According to a new lawsuit, production assistants working for a number of companies including Paramount, Nickelodeon and Regency were forced to go to the bathroom inside their cars thanks to their strict—and low-paying—job requirements.
Over the last few years, the White House has taken Jon Stewart very seriously, Politico reports, quietly summoning the comedian to the Oval Office on at least two occasions and routinely backchanneling with Daily Show writers and producers.
Beloved entertainer Rush Limbaugh once again proves he's "king of all media" with his new children's book about America's colonial history. Kids everywhere are excited about the $19.99 storybook, which will "drop" just in time for Halloween, when children will finally get hip to the man lovingly known as Uncle Rush.
75-year-old up and comer Woody Allen has a hit movie right now with Midnight in Paris, a summer counter-programming sleeper success that is on its way to becoming his most successful movie ever.
Leonardo DiCaprio will no longer star in in Mel Gibson's next directorial project, a period piece about Vikings. We have a feeling it has more to do with Mel's recent behavior than how Leo feels about Vikings. [Image via Getty]
Ticket sales for all the concerts in the country combined has dropped to a new low, and many big-name acts are under-performing. How could this happen? Maybe because all the bands are old and no one wants to see them.
Tina Fey was supposed to be a guest on Leno tonight. She wasn't. Was all this just a ploy to increase Leno's ratings in the lucrative Men, 13-34 "has good taste in comedy" demographic? He could use it.
Chicago's Second City comedy troupe has a show called "Rod Blagojevich Superstar." And because he is insane, the real Rod Blagojevich went to a performance of the show about how he was impeached as governor after being indicted for corruption.
Today in the news of the showbiz world, we have Meryl Streep as Brechtian hero. Steve Carell as fought-over divorce child. Tyler Perry as fool. And Shonda Rhimes as wicked devil creator.
Tom Cruise would like Hollywood to know that he's still pretty employable—the white Will Smith! After successful turns in Tropic Thunder (funny!) and Valkyrie (not a total bomb!), Maverick is back.
Remember Eugene Allen, the White House butler? The Washington Post put his story on the front page the Friday after Election Day. Allen, a black man, worked at the White House for 34 years, starting during the days of segregation and retiring during the Reagan years. He cast his vote for Barack Obama the day after his…
Predator star Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota one dark night in the '90s, when government was mostly kept around for its entertainment value. Then Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger got himself elected governor of California in 2003. Most pundits assumed that the next in line would be Carl Weathers,…
It's worthwhile sometimes to stop and think about the real victims of today's tanking American economy. Like Sanjay Sanghoee, a hedge-funder who's running into trouble financing the film version of his corporate intrigue novel. The novel, Merger, is your standard tale of "an Indian corporate titan who begins a hostile…
Comedian Al Franken is running for Senate out in the frigid wilderness of Minnesota. He's running against Norm Coleman, an oily scumbag whose best argument for remaining a senator is that he's not comedian Al Franken. It will be a bitter and dirty race. The GOP is painting Franken as an out-of-touch Hollywood liberal,…
Post gossip great-aunt Cindy Adams got the fresh dirt from Hollywood mega-producer Scott Rudin as to how, exactly, that crazy Oscar-nommed "No Country For Old Men" came to be. "Look, you never know when something great's going to come through the transom. I do movies, plays. I'm always looking. My office covers lots…
