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. Read… 8/28/13 11:30am 8/28/13 11:30am

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. Read… 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. Read… 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 … Read… 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. Read… 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… Read… 5/22/13 10:30pm 5/22/13 10:30pm

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… Read… 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… Read… 3/15/13 2:40pm 3/15/13 2:40pm

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. Read… 3/08/13 8:00pm 3/08/13 8:00pm

Much the same way that the coal-eyed Ted Danson has been rumored to have a preternaturally enormous penis, there were many whispers that Don Johnson, another 80s symbol for male virility, also boasted quite a large penis. Those rumors about Johnson's mega-dick abounded until a recent heart-to-heart with Rolling Stone,… Read… 1/04/13 4:25pm 1/04/13 4:25pm

What senseless task did you occupy yourself with on this pre-holiday Saturday? Probably something boring and unimportant, unless it was in anyway related to cookie-making — in that case, you can mail my cookies to a P.O. Box in El Paso where my Texas cookie retriever (which is just a Labrador retriever that eats… Read… 12/22/12 5:30pm 12/22/12 5:30pm

Hundreds of Swedish teens decided they were sick of being called sluts on Instagram and Facebook and took their fury offline by rioting like crazy today. Read… 12/18/12 1:40pm 12/18/12 1:40pm

Russell Crowe and his wife of nine years, the Australian musician Danielle Spencer, are splitting up after nine years of marriage according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Crowe has been quite the busy-body, jetting back and forth between Australia and the States to film seven movies, including a biblical epic about… Read… 10/14/12 2:30pm 10/14/12 2:30pm

Last night I had a dream—nay, a NIGHTMARE—in which I approached my inner circle with our usual refrain, "Any gossip?" and was met with icy stink-eyes. "You know, Lindy, gossiping is actually really mean. We all got together and decided that you're out of the group and we're not going to gossip anymore. Also, FYI, you just … Read… 10/03/12 4:30pm 10/03/12 4:30pm

Anthony Weiner may be poised for a political comeback, at least according to some of the shadowy sources the New York Post tapped for its report. The former congressman has what the Post describes as a "$4.5 million political war chest," along with a little extra motivation to get back in the game as soon as possible —… Read… 7/15/12 5:30pm 7/15/12 5:30pm

So, it might be a little weird to read this, but it's Friday, after all, and we can let things get a little crazy: Sarah Palin might have been right about something when she mused on Thursday that Mitt Romney wouldn't pick a wildcard like Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Well shucks, Sarah — why the golly heck not?… Read… 7/13/12 10:50am 7/13/12 10:50am

As a young, aspiring moving pictures actor, Tom Cruise cultivated a chiseled, Grecian physique. It was quite something. In fact, it's still quite something, a fact you can verify just by watching Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and tallying up the number of scenes in which Ethan Hunt needlessly sheds his shirt and … Read… 7/08/12 11:55pm 7/08/12 11:55pm