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.
When CNN became the butt of jokes for its erroneous reporting Wednesday, NBC's Pete Williams' clear, careful, accurate reporting in a sea of media confusion had made him the most lauded television news reporter working on the Boston Marathon bombing story.
The rest of the dumb world staggers on amidst all this madness. If you're curious, we've got some celebrity news for you: Mary-Kate had a bad time at dinner, Neil Patrick Harris moves to New York, and LC has a new house.
Even before the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were linked to Russia, the nation saw how the attacks could resonate at the Sochi Olympics. Now, the fast-moving terror situation in America is having a ripple effect on the Games.
Today in show business news: The Kardashian mom's new talk show has almost arrived, Will Smith gets some leftovers, and Keanu Reeves plays a jerk.
Supposedly this is the end of Richard Linklater's series, making the project a trilogy, but there's wonderfully nothing finite about the film, which is currently part of the Tribeca Film Festival — and will be the real must-see of this summer.
Last night Jon Stewart went on familiar tirade against CNN on a good day to pick on CNN. While he spent almost six minutes ranting on how they botched their Boston bomber reporting, building up to a disgusting Human Centipede punchline, he only spent a few seconds on what seemed to set him off.
What do you get when Time magazine asks celebrities to write about the greatness of other celebrities? The annual "Time 100," of course! But you also get a lot of terribly obnoxious back-patting, most of which, this year, is guardedly self aggrandizing.
Thursday, April 18, is Support Teen Lit Day, a YALSA-declared holiday meant to raise awareness among the public that Y.A. is great. One way to participate is with Rock the Drop, a teen book drop initiative begun by literacy and social media project Readergirlz.
Oblivion is sleek and gorgeous, smooth and matte-finish, full of watery grays and cool blues. The movie looks and sounds great. So why is it such a disappointment?
The Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup today and film fans will find some familiar names in addition to Baz Luhrmann, whose Great Gatsby was already announced as the festival opener.
High school teacher Matthew Thomas, 38, has sold his debut novel for an impressive sum. And he seems like a really nice guy, too.
Today in celebrity news: Amanda Bynes is not alone, Justin Theroux likes scaring Jennifer Aniston, and Kim Kardashian is a normal human.
The New York Times has an excerpt from Brian Stelter's new book about the morning show wars, and it has all the blow-by-blow details of Ann Curry's humiliating departure from the Today show.
The Daily Show host has a really gross analogy to describe CNN's on-air meltdown in Boston.
Today in show business news: Amazon Studios has released a big pilot, Starz quickly renews a new show, and The Croods is a hit.
Wednesday brought another — and very lengthy — trailer for Disney's Johnny Depp-starring summer blockbuster, and there's more story now, but there's still not a whole lot of there out there in the Old West.
After a tease at Coachella over the weekend, fake versions have tricked fans multiple times all week, but it appears the first single off the electronic music legends' first album in eight years has finally leaked in full. Sort of.
Baz Luhrmann's 3D Great Gatsby is now less than a month away, and Gatsby fever is building. But will any of this catch on? The Brooks Brothers and Tiffany collections are pretty high brow, and the soundtrack has its flaws. Let's (over)analyze.
Disney is bringing the franchise to a theater near you — again and again and again and again.
AMC has announced that the final eight episodes of its highly lauded, cultishly followed moral disaster series Breaking Bad will begin airing on August 11. Meaning you have just under four months to lock in your theories about what will happen to meth-makin' Walter White and all those caught in his web of horror. Will he get away with it? Let's discuss.
The Academy announced last night that they are bringing back Neil Meron and Craig Zadan to produce next years Oscars.
Today in the world of celebrity news: The prince of pop posted a risque illustration yesterday, Rachael Ray's show may be getting sued, and good god another sex tape.
We've been a little cold on Zack Snyder's heavenly, heavily therapeutic Superman adaptation, but we're starting to change our minds with the fabulous new trailer that debuted last night — hell, everyone is.
Today in show business news: Movie theaters need to cater more to the concerns of Baby Boomers, a Pitch Perfect 2 is on its way, and Tom Cruise can't stop doing stuff with aliens.
Known for bringing his dulcet, almost restful near baritone to the restlessness of the NFL as a play-by-play announcer on CBS, Fox, and ESPN, Summerall also played nine seasons in the league with the Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals, and New York Giants.
