After completing a thrilling come from behind win at the Kentucky Derby, Orb was supposed to walk away with Preakness and charge onto the Belmont Stakes in pursuit of the elusive Triple Crown. Unfortunately a horse named Oxbow had other ideas.
The notorious recluse, occasional Simpsons joke, and perhaps America's greatest living writer is releasing a novel in 2013, and the word leaked in pretty reclusive fashion.
Before you get all worked up about what "degrading" porn looks like or make a free-speech argument, here's an outline of Iceland's would-be policy, and why it might not work anyway.
It looks like Ben Affleck will not be receiving any congratulatory phone calls from Iran today, after the media there dismissed his film's triumph at the Academy Awards as "Hollywood insiders sacrificing quality and artistic cinema to political slogans and distortions."
In a season of Girls which is growing increasingly more interesting and rewarding, last night's episode, "Video Games," shed light on perhaps the most mysterious character of the four ladies, Jessa (Jemima Kirke).
The routinely funny, usually quick-witted satirical newspaper called the 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis the c-word, and needless to say that did not go over well. The Onion offered an apology.
Where are we most likely to see dresses inspired by the ladies on the Oscars red carpet? At the mall.
There was the monologue, which didn't go over so well in some parts, and then there was the rest of the Oscars, which didn't either. The first-time host was, as expected, kind of a jerk. Here's a sampler.
There were hints of invention and humor throughout the Academy Awards on Sunday, but all told the show was remarkable only in its moments of jaw-droppingly bad jokes from the off-putting and unsteady host — and in its agonizing waste of time.
She won hearts when she tripped on the way up to the stage to collect the award for Best Actress. Then she won some more in the press room. She had been drinking.
The Best Picture denouement turned into a surprise appearance by the First Lady, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C. — where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie — to introduce and announce the winner, Argo.
Kristen Stewart was using crutches on the red carpet at the Oscars, and appeared to be limping when she came out on stage to present. And backstage, Hathaway told her to "break a leg."
Musicals were the them of Oscar night, and the movie musical tribute about halfway through the seemingly endless show featured Jennifer Hudson, Anne Hathaway, and only part of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for Sound Editing. While it is rare, it is not unprecedented: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for Best Actress in 1969, and were other ties!
The host spent the first 19 minutes of the Academy Awards on Sunday making sure everyone would, in fact, hate him.
Here are the best and — let's be charitable — most unusual dresses from the Oscar red carpet, with closeups of beads, velvet, and tulle, plus the occasional haircut and refreshed face.
From hungry Jennifer Lawrence to Anne Hathaway's semi-nip slip, here are the most irreverent moments from the Oscars, pre-actual Oscars.
Moment-by-moment coverage of Hollywood's biggest night, from the red carpet to the show and all the winners, with Richard Lawson.
Every year, there's a shameless race to win your Super Bowl clicks when blogs and newspapers set up "What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?" posts. It appears a similar race has started up for Hollywood's Super Bowl, the Oscars. Or, the outrage over it has, at least.
Regardless of the outcome of tonight's Oscar ceremony, Quvenzhané Wallis is still walking out of the weekend as a winner. The Beast of the Southern Wild star just got cast as the new lil orphan Annie.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Bruce Willis came at the Queen but he definitely missed.
It's race weekend in Daytona. It should be a fun weekend! The annual Daytona 500 is on Sunday, and it's the biggest race of the year. But a scary crash at the finish of a Nationwide race on Saturday is hanging a dark cloud over the weekend's festivities.
This weekend is the NFL Combine, where the new crop of rookies run and jump and are analyzed by professional scouts before the annual draft. Among this year's crew is Manti Te'o. You may have heard of him. He dated a girl that didn't exist. The press had some questions for him.
May no Yankee ever complain about being hated ever again. Because, after a lengthy legal war, the Yankees are officially recognized by the courts as Baseball's Evil Empire. They had it copyrighted.
So, there's this show about people who wear old clothes and fight with swords and stuff, and people say it's pretty popular but there's no evidence to back that up. No one wants to watch a trailer for some show called Game of Thrones first thing Saturday morning, right?
He's tried to win over his haters with a self-effacing schtick, but should you believe him? Or is he double-crossing everyone, only to pull another 180 and go all Ricky Gervais on us? Let's examine, with some psychoanalysis.
Today in show business news: James Van Der Beek is returning to TV already, Jane Lynch is now a game show host, and a first look at Catching Fire.
