV — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Whether he's outmaneuvering the cosmic pox on his films or simply panhandling for his next directing opportunity, Terry Gilliam is a man Hollywood can always count on to deliver his own special brand of crazy when it counts. But whereas we've generally been leery to attribute much more than pity to him over the years, for once we've got Gilliam's back in a scintillating new attack on Warner Bros. More »

A Very Real Housewives Independence Day

Richard Lawson — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:23:00 EDT

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Courageous Guest of a Guest blogger Doug braved the unthinkable this weekend: Jill Zarin's 4th of July party in the Hamptons. The Real Housewives of New York City star and her husband hold an annual backyard soirée at their landed estate, and Doug was (un)fortunate enough to receive an invitation. Everything just farted class, from the salmon and lobster salad to the lychee martinis to the "Team Jill" dessert cookies. And look, even RHoNYC costars Bethenny and Countess LuAnn (wearing flamenco water wings) were there, teetering about in all white, mistaking the event for an actual party (sort of) worth covering. A humble and grateful guest, Doug doesn't really dish any dirt, but there are photographs, so you can make up your own tragic stories. Some select few await you after the jump. More »

I was this little girl once. Trying...

Anthony De Rosa — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:09:06 EDT

I was this little girl once. Trying to get back there. More »

'No Impact Man' Is Amazingly Still Married

Joshua Stein — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:10:13 EDT

Remember Colin Beavan, the 40-something Brooklyn writer who forswore toilet paper and showers in pursuit of a book deal about being green? To us it seemed that his wife, a kindly Business Week editor by the name of Michelle Conlin, was only hanging on by a thread. We're surprised to find that, months later, it seems she's still hanging on by that very same thread. Who knew organic shade-grown raffia was so sturdy? More »