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Mommie Dearest Author Says Celebs Shouldn’t Adopt

History’s most famous celebrity adoptee says celebrities shouldn’t adopt.

Tom Cruise Eats Lunch!

You have to wonder how a story like this generates at the Wall Street Journal. Basically, Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone––the Paramount chief who very noisily severed Cruise’s deal with that studio––had lunch. Cruise wouldn’t comment. Redstone did, rather extensively. So are we to assume that Sumner Redstone got home from lunch and started calling [...]

Oscar Clips on YouTube? That Would Be Too Easy.

Watch last night’s greatest moments on YouTube! In five years!

Today in Starlet Pop Recordings: David Bowie meets ScarJo

The Playlist passes along word that David Bowie has recorded back-up vocals for Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits covers album. The record’s producer, Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, describes Anywhere as having a “‘cough medicine/TinkerBell’ vibe”––which, funnily enough, seems as good a description as any of Bowie’s performance as [...]

Amy Winehouse & Celebrity Redemption. Clip of the Day.

Amy Winehouse has her “A Star is Born” moment. She may be living out (perhaps naturally, perhaps at the order of her handlers) the oldest star narrative in the book, but damn it, it’s working.

Obama, Celebrity and Substance

Barack Obama and his celebrity friends explore new ways to make a lot of noise by saying nothing.

Sundance Video: Blackout

Cold sandwiches, secret coffee, and hugging Woody Harrelson, all on Joe and Ronnie’s third day at Sundance.

“Most movies are too long anyway.”

Nailing the appeal of paparazzi porn in six words.

Who Needs Morton’s When We’ve Got TMZ?

The very idea of a celebrity power lunch spot seems old fashioned in the age of stalkerazzi and surveillance.

Golden Globes: Less Foreign Than Ever?

Why the Hollywood Foreign Press has little interest in legitimately “foreign” film.