With Fashion Week just days away New York has to prepare for not only an onslaught of fab descending upon Lincoln Center, but also its inevitable byproduct: protests. PETA, everyone's favorite vegan crusaders, certainly isn't going to let the week go by as designers continue harming animals for their fur and... MORE»
Amanda Knox, the onetime foreign exchange student imprisoned for the murder of her roommate, may soon be on a TV near you. Lifetime is planning the February 21 premiere of Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, a TV movie starring Hayden Panettiere as the college student. Knox's lawyers have written to Lifetime, asking that the film not be aired for fear that it might affect the appeals process (the family of Meredith Kercher, Knox's slain roommate filed a similar, separate request).... MORE»
Anyone who was paying attention during last night's Super Bowl was surprised for fifteen seconds that a pro-Dalai Lama advocacy group had managed to buy ad time for a spot on the troubles Tibet faces--then somewhere between miffed or horrified as the second half of the ad pulled the rug out. Groupon can get you a deal on Himalayan food! Forget freeing Tibet--"Save the Money."... MORE»
It's not hard to imagine what would happen if a teenaged Justin Bieber fan got the idol's phone number -- basically just a lot of screaming. Then, after a few seconds this information actually sets in, and our lucky Belieber would punch in those digits hard enough to break the keypad and wait without breathing for the one and only to pick up the... MORE»
The Fighter star Melissa Leo had won a Golden Globe and SAG Award, and given loopy if lovable speeches at both ceremonies, flirting with David O. Russell and sputtering for joy. It's the first time she's had such... MORE»
Tina Fey's Bossypants, due out in April from Little, Brown's Reagan Arthur, may be one of several TV-star books hitting the market, but it's getting a particularly big push. Today's anniversary issue of The New Yorker features an excerpt from the newly minted essayist (subscription only) on the demands of motherhood and TV writing. It's highly personal and an easy introduction to Tina... MORE»
Get your credit cards, and your Kleenex, out: LCD Soundsystem has announced an epic Madison Square Garden concert April 2--the James Murphy outfit's final concert ever. Or so the publicity materials claim, noting that LCD Soundsystem will play all manner of deep cuts in a three-hour "extravaganza." A publicist informs us "I don't have any insight into his leaving other than him wanting to move on... not sure of his plans for the... MORE»
It's safe to say reviews of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark have been "mixed." The Observer found the much-maligned production -- now on its 66th performance, all previews -- to be visually striking but musically bland, a surprise given the pedigree of the composers (Bono and The Edge, in case you haven't... MORE»
Christina Aguilera has issued a statement apologizing for her slip-up on the lyrics of the national anthem at last night's Super Bowl--during which she replaced "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming" with the hybrid lyric "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming," and hit an unusually sour note on the song's last word. (So much for our assumption that these Super Bowl tracks were pre-recorded!) Aguilera... MORE»
British tabloids report--and take this with a grain of salt the size of Manhattan--that the Sex and the City film series (which all began with a column in the Observer) is to be rebooted, based on author Candace Bushnell's teen novel The Carrie Diaries. Director Michael Patrick King is said to want Blake Lively for the story of Carrie's origins in New York, though Sarah Jessica Parker played a new-to-New York Carrie in a Sex and the City 2... MORE»
If anyone doubted how movie studios view the Super Bowl, the raunchy pre-game ads for Adam Sandler's Just Go With It ("Tell your girlfriend it's a romantic comedy") settled the matter. As "counter-programming," the Leighton Meester thriller The Roommate took the weekend with a relatively low $15.6 million. That said, the film played in only 2,534 theaters and had the highest per-theater average in the top 25.... MORE»
Will.i.am promised to change our paradigms and reinvent how we saw music by Tweeting during the Super Bowl. Said the performer-cum-social media expert to USA Today, "So when Fergie is doing her part, and (other group members apl.de.ap and Taboo) [sic] are doing their part, wouldn't it be awesome to send a tweet to all the people that are following … bring the people even closer to the... MORE»
Russ Meyer starlet Tura Satana has died; the actress was best known for her work in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, though she also played guest roles in several 1960s television series and remained working into the 2010s. Satana was... MORE»
In the promotional churn for her new film with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston let slip to Oprah that she'd once weighed taking a role on Saturday Night Live instead of the Friends pilot. Makes sense that she joined the Friends cast--she's a Los Angeles actress through and through. But was the offer ever even... MORE»
We've spent a day wondering why Spike Lee ended up at the premiere of Justin Bieber's Never Say Never, walking the red carpet and dropping off gifts for the kid's manager.... MORE»
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