The news is terrible. It's always terrible, but right now it's especially terrible. And while we're sure you're doing your due diligence in watching cable news or local live streams or Twitter or whatever else, it's OK to take a break, too.
In the immediate and very strange aftermath, Boston is coping with tragedy, and America with it, however it can. But, eventually, blessedly, not soon enough, that happiest distraction of all will return: the light touch and emotional balance of sports. Because sports are important. We are waiting for the games to begin again.
If you'd like a silly distraction from all this Boston terribleness, we have some celebrity news for you today, including Lourdes Leon's love life, Beyoncé's flashy new suit, and Miley's latest clubgoing adventure.
It was a strange feeling, to suddenly understand why people react the way they do when horrors like this happen, to feel that helpless immediacy that demands a response, any response.
In the Muslim world there were concerns about who might be blamed; in Britain thoughts turned to their own marathon set to take place Sunday. In its aftermath, the Boston Marathon bombings became a global news story, appearing on front pages in places ranging from Argentina to Turkey.
In all the horror in Boston Monday, there are also heartening stories about how kindness emerged from tragedy: people on Twitter urging others to note the people who run towards the explosions, not a way from them, to help; stories of heroism from runners; journalists who ran the marathon, springing into action to cover the story; the first responders.
The winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon, in all 21 categories, meaning that there were no surprise non-winners in the fiction category like last year
Last year, the biggest honor in all of American letters went without an honor. Now, as the publishing world awaits the big announcement from the Pulitzer board, one juror looks back — and we look at the contenders.
Turkish pianist Fazil Say could serve jail time for tweets he sent about Islam referring to an 11th Century poem and mocking the Muslim call to prayer.
The first weekend of the festival came to a close with an inconvenient and dirty wind storm that turned face-covering bandanas into the latest fashion statement and made the drive home miserable. The Red Hot Chili Peppers compared it to Lawrence of Arabia and the Dust Bowl.
Today in celebrity news: A Facebook billionaire is having a silly wedding, Matt Damon renews his vows, and Aubrey Plaza does something embarrassing at the MTV Movie Awards.
In a new promo, we get something more than just a mopey Superman: a message to Earth from Kryptonian General Zod, asking us to surrender one of his citizens.
Lionsgate released a full blown trailer at last night's MTV Movie Awards — more than a "teaser" indeed — that put the revolutionary spirit of the second book, and, blessedly, some of its most adult moments, on full display.
The 32-two-year-old Australian high-five expert awoke a nation of napping Americans early Sunday evening — and enlived an entire continent Down Under, where it was Monday morning — with a miracle 20-foot putt at the Masters and a double-overtime win worthy of a wild sports weekend in the South.
The results are in, and "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" has failed to climb to the number one slot on British charts. It was just 5,700 copies behind Duke Dumont's "Need Me (100 Percent)" when the official tally was taken.
Everybody's favorite Canadian pop star recently made a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam where he left a few deep thoughts in the guestbook. They weren't that deep, though.
Controversy has erupted at one of the most prestigious tournaments in professional golf. Tiger Woods, in the midst of his glorious comeback, has been accused of cheating and receiving special treatment by Masters officials.
Today in show business news: Now Melissa Joan Hart wants your money for a movie, The Newsroom has a season premiere date, and a look at a new Romeo & Juliet.
While you are almost definitely skipping the annual handing out of golden popcorn statues for kissing and shirtless acting—Mad Men and Game of Thrones are still happening, after all—the Oscars of absolutely nothing will, in fact, provide some moments of movie geekery and/or humor. Here are some of those things.
Administrators and teachers at some of the top schools in Los Angeles have struggled to contend with the empty classrooms of Coachella Fridays, but they're learning how to deal with absence in the age of the music festival. The rite of Southern California spring, these educators say, is now something of an acknowledged right.
Comedian and lovable character actor Jonathan Winters died last night at the age of 87, according to family sources who said he passed away peacefully of natural causes.
Ryan Murphy and the rest of the Glee writers are seemingly determined to make at least one Very Special Episode for every current issue affecting America's teens. And so it glumly came as no surprise last night that Glee tackled the terrible and all too real issue of school shootings. Not surprising, but certainly not welcome, either.
The Broadway production of the new musical Matilda got a rave review from Ben Brantley in The New York Times today, but if you only looked at the banner ad that ran above that review, you wouldn't have known.
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