The Academy Awards are on Sunday! We've already told you who we think the winners will be, but what else will happen during the show? In advance of our live account of all the Oscar night proceedings, here are some probably very accurate guesses. (But not really.)
Before you buy tickets to Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z's "Legends of the Summer" tour, you should know that many of their concerts definitely won't be featuring a cameo from Mrs. Carter. Now that the schedules are out, let's span North America.
What began as a simple magazine pitch has now taken writer Joshuah Bearman all the way to the Oscars. (Well, he's working on getting a ticket.) Here's the story of the article that inspired Argo.
Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway? She's just so very... Anne Hathaway. Here's the trail of awards-season drama that she hath wrought, as a preview of sorts for hate-watching the Oscars:
Like the girls before them, ten of the top twenty boys were brought before the judges last night, five of them to be raised up to the gleaming Valhalla of the semifinals stage, the other five to be cast into the gloomy oblivion of Tartarus.
Silver has finally delivered his Oscar picks, refining his method of forecasting the awards so they're more in line with his election picks — or at least better than his so-so history of calling the Academy Awards.
Today in celebrity gossip: One of Hollywood's most important feuds has been resolved with ninja turtles, Prince Harry has a new girlfriend, Ethan Hawke hates the Oscars, and Diane Lane has split up with Josh Brolin.
Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams tries to capture the root anxiety driving the most recent attempt at secession in Texas, where she documented — and, in a few cases, encouraged — several citizens' ongoing struggle to win independence from the U.S.
That headline is not a metaphor. Michael Bay's favorite bombshell, Megan Fox, will play sexy reporter April O'Neil in Paramount's reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
Nate Silver isn't doing the Oscars this year, and he's not that good at picking the winners anyway. But we spoke with the Harvard nerd trying to replace him, then double-checked with Silver's favorite indicators and Hollywood insiders, for the closest thing to a scientific Oscar ballot there is in 2013.
Today in show business news: Your favorite Boston boy bander is back, Justin Timberlake is heading to Rockefeller Center once again, and Bill O'Reilly is thinking about Killing Jesus.
Now that we've gone through who we think should win Oscars this year, it's time to take a look at who will actually likely win. We're going to go quickly, category by category all the way down the list, listing the likely winner and one potential spoiler. Happy balloting, everyone!
The Academy has done away with its "kind of sexist" tradition of having hot women present the statuettes in favor of young filmmakers from Zimbabwe to the Marine Corps. Here are the kids you'll be seeing a lot of come Sunday night.
With the Academy Awards quickly approaching, we're going through each of the major categories and pretending we're Academy voters. Forget who will win, we have a very important decision to make.
Why do people insist on spelling certain words with more letters than is necessary on an inherently limited social media platform like Twitter? I turned to Tyler Schnoebelen, a recent PhD from Stanford who studies emotion in language, in hopes of gaining some clarityyy.
Billboard is folding YouTube into their algorithms, making the Hot 100 a better reflection of popular songs as pop music — and making "Harlem Shake" the new No. 1 single. But many musicians are worried that this shift toward streaming will slash their paychecks even more.
Unlike the Oscars' sporting event counterpart, the Super Bowl, you probably aren't that interested in the commercials, but should you be?
Sudden death hits the Strip, and it's not so revolutionary as sad and wonderful — mostly sad, but still: We're getting to know everyone before the real competition begins.
Today in celebrity gossip news: Getting to the bottom of why Shia LaBeouf abruptly left his Broadway play, peeping Rihanna's birthday Instagram, and sighing at a sad story about a storage locker.
A new IMDb-meets-Kevin Bacon graphic for Oscar night reveals the links between various actors, producers, and directors up for awards this year.
Today in show business news: Shia LaBeouf has dropped out of a play quite suddenly, NBC is totally screwed, and Michelle Williams has a reality show. No, not that Michelle Williams.
The most ridiculed Oscars number of all time, unveiled.
Passing up his final opportunity to cooperate with the investigation from his eternal enemies at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Armstrong unveiled bigger plans for his official, non-Oprah coming-clean party: He'll only talk to a global court that doesn't exist yet.
Any hopes that Smash would rebound after its disastrous second season premiere two weeks ago have been dashed. NBC's musical backstage drama returned last night after a week off for the State of the Union to even lower numbers than the premiere, with a dismal 0.9 rating.
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