Rihanna is known for many things: Singing, dressing provocatively, designing terrible-looking clothes, rocking the hell out of a bikini. What she is not known for is her acting. Still, word on the street is that she's been cast to play Joséphine Baker in a new biopic. » 8/28/13 11:30am 8/28/13 11:30am

There's a completely wonderful (and highly unlikely) rumor stuck in the interwebs today, and that is that Canadian tourism spokesperson and possible maple syrup fetishist Ryan Gosling is on a short list of actors to play old Batman in the recently-announced Batman Vs. Superman movie from Warner Bros. » 8/04/13 6:00pm 8/04/13 6:00pm

American Idol could hardly have face its 13th and therefore unluckiest season ever without the judicial services of Jennifer Lopez, who is, according to several super-excited reports, about to ink a deal that would have her return to the judge’s chair and, in a fair yet firm voice, crush people’s dreams of stardom. » 8/04/13 4:00pm 8/04/13 4:00pm

I'm no gyno, but judging by her fairly flat stomach, she's having at least triplets. Alert TMZ, and let's listen to some Timex Social Club. » 8/01/13 11:15pm 8/01/13 11:15pm

As part of Netflix’s insidious plan to put the poor television networks out of business, it plans to put an even greater emphasis on original (and semi-original) programming like House of Cards and Arrested Development (in these original programming press clips, nobody ever mentions that big pile of garbage called … » 6/02/13 3:30pm 6/02/13 3:30pm

The Amanda Bynes entropy cycle has reached an unfortunate (and probably inevitable) new stage: the actress is rumored to have been arrested in her Midtown apartment late Thursday night after a bong-tossing confrontation with NYPD officers. » 5/23/13 11:35pm 5/23/13 11:35pm

In a movie-making era of pre-branded, built-in-audience features, the sequel, remake, and adaptation reign supreme. Why make a brand new movie with brand new characters when you can just recycle old characters? People are leery of strangers, and with good reason: strangers are totally unpredictable, a lesson most of… » 5/22/13 10:30pm 5/22/13 10:30pm

Remember how Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne broke up amid rumors that Ozzy is actually a gargoyle from the semi-popular children’s cartoon Gargoyles? No doubt you were devastated, but there’s good news — the Osbournes are not breaking up, and they have the awkward public appearance to prove it! » 5/19/13 4:30pm 5/19/13 4:30pm

Political Stratego champion Hillary Clinton is frustrating potential opponents in the 2016 presidential race by keeping her plans super secret. Is her "transition office" in a small corporate space on Connecticut Avenue in Washington D.C. the beehive of advance polling everyone thinks it is, or is it really just a… » 3/31/13 12:00pm 3/31/13 12:00pm

The latest (and possibly greatest) rumor to be circulated about the adventures of Princess Diana sounds like a scene from a Brian De Palma movie: on a sultry night in the culturally decadent late 80s, Freddie Mercury disguises Diana as a man and escorts her into a gay bar in south London for night that will one day… » 3/31/13 11:30am 3/31/13 11:30am

Unfortunately for our sense of optimism that humanity has not yet reached the apex of its narrative parabola, we're all privy to the existence of Westboro Baptist Church leader (and possible lizard person) Fred Phelps. Among the many vile things we've learned about Phelps over his tenure as a hate-mongering demagogue… » 3/15/13 2:40pm 3/15/13 2:40pm

In her ongoing effort to scrub the adorable residue precocious witch Hermione Granger left all over her acting career, Emma Watson may end up portraying Anastasia Steele, the heroine of a contemporary classic in the annals (heh) of erotic fiction, on the big screen. Or so says the reinvigorated Fifty Shades of… » 3/15/13 12:00pm 3/15/13 12:00pm

Meteorologists, soothsayers, haruspices, gypsies, and auguries everywhere are predicting that the end is really nigh this time for George Clooney and Stacy Keibler. Not like back in January when In Touch Weekly sounded a false alarm. This time, they're for real breaking up. » 3/08/13 8:00pm 3/08/13 8:00pm