John Galliano may have apologized for the Anti-Semitic slurs that got him fired from Dior back in 2011, but two years later and he's far from redeemed. Now it seems like he's hoping to change that in a very public fashion.
Jon Stewart took on the RNC plan to remedy the Republican party, and — in the spirit of the thing — decided to say things how Reince Priebus says things. You know, like a "drunk Muppet."
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Get ready for the gold medal winner doing and saying ridiculous things every week, on the E! network, beginning April 21. There's new proof in the promo for the "docu-series" What Would Ryan Lochte Do? — and it's so bad that it's funny. Almost.
The TV spot for Baz Luhrmann's risky 3D blockbuster version of The Great Gatsby still has all the flash of our previous encounters with the Cannes-opening film, but this look turns an eye to the central romance.
Is there a late-night truce in the works? After taking aim at his parent network during every Tonight Show monologue last week, Leno seems to have taken a break from mocking the NBC executives who are already planning for a future without him.
If this movie is remembered for anything other than a shirtless Hugh Jackman fighting ninjas, it will be remembered for taking the trailer roll-out campaign to the next level of ridiculous.
On the first night of Passover, Stewart took it upon himself to offer some free advice following the President's trip to Israel. And first off, it's not necessary for anyone to compliment the matzah.
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Another day, another nap for the actress/cultural oddity at the Museum of Modern Art. Not everyone's so excited this time, including a high-profile art critic, but maybe they should be.
Unmanned attacks in countries like Pakistan have become an increasingly controversial and no less common reality — Pakistani officials reported another one by U.S. missile fire just this weekend. So what do all of the strikes look like broken down by the available data? They look like this.
As if the cycle of shifting film favorites and ceaseless promotion wasn't (slightly) long enough for you in the Oscar season that pretty much just ended, the Academy announced today that the show is moving back (slightly) into March.
In the coming months, in a galaxy not so far away, a media corps will boldly go where many will go: they will ask J.J. Abrams about Star Wars.
There is a crucial update to a crucial story: The human responsible for the groundhog is taking the fall for Phil's incorrect (and apparently litigious) prediction that spring was on its way. And it may have worked.
The new trailer for Brad Pitt's long-in-the-works zombie flick features a lot of Brad Pitt — and his flowing mane — trying to figure out how to battle the swarms of pretty nondescript zombies we've seen in earlier trailers.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me. Just think of those young Beatles when they were just beginning: pre-Yoko, pre-psychedelics, pre-facial hair. But it wasn't just that their sartorial choices were simpler, their instrumentations were as well.
Justin Timberlake's been touting his music career recently with the release of his album The 20/20 Experience, but the jack-of-all-trades entertainer within may have a big role to fill—that is if the National Enquirer's source is right.
This week we learned that the new late night battles will be waged in a surprisingly formulaic way, with bad jokes and big cities and plenty of power players, on these fronts.
The author of Things Fall Apart had an influence on African writing that is "impossible" to determine, but he shaped the way the world thinks about the continent.
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One of the reasons cited for NBC's now acrimonious transition from Jay Leno to Jimmy Fallon as host of The Tonight Show is the rise of Jimmy Kimmel on ABC. In an interview on Thursday, Kimmel essentially started to rub it in, making us wonder what the future holds in the new late-night landscape.
This Sunday HBO debuts its quite literally wiggy movie about Phil Spector and his conviction in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. While the film itself is piquing interest for its performance and quality, it's also getting critiqued by people who were actually involved in the case.
It makes sense that Iran is considering suing Ben Affleck, or that Canadians might feel shafted in their role as supporting characters. But New Zealand? Well, it has to do with one throwaway line.
An interview with the actor, hero, and meme sent fans into a tizzy, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here. There are some caveats that imply we should not mourn the loss of the Gos from our lives quite yet.
For all the secrecy, the Star Trek team has certainly been putting out a lot of trailers. Another recent clip brought back some of our favorite characters, but the new international trailer out today actually give us, you know, some plot.
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Don't blame the kid who made the viral video asking out Kate Upton. It's the media's fault: For all the impossible wishes made into real connections by the power of social media, there's nothing romantic about a forced dream come true.
There have now been two cases of animal actors being fired from stage productions this month. It appears some cats and dogs can't take direction like they used to, and that the life of a pet thespian is pretty demanding these days.
Last night ABC debuted Splash, the almost so-unreal-it's-real reality show in which "celebrities" (air quotes definitely necessary), well, in which people jump into water on television. And guess what? It actually may be a hit.
The Bolshoi, Russia's prestigious ballet company most recently known as the site of a horrendous acid attack, is now being slammed by one of its former ballerinas as a "brothel," where dancers were forced to sleep with oligarchs.
Towards the end of a CW special that featured a wax-figurine Ryan Seacrest, some celebrities of questionable status, and a lot of the rat-pack schtick, the omnipresent singer debuted a genuinely interesting and surprisingly emotional music video.
The troubled Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is going to try surviving on its own after apparently rejecting an offer from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to merge into a kind of super-museum.
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Another day, another old Star Wars actor semi-confirming that the original trio is indeed coming back for the next installment.
Season two of Girls ended on a — sort of — upbeat note on Sunday after a seriously dark turn, but a call for extras indicates that the HBO hit will be taking a trip to rehab sometime in the third season.
The movie's costume designer used "items from mall stores like Hot Topic, Victoria's Secret, and Forever 21 to keep a sense of realism at play" for the film itself. But new items from Opening Ceremony, the New York-based fashion tastemaker with a penchant for high mark-ups, range in prices from $20 to $90. There are bracelets.
At his album release party Timberlake basically confirmed a rumor started by Roots drummer Questlove that The 20/20 Experience, officially out today, was only the first half of a comeback album that wasn't... or might not be.
You may have been too busy watching fancy fare like Top of the Lake or Bates Motelto care, really, but the 16th season of Dancing with the Stars premiered last night. And it's got a breakout star.
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While you're filling out your expertly analyzed bracket, you might want to take a look at how March Madness fandom is spread across the country with this map from Facebook.
After a performance at SXSW, the preppy, Afropop influenced band has released two new studio tracks off their upcoming album, Modern Vampires in the City, and they're getting good early buzz.
After arriving late to court, by way of private jet and glitter-bomb, and in a ridiculous get-up, Lindsay Lohan accepted a plea deal that will send her to a "locked" rehabilitation facility for 90 days.
Not a single episode could air during season one without an overanalysis of controversial themes and Dunham's perceived agenda. And so in season two Dunham's agenda was to address controversial themes head-on, or indirectly, but mostly on purpose. Let's discuss.
Along with maybe a few actual viewers, they're brewing a high-profile controversy because, well, the actor who played the devil on Sunday night's episode maybe kind of sort of looks like the President of the United States.
"Bow Down/I Been On" may in fact be two different songs, but it's definitely bizarre, allegedly arrogant, and not exactly getting universal praise from fans and critics. All of which means there are reason to gripe, and many ways in which to do so.
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Welcome to the beginning of the end of Alex Trebek. The struggles of Matt Lauer at the Today show have gotten the rumor mill in full gear, with Anderson Cooper, Brian Williams, and Dan Patrick now in the mix. Let's examine the possibilities.
Love is love again.
The rumors are true: Timberlake will be performing at SXSW, taking the stage at the last of the Myspace Secret Shows on Saturday night in Austin. Which makes all too much sense, since Timberlake himself is an investor in the (outdated) social media company.
The bidding war for Tribune Company newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, looks to have another moneyed influencer beyond the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch.
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