On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found in a bathtub and three years later, her daughter was found in a similar situation. Now Bobbi Kristina's family may take Whitney's daughter off of life support on the anniversary of Whitney's death. » 2/10/15 11:00am 2/10/15 11:00am

J.K. Rowling is not into your thirst for Harry Potter and has decided to become a crime novelist instead. » 7/21/14 7:45pm 7/21/14 7:45pm

While America is still adjusting a black Captain America, Hollywood producers should be catering to Hispanic ladies over 25 because, money. » 7/17/14 2:15pm 7/17/14 2:15pm

Some awards ceremony is going on in Los Angeles right now, with a bunch of people all dressed up fancy, handing each other shiny little gold men and thanking long lists of people you've never heard of ever. But I'm not sure why anyone is even bothering with all that, since the most important film awards have already… » 3/02/14 10:25pm 3/02/14 10:25pm

The Oprah Winfrey Network has doubled the number of episodes ordered for the first season of Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots. “Tyler’s fans and OWN viewers have responded to this guilty pleasure in record numbers, and we are happy to give them more of a good thing," said OWN president and Behind the 25th… » 6/25/13 5:30pm 6/25/13 5:30pm

Though it is technically possible that this is just an extremely terrible drawing of a miscellaneous dark-haired angel wearing a suspiciously familiar mega-cleave gown, IT IS TOTALLY SELENA GOMEZ, YOU GUYS. And now it resides permanently on Justin Bieber's miniature forearm where it smudgily judges all the earthbound… » 4/25/13 9:10pm 4/25/13 9:10pm

I think Tyler Perry is a bad artist. He is bad at art. He tries to make movies that are good, but he makes movies that are bad, and sometimes his movies are bad in a way that I consider dangerous. Perry constructs his own moral code and then punishes women (black women), violently, for violating it. He exploits rape… » 4/19/13 4:30pm 4/19/13 4:30pm

The plot: "A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients." Why Kim Kardashian is in it, no one knows. Why Vanessa Williams has a weird accent, no one knows. Does the heroine choose the nice guy with the red sportscar and private… » 12/21/12 5:45pm 12/21/12 5:45pm

The rumblings around the castle are ominous this week: the now-infamous Prince Harry Naked Bear Hug-Gate photos are only the tip of the iceberg, say Vegas sources, and the royal media will soon have to contend with "something pretty gigantic" (LOLOLOL pun). It appears that there's actually video of the Prince partying… » 8/28/12 9:00am 8/28/12 9:00am

As news about Whitney Houston's tragic death continues to roll in, we now know that her body has been released by the Los Angeles coroner's office, and she is apparently on board Tyler Perry's private jet en route to New Jersey, where her funeral will be held later this week. Plans for the event are still coming… » 2/13/12 8:00pm 2/13/12 8:00pm

Supposedly hilarious. Actually horrifying. » 2/02/11 9:43am 2/02/11 9:43am

• Reese Witherspoon announced today that she's engaged to Hollywood agent Jim Toth, but all is not well in Tinseltown; Rihanna and Matt Kemp have split because she's "over it."
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On Christmas Eve, Hova reportedly dropped several boatloads of cash on Birkin bags for his ladylove. I'm so confused. This gesture goes against so much of both artists' catalogs. » 12/26/10 10:30am 12/26/10 10:30am

Tyler Perry's latest, For Colored Girls, opens today. Writes Betsy Sharkey for the LA Times: "It is a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it." » 11/05/10 12:20pm 11/05/10 12:20pm

These ladies look absolutely glorious! Makes you wonder why it's so hard for some magazines to find women of color to grace their covers. Rather gaze upon some dudes? Essence understands and complies. » 11/02/10 3:30pm 11/02/10 3:30pm