James Franco published a terrible short story at Vice this week. People don't and shouldn't take Franco seriously as a writer but that often keeps us from discussing the precise nature of his badness. It is this: He is the kind of bad that suggests the End of Literature would be no skin off anyone's nose.
Say you're a celebrity auction house that's sold William Shatner's kidney stone ($25,000), Marilyn Monroe's dog license ($4,800), and Michael Jackson's Thriller jacket ($1.8 million). There's only one way to top that, really: Sell a piece of David Hasselhoff. A reeeeally big piece:
A celebrity skin care specialist who once had a public feud with rapper Nicki Minaj over her waxing abilities was arrested last week after police discovered that she had allegedly tried to hire a former NFL player to murder a rival esthetician.
Sienna Miller on Friday confirmed the brief existence of what may have been the most beautiful affair of all time. Yes, it's true: she and Daniel Craig were, for a short time, getting it on.
Lenovo, the global technology manufacturing firm that recorded nearly $30 billion in revenue last year, has named Ashton Kutcher, a former male model who rose to fame playing the stupid one on That 70s Show, as its new "Project Engineer." The time to dump your Lenovo stock is now.
If you are lucky enough to have financial means and plenty of leisure time and a lack of more pressing responsibilities, you may be able to focus all of your energies on designing your "lifestyle" to your own utmost satisfaction. Congratulations on your good fortune. This does not qualify as a "job."
Does Vanity Fair have a bombshell story about Gwyneth Paltrow?
Yesterday afternoon, Sylvester Stallone turned up at New York Comic-Con, partly to promote his upcoming film, Escape Plan, and partly to sell a tiny fragment of his existence for a steep fee. A very steep fee: $395 an autograph, $445 a photo.
In light of the reason Kanye West was invited to be a guest on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host "thought it would be appropriate" to air an all-musician edition of the show's best recurring segment, "Mean Tweets."
A grossly negligent Gwyneth Paltrow came thisclose to colliding with a school bus last week after she pulled her Vespa in front of the vehicle without giving her horrific traffic violation a competing thought.
Emma Roberts joined the unwashed masses outside Dominique Ansel Bakery yesterday morning in an effort to get her hands on a genuine Cronut — New York's most elusive pastry.
Two Matt Damon fans who ran into Mark Wahlberg recently mistook the former for the latter, and good-sport Wahlberg was kind enough to take a picture with them anyway while pretending to be Damon.
Paul McNeive and the rest of the "McNeive clan" were touring Hollywood recently, and decided to drop by actor Aaron Paul's house to see if they could catch a glimpse of the Breaking Bad star through a window.
When Jason Biggs wrote that being a celebrity meant having constant anxiety about being recognized, he had no idea — high-end retail stores are testing technology that scans customers against a database of celebrity photos and alerts store clerks when there's a match.
"I'm not really that into [acting] anymore," Mary-Louise Parker told News Corp Australia in an interview that was ostensibly about her role in two upcoming movies: R.I.P.D. and Red 2.
Budding actress Emma Roberts, daughter of Eric Roberts (and niece of Julia Roberts), was taken into custody last week in Montreal on suspicion of domestic violence after she allegedly engaged in a physical altercation with her actor boyfriend Evan Peters that reportedly ended in bloodshed.
Emily Kraus and her boyfriend were on their way to Hershey, Pennsylvania, to see Dave Matthews perform, and were running late as it was.
King of Queens star and former co-host of The Talk Leah Remini has left the Church of Scientology after some 30 years over a falling out with Church leader David Miscavige.
Twenty years ago, after moving to LA to "be discovered," a then-25-year-old Zach Galifianakis met and befriended an elderly laundromat volunteer named Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist.
