A number of interesting things happened today. But the devil's in the details. Let's see if you were paying attention! What's Bill Murray's take on Egypt, as explained on CNBC? What does one get in return for focus-grouping Spider-Man: Turn Off the... MORE >
ArtsBeat announced today that this week's New York Times Book Review will feature, for the first time, bestseller lists accounting for the sales of e-books.... MORE >
Tom Cruise must miss the 1980s. The star, who spent the decade playing straitlaced prep types, is in talks with New Line Cinema to star in the hair-metal Broadway adaptation Rock of Ages--which features the music of Bon Jovi and Poison, among others.... MORE >
Megan Ellison is 25. She is the daughter of the founder of Oracle. And she has a lot of new fans, as the woman who seems likely to finance the next two Paul Thomas Anderson movies. Vulture reports that Ellison is set to produce the tentatively titled "Scientology drama" The Master (which had its plug pulled last year by Universal) and the Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice.... MORE >
Oprah Winfrey's OWN project received $46 million from its parent company, Discovery, in the last quarter of 2010 and will get $50 million over 2011--on top of their initial $189 million investment. Oprah's network has suffered from a great number of reruns--and lack of original programming--that have kept its earnings relatively depressed.... MORE >
Which celebrity reportedly had his motorcycle customized--with slave labor? Who is "the most vile and inhuman person in the universe," according to a Christian website? What magazine claimed Sarah Palin wanted to deport Christina... MORE >
Anyone hoping for actual spontaneity at this year's super-youthy Oscars (co-hosted by conceptual artist and occasional actor James Franco!) is out of luck. The Academy, responding to the surprising Best Documentary nomination for guerrilla artist Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop, has asked the filmmaker to skip the awards ceremony if he won't show his face.... MORE >
"I regret to say I'm not holed up in the fetal position. All I can say to them is: nobody ever took my photo!" Nikki Finke laughs. Speaking to the Observer today about the photograph of the reclusive blogger, driving, that The Daily ran today, she noted: "I have a very nice car, not a Toyota." (The Daily, possibly fearing legal action, does not state that the photograph depicts Finke, but confirmed its identity... MORE >
On Wednesday, Us Weekly's website published an item (since deleted, though it's alive in the magazine's Google cache and a screenshot is available at GossipCop) about a Sarah Palin appearance on Sean Hannity's radio show, during which she criticized Christina Aguile... MORE >
The Smithsonian has acquired Van Halen's guitar. That's right--the guitar Eddie Van Halen used during the band's 2007-08 tour (the band's heyday). But why stop there? Following, a few more items the curatorial team at the collection of museums known as "America's Attic" might want to acquire next, before they're lost to... MORE >
She's reinvented herself again--comedian, reality star, and author Kathy Griffin is to do a Broadway revue. Titled Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, the show will run from March 11 to March 19 at the Belasco before previews start there for Neil LaBute's Fat Pig. In a press release, Griffin said, "Every night will be fresh material [sic] due to the revolving door of pop culture, political and celebrity missteps.... MORE >
Syracuse's oft-quoted "Professor of Culture" Robert Thompson weighed in on MTV's Skins controversy this morning on NPR, saying the last word we'll ever need to hear on the subject.... MORE >
Miley Cyrus has apologized for smoking salvia on tape--though perhaps for the tape more than for the salvia. "[F]or me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for," she told Marie Claire, while on the set of her new film So Undercover.... MORE >
The more this trailer--for the forthcoming The Adjustment Bureau, marching forth on March 4--airs, the more we wonder just how realistic it aims to be. The plot, about shadowy figures attempting to maintain control over one man's perceptions of the world, is taken from a Philip K. Dick short story. The specific provenance of Matt Damon's character, though--he's a young, ambitious Fordham grad running for New York Senate--are new to the... MORE >
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About Jennifer Aniston--you knew that she might, maybe, have been a Saturday Night Live cast member, unless she hadn't, or that she always hated her iconic haircut. But the star is still at work grooming her public image, and doing so more assiduously than in years.... MORE >
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